The Arizona sentinel., 1901-06-19
YUrlA'S GREAT FUTURE
Its Bright ProSDectS-The Oniy Seaport of Entry ard the Coming City of Arizona.
 4 Splendid Field fer Investments.

the city of Yuma today, one can realize the great changes that have taken place. These changes from adversity 10 a position of prominence and prosperity are not due to the efforts of citizens of Yuma, bat to the city's natu raj and strategic location; trade and commerce have chosen it as the coming city of Arizona.
 It is to be hoped that every citizen of Greater Yuma and of Yuma county realizes the great importance of an organized push association. This is the day and the hour to begin; don't wait for your neighbors to act; all come 10 the front and lend your mite in aid of the continued and high er progress of cur city and cOun- ty. We have wonderful and in- exhaustible resources which only need a little more push; organ ize 8 ''push associatiOn"-not @ political push, but a conner cial push-and shove Yuma and Yuma county to the front. Let this society be at once formed. Let the membership be composed of the broad gauged, public-spir ited citizens who are pushers and rustlers; let every good citizen contribute his mite, or might, as the case may be, to aid in making the city and county of Yuma bet ter known to the investment searchers and to the health seek ers of the world. There are millions of capital searching the world over daily for investment. We have the greatest undevel- oped resources Of any section on this coast and we must not wait for capital to discover it by de- grees; life is too short for pro- crastination. We must "get a move on" and publish to the world the unequaled chances for investment in this favored Hand of opportunities, where money judiciousIy invested Will bring a sure and safe income.
 What we want is few more men of the nervy, go-ahead kind like Captain A. B. Smith, who has been increasingly energetic for some years in developing this section and who, it is well known, is making strides in that direc- tion. Captain Smith owns large Mexican grant, beginning twenty miles distant from Yuma, over the boundary line in the state of Sonora, Mexico. The captain has demonstrated that he is a man of his word: he is doing just what he promised the people he would do. The steam CTS are here and more are being constructed. Captain Smith is one of the careful pushers who came among us some years ago making no demands upon the citizens, asking for what he wanted and paying for what he got; he is doing the same today. He is an able seaman and a fear less master, and the placing on the Colorado river by him and his company of the steamers particularly adapted to the river shows his deep study of the mat ter. It is just what this section has demanding for years-prop- CT river transportation facilities and from what we know and can learn from outside sources, we think we are justified in saying the plans will be successful and that the style of steamers is just what is required.
 The demands for transpOrta- ton up and down the Colorado river is daily OE heincrease and it Is reasonably safe to predict for the captain and the Mexican Colorado Navigation Company a financial success.
 It is the policy of this paper to uphold and encourage every hon. est and legitimate enterprise tending to advance the interests of thIs town and county, and ev- cry good citizen should do the same. One good enterprise de veloped brings others and em- plOyment is furnished to the un- employed, activity increases in established lines of trade and is