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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1920-12-09
Classified Want Ads

(, FOR RENT: Two furnished rooms
for light housekeeping. Call at the
Herald office. 1t. %.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1920-12-09
ORGANIZE BOY SCOUTS


A Boy Scout organization with w.
B.. Morgan a Scout Master, is now
in the course Of formation. Under
the present schedule drills are held
every Saturday morning between the
hours of $3.50 and IL o'clock at the
auditorium in the school. The mem=
bership at present is about 40 boys
but this is expected to increase rap
idly as a number of new applications
have been received. The boys are
now planning upon fund with
which to buy uniforms IN prepara-
ton for the summer season. Each
boy must earn his own equipment.
Dow vn,.r Hara1d S,lhScrintion
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1920-12-09

FOR SALE Several acres of
popple, cherry and iron wood. Will
sell by load, acre or in manner to
suit purchaser. Located six miles
northwest Of Sank Centre. S. G..
jenkins. 1929 pd.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1920-12-09

FOR SALE-New driving harness
and collars at bargain. L. P. I'm
ger. % 1t pd.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1920-12-09

FOR SALE: Four registered Po-
land China boar pigs, weighing about
16O pounds each. Inquire or write
Peter Cutshall on farm two and
half miles northwest of Westport.
&c If.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1920-12-09

FOR RENT-Two or four up
stairs rooms, with bath, furnished or
unfurnished for light housekeeping.
Location Lamb house, Pine Street,
NJ P. Nelson.-28-29 pd. =
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1920-12-09

FOUND-Thursday, Dec. 2, on
road between Sank Centre and Broo-
ten, pocketbook containing sum of
money. Owner can have same by
proving property and paying for this
advertisement. William Sieben. 28-
80.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1920-12-09

LOST-From farm 1 and one-half
miles southwest of Padua, about
Thanksgiving, yearling bull calf,
red and white color. Please notify
Joseph Judge, Tel. 6 F-12, Padua,
MINI. q
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1920-12-09

FOR SALE-A building lot south
of the M. E. Parsonage. Any one in
terested will do well if they consider
the matter>at once. See Fred Schaub
phone 278. 24-27.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1920-12-09

AiiC iIohoiiAy iSRoAS' W ~
rotary and Superintendent were read
and approved.
. TIL estimate made by the Superin-
tendent of 10000 was approved,
said estimate being for new con-
struction.
1t was duly moved, seconded and
carried that an early joint meeting
of the Commission and Council be
called to consider the recommends
ton for bond issue voted at the last
meeting of the Commission.
The meeting adjourned to Dec. Ii,
1920, at 1880 p. m.
VICTOR CONKLIN,
A Secretary.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1920-12-09

| HAVE an 8 room modern house
except heat l can trade you for a
small farm OF will accept good paper
as payment. M. P. Stadtherr, the
land man. 27-28.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1920-12-09

Pay your Herald Subscription.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1920-12-09

4 FOR SALE-Range, good condi-
ton; also some fence posts, cheap.
Inquire of Charles Dicks ST., or Hill
lerud Hardware Store. 27-2S I'd.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1920-12-09

FOR SALE: 10 acres of timber
land, seven miles from Sank Centre
at $500 per acre. See Chas. Hough-
ton. 23tf.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1920-12-09

FOR RENT-A good house. Peter
Gaspard, Phone I'll. 23tf.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1920-12-09

FOR SALE-Pair ladies skates
with ankle brace attachment.-Mrs.
d. l.. Lamb. % 1t pd.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1920-12-09

FOR SALE by J. F. Cooper. the
Tobey home corner Fifth and Maple
streets for $4,25O.00. 27-2S.
Arizona republican., 1920-01-15
COTTON REICNS SUPREME IN YUMA

