The Arizona sentinel., 1895-02-23

Wnlcn It Is 50 Widely known. What 1 started to yrite about was the town itself, and the so-called Colorado desert, lying just across the Colorado river from the town, in California, and how it is pro- posed to take advantage of the juxtaposition of the river and so- called desert, and, with the aid of the hot climate, make this region one of the great garden spots of the world, just as other parts of South ern California now are.
 IRRIGATION THE wATCHwoRD.
 Irrigation is the watchword of all this western country. Go al-
 most where you will people are talking irrigation; and, briefly speaking, the plan in this case is to turn part of the water of the Colorado river out on to tbe desert and irrigate it. All that is needed1 in this land is water; nature does the rest. I have often thought of late that Yuma was directly in the minds eye of the man who origin ated that joke about the place that needed only some water and a | little good society. In any event his joke fits Yuma like a new glove.
 AS for the town, it is a typical southwestern one, possessing little individuality and few points of interest. It Claims 1,500 inhab- .itants, lies on the eastern bank of the Colorado river, stretching be- tween and over a series of bluffs and is built largely of adobe. But l doubt if any place on earth l affords greater variety in the make up of it's population. Native Americans, Mexicans, Chinese, ne- groes, half-breeds, Indians, cow boys, miners, tourists-they are all | here, and they all seem to get along after their respective | fashions. Not that it is difficult to get along in some fashion in Yuma, A house is almost super fiuity, clothing ditto, food is cheap and time is no object whatever. This is the land of tomorrow and the day after. Nothing is done that can be left undone. The idea is to put off nothing till tomorrow that can be postponed till next week, longer if possible. Perhaps it was hither that Hiawatha came, when he finally departed.
 To the Kingdom of Ponemah,
 To the land of the Hereafter.
 PoUssE CAFE UNKNOWN.
 The arrival and departure of the overland trains on the Southern Pacific railroad furnish the pieces de resistance of the day. Once in a while, however, something else occurs which temporarily rufles the placid came of Yuma existence. There was an instance of this only | a few days ago. The railroad tracks had been washed out over in California by the heavy rains on the Pacific slope and some of the trains were laid up near here. The1 travellers were killing time byI wandering around town. One of them, clad in faultless eastern style, spick and span from top to toe, entered a saloon and, not hay ing been properly coached in ad vance, walked up to the bar and confidently called for a pousse cafe. Now there are some things you can get in Yuma as easily as you can anywhere else in the world, but a pousse cafe is un- doubtedly not one of them. When a man is thirsty in Yuma he wants something liquid quickly; he don't care to wait for mixed drinks of any kind. Consequently the bartenders get out of practice in that respect. The presiding genius of this resort had never so much as heard of pousse cafe be- fore, and the whisky bottle which, as a matter of course, he had lifted from it's resting place and was handing to the stranger dropped from h;5 neryeless .a 'th ai'