The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-13
YUMA, EXCEPTIONALLY.


 century Yuma has been known to the civilized world-not as a coming city destined with a great future, but according to the "old soldier story. ."-as the hottest place in Christendom.
 This advertisements is a matter of the past, and Yuma is becom- ing known over the world in a more desirable way. Never was the power of ridicule more aptly shown than in the lasting i'll eff fleets of John PhoeniX's hot weather stories about this sec tion. which have echoed and re echoed around the world. But when Truth with keen-edged sword wages battle against Error there is only one final outcome Truth and right will prevail in the end. Phoenix's stories are of an era past and gone and their evil effects are rapidly dis appearing. Yuma is being her aided over the world as city with a great future, having a surrounding country with mar vicious resources No section of the United States presents such grand possibilities oris so prolific of opportunities, vouchsafed by soil, climate and water supply. In many agricultural districts the land deteriorates from long and constant use; not so within the boundaries of the Yuma irri- gatlon project, where the soil may be six feet in depth or it may be sixty, for it is known that with centuries to come the soil will be no less in depth or productivness, and that if a fancy is taken to some special crop that the same field will yield the thousandth time just as bounti- fully as the first time.
 Prosperity IS in the atmos- phere and every day counts the arrival of some interested capi- talist or homeseeker. Our real estate people are witnesses of these throngs of intelligent citi zens from all sections of the Union.
 The class of citizens. arriving may be best judged by noting their Investigations of our city public schools. At times the school superintendent is over whelmed with these callers, and in every case the visitor express es astonishment at the superior educational conditions here. In the language of a prominent cap italist from Iowa, who spent some time at the central building recently, "Your educational sys- tenn is absolutely unsurpassed. shall invest in a comfortable home in the very near future in your city, where 1 feel that my children will have all the advan- tages, educationally and socially, that other children have, it mat ters not whether they are in Iowa or in old New England. Others in the cold north shall have the benefit of my visit to the Southwest and 1 predict that many other families will be guided by my good words for Yuma and the Lower Colorado valley and will cast their lot with you"
 It is virtually the same story that comes from every visitor to the city schools. This excel lent educational work is doing much for the future of Yuma and every citizen should place his shoulder to the wheel and do his part in keeping educational Yuma to the forefront.
 The United States government has taken up the matter of ad- vertising our agricultural re- sources, but educational Yuma must be advertised by her citi- zens. This side of our citizen ship is probably more generally misunderstood than any other, and while we come up to the de sireS of the most sanguine edu- cational visitors, it behooves us to do our full share individually to make the school system a model in every respect and to never lose an opportunitv to in-