Cotton is king in the Yuma Valley In the past four years it has forged ahead until is the peer of all the crops grown there. It well known fact that the first experiments in Arizona in growing cotton made in Yuma by E. F. Sanguinetti. millionaire merchant ana rancher
 From extremely small start five years ago, the growing of cotton has expanded until it leads all other crops and above all things it is still growing for the lands of the Yuma Valley peculiarly adapted to the growing of cotton
 Twenty thousand of Yuma Valley lands are planted in cotton. When Is realized that bale is averaged for that district the value of the can be plainly It is estimated by government eX pers that the total value of the crop for 1919 will be well S6,0OO,0O0
 Short staple cotton is the leading brand of cotton grown there Practically all of the lands there under ton cultivation growing the Mebane variety of short staple cotton Durango and Egyptian both do well there but the farmers prefer the short staple of its early maturity and ready sale. There have been several instances in the Yuma valley where much and half bales have been obtained from the acre. and very get bale to the from the first picking
 There ten cotton gins in the Yuma Valley and oil ml the latter and three of the gins being located Yuma. There three gins the California side of the river the at Wnterhaven being for Egyptian cotton.
 There is no place in the world where cotton be grown to better advantage where the yield and the in the Yuma valley and with proper in securing seed is not believed that the boil weevi will appear these cotton lands
Arizona republican., 1920-01-15
Yuma Mesa To Richest Orange District West Few Years Say Experts
SOME DAY SOON FINEST
 LAND Iy COUNTRY WILL
 BE UNDER YUMA PROJECT

Probably the most unique and at the time the most successful public auction land sale that has taken place in the United States staged in Yuma on December TO- 1919 when 5000 of government land on the Yuma Mesa Auxiliary Project offered for sale under the auspices of the United States Reclamation service and the United States land office In twelve hours of actual selling time $1000000 worth of land sold at public auction the average price paid including perpetual waterright, construction charges being $230 per acre.
 Approximately 5000 acres were sold There are yet to be sold something like O0O acres which will be dis posed of by of sealed bds to be opened every Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock beginning January 20 of this month The minimum bid will be $225 per acre. The remaining tracts be disposed of subdivded into 10 and 20 tracts. Ten per cent of the amount company the bid, and 15 per cent additional will be due and payable within sixty days after the bid shall have been accepted by the secretary of the interior The remaining 75 per cent will be due in three equal annual payments with six per cent interest deferred payments.
Arizona republican., 1920-01-15

are claimed to be far superior to any
 lemon grown in the United States. The juice contents of the former aver ages STA per cent, while the latter car rieS 55.S per cent of SournesS- Like the orange they will produce as high as 25 boxes of fruit per tree. are larger in size than any known lemon on the market and command higher price than lemonS from any other sec ton of the country.
 All kinds of other fruits grow equal ly as well on the Yuma Mesa. the date being particularly adapted to that sec ton. The State Date Farm, main tained just outside the city limits, in Yuma valley, is proving most pro nounced success. The oldest trees in the experiment station are about F years old. Many of these have pro duced as high as 100 lbs. of fruit per season. invariably worth not less than 90 cents per pound at the farm. Early frosts in the valley however. prevent Ia full crop from being realized. This will be avoided on the Yuma Mesa, where the temperature is always ten to twelve degrees warmer in winter than in the valley. The State Agricul- tural college has recently obtained 16o acres of Yuma Mesa lands. at the up perend of Unit P" for experimental purposes, and it is officially given out that wa ter will be ons these lands early this spring. actual construction work already having been commenced. This will be a tremedous asset to the Yuma Mesa, and it has been hailed with joy by all those interested in the develop ment of the Yuma Mesa country.
 All in all the people of Yuma think they have the greatest heritage on earth. A book of no small proportions could be written about the efforts put forth during the past decade to have these unsurpassed lands recla irned. To have waited for them to be put under water by the United States Reclama- ton service would have been to wait another lifetime. for the funds for new projects have long since been wholly exhausted. It was for this reason that direct appeal was made to congress 70 experiment with the idea of selling the
Arizona republican., 1920-01-15

