The Arizona Sentinel from Yuma, Arizona • Page 1

ARIZ NEL PIONEER PlPEJR OFFICIAL PAPER OF YUMA COUNTY IP ARIZONA I ONA SENTI "Independent in all things." Yuma, Arizona The Gate City of the Great Southwest VOL. XXXVII. YUMA, ARIZONA, WEDNESDAY. MAY 6. 1908.

NO. 27 Arizona Sentinel. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY YUMA, ARIZONA J. W. D0RR1NGTON.

Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year 00 Six Months 00 OFFICLUi DIRECTORY: TKKUITOUIAI. OFFICEItS Governor II. Kibbey Secretary W. F.

Nichols John N- Pape Treasurer E. E. Kirklnnd AttornRV General E. S. Clark Surveyor General F.

S. Installs Sup't of Public Instruction R. L. Lone Delegate to Congress Mark Smith Sup't Territorial Prison Jerry Millay mOESIX LAND OFFICE Register Milton R. Moore Receiver Fen S.

Hildrcth COUNTY OFFICEKS District Judge John H. Campbell Clerk of District H. Utting i H. II. Donkcrsley, Chairman: Supervisors A Kent and Jt H- shanssey.

Clerk Board of Supei visors M. Polbamus Probate Judge and Sup't of Schools J. H. Godfrey Sheriff Gus Livingston Under Sheriff Walter Riley District Attorney P. T.

Robertson Treasurer Geo. Michelscn Surveyor W. H. Elliott County Phvsician Dr. Thomas J.

Pugh Countv Recorder 1 Jas. M. Polhamns County Assessor C. V. Mcedcn PUECINCT OFF1CZKS Justice of the Pence Joe Redondo Constable Julio Martinez Trustees Yuma School District W.

H. Elliott, J. W. Dorrington.O.tJ. Johnson.

CITT OFF1CEIIS Mayor A. L. DeMund P. J. Miller, L.

V. Alexander, Councilmcn Squire Munroe. John Gandolfo I Donald Mclntvrc. City Attorney F- L. Ingraham.

City Clerk and Treasurer J. L. Redondo Marshal R. A. Anderson Street Commissioner J.

H. Shanssey rOSTOFFICE HOURS: Mail open on Sundays from 8 to 9 a. m. Week days, 8 a. m.

to 0 p. m. No Money Order business on Sundays. Moll (East and West) closes every day at 7 p. m.

R. H. Chandler P. M. YUMA LODGE NO.

A. O. U. W. MEETS every Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock.

Visiting brethren In good standing are invited to Attend. Yours in C. H. and P. F.

L. EWING. M. W. ED.

MAYES, R. ALLIANCIA HISPANO-AMERICANO NO. 10. meets evcrv Sunday at Elks' hall, 6 p. m.

Manuel Moxitor, Pres. J. L. Redondo, Secretary. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH Preaching every other Sunday morning at 11 o'clock and Sunday night at 7:30 by the pastor, J.

M. Ochcltree. Sunday School every Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, P. T. Robertson, Superintendent.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. SERVICES on the fourth Sunday in each month at 2:30 m. Prayer meeting on Friday night of eachTveek. Eugene Keen, pastor in charge, unday School every Sunday morning at 10. (CATHOLIC CHURCH DIRECTORY: SUN-j days.

Mass at 9 a. m. Rosary and Benediction at 7 p. m. Week days.

Mass at 7 a. m. Christian doctrine taught daily by the pastor In English at In Spanish at 3:30 p. m. PROFESSIONAL CARDS: FRANK BAXTER, Attorney at Law and Notary Public.

Will practice in all the courts of the Territory. Special attention to Mining and Land Laws. P. O. Box -101- First BtreetvSouth Side, Yuma, Arizoim.

E. B. KETCHERSIDE. J. A.

KETCHERSIDE I7-ETCHERSIDE KETCHERSIDE, PHY-S. siciaas and Surgeons. Olhcc in Cotter's fi rug store. H. WUPPEltMAN.

