The Arizona sentinel., 1899-01-07
RIVERS OF YUMA COUNTY.

RlN EEiS Of I U MIA SOS M
 Tn regard to climate, healthfulness, fer tility and prcductiveness Of soil, facilities for cultivation, irrigation and abundance of water supply, variety Of resources and eheap transportation by rail and by water, no part of Arizona can surpass Yuma county, which is destined to become one of richest and most prosperous counties ID Arizona.
 It lies between 32O 0O> and 340 20' north atitudo and il30 20' and ll40 4O> west longitude. It contains 6,48S, ,32O acres. It is about as large as the States of Rhode Island. Connecticut and Delaware com bi.ed. or as large as either New Hampshire Vermont or Massachusetts.
 Inc western boundary ot iuma CounIy Is formed by the Colorado river, which seDarates Arizona from California. The county is bounded on the north by Williams Ferk and the Santa Maria rIver, whose waters flow into the Colorado; on the east bv the counties of Pima, Maricopa and yavapai. and on the south by Sonora Mexico. Its county seat Is the town oi Yuma.
 ghe Colorado river drains the entire ter ritory Of Arizona, and every drop ct Water which falls on its mountains and plains finds its way to this mighty river. 1t Ia formed by the union Of the Green and Grand rivers, fed by the streams which rise in the Rocky Mountains, and the melt inr snows cause a greater depth of water in 23ig ii, 1T ID summer than m winter. thus furnishing the most water at the season when it IS most required for the purposes firrigation and agriculture.
 ;E will be seen that for the entire distance .ong it's western boundary, Yuma County BOSS, .ses the great advantage of cheap water transportation.
 The Gila river rises ill the western part of New Mexico and is fed by numerous streams, among the most prominent oi which are the San Pedro. AGua Fria, Has sayampa and Salt rivers. It flows west through Yuma County and empties into the Colorado at the town of Yuma.
 Yuma county, travcrsed by these great rivers from its northern to Its southern, and from it's eastern to its western bound aries, possesses a far greater water supply ~tan any other county in the Territory, and far more than can be found in all Cali fernia.
 This water is now being diverted from its natural channels by means of numerous Ia cc irrigeting canals, and utilized for the purposc of reclaiming and irri8"ting tine immense tracts of lands which lie in this Favored country, and which arc as fertile KS any in the world.
 The Southern Pacific Railroad crosses the Colorado river at the town of Yuma and runs through tue county, following the penerol course, and at an average distance 7f about four miles south, of the Gila river, -epdcrinc all the lands susceptible of irri- ration and cultivation, can lind an easy aptIet in this way and can be transported osH the markets and centcrs of population fn thc East or West.
 Another competing railroad is projected srom San Diego. California, to tic town sf Yuma, ard thence along the no;th side of the Giia river Thus Yuma County Will nave exceptional railroad advantages.
 THE CLIMATE OF YUMA.
 The climate of Yuma for nme months oi sa,e year has no equal, as we believe: in the world. and during the remaining three months of the year, comprising June, July and August, the heat is not oppressive. 5s.en though the thermometer in mId-suin' aler may aa times rise above l0O', and oc. sasionally c, en reach ll0', yet, owing to she absence of moisture in the air, tits not expressive. The atmosphere is pure, light snd balmy. When the mercury marks the