which there is none brighter in the state:
 Somerton is said to be the largest town in the state without direct rail- road connections. Everything which goes into that town is freighted. but 1t hasn't seemed to halt the growth.
 one of the biggest factors in the growth of Somerton has been the con- struction of the paved road from Yuma to Somerton 'The road is 15 miles long and in perfect condition after sev- eral years of heavy traffic From the date Of the completion of the road, the town of Somerton has been made.
 Somerton has three cotton gins and it's streets day after day. during the cotton ginning season. are Jammed with wagons loaded with seed cotton awaiting their turn to be ginned. More cotton is ginned al Somerton than al any other one point on the Yuma pro ject It is a great center for cotton buyers. and the activity on it's streets resembles that of big city.
 There is no question but that Som erton will become splendid little city. The spirit of improvement is abroad in it's confines. Brick and concrete build ings are being erected on every hand. splendid stores of merchandise have been opened up, the merchants and business men are active and up to date.
 Somerton has but recently been con- nected with the electric power line of the Yuma, Ice, Electric & Manufactur- ing company. The established rate for electric service is so low that the rapid development of many industries is as sured.
 Somerton has two banks, The Som erton State Bank and the F.. c. Car uthers State Bank. both in a flourish ing condition and growing rapidly. Two big lumber yards furnish building material for the town and surround ing country.
 Somerton is an organized town with a town council and a mayor and all of the paraphernalia for the ad- ministration of the towns affairs.
 Great improvements are under way in the town along many lines. Main street will be paved within the next few months from one end of the town to the other. Bonds are being marketed to provide for the construction of a sewerage system and the additional, paving of streets and establishment of water works and a fire department. Somerton has grown so. rapidly the building program has been pushed along with such amazing speed that the outside world has hardly been able to keep up with the extraordinary de- velopment and growth of this com munity. Somerton has a pig future and her people are alive and wide awake to the possibilities that lie ahead of them.
Arizona republican., 1920-01-15

the fact that the "old Blaisdel grove planted as an experiment some twenty odd years ago has never had sufficient frost to injure even the tenderest shoots of the orange. grapefruit or
 lemon tree. 'Smudging is unknown on the Yuma Mesa And the claim is made that the Yuma Mesa is abso- lutely free of citrus pests.
 The Washington navel orange is ripe and ready for shipment always in the middle of November, and by Thanks giving that particular fruit is we'll out of the market. According to the gov ernment chemical analysis the Yuma Mesa navel orange has q greater per cent of sugar than any known orange in the world, so far ahead of the oranges of either California or Florida that comparison is odious. It also con tains greater amount of juice than any known orange anywhere else is the world. The same official claim is made for the Yuma Mesa grapefruit which carries 49.2 per cent of juice so sweet that to use sugar in eating the fruit is a needless expense; probably the only known grapefruit in the world that contains the same or like amount of sugar contents.
 The well known Valencia orange grown on the Yuma Mesa actually contains, by chemical analysis, 56.4 per cent juice and S.6O per cent sugar, making this the highest grade orange of this particular kind found on the American market just before the Washington navel comes into market giving Yuma almost exclusive rights in marketing these two favorite oranges. Both are heavy producers on the Yuma Mesa, many of the older rrees having frequently produced 9 boxes per tree or better per season.
 The Eureka" and Lisbon lemon grow on the Yuma Mesa. in fact they
Arizona republican., 1920-01-15
YUMA MESA TO HAVE FINEST WATER IN COUNTRY FOR IRRICATINC ITS WONDERFUL ORANGE GROVES

in order that the heavier silt might drop to the bottom and give the lighter. finer fertilizing silt chance to skim over the top and flow on down to the lands. acting as perpetual fertilizer.
 Claims has been made by those who have made a study of the irrigation water for the project that the lands in the Yuma Valley are growing richer every year, that the water is bringing in more nourishment for the land ev- cry year than the crops take out.
 This will naturally be a great boon to the lands on the Yuma Mesa which are said to be slightly deficient m humus and fertilizer Taking a view from all angles of the two great sec tions adjacent to Yuma, it can be read fly seen they are peculiarly fortunate. They have a wonderful climate. su- perb water supply, and above all things they have the men there to com bne the two and make the district one of the richest in the United States.
Arizona republican., 1920-01-15

