Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-12-29
PROGRESSIVE. Yuma, the Future Leading
 City of Arizona. BOUND TO ADVANCE. The Algodones Question to Be Settled Soon, and Big Re-
 suits Will Follow.
BOUND TO ADVANCE.

contracts and salaries, sl0,00O month
 From the river boats, 5000 a month
 From the Blaisdell plant, Tn wooc
 bought, labor, etc., 5000 a month. | From the surrounding ranches, s1OO(
 @ month.
 The foregoing are figures given me
 by 8 prominent citizen of Yuma as hls
 estimate of the resources of his town. | Yuma is probably the best known
 town in the United States. for it's popu.
 lation. It has gained prominence from
 many sources. It is town of the grand
 est location agriculturally; a few acres
 there with water rights being better
 than a big farm back east. It is the
 most tropical town in the United
 States. This feature has given it prom
 thence, and deservedly SO. However,
 that very feature is it's best resource.
 They can make money out of the weath- CT proper, by it's aid to agriculture, and
 as winter attraction to invalids. Lines
 will grow in Yuma, which they will not do to any successful degree elsewhere in the United States. Lemons there grow more successfully than is possible in California. Not to decry the beauti- ful Golden State, it certainly has no location outside of its own Yuma that will compare with Yuma, Arizona, from | fruit growing standpoint.
 From "A should not be surpassed. The muddy Colorado, the Nile of America, a river as far ahead of the Nile as ap all the- year-round proposition as the Nile is ahead of the Santa Cruz, is right at their feet in Yuma. With fall of few inches to the mile, with vclume of wa ter twenty feet deep and from an eighth to quarter of a mIle wide, it has flow of at least five miles an hour. On the banks of this river are steam pumping plants Of large capacity, notably the Blalsdell proposition, Of which more later on. A better power has been suggested, in the flow of the mig hty river itself. A river that IS navi- gable for pretty espectsble-sized steam CTS for hundreds of miles should furnish power enough to raise from it's own aORthc WoSOA AOh HI AikoeAO1s W dtcf POW- CT wheels are suggested, of some form that will generate power of almost any quantity for the throwing of the muddy Colorado on the adjoining land. The water must be raised in some manner, as the fall of the river is so slight that drawing it off into canals is impractica- ble.
 The Colorado is grand river in many Arofrc 1f sv, some instances all of Colorado, Wyom- ing, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona. It has 8 larger flow at 200 miles from it's mouth than below. It carries muddy sediment that is a splendid fertilizer, one quarter as rich as stable manure. Along it's banks the sublImest. the most awe-inspirlng scen- cry in all christendom may be seen. It has not been successfully nsvigsted from end to end half dozen times. The any river in the world, coming as it does from such 8 vast area. Except in spring, when few warm days melt the snows suddenly, the flow does not vary three feet year. The river is import ant as highway to Yuma. Out of the town up the river as far as eighty miles two steamers ply almost constantly, their biggest traffic being to and from | the mnes.
 This river is the great feature of Yuma. All Arizona has climate and some of it rich land, but elsewhere wa ter cannot be found as the Colorado fur nishes it at Yuma. From this river, combined with it's other resources of cli- mate and land, will come a city that l will be the most prosperous and proba- biy the largest in all Arizona.
 THE ALGoDoNEs TRACT.
 The outlook for early prosperity to Yuma is due largely to the Algodones tract. This matter has been appealed from the land court to the supreme court, and will be settled in January. The Algodones question has been placed at the top of the calendar, owing to it's importance. and will be forever settled is all wanted at Yuma; whether 1t goes to the corporation or to the government is of small importance. It is probably more generally the prefer l ence that the corporation get it, as the company has money and can put water on the land; while if it goes to the
 
 acres and can do little in the way of canals. Men who settle such lands are not usually rich enough to do much canal building. However the only desiderstum IS to get the great tract occupied.
 YUMA's APPEARANCE.
 Two years ago I saw Yuma and today I hardly recognIze the place. The town has built up and improved amazingly. Where 1 saw only blank lots or piles of adobes melted down by the floods, today find brick blocks and handsome resid- euces The town has a three story brick building, which is more than Tucson can boast, and several very creditable brick blocks, newly built. There is the Gandalfo & Sanguinetti block, oc- pied solely by the firm. They have more floor room than l.. Zsckendorf & Co.,, having three floors 52 125 feet. They have a stock of goods that is un- dou btedly second only to Zsckendorf's. This firm do a larger business and are said to take larger chances Tn the bus mess way than other Yuma firms can afford to. The Modesti block, the Dr. Cater block, the new public school (alresdy too small) the two or three score of other business places and resid- ences built in the past two years are the attractions of the town today.
 Yuma is bound to be good town. It stands in reason that 1t should be. Such resources of water, climate and land ln cou, h, n ati0n d not axiSI alsaWhara T ha