The Arizona sentinel., 1895-09-14
YUMA HEIGHTS.

AOAl OAAS AANNAS SAN AA~ J , and by the river, Orange Avenue gradually ascends to Yuma Heights, where the lemon, and the lime, ap- prove their home.
 Three thousand acres of plateau with orchards and vineyards, and comedy cottages, and only three years ago 8 gravel topped desert.
 Then, four hundred acres were placed in alfalfa, then turned over, and it took diligence and patience to root it out and plant the lemon, or ange and lime, peach and plum and give the apricot, the fig and the prune chance tc glow.
 Where the pee-weep wept and flew away now Plymouth rocks hold the day, near the rcd roofed cottage and the barn. The weaving roadway of deep sand is turnpiked avenue, with lemon trees on the outside mar gin at the sidewalk and Cypress trees shade towards the farm.
 Half dozen comedy cottages with foliaged shade, where the mesquite bush and gravel bed made the horse man spur on nearer home.
 From the Yuma Heights estate, lovely views of valley, and the shin ing waters of the circling Colorado river, and the cragged peaks of mountains brown, then black and rich again as gold are seen, while on the plateau stretch out twenty acres of lemons and ten of oranges with prunes between and thirty acres of peaches, and fifty of grapes show the power of irrigation.
 Down in the valley and by the river are the water and electric light works. A water main of twenty-six inch pipe takes the water a couple of miles to the reservoir on the heights. Every ten acres are irrigated separ- ately and there are no open ditches. Pipes and fumes are used and with valves opposite each row water is con, veyed as desired.
 Around each ten acre tract are Cypress and Gum trees, insuring wind brake, but you know the Gum is likely to take the nutriment from row or two.
 Yuma Heights is young yet but it has demonstrated to California that they may be ahead with the orange but here is the home of the lemon and lime. Riverside has already conceded and Yuma Heights will prove that other fruits in juicy strength have found their habitat.
 In all fruit growing regions some fruits do better than others, and in char regard Yuma does not claim to rival the Arkansas apple but it will compare Its peach with Delaware.
 In small fruits it IS worthy of note that the strawberry here rivals the champion berry of Durant, Missis- sippi, which for years has held first choice in Chicago.
 Around Yuma it has been proven that the heights are for fruit and the bottoms are not excelled for cereals, vegetables and the raising of quad rupeds.
 That Yuma has a great future is shown in the survey of the Norton Canal, which shows twenty feet fall at this point. That not only shows irrigation but manufacturing advant- age. The cheapest and the best power is that given by Nature.
 Where alfalfa gives twelve tons to the acre with four crops year, wheat will give forty bushels, and the mill with the water wheel will add to Yuma's grandeur The Yuma Heights estate is demonstrating that the belief expressed years ago that this is a frrit region by soil and climate is a ve-itable truth. There is no failure of water to irrigate with as the Colorado river is main artery from Utah to the California Gulf. 1t is no stream which plays hide and seek but floats on its bosom. palace steamers and freighters great.
 
 THE Chicago Post says George Cbr;et of NooaleS Arizona member