The Arizona sentinel., 1903-08-26
COLORADO AND AND
 CHA VALLEYS

In the valleys of the Colorado and Cila rivers there is room for thousands. It ir not too much to say that nowhere within the limits Of this broad union can be found q more desirable re- zion for the making of a home. No laDOrlOuS clearing of the land k required: 1t lies almost ready for the pIOW. Trees aud ShrubDery have so rapid growth that within eighteen months the immigrant can surround his abode with at fractions which would require years to mature in less favored climates. Fruits ripen and are ready for the market q fGli month before She California products. The bright sunshine makes life luylry, and the pure dry atmoS- pnere brings health to all who inhalC 1t. For the establishment of colonies. such aS are made in Southern California. Arizona presents un- rivaled opportunities. Thousands of acres now protitIeSs can be made productive by the con- StructiOn of irrigating ditcheS and there is no investment which assures larger and more per maGCnt return.
 The statements in this article OnYuma county are net exaggerated: in fact the5 fall short of doing justice to this wonderful bit of country PineappleS, dates. almonds and walnuts will do well. Strawberries, rdSpberrleS blackDerrleS. CurrantS gOOSeDcrrlcS and all varieties or small fruits can be successfully cultivated. In deed. Yuma county k not only the natural home of the citrus and SemiJrOpicaI 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 rlch 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 muneratVe returns than iS afforded here. With d mdtClIGSS clludUc. where dll lOTHiS Ol UiS- ease known to the damp and rigorous regions of the east and north are unknown, where the bright sunshine kSSe into bloom and fra grauce every form of vegetation. and where the clear days and cool balmy nights arc one long continued poem of happiness and delight we can offer to capitalists an ideal field for invest ment and to hOmeSeekerS veritable paradise in which to settle.
 'Fne SoIl or these valleys iS among, the richest on the continent. It t, formed of the detrltuS which the streams for ages have brought down from their mountain homes in their journey to the sea. By constant OverhoWS and change of channeE- the deposit of this rich vegetable matter has formed soil of extreme fertility. Near the streams it is dark alluVlal mold, we'll adapted to small grains and grasses. Ear ther back there iS a rich sandy IOam mellow and porous. and especially favorable for trult culture. It has been already deInonSS,trated that the productive capacity of these valleys lS not surpassed by lands of equal area m any part of the United States. 50 rapid and pro fife is the growth of thefrLitS. cereals and veg ctlbles that the labor of the CultiVdtOr k re dlcCd to the minimum. In nearly all of them two crops year can be grown. and vegetation lS one month head of California. The farmer plants cottonwood SapnnS DcIore his door, and within the year he has shade tree twenty five feet high Alfalfa can be cut six times dur ing the season. and it k an actual fact that grape cuttings have produced within eighteen months, What state or territory can make such showing: Tho climate. 1t must be re mcmbcred. S nearly perpetual summer. snow never falls in these southern valleys. The lar mer begins to plant in November. and by the
 
 middle of May his harvest K ready: Roses are in bloom. fruit trees are blooming, and the grain fields are q sea of green. when the fields of the Eastern farmers are covered with snow and ice. n.
 Every variety of grains, grasses, fruits and vcUetableS grown in Scruitropic zones can be produced in the valleys of Arizona. W heat, corn barley. oats and all the small grains give a yield of from twenty-five to fifty bushels per acre Alfalfa. timothy. clover, Bermuda and all the cultivated grasses grow luNurantIy, the former giving from eight to ten tons to the acre each year. Every variety of vegetable raised m the United States can he grown in AJllOna, and nowhere are they found Of better quality.
 ''BcSideS the products mentioned, these semi tropical valleys prOduc. cotton, sugar cane, to- baCcO hemp and rice. With the exception or the sugar cane but little attention le pald 10 the cultivation of other staples; but lt has hocu demons trated that the soil and rll-ndt5 are specially adapted to their successful gro"th Cotton growing is no experiment in Arlzona for it k On record that when the Europeans first penetra ted this region, they found the Pima Indisns wearing fabrics made ot cotton