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The Arizona sentinel., 1899-12-09
WHY IMMIGRANTS SHOULD COME TO YUMA
 COUNTY.


 COUNTY.
 Because the climate is perfect.
 Because the soil is fertile and prolific.
 Because land is abundant and cheap.
 Because home can be made with little labor.
 Because so great variety Of products can be grown.
 Because the yield is large and the p.;ce' always remunerative.
 Because life is luxury in land where the sun shines every day.
 Because there are chances for poor mar which he can never hope to find in older countries.
 Because the country is advancing and property values are increasing.
 Because, unlike Southern California ii does not require small fortune to secure { piece of land.
 Because capital does not block all the av enues to wealth, nor crowd the poor mar to the wall. Because Uncle Sam has yet many farms in Yuma county waiting for occupants ] Because churches, schools, newspapers and railroads are fast developing the mora end material clements of the Territory.
 Because good land is becoming scarce, anu if you don't catch on now, your last chance will soon be gone. 1 Because the country is one of the few regions of the Uuitcd States that yields the products of the temperate and semi-tropiC zones. Because the worker receives a fair com. pensation for his labor, and the hustler has field for the display of his energy and en- terprise.
 Because there are neither blizzards oi tornadoes, earthquakes nor inundations. snowsto: ms nor cyclones. Becaus,, the vast and varied resources oi l the country are yet to be developed.
 Because the wealth of it's mines, it's farm ing valleys, and grazing lands, will yet bull up great and prosperous county.
 Because man can make livelihood .,el with less labor than in any other part of th, United States. Because there is health in every breeze. and strength and vigor under its cloudle~' skies
 Because the settler need hot spend a life time in felling trees and grubhire GU stumps.
 Because vegetation is so rapid that in tw' years the home is surrounded by growti of trees and shrubs which would requir, five years to develop in colder cline.
 Because fortunes here await the venture some, and health welc ,mes the afflicted.
 Because the country has brilliant future and you want to be i'll the swim"
 Because in it's pure, dry invigorating air. epidemic diseases cannot live or germinate. Because its people are generous, liberal, hospitabIe and progressive
The Arizona sentinel., 1899-12-09
LANDS AND SOILS.

Tho lands of Yuma County comprise the riv' r bottoms and valleys and the uplands or mesas The bottom ands moister and slightly mere fertile if, indeed, 1t is possible to mnke comparisons where all are so wonderfully productive and prolific The uplands mesas warmer and perhaps,
 lightly for betterthe cultivation ofte citrus fruits Yuma contains variety of sail The valley land of thel Gila and Colorado rivers have for tine most part a deep seduentary soil of brownish, gray sandy loam, resting in most places, upon gray clay subsoil at a depth Of from ten to twenty feet below the surface, The clay subsoil forms hard pan which is impervious to water. These soils hay" been slowly formed by the decomposition of shales
 'andstones, marls. lmestones, etr., mixed with or
 sanic and vegetable matter, Washed down by tho mighty rivers and have been gradually deposited
 turing the course of centuries. The iGrtilizins brownish mud held in the wat ,lCf the Colorado md Gila rivers resembles that from the Nile, and
 it's quantity varies from a.. to ".5 per cent. ,
 though the water hen considerably discolor- ;d by mud is good drink, resembling in this res
 ,ect the Missouri rV CT water. \ ch:mica4 analysis f the sediments of the Color ado and 0. the Nile exhibits wonderful similarity in the constituent Iarts of each That Jf the oloraIo exhibiting a rife less potassa, most phosphoric acid and ear >onade of limestom, beds through which the Colo -ado pess"s In other respects the sed.-h of the Colorado is almost identical with that of the Nile
 t will be noticed therefore, that when this water ,sed for irrigation it is superior to artesan waters
 ince it is constantly supplying the land with the
 richest fertiliZing elements. The soil of the valley
 extremely rich in dedomposed vegetable matter tnd unco. bned carbon, readily abso ping the .erial gases, such especially gen, which en-
 erng the soil, dccompoScs the organic matters SD
 hat they be taken up an! nouri4h the plants which may be considered leading fcatur, in It
 ertility. It also readily takes up and retains moisture while the irmness of it's particles affords very facility for percoa:ion and the activity of
 apillary action. In ts mechanical composition its particls in state of very fine division which
 enders it more productive than coarser soils l .quirics heat readily in the daytime, and the loss
 f the heat at night i. very gradual, that it mains always and Is not subject to sudden .nangcs Of heat and coli. Besides its essential con- stituents of water, organic or vegetable matter @oda, nlagnesa, iron, ammor and available forms nitrogen, phosphorie acId and potash enter into composition in the proportions best adapted to .dd to it's fertility, though, of course is always the case in soil analysis its composition varies in daerentl calities and is net always constaCt.
The Arizona sentinel., 1899-12-09
MINES.

