The Arizona sentinel., 1900-01-13
THE VILLAGE or YUMA.

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 produce any discomfort.
 THE VILLAGE or YUMA.
 Although the town of Yuma is the second
 oldest community in the Territory of Ari-
 zona, it is astonishing how little its re-
 sources are known to the world at large, and
 how slightly developed is the natural wealth
 of the county. This is owing partly tn
 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 prospected 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 i the settled communities of the east. owing
 to the dryness of the atmosphere, and there
 s no healthier Climaue on Gods footstool.
 People labor ont of door 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 l of sunstroke. Our climate, taken i'll time,
 never fails to cure pulmonary complai1. 5 of
 any description. Disease such as smallpox, cholera, etc, rarely visit us, and then orly
 in a very mild form, and are never fats.l ex-
 cept through the per7ersity of patients 1 Contrary to the belief of the uninformei,
 the dry heat of the summer months Is es- pecialiy conducive to good health and ex-
 ceptional vigor, acting naturally upon tEo
 human system with the same effect as the artificial result of Turkish bath-purefy- 1 ing and renovating it. As further matter
 of fact, this county has never been even
 superfcially suspected, and it is only now
 that people are beginning to search it's hiIs
 with any degree of systematic enthusiasm
 for the mineral wealth hidden there Ow- ing to the falling of 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 tie county from the Sonora h1e to Williams Fork discoveries are daily being made, and the greater the development the greater the wealth dis played. Wherever the prospector plants his fost, Iedges 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., $ Express, are steadily increasing in valne. From mining standpoint Yuma County is rapidly leading the Territory, and yet as far as that industry is concerned, this section has received but little recog- milton.
 Agriculturally the country is vastly i'm proving. Enterprises that have lain dor mant tine last two years, owing to the gen eral financial depression and consequent dearth of money for investment purposes, are waking up to new life and vigor. Money is being attracted in this direction, and on all sid"o can be distinguished that indein- abe 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 development and l wealth. A greater area of old farms has Teen put under cultivation, and new lands nave been inclosed and new fields started, A large section of Blaisdell Heights has been planted to fruit trees; field of cereals and alfalfa have been added the cultivated area on the Colorado river below town; the lands lying under the Mohawk and Farmers canals have been made to yield heavy crops of every variety of agricultural products, as n other sections of the Gila valley, and the gardens of Yuma have been added to and oeautifed in fruits, flowers and shubberv to ! more than appreciable extent Altogether To may feel proud of our progress during hese last months of business depression and Encouragement. It speaks well fol the in lustry and pluck of our people, and the moving made constitutes the best evidence # the merits of our soil and climate and the ichness of our mineral resources. Nature las done everything for our county, and all hat Is needed Is a touch of the wand of fcap- tai to have our hills and valleys spring into : n active life of remunerative industry thai | i'll last and endure forever. U Some three years ago, through the energy 0 H. w. Blaisdell, the Yuma Water and q tight Company was incorporated, and by d eans of its large pumping plant, at the s 'ot of M. iu street, the town is abundantly '' Ipplied with water at reasonable rates, and (l ere have grown into existence new and u rge gardens and orchards. h