The Arizona sentinel., 1903-09-02
COLORADO AN. AN.
 CHA VALLEYS

| In the valleys of the Colorado and Gila rivers
 there is room for thousands. It is not too much | to say that nowhere within the limits of this | broad union can be found a more desirable re-
 zion for the making of home. No laboriouS clearing of the land is required; it lies almost | ready for the blow. Trees aud Shrubbery have l so rapid growth that within eighteen months | the immigrant can surround his abode with at l fractions which would require years to mature | in less favored climates. Fruits ripen and are | ready for the market full month before the l California products The bright sunshine
 makes life a luxury, and the pure dry atmoS- pbere brings health to all who inhale it. For ! the establishment of colonies, such as are made | in Southern California, Arizona presents un-
 rivaled opportunities. Thousands of acres now | profitless can be made productive by the con- StructiOn of Irr1gltlng dftCheS, and there IS no | investment which assures larger and more per
 manent return.
 The statements in this article onYuma county | are not exaggerated in fact they fall short of | doing justice to this wonderful bit of country | PineappIeS, dates, almonds and walnutS will do | well. Strawberries, raSpberrieS, blackberries entrants, gOOSeberrieS and all varieties of
 small fruits can be successfully cultivated. h. deed Yuma county is not only the natural | home of the citrus and SemitrOpical fruits as | almost every fruit, nut, plant, grain, grass, or vegetable which can be produced in either tropic
 of the temperate zones will thrive in the rich
 and fertile soils.
 With the bright prospects ahead of the town | of Yuma and Yuma county there can be no bet ter investment for capital seeking large and re-
 munerative returns than is afforded here. With
 a matchleSS climate, where all forms Of dis
 ease known to the damp and rigorous regions | of the east and north are unknown, where the
 bright sunshine kiSSe' into bloom and fra
 grance every form of vegetation, and where the clear days and cool balmy nights are one long continued poem of happiness and delight, we
 can offer capitalists an ideal field for invest
 ment and to homeseekerS verftable paradise | in which to settle
 The soil of these valleys is among the richest on the continent. It iS formed of the detrituS
 which the streams for ages have brought down from their mOuntain homes in their journey 1 to the sea- By constant OverfoWS and change of channel, the deposit of this rich vegetable
 matter has formed a soil of extreme fertility, Near the streams it is a dark alluv|al mold well adapted to small grains and grasses. Far ther back there is a rich sandy loam, mellow and porous, and especially favorable for fruit
 culture. It has been already demonstrated that the productive capacity of these valleys IS not surpassed by lands of equal area in any part of the United States. So rapid and pro
 life is the growth of thefruitS, cereals and veg etLbleS that the labor of the cultivatoF is re- duced to the minimum, In nearly all of them two crops a year can be grown, and vegetation Is one month head of California. The farmer plants cottonwood Sapllng DeIore hlS door, and within the year he has d shade tree twenty five feet high! Alfalfa can be cut six times dur ing the season. and 1t IS an actual fact that grape cuttings have produced within eighteen monthSi What state or territory can make such showing? The climate, 1t must be re
 membered, is nearly perpetual summer. Snow
 never falls in these southern valleys. The far
 mer begins to plant in November, and by the
 middle of May his harvest is ready. Roses are in bloom. fruit trees are blooming, and the
 grain fields arc a sea of green, when the fields of the Eastern farmers are covered with snow and ice.
 Every variety of grains, grasses fruits and vegetables grown in SemitrOpic zones can be , produced in the valleys of Arizona, Wheat,
 corn, barley, oats and all the small grains give
 yield of from twenty-five to fifty bushels per
 acre Alfalfa, timothy clover, Bermuda and
 all the cultivated grasses grow luxuriantly, the
 former giving from eight to ten tons to the acre
 each year, Every variety of vegetable raised Tn
 the United States can be grown in AJiZona, and
 nowhere are they found of better quality.
 Besides the products mentioned, these semi
 tropical valleys produce cotton, Sugarcaner to-
 bacco hemp and rice. With the exception of
 the Sugar-cane but little attention i- paid to
 the cultivation of other staples; but It has been
 demonstrated that the soil and climate are
 specially adapted to their successful growth.
 Cotton-growilg is no experiment in Arizona,
 for 1t is on record that when the Europeans
 first penetrated this region, they found the
 Pima Indians wearing fabrics made ct cotton