Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-04-24
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1 by The Examiner from subscriber and friends, nearly all want to knov
 about the climate and crops. All othe subjects are secondary, except tha
 the burden of many seems to be When will the Yuma project be com
 pleted?" The purpose of such inquiry is to ascertain about when water vii
 be available for the citrus, or mesa
 lands, now without water except suct
 as is pumped by the Yuma Electric
 and water Company to the Yuma
 Heights fruit ranchs
 Answering many of these inquirers
 in a general way, The Examiner would say that people who live in Yuma o1 the Yuma valley, believe that theil climate is the most ideal in the United States; a place where the hotels ad vertise free board every day the sun doesn't shine" where the sun blazes at monday in summer, but where the evenings are gratefully cool; where even if the thermometer does climb the air is so dry and full of life that is almost impossible to wilt collar and in the shade is nothing of sultri- ness and the heat is not annoying.
 For winter residence, Yuma beats the world-no frost, 10 cold, no fogs, and with total precipitation of rain which is less than three inches.
 Because of supposed torridness, Yu- ma has been the butt of many joke. but the residents have taken it in good part, as they could well afford to do when each train has brought a new increase of tourists, who once having found the true inwardness of the joke, can be depended upon to come again.
 The altitude of the Yuma valley varies from one hundred to two hun dred feet about sea level, and the mesa lands will be about seventy feet high CT than the general valley level The valley is never visited by high winds or stormy weather, but as regularly as the sun sets a cool breeze springs up, flowing inland from the Gulf of California, factor making for very pleasant evenings and good nights rest.
 The average temperature for the year is about 73 degrees; the period of greatest heat lasts no more than six week in the summer when the ther ranges around 100 degrees; in the winter months it rarely falls be low 45 degrees.
 Despite libel, the climate is really 10 warmer than the summers in many Eastern states; sun-stroke is never heard of, and the spring, autumn and winter are ideal; altogether, and with justice, Yuma claims the finest eli nate in the world
 As for crops, almost everything that ,an be grown anywhere else in the would can be grown here, and to at .empt even a partial list of the prod lets that are successfully cultivated ,n these lands would take much space the list would bear the yreatest resemblance to an anthology If nursury catalogues from all over he world
 In the line of fruits alone, with the of purely tropical products, uch as bananas and pineapples, for instance, all tropical and sub-tropical l ruits flourish well, and with the single | exception of apples-for which the | limate appears to be unadapted-all | leciduous fruits are heavy and prof l table bearers, coming on the market :, ome three weeks ahead of the Cali | ornia fruits and thus commanding tn, l cry highest prices. A small orchard | if pears, in the valley, yielded it's own IT $450 net profit per acre last year; ,lums, apricots and small fruits pro ] luce abundantly. Prunes will prob l ply be grown largely in the future.
 But it is in the line of citrus fruits 1 figs, olives and other sub-tropical trees bat the orchardist will find his great st profits. All varieties are success ully grown, and, whenever they have cen given a trial, English walnuts ecans and almonds are seen to be ure and profitable crops.
 All the varieties of grapes which are o successfully grown in California; Ialaga, Tokay, Thomson's seedless, Iuscat, etc.-are even more success ully cultivated in the Yuma valley, nd the climate would seem to be ideal or the growth and curing of aisins.
 The cultivation of citrus rruits here 5 not in the experimental stage Al eady there are profitable groves of ranges-Valencia and navel-grape- ruit, pomelos, tangerines (the kum-
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