MAK A. WUPPEUMAN WUPPERMAN WUPPEUMAN, ATTOR-neys at law. Notary Public Court Reporting, Offices in Wuppcrman Building, Yuma, Arizona. Telephone No. 208.

ETER T. ROBERTSON, ATTORNEY AT Law, Office in Cotter Yuma, Ariz. H. ELLIOTT, CIVIL ENGINEER AND U. S.

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Placer Gold, Retorts and Rich Ores Bought. Send fer Free Mailing Envelopes and Price List. Ojlden Assay Co 1536 Court Place. Colorado' In the Flush of Youth a keen young man is alive to the activities that surround him. That's how it is with this store.

We're always alive to what's going on in the way of Groceries There's none more quick or more alert in taking advantage of opportunities where "spot cash" secures goods way down and under usual wholesale prices. We get on to such snaps, and that's why our offerings and so much under the usual, while goods offered are of the Come and see. highest grade. Alexander Co The Up to Date Groers. Colorado River Lumber Company (incorporated) DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF LUMBER 1 BUILD1N Builders' Hardware, Lime, Nephi Plaster, Glass, Etc.Etc COR.

THIRD ST. AND MADISON AVENUE ALEX DURWARD PRESIDENT AND MANAGER YUMA, ARIZONA PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY. Phone 89 ALPHA STEAM LAI Turns Out rst-CIass Work J5T" Leave orders at Shorcy's, Southwestern News Company. R. J.

FRAIJO; Proprietor, Yuma, Ariz, fidelity Title Guaranty Company ABSTRACTS And Ce tificates of Title The Only Complete Set of Abstract Books in Yuma County outhern Pacific Company Pacific System LOW RATES ONE WAY TO YUMA FROM CHICAGO 38.00 ST. LOUIS 35.50 NTEW ORLEANS 35.50 KANSAS CITY 30.00 LEAVENWORTH, KAN 30.00 ATCHISON, 30.00 ST. JOSEPH, MO 30.00 COUNCIL BLUFFS 30.00 OMAHA 30.00 MINNEOLA, TEX 30.00 HOUSTON, TEX 30.00 and many other points. Tickets furnished by Telegraph. No Extra Charge.

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and Maiden Lane YUMA. ARIZ. POSSIBILITIES OF YUMA REGION UNFATHOMED The Soil Simply Marvelous in Its Productiveness And the Climate is Intoxicatingly Salubrious BY GKORGIS N. BURTON, Ju Los Angeles Times. Jt Is very far frnin a seml-mlllenium since three little open boats under the flasj of Spain lirst touched the waters of the western hemisphere and revealed the new world to the eyes of Europeans.

is only a little oyer a century since the United States ofUAmeriea spr.ni-, so to speak, like Pallas Athene from tlie brain of Jove, a completely armed addition to the family of nations. Jt is hut little ver half a century since California became a part of these United Stales of America, and less than a generation since the settlement of the Great South tvest began. In all the 125 years since the Republic was founded, also in the half century since California became one of the States of the Union, and during every year of the last thirty, a realization of the vast rich.es of the American continent, of the territory of the United States and of this Great Southwest been more and more astonishing to the minds of men. One would suppose that by today Are knew pretty thoroughly what the undeveloped resources of the Great Southwest might reasonably be expected to become. We have not reached the depths of this great ocean of wealth with our plummet lino j'et.

In a residence of forty years on the Coast the writer thought he knew a little about what there is on the Coast, and as most of these 3'ears have been spent in and around Los Angeles, he naturally had a little conceit that he was pretty well acquainted with the Great Southwest- Last week a trip to the Colorado River bottoms, below Yuma made him feel as a tenderfoot who had come in on the last train. New to him, this wonderful region and its possibilities are pretty well known to a great many readers of The Times by the stories published, if not by the demonstration of their own eyes. Yuma lies on the map Just twelve miles from where the government is putting in the great Laguna dam, at the confluence of the Gihi and Colorado Rivers. Jt Is twelve miles rroin Yuma down the river to the Mexican boundry line on the Arizona side of the river At one point. Just below Yuma, the international boundry line runs up along the river which there takes a westerly trend and from Yuma to Mexico is only a few miles.

