Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-05-17
An Arizona Letter.
YUMA, Arr

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Dear Readers of the Herald.
| have been SO busy the past six
months that have had no time TO be
lonesome or home sick, but it makes
me feel sad to read of so many Grant
county deaths.
| have never liked this place since
we came here. Most of the people are
SO backward, it seems as if they were
living In the past century i'm place of
the new. People feel rather blue since
all the bids were rejected for the
construction of the Yuma dam. bnt
they claim the reason was on accoune
OF floods and consequent a delay i'm
the mail so all bids were not received
at the time set for opening the bidss
then some time ago one of the banks
failed and many lost; we we're lucky
enough, for just three days before we
drew out what we had in it and bought
a horse and buggy. They say r. Il.
PATTERSON. one of the cashiers got
away with large portion; week ago
he was brought back from Texas nd
is now out on bonds.
They say Arizona has had more rain
this year than all together the past
twenty years. The coolest day we
had was Feb. 18th. That morning it
took good knock to break the ice on
running water in the irrigating bitches.
1t is much cooler in the valleys than
up on the mesa. March 10Th we had a
hard hail storm. The children going
to school to me had never seen hail
before; they know nothing of snow
and ice. let them all go out doors
and be in it.
The 28th of April I will close sue
cessful term of school for the past SIX
months.
It is just wonderful what can be
grown here if they only had water.
Seven or eight crops of alfalfa can be
grown in year. We have had plenty
of rain SO far this year. We have had
SO many wrecks and washouts. The
third week of March the east bound
trains were held here nearly all the
next week, and among the passengers
was Ell. Rider Haggard. I had the op-
portunity of seeing him and his dangh-
ter pass our house one evening. He
looked as common as any other west
erner.
The Colorado river was then np
thirty one feet and this week it is up
to thirty and still rising 1t makes a
very striking picture to see the water
come rushing down on it's way to the
sea. They have had rain on the Cali
fornia side where the railroad men
say they never knew it to rain before.
and three times lately the track has
been washed out.
Things are cheaper here than In
Bisbee, oranges are cent a piece.
now about gone, lemons are gone,
strawberries, two boxes for twenty
five cents, butter IS cents a
pound, potatoes, $500 for a hundred
pounds, gasoline $1.65 a can, coal oil
ST. 80 can, baled hay. $40 ton, barley
S1.Ga hundred pounds, fifty pound
sack of -four, $16O. House renting
comes the highest, we pay $3.50 a
month, for three good rooms and two
porches in front and back, then, 500
month for water rent. A man over
the fence paid $40 for one room, no
larger than ours. 1t is just as you
strike it. A good six roomed house
will rent for $25 or $50 month. There
is good hunting all around Yuma.
quails, ducks, eagles, wild cats. deer,
etc. Last year large lion was killed
about two miles from where / ann
teaching.
miss my lodges here, no O. e. S. or
Rebeccas to 60 to. The evening of
the 7th, went to whist party given
by the Rathbones and won the lady's
LIST prize, a fine china salad dish.
We are we'll and best wishes to all.
MRS. SADIE Moses BENNER>
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