pose of sluicing the silt and sand from the settling basin, above the dam, the main canal is at once emptied of wa ter and can be cleaned at will.
 The main can3l leading from the Laguna dam is designed to carry 2,000 cubic feet of water per second, or 'n other words enough water to cover 4.00O acres of land one foot deep every 34 hours.
 The water supply for the Yuma val ley and the Yuma Mesa is absolutely assured in so far quantity is as- sured. As long the Colorado river is there so will the fertile lands sur rounding Yuma be there.
 It is the claim of government en- gineers that the water of the Mesa project is the best in the country. There is only one trouble with the wa ter and that is the presence of too much silt. This may sound strange, but it Is true that it was necessary to build the settling basin above the dam
Arizona republican., 1920-01-15

lands for enough to pay for their recla- nation.
 It looks very much like the eXperi- ment will be eminently successful The same idea, at any rate, Is now being applied to the section of country in California to be benefited by the so- called All-American canal, for in the various bills now pending in congress for the construction of this canal lis provided that the lands to be reached are to be sold at mot less than S10 per acre. the funds derived from such sale to go towards paying for storage dams on the upper reaches of tbC Colorado. The Yuma Mesa Auxiliary Act, therefore, has paved the way for the reclamation Of every acre of arid lands of the west. This is estimated a many. many millions of acres. all of which will remain a desert. unless they are disposed of in accord with the Yuma Mesa Auxiliary Project law. Yuma at any rate. will not stop until her 47.500 acres are reclaimed. And when water is once available these lands are worth $1 .O00 per acre.
Arizona republican., 1920-01-15

The Yuma Mesa is composed of the mesa, or high lands, lying south and east of the city of Yuma and Yuma valley. There are 47,500 acres of these lands embraced in the Yuma Mesa Auxiliary Project By special act of congress, approved by President Will son on January 25, 1917, these lands must be sold for enough cash to pay for their reclamation. After careful examination. surveys and estimates it has been determined that it will cost s200 per acre for the works and canals Eecessary to completely reclaim these lands The law requires the secretary of interior to estimate the fair value of these lands before they are offered for sale This estimate was placed at $2J per acre, plus the construction charges pr water right. The lands recently sold. and those that are to be dis posed of by means of ''sealed bids lie in what is know as Unit B." This tract begins at a point six miles south If Yuma. and three miles east of SQmerton, extending six miles towards the Mexican boundary line. Unit A, 7" comprising 5000 acres. is just outside the city Of Yuma and extends down to an intersection with Unit B'. Bonds to the amount of ST 200. 900 are about 10 be voted to reclaim the lands in Unit A. and it is hoped by those in crested that work on the two units will begin at about the same time, both to be constructed by the United States reclamation service.
 IL is claimed for these Yuma Mesa
 ands. and the claim is backed up by official records of the government. hat these are the only citrus fruit 'ands in the entire United States that are free from injurious frosts: indeed free are they from winters chilling breath. that they are Invariably re- ferred to as being 'frostless" The proof Of this latter assertion lies ir
Arizona republican., 1920-01-15

and monument to the skill and per severance of the reclamation service
 IL is not a dam in the strictest sense of the word Rather it is a diversion dam. It is 4.7S0 feet long and 260 feet wide. and has an average depth Of 30 feet. IT is constructed of concrete walls filisd with rock.
 In order that it may be absolutely permanent. plies have been driven 60 feet into the bed of fine stream and the foundation of the dam rested upon them.
 The dam or weir serves to raise the water of the Colorado all of ten feet When the project of building the di- version dam was first proposed the problem of using water too heavily laden with silt came up. This did not perplex the government engineers for very long. for they double shot the turn by placing the head gates of the irrigation system in such a manner that when they are raised for the pur-
Arizona republican., 1920-01-15