There is no section of the United States, or probably of the earth, more rich in min eral wealth than the County of Yuma. al the country north, east and south of Yuma lies directly within the main gold belt that commences in Alaska and ends in Mexico. From the San Rcrnardino mountains in California to the Sonora boundary line the mountains and hills are exceptionally rich in the precious metal, as though demonstrating the theory often advanced that the richest gold mines are found bordering. the beds of
The Arizona sentinel., 1899-12-09
yBECLTMATE OF YUMA.

The climate Of Yuma tor nlne months oi the year has no eeuab as we believe, in the world. and during the remaining three aonths of the year, comprising June, July snd August, the heat IS not oppressive n.en tho n the thermometer in mld-sum- n,er may aa tinss rise above l0O', and oc' casionally c, en reach ll0', yet, owing to the abseree of moisture in the air, 1t is not oppressive. The atmosphere is pure, light and balmy. When the mercury marks the highest extre-1e of heat, person does not feel tbas oppression or debility which is as. ;s, the East4rn States whsn tbe mer~
The Arizona sentinel., 1899-12-09
ARIZONA.
It's Attractions and Advantages as a
 Place of Residence in Winter.

Whitelaw Reid. owner and editor of the New York Tribune, who has spent the last two wint CTS in Arizona for the benefit of his health, writes entertainingly and in structi"ely concerning that part of the country. Mir. Reid says:
 So many questions are asked about Ari- zona as place for winter residence, and there appears to be such a dearth of pre- else information among many who are vitaily interested, that it seems almost public duty, to set down, in the simplest form, few facts of personal observation.
 WEATHER.
 During a five months residence in Southern Arizona in winter there was but one day when the weather made it actually unpleasant for me to take exercise ill the open air at some time or ether during the day. Of course there were good many days which weather observer would de- scribe as "cloudy, and some that were 'showery; but during these five months ifrom No' ember. 1895, to May, lS96,l here were only four days when we did not nave brilliant sunshine at some time dur ing the day. Even more than Egypt, any where north of Luxor, Arizona IS the laud of sunshine. As to details:
 TEMPERATURE.
 I have seen the thermometer mark 92 degrees in the shade on my north piazza in March. On the other hand. we had frosJs which killed young orange trees, and there were several nights when thin ice formed The government reports show a mean temperature for fourt cen years at the pres ent territorial capital of 57A degrees in November, 5 degrees in December, 49 de grees in January, 54 degrees in February, sl degrees in Maroh and 66 degrees D
The Arizona sentinel., 1899-12-09

Swhite man first set foot on what is now Yrma County in l77l. It IS the southwest division of the Territory, and one of the four original counties of the Ter ritory. Many great reclamation projects are however on foot, and in few years ex- pect to see Yuma County rated as the richest in the Territory.
 The first glimpse the traveller from Cali forria catches of Arizona is that of the picturesque town of Yuma, which is Snugly situated in the embrace of gentle rolling hills. upon whose crests and sides the modern homes of our superior civilization are crowding the adobe dwellings into eternal oblivion. Yuma is the gateway 0 Arizona. the new empire of the West, upon whose undereloped riches the eyes ot the country are at present turned. and as such, it is bcund to grow and prosper with rapiditv that at present can hardly be re- .lized. But coupled with her geograPhi' cal position we find that she is the center of a country whose agricultural posslb'll' ties are practically unlimited. being sur rounded by a soil the fertility of which exceeds that of tho delta Of the Nile, and wanting oaly water to become paradise oi bloom. Billions of gallons of that precious fluid have annually gone to waste al Yuma's very doors, but already reaction is taking place and many enterprises are on foot to supply the life-giving waters oi inc yellow Colorado to the thirsty earth.
The Arizona sentinel., 1899-12-09
RIVERS OF YUMA COUNTY,

