4 AI ...... 1.1 .1 I II " All' ill 4 '':(11ior1111111111° 'c '7-14-----1"' '0 Int Vol. 13 YUMA, ARIZONA, SUNDAY NOVEMBER 26, 1919 No. 275 0+0+0+0+040+ • • Yuma Mesa Land Opening Special Descriptive Number and • Review of Yuma County's Wonderful Resources • The State Date Farm, where trees produce 600 pounds of datea per tree, or $30,000 worth of fruit per acre. Adjacent to Yuma Mesa Lands. • • • • Price • • • 25c Per Copy • • • • • a • • • • • • • • • IS • • • 3!1111111i101111111111111111111111111101111111111111111111111111110111111111111111111111101110111101101111111111111111111011101111111110111101110111111111111011101110111011111111111111111110111011111111111111111111i11011011110111011110111011110111011001110111101101111011101111111101111001110111011101110111111111011011101111111110111011110111011111111111112 -----= _. ___ _ - FIRST NATIONAL BAN- ---,I\ , . - ' • ..: . 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M View from California side of river showing Headgate, Power Plant and Main Canal YUMA PROJECT IN THE HEART OF THE PROJECT DESERT PASSING When the Yuma Project is finally completed, as originally deliminated, IN PANORAMA and all of the lands are brought under water which can be reached from THE NEW DAWN Laguna dam, a full two hundred thousand acres of land will be embraced Will Ultimately Cover Two Hun- within the project. This is a royal domain and will be the richest and best Work of Pioneers in the Colorado dred Thousand Acres area of agricultural land in the United States. It will have the greatest pro- River Delta ductive capacity. It will furnish the safest agricultural adventure in the The Yuma Project as originally de- world. The Pioneers of the Colorado river In the heart of this project is the City of Yuma, already a city of six or liminated by the Reclamation Service seven thousand people and growing rapidly. Yuma has all of the modern delta are coming into their own. After embraced lands on both side of the improvements and it is going ahead. Streets are being paved, additional sew- years of the hardest kind of work and Colorado river amounting to well over ers are being put in, pavements are being built and all over the city resi- exposure to the wind and sun of this dences are going up. A new school building to cost $150,000 is to be built. 150,000 acres. The Indian reservation desert country, they are reaping their Yuma is the capital and metropolis of the Yuma Project and has a great on the California side of the river em- future before it. reward in the substantial prices which braced 17,000 acres. Nine thousand they are receiving for their farm pro- acres of this land has been allotted to ducts and amazing profits which many the Indians in severalty and they have of them are receiving for their land. brought most of it into cultivation. Some of them are selling out and mov- The Indians are doing remarkably well ing on to other fields. Five years ago in improving their lands. Eight thou- land in the Yuma valley and anywhere sand acres, lying just below Laguna under the Yuma Project could be had da m and extending down the river at from $65 to $200 per acre. Land is towards Yuma, were allotted to white now selling at from $200 to $500 per settlers in units of 40 acres. This land acre. One of the oldest pioneers in has been mainly cleared, leveled and the Yuma sold his farm at public sale put into crops and is making one of the jewel small valleys of California. a few weeks ago at $412.50 per acre. The Yuma Valley is the largest unit Another farm of 320 acres was sold of the project and totals in all 55,000 for an even $400 per acre. Almost acres. All of this land—all except every day sales are recorded at prices about 5,000 acres—has been cleared, leveled and put in crops. It is un- which were undreamed of a few years questionably one of the very finest ago. valleys in the United States. Crops A great deal of land is being leased grow with remarkable rapidity and the of it is rented for a yield of cotton, alfalfa and the many or rented. Some other crops which are grown on this cash money rent of from $50 to $70 land is the highest in the United View of Headguates Looking North per acre. Some of it is being leased States. The main canal which carries the waters of the Colorado from Laguna dam on a crop basis. These tremendously The North Gila Valley, lying just to the siphon intake is a small river. This canal is approximately fifteen miles high prices are paid for the reason south of Laguna dam and north of the in length. Leaving the head gate at Laguna dam it circles around San Pas- that the land has been tested and cuale valley, following the edge of the California mesa. When it reaches a Gila river, contains 10,000 acres of It is an easy matter on Yuma point due north of Yuma, it leaves the mesa and drops down into the Indian proven. lands to get a return of from reservation, flowing for three and a half miles due south. On the north side Project to on an acre of land. of the river it reaches the siphon intake and drops its flood of water into the $100 $500 Planted to cotton and alfalfa for seed great well and flows on under the river. It comes back up to the surface like at the present prices and the return a great, yellow, bubbling flood on the Arizona side of the river. From thence it is carried in a great main canal, skirting the edge of the mesa, down to the international line. Diversion canals put off from the main canal where neces- sity requires until every acre of land in the valley can receive its share of the life-giving fluid. The siphon has a capacity of 1400 second feet, sufficient water to irrigate one hundred thousand acres of land. The Bridge Connecting Two States land, just as good as lies out of doors. Only a part of it has yet been put under cultivation. Winterhaven Postoffice The South Gila Valley contains 15,- 000 acres. It lies south of the Gila is certain. Phenominal crops, with river and extends down to the city big prices have sent both sale and rent limits of the City of Yuma. Only a prices skyward. small portion of it has been put under It should be remembered that Yuma water. It is just as rich in potential lands have no crop failures. The wa- possibilities as any other of the Yuma ter is abundant and at hand and can Project lands. be had when the farmer wants it. A The Yuma Mesa, which begins at the ten months' growing season, crops of city limits of the City of Yuma and some kind every month in the year. runs south to the international line, range of farm crops which can be contains 70,000. Only 40.000 acres of grown not to be found in any other this land is within the present limits section of the country. There are no of the Yuma Project. This mesa rains or storms to injure crops. tract of land is unquestionably the The ultimate value of Yuma Project finest tract of citrus fruit land in the lands is hard to predict.