The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1909-05-06
The CITY OF Yuma.

The City of Yuma.
Yuma of to-day, With its 5000 porNl-
lation, macadamized streets, cement
sidewalks, modern lighting and other
conveniences, creditable business CS-
adjustments, beautiful homes as well
as schools, churches and excellent so
ciety, is long stride in advance OF
the Yuma Of yesterday. But ii nat
ural advantages argue for aught, If
there is potency in a perfect location,
| if surroundings such as have builded
the best cities of the country are OF
worth, then surely the Yuma Of to-
morrow must needs be the metropolis
of the Great Southwest.
Situate on the navigable Colorado
river. at the transcontinental South
orn Pacific's crossing Of that water
way; southern gateway to California;
objective point of a railroad building
from San Diego, which will open
direct route to the illimitable markets
of the Orient; possessed OF a water
outlet to the Gulf of California and
the Pacific; center of an agricultural
and horticultural region beyond COM
pare; headquarters for a mining dis
trjct rivaling the Klondike in extent
and excelling it in richness; blessed
with health-giving atmosphere and
skies such as Italy cannot boast. Yu-
ma has in her own right the making
Of a city of a hundred thousand and
that in few years.
There have been drawbacks and de-
lays, dfsappointments and failures,
Lsuch as all towns are heir to, but by
and all, through good report and Ill,
the prosperity of Yuma has been
more faithful and the effect Of finan-
cial stringencies less apparent, than
most towns can boast With the COM
pletion of the Yuma project, life and
vigor are noticeable in every walk
and every quarter. Yuma's future is
assured
To-day there are openings for num-
erous business enterprises, particular
ly of a manufacturing character. With
the growth in population that has al
: ready set in, these opportunities will
correspondingIy increase.
A goodly number of cultured and
I weIl-to-do families, attracted By Yu-
' mas balmy winters and the lifegiv
ing properties of her ozone, annually
come as to haven of refuge from the
ice and snow and chilling blasts, the
T pneumonia and the rheumatic" OF
: North and East; but when the beau
: ties of our climate and the health il
= our air shall become matters of more
e common information, the tide o.
b travel will be regular and an impor
{ tant social, commercial and indus
trial condition.
If Yuma has five churches-Baptist
Il Methodist, Episcopal, Christian anC
:, Catholic. The Valley has four-twC
y Methodist and two Baptist.
II A splendid educational system af
d fords the youth of the town with higl
IS school and grammar school advan
>. tages, while seven grammar schools
in the Valley give the rural children
an equal show.
# There are active and flourishin;
ii lodges of all the principal secret SC
is cieties, such as Masons, Elks, Cd
- Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Work
\ men, Woodmen, Foresters, Eagles
We Spanish-American Alliance, Easter
ne Star, Pythian Sisters, Rebekahs an
- others.
& Two women's cIubs-the Yum
be Women's Club and the Ocotillo Gu
in are. well organized and importan
: features Of local social and civic life
IN An incorporated Sportmens AssC
ed citation furnishes Athletic amusc
be ments, especially baseball for thos
De who enjoy that sort of diversion.
- And last, but not least in the shap
er of permanent organizations of a pull
lie or semfpublic nature, the Connie
eS cial Club is an enthusiastic body {
:. business men who sincerely beliey
,e that Yuma is destined to become
re really great city. Every possible G
ng fort of this body is being unselfishl
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