The Yuma Mesa lands are going to have the finest water in the world for irrigating purposes. It is admitted by experts the world over that the Colo rado River carries a greater proDor- ton of silt than any other river in the world with the possible exception of the Nile In fact so heavy is this water in silt that it is necessary to have settling basin. where the wa ter can drop a. portion of it's heavy load.
 Water is to be supplied the Mesa through the main works and canals of the Yuma project. II is obtained from he Colorado river by means of q dam or weir. patterned after those used by the Indians in smaller rivers. This dam or weir which has been named the Iagune Dam is the only one of its kind in the United States. II is feat -f engineering peculiar to the west
Arizona republican., 1920-01-15
DREAMS OF YUMA COME TRUE WHEN
 MESA LAND SOLD

Don't miss trip to the Yuma Mesa. If there is anything worth seeing in and near Yuma it is the Mesa. It has been the dream of scores of residents of Yuma for many years to see that immense tract of land placed under water and properly developed.
 It is a great tract of land consisting of 47,000 acres of exceedingly rich land. Ali it lacks is water and that is at hand ready to be run over the land as soon as the government gets it's en- gineers and construction crews on the ground It is a section of the most wonderful opportunities in the United States.
 There is said to be no other place in the United states where the land is as rich as it is the Mesa, or where there is absolutely no danger of frost. Tn all the years the Mesa has been un- der observation by white men not once has a frost visited the land. It is pc culiar that within short distance lies the Yuma Valley where frosts occa- sionally visit without respect of per son crop.
 It is very simple to reach the Mesa from Yuma. Good roads have either been built are being built through the middle of the tract. There are few cultivated spots up there as yet, but il will be only a matter of few years when the place will be blooming with the finest orange trees in the south west ana that means in the United States.
 A visit to the Hill ranch is indeed revelation. Orange trees only three years of age are bearing full sized fruit and with a crop in sight for next year which will bring considerable revenue.
 There is plenty of material at hand for the building of good roads over the Mesa, for almost in the center of the -s~t~ rock necessary to build good roads for the entire Yuma County.
Arizona republican., 1920-01-15
SOMERTON GROWS WITH YUMA AND
 REST IF VALLEY

In addition to having one of the busiest towns in the state of Arizona. the Yuma Valley has the fastest grow ing place. Several years ago there ex- isted q place called Somerton. EN
 isted is about the only word which could be applied To it at that time. But now following the advent of King Cotton. Somerton has become an in- corporated town with new and per manent buildings, large and enthusi- astice population and a future than
Arizona republican., 1920-01-15

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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-17
LEONCAVALLO,S "ZAZA" HAS
ITS PREMIER IN NEW YORK
Geraldine Frar Approved in Title Role-CrHc Says Score
Is npIace-Sho,Os Paucity of
Composers Resources

New York. Jan. 17.--Lconcayallo's S
onera ''Xaza" was produced at the
Metropolitan Opera House last night
for the first time in New York. Ger
aldine Farrar, in the title role, met with
the anuroyal of the large audience, being
recalled several times after the first act
Mr. Morauzoni, the conductor. and NJ.
Ordynski. the stage director, also came
in for plaudits.
But il is a question whether the opera
will succeed here any more than it
did in Chicago, where it was produced
recently. Oscar Hammerstein once es .
sayed to produce it in New York, but
it never appeared.
''Zaza' is built on the play of the
same name which Mrs. Leslie Garter
made famous. Its first production was
in Milan in 1900, eight years after
"Pagliacci," which gave Leoncavallo
fame. Twenty years ago it was con
sidered boldly realistic" and "shock
ing, but after some Of the things thai
have been seen on the operatic stage
Of recent years, the sordid story d