The Arizona sentinel., 1908-05-06

prevailing in the winter months chickens are
free from the disease that make their raising
difficult elsewhere. There is no spot in South
ern Illinois or Missouri so adapted to the pro-
duction of corn as this valley along the Colora-
do River. With alfalfa and corn, the butter,
cheese, eggs, poultry and pork to be raised on a
twenty-acre farm will amaze those who have
the experience in American agricultural affairs
The winter climate around Yuma is a thing
so intoxicatngly salubrious That no words can
describe it. Those deserts of America, as we
have regarded them heretofore, seem to defy
the ills that human nature elsewhere is so
prone To contract and suffer from. The atmos-
phere is as dry as punk, the skies cloudlessly
clear. the air mild as possible, and every
breath seems to be an inspiration of new life.
The United States has an experiment farm on
the mesa just on the outskirts of Yuma. Here
ults even more marvellous than in the valley
are produced. Down on the lower levels there
are little nips of frosty mornings occasionally
during December and January, but on the mesa
the breath of frost never touches the most del
icate vegetation. Oranges grown at the FEEDER
al experiment station are unsurpassed in their
delicious quality
Yuma is busy, up-to-date town. The more
modern improvements consist OF several blocks
OF attractive brick buildings three-story post
Office building, also of brick, and many other
nice structures. Among some of the greater
improvements which are being made. are
s35, 600 school building $4,000 ice plant,
fine clubhouse for the railroad employees,
larger passenger depot, and the probability of
a new court house to cost $4,000. There is con-
siderable business done there, but the people
have not begun to awaken to the vast poSsibili
ties of the place. They should at once erect an
upto-date tourist hotel. 1t should have ample
grounds around it and be planted with all
kinds of tropical vegetation. II atmosphere
were only transportable like mineral waters,
and one could send conSignmentS of this Yuma
winter air to the East, the inspiration of its
health-giving qualities would bring 25CO0
tourists every winter to the banks of the Colo
RADIO River.
Yuma needs only to make known it's climatic
attractions in the parts Of the East swept every
year by billiards. and snowStormS to attract
city full every winter. The fertility of the val
ley below will almost make itself known with
out effort on the part of the people. But with a
valley full of intelligent and Industrious rural
population, producing fruits and vegetables.
poultry, eggs, fresh milk and fragrant butter,
Yuma should be one of the most delightful
winter resorts in all America. There is every
thing there to furnish tourists with the most
hcalthfnl and delicious food. and if the air in
that region does not drive doctors to seek
living elsewhere it will be because the people
do not know how to live properly.
The Laguna Dam will be completed in 1909,
and ir ten years from today the attractions Of
Yuma as a health resort and the fertility of
these bottom lands will be so wei! known that
it will require $1,000 in cash to buy single
acre of it.