The herald., 1897-03-28

the bitches connected with two pumping
plants nothing has been done. Capita
never had another such a, chance. MOI
will it soon have again.
Yuma has no bank. 1t has no fine ho-
tel TO accommodate the misguided pull
monary unfortunates who in San Diego
and other coast points are sinking sure
ly toward the inevitable, when 80 per cenI
would be cured in q year here. Six OF
seven general merchandise stores, one
lumber yard, some saloons and restau-
rants, two drug stores and livery and
feed outfit embrace about all there is Of
the business part of this city-said t
contain from 1900 to 1900 white people
besides Indians galore and a. big floating
population going to and from the mines
There are custom house. an importan
weather bureau, pehitentiary and q
big Indian school across the river. Be-
sides Yuma is county seat. A nice elec-
trio light plant is In operation and the
city is abundantly supplied with water
After one Is duly acclimated here the
climate is healthful and delightful in the
extreme. Really the heat in summer Is
no more Intense than In Phoenix and
such thing as sunstroke even among
people working out in the hot sun the
year around was never heard Of
SUMMER HEAT THAT CURES.
DR.. Mollar, leading and slillful ply
sician of Yuma, declares that people suf-
fering with any kind of pulmonary trou-
BILE must stay in Yuma through the heat
ed term in summer II they want to get
cured. Indeed all old settlers here de-
clare this is fact, established by the OBJ
servation of long years. 1t Is also freely
asserted that no sufferer ever came here
strong enough to walk about and stayed
through whole year without being
cured. Yuma is proud Of this record and
believes that some day ii will make her
the greatest natural sanitarium on
earth.
ABOUT THE LAND GRANT.
The supreme court of the United
States will soon decide as to the valid
ity of the title to the $4,000 acres O!
splendid land adjoining Yuma, which
have been practically withheld from
settlement for long years because of'an
old land grant. Three years. ago the
case was. appealed from the United
States land courts to the supreme court
and a month or so ago 1t was reached
on the calendar argued and submitted
According to precedent, therefore, a de-
cision may be looked for any day and
certainly it will not be delayed later
than June next. No matter which way
the decision goes the great tract OF
nearly $4,000 acres, all bottom land and
capable of producing almost anything
in the way of crops, fruits or berries and
grapes to perfection will be thrown open
to settlement. Below and adjoining this
tract at various points are large bodies
of government land subject to home
stead entry upon which water from
the Colorado river can and will be
brought the moment the grant decision
is reached. There is. therefore, no such
l. L
as will soon be offered In the vicinity of
Yuma A big rush is expected, and
the city and country ought to double
or treble the present population In a
year.
REPRESENTING YUMA THRIFT
Only 80 years OF age. though for twen-
ty years of that period resident OF
Yuma, Althee Modesti is easily the lead
ing merchant and most thrifty business
man In the city. In fact, his Is the most
marked and notable character one often
meets. Though In active business here
since 1877, no one can be found Of all
the neighborhood to accuse him Of un-
fairness or even suspect him of a single
act of dishonesty. And all this time he
has made money as rapidly as the more
INSCRIPTIONS and rapacious, and saved
thriftily until without question, he is the
best supplied with resources among the
time residents of Yuma. He evil
IDENTIFY has full faith in the future of the
city, for he holds large quantities OF
real estate. which he is all the while i'm
proving. The most modern and elegant
of the brick business blocks in the town
are his. He occupies large structure
with his own big mercantile establish
ment, and builds to rent both business
and residence structures. He Is Identified
with a building and loan asSocia finn
and manifests a conservative spirit OF
progress that would soon make Yuma
q great and fourishing city IL half its
residents would initiate the example OF
Althee Modesti.
GOLD MINING PROPERTIES.
There are few men better Qualifled to
Judge the value Of q mineral Oh In Of 4 nv