ONCE A MIGHTY STREAM. Ages ago when the mountain ranges of Arizona and California towered toward the stars, at least twice as high as they do now, rains were very frcducnt and came down in torrential volumes all along these mountain ridges. The Colorado River in these past ages was a mighty stream, sweeping down debris in tons every second of its flow. The Colorado sink was at that time a great inland sea, which spread over the country on both sides of where the river now runs. As the erosion of winds and storms, landslides and glaciers wore down the mountain ridges year by year, the great river carried down a vast amount of silt, erosion from the rocks full of phosphates, iimes and disintegrated granites, as well as the vegetation along Its banks; and this was all deposited in what are now the sinks of the Colorado.

As the mountain tops were worn down, the rains became less frequent and less In volume but the erosion of rocks and river banks, the trees and vegetable mould torn from the banks still came down and settled into the bottom of the great inland lake. This geoglcal process went on from age to age to our time, leaving the Colorado at Yuma a stream about half a mile wide and being at the present time about twenty feet deep la the deepest portion. It is not necessary to remind Callfornians that the Spanish missionaries and explorers called this river the Colorado because of the reddish color of its waters. Jt is the Colorado up in the Grand Canyon in Arizona and down past The N'eedles. But at this time or the year, after passing the mouth of the Gila, instead of the red river it becomes the brown river.

It actually looks today as if ten per cent of its flow was silt and only uiucty per cent water. R1CIJES OF SOIL WONDERFUL But the object of this story is to call attention once more, and for perhaps the thou sandth time, to the riches of the soil along the Colorado on both sides, incident to the depositidgof this mass of debris during all the past ages. Going through the country on the Arizona side of the river, for several miles below Yuma, one encounters the same ype of country and sgil that is found in the Imperial "Valley count rr- ground Brawiey, Calexico and other points wt-At of the river The fertility of the black prairie, soils of Illinois has astonished people engaged in agriculture for nearly one hundred years. The fertility of the valleys or the Nile has bee a matter of history for at least G0C0 years. Those who are famlllnr with Illinois prairie soil, and thoe who know what the valley of the Nile is for agriculture, know that this lower Colorado River region surpasses both of them.

Ifyouaska fanner along this stretch of country if the soil is six feet, his eyes will open with astonishment ai your ignorance. He will tell you no one knows whether it is i feet, IKX) or (i.OtXI reel deep. It is practically without bottom. It is so thoroughly well mixed with sand, disintegrated granite and other rocks that It never breaks. It is as easily worked as a heap of ashes, and responds to cultivation in a way that is marvelous.

CUT SEVEN CROPS YEARLY. Arizona lias established an experiment station in the heart of this big valley, which Is some twenty-four miles long, and in spots ten to twelve miles wide, down on the lower level. The rehults arc wonderful. Last week they were cutting a crop ofalfalia on this experimental farm, and for seven consecutive months they will cut succeeding crops. The only months when the crop is not cut here arc December and January.

Cotton and tobacco grow with the greatest luxuriance, and this rich alluvial soil will be noted in a very few years as the ideal spot in the whole country for dairying, hog raising, the production of poultry and vegetables, which one hesitates to call early or late, as they will be perennial. New potatoes will be produced in thcmiddle of January, tomatoes will be ripe by the tlrst or March, ripe grapes will be gathered in the early days of May, and apricots by the middle of the same month. Chickens and turkeys flourish there in the winter time beyond all experience anywhere else. The rainfall is exceedingly light and comes only three or four times in a whole winter. With an abundance of green alfalfa and vegetables in the dry and not overheated climate prevailing in the winter months, chickens arc free from the disease that make their raising difllcult elsewhere.