Tn regard to climate, healthiulness' Ter sility and productiveness ot soil, faclii'ies fgr cultivation, irrigation and abundance of water supply, variety of resources and cheap transportation by rail and by water ac part of ArizOn can surpass Yuma ccnntv. which is destined to become one oi icLest and most prosperous counties in aii1Ina.
 IL lies betw cen 32s 00' and S4' 20' north I,ti,ude and li3o 2O' and Il40 40' west icuritude. It contains ASS, 320 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.
 The Western boundary of Yuma County is formed by the Colorado river, winch se,,arstes Arizona from California. Inc ,.orr+y is bounded on the north by Williams Park and the Santa Maria river, whose waters flow into the Colorado; on the 'ast bv the counties of Pima, Maricopa and Yavapai. and on the south by Sonora, Mexico. It's county seat Is the town Oi YcIna-
 The Colorado river drains the entire ter ritory of Arizona, and every drop ot water which falls on its mountains and plains finds its way to this mighty river. It IS formed by tho union of the Green ana Grand rivers, fed by the streams which rise in the Rocky Mountains, and the melt ,rq snows cause a greater depth of water in th;s riv 1T ln summer than in winter thus urnishing the most water at the season when it is most required for the purposes of irrigation and agriculture.
 IT will he seen that for the entire distance alono its western boundary, Yuma County mas. sess the great advantage of cheap water transportation.
 The Gila river rises III the western part of New Mexico and is fed by numerous streams, among the most prominent oi which are the San Pedro, Agua Frla, Has, s.vampa and Salt rivers. It flows west through Yuma County and empties into the Colorado at the town of Yuma.
 Yuma county, traversed by these great rivers from it's northern to its southern And from it's eastern to its western bcund' aries. possesses a far greater watet supply than any other county in the Ierrltory' and far more than can be found ill all Cali fernia.
 This water is now being diverted from Its natural channels by means of numerous lsrce irrigating canals, and utilized for the purpose of retaining and irrigating the immense tracts of lands which lie in this favored country, end which are as fertile as any in the world.
 The Southern Pacific Railroad crosses the Colors do river at the town of Yuma and runs through the county, following the seuerol course, and at an average distance of about four miles south, of the Gila river, rendering all the lands susceptible ot irrl- cation and cultivation, can lind an easy outIet in this way and can be transported to Ell the markets and centers of population in the East or West.
 Another competing railroad is projected from San Diego. California, to tte town ei Yuma, ard thence along the north side of the Gila river. Tkus Yuma County will save exceptional railroad advantages
The Arizona sentinel., 1899-12-09
GEa.alESz-
 
RAIN

Showers, and indeed heavy rains are liable to occur in every month of the year, but the actual number of rains seems to an eastern visitor strangely Small. Ths average rainfall in Southern Arizona, as shown by the Government observations, is but Sh inches per year.
The Arizona sentinel., 1899-12-09
RESOURCES OF
 YUMA COUNTY The Soil, Climate, Rivers, and Many
 and Varied Offerings of FAIR ARlZONA'S BANNER COUNTY.
R ARlzoNA's BANNER COUNTY
Facts Setting Perth the Many Advantages and Inducements by Place of Residence

cury is ranging from sO' to 9oo. The air is so dry that precipitation is absorbed as soor as it reaches the surface of the body, and at no tune in the summer does the heat produce any discomfort.
The Arizona sentinel., 1899-12-09
WHICH TOWN IS TIC BEST?

