The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1909-04-22
The City of Yuma.

The City of Yuma.
Yuma of to-day, with its 5000 popu-
lation, macadamized streets, cement
sidewalks, modern lighting and other
conveniences, creditable business es-
Adjustments, beautiful homes as well
as schools, churches and excellent So
ciety, is a long stride in advance of
the Yuma of yesterday. But if 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
ern Pacific's crossing of that water
way; southern gateway to California;
objective point of a railroad building
from San Diego, which will open a
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
trict rivaling the Klondike in extent
and excelling it in richness; blessed
with a health-giving atmosphere and
skies such as Italy cannot boast. Yu-
ma has in her own right the making
of q city Of a hundred thousand and
that in 4 few years.
There have been drawbacks and de-
lays, disappointment and failures,
such as all towns are heir to, but by
and all, through good report and i'll,
more faithful and the effect of finan-
cial stringencies less apparent, than
most towns can boast. With the CON-
pletion of the Yuma project, life and
vigor are noticeable in every walk
and every quarter. Yumas 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
correspondence increase.
A goodly number of cultured and
well-to-do families, attracted by Yu-
mas balmy winters and the life-giv-
ing properties of her ozone, annually
come as to a haven of refuge from the
ice and snow and chilling blasts, the
pneumonia and the rheumatic" of
North and East; but when the beau
ties of our climate and the health in
our air shall become matters of more
common information, the tide of
travel will be regular and an impor-
tant social, commercial and indus
trial condition.
Yuma has five churches-Baptist,
Methodist, Episcopal, Christian and
Catholic. The Valley has four-two
Methodist and two Baptist.
A splendid educational system af-
fords the youth Of the town with high
school and grammar school advan-
tages, while seven grammar schools
in the Valley give the rural children
an equal show.
There are active and Furnishing
lodges of all the principal secret so
cieties, such as Masons, Elks, Odd
Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Worl--
men, WOodmen, Foresters, Eagles,
Spanish-American Alliance, Eastern
Star, Pythian Sisters, Rebekahs and
others.
Two women's clubs-the Yuma
Women's Club and the OcotiIlo Club
are well organized and important
features of local social and civic life.
An incorporated Sportmen's Asso,
citation furnishes Athletic amuse-
ments, especially baseball, for those
who enjoy that sort of diversion.
And last, but not least in the shape
of permanent organizations of a pub
lie or semi-public nature, the CONNER
cial Club is an enthusiastic body of
business men who sincerely believe
that Yuma is destined to become a
really great city. Every possible eff
fort of this body is being unselfishly
exerted toward that end.