There is no spot in South em Illinois or Missouri soidapted to the pro duction of corn as this valley along the Colora do River. With alfalfa and corn, the butter. cheese, eggs, poultry and pork to be raised on a twenty-acre farm will amaze those who have the experience in American agricultural affairs The winter climate around Yuma is a thing so intoxicatingly salubrious lhat no words can describe it. Those deserts of America, as we have regarded them heretofore, seem to defy the ills that human nature elsewhere is prone to contract and suffer from. The atmos phere is as dry as punk, the skies cloudlessly cicar, tne air muu as possible, and every breath seems to be an inspiration of new life.

The United States has an experiment farm on the mesa just on the outskirts of Yuma. Here ults even more marvelous than in the valley are produced. Down on the lower levels there arc littlp nips of frosty mornings occasionally during December and January, but on the mesa the breath of frost never touches the most del icate vegetation. Oranges grown at the Feder al experiment station are unsurpassed in their delicious quality. Yuma is a busy, up-to-date town.

The more modern improvements consist of several blocks of attractive brick buildings, a three-story post office building, also of brick, and many other nice structures. Among some of the greater improvements which are being made, arc a $35,000 school building, a ice plant, a line club-house for the railroad employes, a larger passeuger depot, and the probability of a new court house to cost 175,000. There is con siderable business done there, but the people have not begun to awaken to the vast possibili ties of the place. They should at once erect an up-to-date tourist hotel. It should have ample grounds around it and be planted with all kinds of tropical vegetation.

If atmosphere were only transportable like mineral waters. and one could send consignments of this Yuma winter air to the East, the inspiration of its health-giving qualities would bring 25.C00 tourists every winter to the banks of the Colo rado River. Yuma needs only to make known its climatic attractions in the parts of the East swept every year by blizzards and snowstorms to attract a city full every winter. The fertility of the val ley below will almost make itself known with out effort on the part of the people. But with a valley full of intelligent and industrious rural population, producing fruits and vegetables.

poultry, eggs, rresh milk and fragrant butter, Yuma should be one of the most delightful winter resorts in all America. There is every thing there to furnish tourists with the most hcalthfnl and declicious food, and if the air in that region does not drive doctors to seek a living elsewhere, it will be because the people do not know how to live properly. The Laguna Dam will be completed in 1909, and in ten years from today the attractions of Yuma as a health resort and the fertility of thpsc bottom lands will be so well known that it will require 11,000 in cash to buy a single acre of it. A Woman Tells How to Relieve Rheumatic Pains. I have been a very great sufferer from the dreadful disease, rheumatism, for a number of years.

I have tried many medicines but never got much relief from any of them until two vears airo, when I bought a bottle of (Jham berlain's Tain IJalra. I found relief before I had used all of one bottle, but kept on applying it and soon felt like a different woman. Through my advice many of my friends have tried it and can tell you how wonderfully it has worked. Mrs. Sarah A.

Cole, HO iew uover, uei, unninoenaurs Pain Balm is a liniment. The relief from pain which it affords is alone worth many times its cost. It makes rest and sleep possible. For sale at the Ketcherside drugstore. Notice to Creditors.

Estate of Michael J. Nugent, Deceased. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned, Mary E. Nugent, executrix of the estate of Michael J. Nugent, deceased, to the creditors of and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit them, with the necessary vouchers, within ten months after the first publication of this notice to the said executrix at the office of the Yuma Title Abstract Company, Yuma, Arizona, the same being the place for the transaction of the business of said estate, in said county of Yuma.

Mary E. Nugent, -Executrix of the Estate of Michael Nugent, deceased. Dated Yuma, Arizona, this eleventh day of April, 1908. Apr 15 14 Agents Wanted: 10x20 crayon portraits 40 cents, frames 10 cents and up, sheet pictures one cent each. You can make 400 per cent profit, or $30.00 per week.

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Cal. If your druggist docs not stock our vaccines, crccr direct from us. 5l Absolutely Pur The oniy foakissg poweies made with Qpagse Cream Tartar No Alum, No Lime Fhosphafs OFFICIAL MINUTES 0 the Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of Yuma County, Arizona. Office of Board of Supervisors, Yuma county, Yuma, Arizona, April 8, 1908. Board met at 10 a.

m. pursuant to adjournment; all members, district attorney and clerk present. Minutes of April 6, 1908, were read and approved, all members voting aye. Resignation of Ernest R. Hall as justice of the peace of precinct No.

