The Arizona sentinel., 1904-06-22
YUMA.
And the Colorado Va!iey=-The;r
 Corning Importance.

general furnished the following statements:
 Yuma has every indication oi permanent prosperity. There are many and substantial evi- dences of improvement in the way of new, up to date stores and residences, many of them having been constructed within the past year. Another strong feature is the fact that the resi- dents of Yuma heartily believe in Yuma, and in each other.
 The Colorado river is on its annual overflow, furnishing an abundance of water for the nu- merous irrigating canals recent ly constructed.
 The farmers have the promise of abundant crops, and excellent prices for everything they Can raise and put on the market.
 Cattle and horses on the nu- merOuS farms below the city never looked better and never were so numerous, while the abundant alfalfa crops afford plenty of food for all classes of stock, including the profitable drOveS of swine.
 A large amount of the spirit of enterprise and business prosper ity is based upon the prospective action of the government in building a dam on the Colorado to divert the abundant waters of that river on to the rich valley lands adjacent to Yuma. With the completion of this dam and the abundant water supply it will afford, the valley of the Col orado will be one of the richest and most productive spots on the face of the earth.
 The waters of the Colorado, like the Nile, carry a large quan- tity of sediment, which adds to the richness of the land irrigated and prevents the soil from ever wearing out. Instead of being exhausted by cropping, the life of the soil is renewed by each irrigation by the virgin sediment in the water, which is equal to the best fertilizer.
 The valley of the Colorado is destined to become the garden spot of the United States, as it is the one spot where there are no injurious frosts. Anything that can be raised in the Cobra do valley in abundance and at as little cost anywhere in this coun- try. There are about 2000 acres of valley land belonging to the territorial prison that can be ir- rigated when the government dam is built, which will give em- plovment to all tbe able bodied prisoners now doing nothing in the prison and make that insti tuition self sustaining by produc ing everything necessary to feed the prisoners and thereby end the eternal effort to remove the prison to some other place in the territory, for the reason that when the prisoners become self supporting by raising everything required, the cause for tryingNo. remove the prison will be defeat ed, because it will be impossible to remove the irrigated land be- longing to the prison, on which the prisoners can be employed, and therefore the prisoners will remain with the land that will produce enough to sustain it by prison labor.
 Another feature of prosperity to Yuma is the determination of the people to build magnificent hotel, something like our Santa Rita, where tourists who have to live at or near sea level, will find proper accommodations. This class of tourists are now con- pelled to seek the sea-coast, where they are met by the disa- greeable and often depressing fogs, which they will not have to encounter at Yuma, which is as near sea level as any point on the sea coast, and is free from fogs.
 From every standpoint Yuma is destined to become one of the chief cities of Arizona, and ulti- mately, a railroad center, as all continental railroads through Southern Arizona and Southern California must cross the Colo rado at Yuma; the Southern Pa cific crosses there now, the Rock Island System is rapidly reach ing towards the Pacific coast, and must pass through Yuma, whether it's termination is San Diego or Los Angeles.
 Yuma is the coming city on the border line between Arizona and California, and is coming soon, as it has the natural ad- vantages of which the thrifty in telligent people of Yuma and the adjacent Colorado valley are taking advantage Star.
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