Bisbee daily review., 1913-04-23
YUMA COUNTY
 IS IN SWIM
FOrty-five Thousand Acres Formerly Desert Now Oas- is of Beauty; Assessor Tells of Progress


 Yuma city, and the district around it are going ahead at wonderHH rate, according to A. B. Ming, as- sessor of Yuma county, who was lh Phoenix on a visit this week compIh- ing business and pleasure. In the neigbborhood of 45,000 acres of the most fertile land on earth is already under the Colorado water pouring through the great siphon. Thousands of acres of hitherto desert have been planted to cotton, corn, maize, barley, wheat. oats, Egyptian wheat anu vegetables.
 srNo question any more about the future of that section of Arizona, said Ming with enthusiasm. we are going ahead at a great pace. IhaI !s all there is to it. The country 4S going to be the richest garden spot lA inc limited States, for the land IS the richest and the water problem is sol'- ed for all time. About 45,00O acres O. the bottom land is already under wat or Seyenty-fve thousand addltionaI acres will te under water on the mesa this fall. This mesa around Yuma was not touched by the frosts WhlSh pIavsd such havoc in Southern Cali ornia in January. The result IS tnaS inc Yuma mesa has attracted the attention of many of the biggest clt- rus growers of Southern Calliorhla' who have purchased lands ana are goirg to plant on large scale. Man! are already clearing big tracts ol mesa lands preparatory to pianLIhs oranges. lemons and grape trut- lhe few hundred acres already m oFans- .ag in and around Yuma were not dam aged in the least. It has been DIE boost for the country
 Hundreds of families have SC cured Yuma lands. They are from every section of the United States, Te1as. and Oklahoma are largely rep resented, but far more come lroI the Pacific northwest than any oIAeE
 section. The orange groWeEs are mostly from the Riversite anu Santa Ana districts. The Yuma oranges are of fine size and flavor and r!Ben even earlier than they do in the Salt River valley Of course that means high nriceg. With no frost the Yuma conn trv must become very valuable as citrus fruft-produCer- The grape HulI we grow is the finest on earth. Yuma is growing very rapidly. it fs going 10 be a continual winter re- sort for the climate is the finest in the world, not even excepting Phos- nix. One of our grave needs al the present time is a big hotel It would pay from the jump.
 Eventually. and ! don't believe it is very far off a railroad must be buiIt from Yuma south 10 the Gulf or I California. The crying need is for the United States to make some ami cable arrangement with Mexico where , by this country shall take over that section of Mexico bordering the Gull | Of California for some distance below ] the border. At present conditions along the border south of Yuma are d constant menace in which millions have teen invested. The taking over
 Of the section mentioned would bring under cultivation at once an immense area of exceedingly fertile land which at present is desolate desert. It will always be so under the Mexican reg ! inc.
 The beaches on the Gulf of Cali ! fornia are ideal for bathing the year round. the water always being dc- i HzhtfuI Under the United States, | and with railway connections wish [ Yuma south, the Gulf would become
 the summer resort for. fhe weole
 southwest and the winter, resort o'
 the continent Things are mosing fast. We will have twenty thousand 1 population down our way before you
 realize It."