Arizona republican., 1893-07-11
PROSPERITY Has Taken up her Abode in the Town of Yuma. Development of Rich Mining Propositions. A Building Boom of Increasing
 Size Has Arrived.
The County's Growth Tn Property Valuation More Than Doubled
 Within the Past Year.

Judge Vandorwerker of Yuma, was in town yesterday with fan, which he piled with ostentatious vigor to call at tention presumably to the fact that a resident of Yuma must resort to artifi- cial means of keeping cool, when busi- ness brings him to Phoenix.
 As usual the judges remarks were opfined for the most part, to the pre-. sent prosperity and bright future of the the city by the Colorado. He says a great deal of building is going on and much more is Tn prospect. The build ings, both residences and business structures now being erected or to be erected, are of substantial and ex- pensive character, among which is a large two-story business block by Con dolfo and Sanguinetti. The lumber yards are stocking heavily in anticipa- ton of an increase Tn the boom, the Yuma Lumber Co.,, showing extra ordinary activity in this direction, having already entered into contracts to supply lumber, brick and other material for large nun Der of builL ings.
 Several capitalists from Yreka, have purchased large tract of land for building purpose. A part of their en- terprise will be the construction of a sanitarium. Inquiries about real estate and business opportunities, are numer. ous and more strangers are coming to Yuma to make investments now than ever before. Within a comparatively short time, more than 1000 acres have been purchased from the grant people. The land is being cleared up as rapidly | as possible for occupation. It will of course be turned into orchards and vineyards. II. w. Blaisdell, has finish ed planting 3O0-acre lemon orchard, which though the largest tract is only one of many.
 Incidentally the judge remarked that there is now being shipped from Yuma daily car of melons. All are being sent into California on account of ex. ceedingly liberal rates made in that direction by the Southern Pacific. The present rate to San Francisco is $50 per car.
 The retail sale of melons last year al home was more than 5000; this year It will amount to more than twice that sum.
 The tax roll for the county this year is $2,000,00Q, an increase of $l ,200, ,00C over that of last year, and the rate oi taxation has been thereby reduced to .025.
 There Is greater activity in mining m alters than had been counted upon so that an element in the prosperity oi Yuma not previously considered has appeared.
 The Picacho mines, consisting of 30C acres of rich placer claims, are being extensively worked by an English syn. dicate. Water is conducted twenty miles through sixteen-inch pipe and is being employed in both sluice and hydraulic mining.
 The Cargua Muchacha mine has al. ready expended about $l0,000 in the development of rich vein of free-mill' ing ore.
 The American mine, placer propo- sition, is being developed and is prov. ing of phenomenal richness. It is now being worked by the dry-wash process Five buckets of dirt recently yielded $l46 in coarse nuggets.
 There are besides these mines num- Der of other rich prospects near Yuma receiving increasing attention, and the country along the west bank of the Colorado promises to become the rich est placer district in the world.
 So with the development of her fruit her mines, her water possibilities, the introduction of unlimited caoital, the employment of unlimited human energy the judge has little doubt O. Yuma's future.