The Arizona sentinel., 1904-01-27
THE COLORADO VALLEY

by Deposits From Colorado
River Yuma an Up-to-
t Date Center
In calling the attention of the public
10 the rich and fertile valley of the
Colorado, it is our purpose to dea
strictly with facts.
LOCATION.
The particular part of the Colorado
Valley we desire to describe extends
from Yuma, southwesternly, to the
Mexican line, distance of % miles
and about five miles in width, repre-
senting an area OF approximately 10000
acres, and is bounded on the west by
the Colorado river and OF the east by
the mesa, or tablelands, and lies in the
southwest corner of the Territory of
Arizona, in latitude 80 Is, longitude
l4'35, with an altitude of 100 to l35
feet above sea level.
Yuma is an up-to-date business cen
ter, not only of large and growing
agricultural community, but also of a
great and wealthy mining district. 1t
has two banks; the Bank of Yuma with
r. S. Patterson cashier and the Bank
of j. w. Thornton & Son, with Joe
Thornton cashier, eleven wholesale
and retail business houses. the two
largest up-to-date hotels are the Con
dolfo and the Southern Pacific:
has water and sewer system and cleo
trio light and telephone plant and is Il
rapidly growing place with an excellent
school system, churches and seven fra
ternal orders that have lodges with
regular meetings.
SOIL.
Having been formed by the deposits
from the Colorado river these lands are
a delta formation, having a gray, SANDY
loan. This is the portion Of Yuma
county most favored by nature, of the
greatest potential wealth, the greatest
opportunities for enterprise and indus
try and the portion most destined to
display the greatest wealth and the
densest population. The valley by vir-
tue of combination of soil is remarka-
bly, adapted to the nurture of vegeta-
bic growth of a wide range of agricul-
tural and horticultural products. These
products include those sub-tropical and
great many of the tropical and tenn
perate zones.
HOW TO REACH THIS SECTION.
This place is OF easy access to the
travelling public On the main line of
the Southern Pacific railroad, $50
miles east of Los Angeles, and $50
miles from San Francisco, Cal, and 500
miles west of Ell Paso, Texas.
FRUITS.
A long list of fruits have been shown
to yield abundantly and to ripen earlier
than elsewhere. The orange, lemon
and lime yield abundantly and arc
large and very luscious. The grape
natures into choice product, and the
fig, olive a1d pomegranate are destined
to be leading products. Dates are
grown with magnificent success and
the mulberry is another superior pro-
dact The various deciduous fruits
and berries ripen early AMI yield heav-
lily, thereby giving the prolucer in
/ this favored district the opportunity of
placing his products on the market
from two to six weeks earlier than
producers of other sections, giving him
the best OF a market in which to dis
pose OF his products.
In this favored locality many OF the
farmers manage their rotation of grains
in the following manner. by sowing
crop of wheat or barley in the fall and
harvesting in April Or May, and the
same land planted to corn or other
summer crops in the months of June or
July, and taken Off in time to be re-
planted to another winter crop, inva-
riably giving abundant returns. Or
the land can be sown to alfalfa which
can be cut from seven to eight times
with total yield of ten TO twelve tons
OF hay, per acre, cutting every month
in the season, which will also give pas
ture on the same land for three or four
months of the year. The alfalfa hay is
equal or better for work stock to grain
Or hay.
Truck farming is good industry, as
all varieties of vegetation thrive and
do well in their season: both sweet and
irish potatoes produce abundantly and
are of splendid quality. All varieties
OF melons do well, with a quality unex-
celled, and are a continuous crop from
the first of June till Christmas.
Sorghum, katfir corn and other sim
liar products yield abundantly and ere
grown in the summer season. Two
crops of beans can be produced; one in
the early spring and the other in the
fall.
Horses, hogsand cattle are the chief
industry in this line, there being no
cold, rainy weather nor drifting snow
to retlrd the growth, or ne Shedding
necessary for their protection, always
having fresh green feed they mature
from one to two years earlier than
stock grown in cold climate.
All kinds eff poultry do remarkably |
Well-one continuous harvest of nnocs