Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-22
YAQUI VALLEY
ACTIVITY GROWS
COLONISTS PURCHASE AFTER
INVESTIGATION
ARRANGEMENTS ARE MADE FOR
A GERMAN COLONY
Work Is Rushed on Construction of
Section of Main Canal-Plans
for Alfalfa Planting
Mature

The interest in the rapid development
of the Yaqui valley of Sonora, Mexico,
continues to increase. During the past
week the following Californians have
visited the irrigated sections and made
purchases:
Thomas Darling, 70 acres; A. Price
of Ventura, 500 acres; Crawford, Rohr
& Crane of Santa Rosa, 1000 acres; A.
c. Schmidt of Stockton, 100 acres; J. B.
McElwee of Stockton, 125 acres; T. M.
Galbraith of Holt. 100 acres; Charles
Bradford of San Jose. 500 acres; Carl
Hagerman of San Jose, 200 acres; H. 1.
Seeley of San Jose. 200 acres; Mrs. P.
c. Gage, 90 acres; George W. Worthen,
100 acres; Davis Slater, 90 acres; Frank
M. Sanford, so acres; w. w. Allen so
acres; c. P. Fairfield. 100 acres; John
Nelson, 20 acres; w. H. McIlveen, 81
acres; N. A. Christensen, 81 acres; q.
ditto, 25 acres, and James Crawley, 30
acres.
E. H. McClay of San jose Cal, who
has already moved to the farm which
he purchased near the town of Yaqui,
has been Joined by his brother, w. b.
McClay, who has purchased a neigh
boring 150-acre farm
Joseph Herzog of Elpame, Sonora, is
inspecting the lands in the interests of
a large colony of German settlers for
whom he Is making arrangements for
an extensive colony.
Work on Main Canal
Edmondson & Reaves, who have been
granted the contract for the next sec
ton of the main canal, are at work
and are rushing this section toward
completion. During the past twelve
days they have moved $4,000 cubic
yards of earth with one engine and
one grader. Recently they have put
on extra forces and are now working
day and night-that the new settlers
may have plenty of water for their
crops and so be enabled to ship to
the early high-priced markets.
Watermelons, maturing in the Yaqui
valley as early as March, will be
planted extensively, as will alfalfa,
which has heretofore been shipped into
that section from Arizona
A telephone line is in service at the
grading camp, and this is to be ex-
tended at once to the town of Yaqui, so
that this town will have wire connec-
tions with the system which reaches all
of the settlements in the valley. The
contract for the 750 poles required in
poles to be cut from the extensive tim
berlands in the valley.
The Richardson Construction COM
pany of Los Angeles, which owns yir-
tually all of the timber and irrigable
lands as well as the water system, have
reserved two blocks, each containing
1000 acres, for new townsites. These
are q few miles westward from the
town of Yaqui and will become the
centers of energetic American COM
munities just as has that settlement
Survey New Canals
Additional engineering forces are at
work surveying the new canals and
laterals connected with the irrigation
system, as well as the roadways that
lead to the newer areas, which are be-
ing taken by American ranchers as
rapidly as the work is extended
The rush for Yaqui valley lands is
said to be growing greater each day.
The monthly publication called
Abroad, which is issued by the South
ern Pacific system through their Euro
pean agent, has devoted an entire
number to the Yaqui valley lands. This
has been distributed throughout Europe
and is expected to result in many for
eigners joining in the great rush for
those lands when they are formally
opend for settlement next January.