Primarily that is question for the phy- sican, if there Is a physician in the case ii not. trv them all. If mountain region. considerable altitude and comparatively low temperatnre is desired, Prescott is in picturesque region, near great mining districts and has the social advaataps of an army post. whipple Barracks. az
 staff ,s still higher, is in region of lse nine forests, and is within . hard y's ionrnev of one of the wonders Of the Id the Colorado Canyor Oracle is a r :ttv mnr"-ain nook. powered in splChdid ''r, ,,.ka. Ike SC of California. and is o'c near aa .rportant mining district. If lo."er a!titdde and distinctly semi. tropical climate are desired, the three places most likely to he considered are Yuma. sea level; is the warmest and probably the driest of the three, has the least population, and the smallest provision for visitors. Tucson is the oldest town in the Territory. and, after Santa Fe, perhaps the oldest in the Southwest It's adobe houses give it 3 Mexican look, and are thoroughly comfort able. Its newer houses are of a handsome building stone, found in thu vicinity. The Ter itorial University is l ere, and it was formerly the canital. Its elevation being more than double that of Phoenix, it is :omew hat cooler, and as there is next to no
 irrigation near 1t, the air is a little drier Phoenix is the centre of the greatest irriga- tion in the Territory. The country for miles around smiles with green fields, cover ed with almost countless herds of cattle, and 1t is everywhere shut in by low mount aims. 1t is the Territorial capital, has the Government Indian School, the Territorial Lunatic Asylum, and other institutions, and is the general focus for the Territory Like Tucson, it has its occasional wind and sand stOrms-perhaps not quite so often. At either place visitors who know how to entirely comfortable, and in each they will find an intelligent. orderly, enterprising and most hospitable community. They will find country full of mines, full of rich agricultural lands, abounding in cattle and hor es, in vineyards and orchards and the beginnings of very successful orange groves
 a country, in fact, as full of promise for hardy and adventurous men now as Califor- nia was in the fifties. Above all, it has beeE their lot to search for health in far countries, they will revel in the luxury of being in their own land, among their own countrymen, within easy reach of their friends by telegraph or rail, and in climate as good of its kind as any in the world.
 ACTUAL HUMIDITY.
 Thus is eXtreu ely slight, everywhere in AriGona, as com ,,ared with any eastern climate in the United States. The air is driest Ou the high mesas, remote from snow clad mountains or forests, and in the desert valleys, where no considerable irri- gation has been begun.
The Arizona sentinel., 1899-12-09
ATTITUDES.

It Is a striking advantage offered by Arizona that. with the same general con- ditions as to temperature and dryness of air, the physician is able to select nearly any altitude he may desire. Thus, asth- matic sufferers can find almost the sea level at Yuma, or an altitude of only a thousand feet at Phoenix, Or of only 2,400 at Tucson Others, who find no objection to greater elevations, can choose betweer Prescott or Fort Whipple, 5,400; Flag staff. G. S0O,; the Sulphur Spring Valley, or Fort Grant. 4.2OO; Fort Huacbuca. 4, 800, or Oracle, about 1000.
The Arizona sentinel., 1899-12-09

WHY CAPITAL SHOULD SEEK YUMA COUNTY Because it's mines are the richest.
 Because its grazing lands are the best.
 Because it's farming lands are valuable and productive.
 Because it gives assurance of the largest returns on money invested.
 Because it's grand resources are yet to be developed.
 Because it is young, growing county with an assured future.
 Because the opportunities for engaging in manufacturing enterprises are better than in any other region of the West.
 Because good mining properties can be had at reasonable figures.
 Because there IS demand for additional facilities for ore reduction.
 Because there are vast stretches of rich soil to be reclaimed by the construction of 1 ;rrisati1g cards Hecause ..,ec ar. !ar1c tracts of gras, ianGs that c-r s u.lzei b, the sinking ot artesian wells.
 Because there are many openings Tn new country whicL cannot exist in older com. munities.
 Because the opportunities for engaging 1T the successful cultivation of semi-tropi fruits are better than in any other part the United States.
 Because property values are rapidly ad vancing.
 Because Arizona's boom is yet to come. CAN ONT LIVE COs.EoGTABLy?
 That again depends on what you expect. ! You cannot ta,e the luxuries of our New York houses out there, unless you builc one; or ths variety of our New YorE markets, unless you charater refrigerator Car. But there are hotels with almost nDuch frontage as the Waldorf ;and, like 1 everything else in the Territory excepting the mountains and deserts, they are new There are boarding houses of more kind. than one; and brlck cottages of eight ol ten rooms can occasinally by rented. Bet ter than any of them, for the man with energy and the pluck to take it, is to on the desert; and he who knows how ''camp out" with comfort through Septem Der II, the Adirondacks can camp out il A izona througr the winter. As to food, there is plenty, and it il 20 d--if YOU can get it well cooked. Th' alfalfa fields of the Salt River Valley art the fattening ground for the great cattle ranges of the Territory. From there th' markets of Los Angeles and even of Denve are largely supplied, Good beef, mutton and poultry are plenty and cheap. Quail ducks and venison from the vicinity car also be had. Vegetables and fruits ar abundant in their season, and sometime the se1son is long one. It is the on' country have lived in where strawb berries ripen in the open air ten months in th' i year. J have had them on my table, fresl picked from the open garden at Chrissum'
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-21

