The Arizona sentinel., 1898-02-26
THE VILLAGE OF YUMA.

oldest community in the Territory of Ari- zona, it is astonishing how little it's re- sources are known to the world at large, and how slightly developed is the natural wealth of the county. This is owing partly to Yuma's reputation for unbearable heat, and partly to the fact that, lying next to Cali fornia, is has been assumed that the county has been thoroughly rrospected for mineral wealth, and prospectors have, in the main, kept the travelled highways in crossing its Territory As matter of fact one suffers less from the heat here than in almost all of the settled communities of the east. owing to the dryness of the atmosphere, and there is no healthier climate on Gods footstooL
 People labor ont of doors from the rising to the setting of the sun, and suffer no in convenience. There has never been known. in this section of country, an authentic case of sunstroke. Our climate, taken in time, never fails 10 cure pulmonary complaints of any description. Disease such as smallpox. cholera, etc., rarely visit us, and then only in a very mild form, and are never fatal ex- cept through the perversity of patients. i Contrary to the belief of the uniformed, l the dry heat of the summer months is es- pecialy conducive to good health and ex- ceptionaI vigor, acting naturally upon the human system with the same effect as the artificial result of a Turkish bath-purefy- ing and renOvating it. As further matter of fact, this county has never been even superGcially suspected, and it is only now that people are beginning to search its hills with any degree of systematic enthusiasm for the mineral wealth hidden there, Ow. ing to the falling off in the price of silver. deposits of gold only are being sought for; ! and the present result is little short of mar vicious. In all sections of the county from the Sonora line to Williams Fork discoveries are daily being made, and the greater the development the greater the wealth dis played. Wherever the prospcctor plants his foot, lodges of gold confront him or are brought to light by the investigating strokes of his pick
 Portions of the country traversed for years by commonly travelled trails are deveI- oping into rich storehouses of golden wealth. New and rich placers are constantly being discovered, and shipments of placer gold from this point through Wells Fargo &, Co.'S Express, are steadily increasing in value. From a mining standpoint Yuma County is rapidly leading the Territory, and yet as far as that industry is concerned, this section has received but little recoq milton.
 Agriculturally the country is vastly i'm proving. Enterprises that have lain dor mant the last two years, owing to the gen erai financial depression and consequent dearth of money for investment purposes. 1 are waking up 10 new life and vieor. Money IS being attracted in this direction. and on all sides can be distinguished that iodefn- ! able stir which is the precursor of an indus trial awakening. Even within these last two years of financial stringency and de- pression there has been @ steady if slow in. crease in agricultural devclopmeat and wealth. A greater area of old farms has h,en put under cultivation, and new lands have No"0 '-cloeo5 orl new fields st.~taJ . ...- -,a .. aial.I Hei-. $ has been .'.'..- to -.l' ....ss "..'# .a. -.-Is and ..... .-ra .ee. added t. ....-i,,.-ad
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 MINES.
 There is no section of the United States. 'r probably of the earth, more rich in min .ral wealth than the County of Yuma. An ( he country north, east and south of Yuma ies directly within the main gold belt that commences iu Alaska and ends in Mexico. , From the San R"rnardino mountains in Ta alifer-,;r f- t1a So,y,. I,1l,,Jo,.,- l;,, 4I