11 was received, accepted and ordered filed. A sufficient petition having been received from the residents and taxpayer of. Salome justice precinct No. 11 asking for the appointment -of D. W.

Hall as justice of the peace for said precinct, on motion duly seconded and carried DW. Hall is hereby appointed, and the clerk is instructed to notify him of his appointment and instruct him to furnish bond in the penal sum of $1000 as required by law. On motion duly seconded and carried the following accounts were audited, allowed and warrants ordered drawn Acct. Road District No. 1: Roy White, work 33 00 Rose 'r.

39 75 Prank Vierra 12 00 A DeMund, lumber 127 71 same 22 91 Alexander work 12 00 Johnson Bowles 11 13 50 1st Nat. Bank of Yutra 38 00 same 6 00 Sanguinetti 27 00 same uu Road Dist. No. 2: Alexander Co 2 00 Road Dist. No.

3: Sanguinetti 10 00 Road Dist. No. 5: 1st Nat. Bank of Yuma, assgd. by P.

Noriega Li Noriega, assigned to 1st Nat. Bank of Yuma Ocboa Road Dist. No. 6: George Rockwood Johnson Bowles Venegas Road Dist. No.

10 1st Nat. Bank of Yuma. Yuma Elec Water water 27 00 Yuma Telephone telephone service 45 00 Williams, rebate on taxes 7 00 Robertson, expenses 176 95 Godfrey, work for county 2 50 Polhamus, 2 50 same clerk's fees 22 50 On motion board adjourned to meet at 10 a. April 9, 1908. H.

H. DONKERSLEY. Chairman. J. M.

Polhamus, Clerk. 56 50 21 25 00 00 00 50 00 27 70 Irrigating Potatoes. Do not irrigate potatoes up if it can possibly be avoided. Wetting the land at this time is very likely to bring on attacks of disease which will result in a poor stand and serious injury to the plants throughout the growing season. Ordinarily the first irrigation should not be given until the tubers are set.

If the tubers have a chance to form in a comparatively dry soil, the majority of them will be formed at one time. Then when water is applied all will have an equal chance to develop. The result should be a crop of even-sizsd potatoes. The water should always run shallow in the furrows, never deep enough to stand around the tubers, but a sufficient amount applied so that the moisture may seep up into tne ridges, in tnis way the soil about the growing tubers may be kept damp but not soggy. This is the ideal con dition for the potato plant, but unfavorable for the growth of hpotato diseases.

An effort should be made to keep the soil moisture uniform by frequent light irrigations. If the ground is allowed to become dry, the growth of the tubers is checked; then when water is again applied, second growth starts in, which results in nubs and irregular growths. The tubers of -some varieties crack badly under this treatment. It is essential that the potato2s should mature in comparatively dry soil. If the soil is kept wet undl harvest time the tubers contain an excess of moisture, WE Baxter, road grader 500 00and this 'necessarily results in McManus, wk record er's office, assigned to 1st Nat.

Bank of Yuma Huggins, wk record er's office, assigned to Polhamus Woods, jail guard Cooper, court rep'r, January, 1908 31 25 February, 1908 31 25 March, 1908 31 25 3 Stoffela, jury 9 20 10 00 2 50 180 00 poor quality. Then, too, potatoes dug when the soil is wet present a poor appearance on the market because of the quantity of soil which is bound to stick to them. In order to have the soil in proper condition at digging time and the potatoes of the best quality it is necessary to stop irrigation three or four weeks before the usual time for frost. Farming. 4 rm i 1 1 ne errect or malaria lasts a long time.

You catch cold easily or become rundown because of the after effects of malaria. Strengthen yourself with Scott'? Emulsion. It builds new blood and tones up your nervous system. ALL DRUGGISTS: 50c. AND SI.OO.

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