Siberia may yet prove 10 be- another
Alaska for Seattle The interview pnb-
iIshea In yesterdays Post-intelligeneer
with +. s. Young. who has just ar
rived from yladsostok, confirms pre-
vious assurances that "a great business
could be huilt mp across the Paeiflc al
NEST in 81 direct tire from Seattle: bat
the story Is told with such "A perfect
command of the subject that it should
carry conviction where before there has
only been a languld interest.
The population of Siberia Is growing.
but even now there is fine marke; for
American goods. We have this great
advantage. that Russia Is far more
fayofably disposed 60 American than
to English or German goods. The
cars government would lend every en-
couraganeus T. American enterprise
ana welcome the substitution of An,cri-
can imports for those 81 other nations.
Il IS Impossible for Russia To tfsscrim-
mate a. her ports against European
goods. bus unsier an autceracy, such
as that II Russia. there are means by
With 3 aespoiIe viii can le enforced
In spite or treaties. This condition
would make e. easier IN build up Il
trad~ Nith siberia than with china or
even With ,he seu;h American repub-
lies. yyssere as Se have learned ~ ex-
persene%, = monopoly exists
The practical suggestions made by oar
agreeable visitor from what ve regard
az ar snhasvltao1e region shoula ~
acted upon The extent * the trade
nlsht $40, 18~slfY independent exports.
except II floar. BAT experiments Such
as those usasle wtlh Guatemala two o.
three years aeo vvul4 probably raept
Wits gmuch Enere encouraging returns
II Seems 70 have heen the grteatiop
cg tie Russian government - egeu up
% ;he cultivation ct wN~a. tAe millions
q acres whicss lie aionws36e me Sgsser-
ian railroad ia; +, wsll - years before
THAI lire Is Is coalition Ser MACH
srsssic. Meantime we caG sesl cur
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-21

There mar be cities os $500 inhabitants
that have sworse street car service than
Seattle but, II SO, they have d;screetly
RETAINED from mentioning IL, We have
several frst-class roads. * Is true: but on
the ottssr hand we have two or three lines,
each poorer than the other. that in them
selves combine about ali the unsausfac-
tory qualities 20 be found In the very poor
est in any other city. Take the Union
Trunk line. for instance. Where else but
In Seattle would such diiapidated relics
as the alleged cars operated on the electric
branches be tolerated by q too long sur
fering pubic? Where e.se but In Seattle
would the open summer cars. affordins no
protection from stress OF weather. be per-
misted TO run the iive-iona winter? What
other railroad Ia able 10 give Its passen-
gers all the exci.ements and sensations
OF sea voyage as the ancient vehicles
go numbering down hill, rolling, swaying,
cracking, with seams opening up ard an
ocean of mud threatening TO swallow up
the flying craft at any point along the
passage. What other road has had the
rare luck to suffer 40 bad accidents, al
though by the character of its rolling stock
and roadbed 1t provokes providence every
minute In the day? The patrons OF sew
eral lines In town complain that they can
not get seats on the cars. No such grfev-
ance exists against the Union Trunk line.
The problem there is not to get seat.
but 10 keep It,
The practice OF this road running open
dummies up ana down James street Is
gross imposition as well as a menace TO
the health OF Its patrons The manage
ment appears to be laboring under some
sort of impression that 1t has scenic
route, and no obstruction should be placed
In front OF the passengers eyes. But 1t
Is mistaken. Its patrons prefer comfort
to scenery. The road is in this matter
simply three months behind the season. as
In It's general equipment It Is twenty years
behind the times. The city authorities
have the power 10 correct the open-car
evil. and they should take steps at once.
1t is not sufficient for the management
and is going 10 lay new track. Immedi-
ate reform In this particular Is practicable
and II is demanded. Present. and not
future, comfort is what the roads patrons
want.
II is consoling to the travelling public to
know that several important street car
lines Of Seattle have passed into the hands
OF Il company able and willing TO give a
frst-class service. Large expenditures are
promised and needed reforms are fairly
under way. 1t is "a cause of regret that
this strong and vigorous company did not
acquire all the lines in town while Il vas
In the road-buying business.