The Arizona sentinel., 1895-07-27
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 lines and lemons and a frost every
 night. To have these just right you
 must have the heat and whole lot ot
 it. 1t must be hot all day and for a
 whole lot of days in succession, and
 also hot nights. That IS wherein the
 great secret of Yuma's fine and early
 fruit lies l have been up the Colo
 rado river. What a mineral country
 that is! Both sides of the river are rock-ribbed with gold and silver.
 Who ever saw anything like the lead and silver at Castle Dome. the silver at the Red Cloud, Old Clip and Eureka, and the gold mines ten to fifty feet wide at Picachol Those mines are
 wonderful. It is great mineral country at Ehrenberg, or just east of it and back from old La Paz. Won derful country IS Arizona. With such a mineral belt at her feet what ought
 Yuma not to be?
 "Two important projects are under way now in the irrigation line, which if carried out, will put Yuma beyond any question of cavil. Thus far the Algodones grant has been a curse to the place. The mesa project, near by, is still question. Those winds that sweep across those great plains cut to quick; but in that new Yuma canal now being located by Geo. W. Norton and his party, that leaves the Colorado just below Picacho and follows the mesa line to a point just below Castle Dome, thence across to Gl1a City, where it crosses the Gila river, and then on to the south, in my opinion, is one of the most important irrigation projects ever undertaken in south western Arizona, from the fact, first, that the supply of water at the foun- tain head is forever inexhaustible; second, the great canal will irrigate a grand country along navigable river, where 1t will have the benefit of con- peting railway lines, and third, the land to be irrigated is in the region of fercest and continual heat These three points make this one of the most important irrigation schemes ever undertaken in Arizona and of more real importance to Yuma than anything undertaken in that section. The curse of nearly every irrigation project as rule is that as soon as one is started all the black kmailers, hoo doos" and illegitimate schemers start in to law or blackmall it. Look at the Gila Bend or Wolfey, the South Gila, the Mohawk and last but not least, Capt. Beatty's great canal on the west side of the Colorado, one of the best enterprises of the day, but the victim of the spite of men who ought at least to have their noses twisted if not their necks.
 "The next irrigation scheme that is gong to help Yuma is the project of settling the small valleys along the Colorado Some level-headed men whcsAI I met told me their plan. It is to take good, practical farmers and fruit growers and put them in little bands of six, ten or fifteen families in each valley, lay out the town plat and and in common after the Mormon dea, draw chances fer let's in town and for the five, ten and twenty acre ,racts. Put in an oil and petroleum engine of fifteen or twenty horse power, which will cost from $l to $2 per day to run, and which with purap will irrigate 250 to 800 acres; SOW alfalfa, plant vegetables with which to supply the adjoining mining camps, then set out lime and emon trees anA the best grapes for inc wines and raisins; then as their orce increases or the damands arise or more water with which to 1rrigate nore land, put in more pumps or in ,rease the capacity of these already n. These valleys cannot be reached ,y canals, but under this new order if things, will be put to production md will supply the great mining districts with hay, grain, vegetables md fruit, and become an important actor in the development of the vast iiddeu resources of that portion of ArIzona, which is coming so rapidly
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