The Arizona sentinel., 1895-06-08

L J this assertion that persons without means can settle upon land and thrive. No dependence can be placed upon rains as there are no rainy seasons, and the only means of watering the soil is by irrigation. To construct 8 system for irrigating requires an im- mediate outlay of money, and any endeavor to realize a profit or even bare livelihood by tilling the soil, unless one has sufficient capital to start right, would prove futile. There are many different ways, however, by which water can be conveyed upon the land, from the modern canal to the prlmi- tive wind mill.
 1t has been demonstrated that a twenty acre tract planted to citrus fruits, will pay better than one of one hundred acres, as the smaller acreage is generally better cultivated and cared for and there is less waste. Of course, a gravity canal, where the conditions are favorable, Is the cheap est and best method, but where one IS acting for himself independent of any organization it is generally too expen sive to construct canal, as the stream has to be tapped long distance above the tract to be irrigated so as to get the necessary fall. A twenty acre or forty acre tract can be irrigated, how ever, by steam pump taking its sup ply from a deep we'll, Tn any part of the Gila or Colorado river valleys The first cost of pumping plant IS comparatively small and once the ground IS Ievelled and Gicthed the water cost is very reasonable. Wood can be had for two dollars and half to three dollars per cord. Five and ten acres can be irrigated by wind mill, and of course, as many mills as necessary could be placed upon the land.
 By ear the best system for persons of small capital, is to cooperate to- gether in the construction of canal for the irrigation of all their lands, and in keeping the game in repairs. In other words, form colonies for pro- ductive aud protective purposes.
 This system has proved emi- nently successful in the Farmers canal enterprise, written of in our last article. As, however, under the canals now constructed there are large tracts of most desirable land, to be had cheap, and only to be levelled and ditched for,the re- ception of water, we recon mend the same for colonization as being cheaper. and from the fact that the problem of irrigation, at those points, has been thoroughly de- monstrated. The canals have only to be tapped where desired, and the water is at hand without delay and in sufficient quantity.
 The farmer here has but little to contend with. Having his water always at hand when needed, there is never any fear of .droughts. The soil, is so rich that there is no ex. pense for fertilization, frosts are SC
 rare that they are never dreaded
 and blizzards and cyclones are, un-
 known. Caterpillars, army worms
 scale and other pests that devastat'
 other sections of the United State cannot live in this dry climate. II
 fact nature has done everything for this favored spot, so much il
 fact that it requires but a mini
 mum amount of labor to induc
 mother earth to yield her choices treasures.
 Yuma county is the best watere
 of all the counties of the Territory being traversed by two such river as the Gila and Colorado, and tn : time is not far distant whe every acre of it's arrable soil wi
 blossom.like the rose in the growt 7 of almost every marketable agricu I tural product.
 e It is now when land and wat' l. can be had cheap that seekers fC L. homes and farms should invest, f.
 the time will come, as it has