Arizona republican., 1915-10-07
YUMA |S FOR
 QUARANTINE
George Hill Here to Buy Big Stock of Seedlings for Yuma Tract--Praises Helm Nursery-Helm Re turns Compliment.

Seldom has any industry in the
 Salt River Valley received greater praise than that bestowed yesterday on the Camelback Nursery by George M. Hill of Yuma. Hill was here in
 the interests of the Yuma Mesa IT, rigation company which is putting
 In 300 acres of citrus fruit on the
 Mesa in the Yuma valley. He has
 had nineteen years of experience in
 orange growing in California and has
 always been especially interested in
 the various problems connected with
 the propagation and development of
 high class citrus stock and is of course
 familiar with the work of the best
 citrus nurseries of that state He
 says that he cannot imagine a citrus
 nursery in finer condition, or one run
 or better methods or producing finer
 stock than the Comeback Nursery
 That his company has placed orders
 with MT. Helm, the proprietor of the
 nursery, for all of the stock required
 for the 300 acres is ample proof of
 the sincerity of his statement.
 Over year ago, MT. Hill arranged
 with experts in bud selection in the
 Upland district, to select the buds which were to be used here by MT
 Helm in the stock grown for the
 Yuma company, and it is understood that the results obtained here have been more than satisfactory. One hundred acres are to be set out in November, another similar acreage in February, and the thirty one hundred acres in February 1917. Helm is now receiving daily shipments of buds to be used in the stock to be delivered next season. Of the first one hun dred acres about sixty per cent is to be Washington Navels, 35 per cent in grapefruit, and the balance in lemons
 The Yuma Irrigation company pumps its water from the government canals, having total lift, including the friction head, of TOP feet, the length of the pipes used being 5000 feet. Their contract with the gov ernment calls for a maximum of four and one-half acre feet of water an- nually at a flat rate of 50 cents per acre foot. C. I. Helm, who made a careful inspection of the Yuma cit rus district some months ago, says that outside of the fact that pumped water is required. that undoubtedly the Yuma mesa lands offer the finest
 
 for the successful and regular pro- duction of high grade citrus fruits. Practically frost proof, it is said that at the time of the severe Weathers of three years ago, when so many low records were made that young lemons on the Yuma mesa passed through the cold snap without damage. . Asked about the attitude of the Yuma citrus growers on the Arizona quarantine law, MT. Hill said, There is nothing in the rumOr that our citrus growers would like to see the Arizona quarantine law repealed. Many of us know only too well what the fight against scale and other orange pests has cost California and Florida and one of the chief reasons why we are going into the industry on such a scale in Yuma is because of the l protection offered by the Arizona quarantine law against the citrus stock of the infested districts. You can't make it too strict to suit me- | and we would be glad to see its ap- plication enlarged to cover deciduous i stocks and olives as we'll"
 He also referred in most compli- | mentary terms to a number of the | young orange groves in the Camel back district, and expressed his re- yret that present methods of culture | md the present satisfactory water conditions did not exist here fifteen pr twenty years ago, when the older groves were set out, that those groves might have then been today splendid object lessons of the possi- )ilities of this section. for the sue ,essful culture of citrus fruits. Like many other experts who have visited he Salt River Valley, he said it would be difficult to find any young croves of similar age in any other ection that would surpass some Of hose seen here The fact too, that ravity water was available for much if our citrus land also appealed to Jim as desirable feature.