The Arizona sentinel., 1900-12-05

immense quantity of water, but the ca pacity of the canal is so great that it will fill quickly. The canal will carry an average of six feet of water from the river to the reservoir. MT. Ludy says confidently that by the 10th of January he will be prepared to furnish sufficient water to irrigate 5O,OOO acres, and if he had said 5OO,0O0 acres the statement would not have seemed unreasonable after an inspection of the great water way and reservoir.
 There is an extension of the canal from the reservoir in southeasterly direction, which will not require much work to complete, as the survey for nearly two miles follows a natural channel which only needs to be widen ed and shaped up a little to make it complete. About mile from the res ervOir the line of survey crosses the Farmers ditch, and mile further on is stretch of work done by the company last summer. The precise plans for crossing the Farmers ditch we believe have not been decided up- on. The plans of the company contem- plate the extension of the canal into and through the state of Sonora, Mex ico, where it will irrigate in the neigh borhood of 1OO, O,OOO acres.
 It looks as though Mir. Ludy had to a very great extent solved the water problem for the valley tributary to Yuma, and that's what ought to inter est the people here. An unlimited and inexhaustible water supply for the purposes of irrigation, such as this canal will provide, marks an era of more importance than one can compre- hend for the moment. It is hardly ne- cessary to dwell On the possibilities of agriculture and fruit culture under such favorable conditions. The evi- dence is at hand as to what the soil will do when properly treated: even with an inadequate supply of water there are magnificent orchards of apricots, peaches, pears, oranges, lem ons and other fruits, besides many fields of wh eat, barley, alfalfa, etc. Some of tn ese were noted while we were On the way to and from the canal, having passed the farms of c. c. Dyer, Winsor, the Crane place, the Dairy Cash Smith owner), the Marable place, Blaisdell Heights [where there is 12O-acre lemon and orange orchard ], the Fraker place, Westfall and others, all having either beautiful fields of alfalfa, or chards or vineyards and some of them all of these. What vii be the result with the whole valley under proper cultivation? Why, it will be veritable garden of Eden and with Yuma as a market and outlet for its products, we will have city here on the banks of the Colorado the proportions of which we will not attempt to outline or de- scribe.
 The lands of Yuma county are wonder fullyIproductive and prolific; the valley lands of the Gila and Colorado rivers is gray, sandy loam, and in most places is from ten to twenty feet deep. It is -sedimentary and resembles closely that of the valley of the Nile, which is said to be the richest and most productive of any On the face of the earth. The soil of the Colorado is extremely rich in decomposed vegetable matter and uncombined carbon, readily absorbing the aerial gases, especially oxygen, which, entering the soil, decompOses the organic matters so that they can be taken up and nourish the plants. The soil of Yuma county can nowhere be surpassed, con taining as it does all the essential elements of richness and fertility. All it needs is water in pro- per quantities at the proper times. We now have the water; MT. Ludy will press the button and the farmers and fruit growers with the assistance of nature must do the rest.
 l We want to mention here that the head and front of this Irrigation, Land and Improvement Company's canal building; the man who has overcome every obstacle, and surmounted all diff culties and has at last given the valley an adequate water supply is MT. J. E. Ludy. He is the personifcation of force, energy, will-power and intellig- ence and withal pleasant and compan- ionable man. Every man who helps to develop the resources of a country is the means to the extent of his accomplish ments of making it a better country to live in, and hence public benefactor. MT. Ludy is proud of of his achieve ment, and we think justly so.
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