The Arizona sentinel., 1908-06-24

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 Cobra do River. With alfalfa and corn the butter, cheese, eggs, poultry and pork to be raiSed on q twenty-acre farm will umaze those who have the experience in American agricultural affairs
 The winter climate around Yuma Is a thing so intoxicatingly 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 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 Feder- al experiment station are unsurpassed in their delicious quality.
 Yuma is a busy, up-tc-date town. The more DOQGEH lIlpIOSSuCl~S COBSISG Ol SCFCid4 UAOShS of attractive brick buildings. threes story post office building also of brick and many other nice structures. Among some of the greater improvements which are being made. are a SS5, ,0OO school building, q S75.0OO ice plant, Q fine clubhouse for the railroad employees a larger passenger depot, and the probability of a new court house to cost S75, 0G0. 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 up-to-date tourist hotel. It should have ample grounds around it and be planted with all | kinds Of tropical vegetation. If 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 25.G0O i tourists every winter to the banks of the Colo rado River.
 Yuma needs only to make known it's climatic attractions in the parts of the East swept every | year by blizzards and SnOwStorms to attract q city full every winter. Inc fertility of the val ley below will almost make itself known with out effort on the part of the people. But with q valley full of intelligent and industrious rura 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 mos hea!thfnl and declicious food. and if the air il 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 in ten years from today the attractions O
 Yuma as a health resort and the fertility O
 these bottom lands will be so well known thd
 it will require Sl, GOO in cash to buy single 1 acre of it.