Yuma Examiner (Newspaper) - August 2, 1913, Yuma, Arizona POTHOLES LACUNA DAM TO IRRIGATE ACRES VOLUME XVII NUMBER 119 YUMA ARIZONA AFTERNOON AUGUST 2 ARIZONA SENTINEL FOUNDED 1171 Rich As The River In Yuma Valley Basin BEEP FERTILE SOIL EXCELLENT CLIMATE nrm tor all time to the constructive forces of our age So the Yuma Irrigation system when completed will be erly and perfectly constructed scientific and there it will re- main for the centuries one of the no- By C W IS A MODERN DAY It Is one of the wonders of the great Centuries ago old dame Nature em- ployed the great Colorado River to build up the richest moat fecund and fertile soil that could be produced and at a place where it could bi blessed by an abundance of warm sunshine The Colorado got the order and it delivered the The Yuma valley Is formed almost blest monuments to the reclamation period In the United States Twelve miles 12 guna dam has been constructed across the Colorado river Its height IK 1 feet above tlie ordinal composed of a rock fill between two parallel walls of concrete extending entirely across the stream between natural abutments on each bank The top of the rock fill and I he stream surface of the ilam an- with a concrete pavement IS inches thick The whole Yuma valley and will be by this and wholly of sedimentary deposits by electricity from the is a great bed of sand and power plants this is overlaid with layer upon layer Alfalfa is King IS nil mjc of flue material deposited by the There are three requisites to river This soli will fulfill the de- alfalfa rich mauds of the most exacting H Is Plenty of water ami lots of sunshine the soil of an arid region rich In plant food and It is so underlaid and so related to natural grades and chan uels as to be perfectly drained Fertilizing Waters The farmer who has struggled will soils and worked hard many spring day In hauling manure to up the falling fertility of his fields and who could never replace the loss occasioned by constant cropping should take off his hat to this do river 11 holds plant food in suspension and In solution to for- ever preserve the Irrigated lands fron exhaustion A series of analyses show the water of this river to he as rich if not richer In fertilizing ele than that of th river Nile The total sediment carried by the Colorado would be not more than Is needed but more than Is and for that reason the major part o H is taken from the water by of settling basins before It Is Into the canals Climate An Arizona writer describing tin warm climate of his particular ty and Its effects puts a volume ol truth in a few words Here you can got the happiness habit Sunny days make sunny acters and smiling skies are reflected in smiling faces Homo is where thi is and the big hearts are to greet you and welcome you best In nature brings out best ii man Here have nature and man com I for seed crop Iron IT TURNS REMAINDER OF f Ariz Aug 2 A total of the amount remaining COMPLIMENTS SECTION LIKEWISE THE SCRIBE From W E Barnes traveling L of enabling act fund after all dis passenger and freight agent of the had been made Southern Pacific company tne to law has been turned over by aminer received the following Hunt lo the state Editor Examiner BIRDSEYE VIEW OF THE AD oi control This amount is to defray the ex- pense of painting of governors of Arizona fur payment paintings emblematic of Arizona and for an I'm the house of representatives and the senate This fund was and wiis appropriated by Hie ment to defray of Hie win and the sub- ui ill election expenses that fol lowed Yuma Arizona Dear I wish to thank you far your kind co-operation In matters affecting best interests cf Yuma The future of the city and valley a Mitred progress and prosperity nmy greul ly retarded by lack of l the people of Yuma There are a few nood men like yourself who censing to build a dvo community I have given the situation at Direful study and know that vou on the threshold of a de and Industrial activity Very truly yours W E The Yuma valley has all of these in I abundance A thing to he especially noticed Is the Yuma valley is one of the I very few places where stock can be pastured on alfalfa fields without any danger of loss of the slock by Another point to be noticed is that in this valley there are in rains to spoil the hay after it is cut j and shocked The hay is always i bright and demands the highest price There are from eight tu eleven VALLEY SCENES lings of alfalfa prr year yielding from eight to fourteen tons ten tons being about the average success in the from the seed standpoint and four cull inns are made for hay and to make health happiness and homes When we enumerate the almost magical growth of plant life here the actual fanner will note that U due to the warm It is 400 to SUO pounds per acre and times wo Tops f seed me an two or three cuttings hay A I fa If seed ranges from cents to cents per Alfalfa racing ill never be overdone for are lull few mo UN ix I lie recent Ion ol infi commission 1 K kind i making any mil -e lu of the buyer It 1 also from the lo of directors the MaU salesmen under I en o c O AMUSEMENTS C O c YUMA Hilly will lake the lend ill the Yuma i heal re In a goon drama il Hroncho Hill and llif Stepsister This picture wives us a line to how well Mi Anderson nature He sides Ibis there will he The Inventor's Ski ich a Tin hoard ol directors tin c mint have so lar in secure n ail of hanks 1 t- i iin inio on due in fairs clai us o have ol fiom he one of the great assets of the in Stales try liven a climatic condition where ull 01 you can cut alfalfa during the i mas holidays and cut It again t latter part of March you catch i glimpse of a long cropping season Alfalfa can be n In October or November ami yield live or six tings the hay I raised in the Yuma i alley is IM elleni to carry on a banking business the same time each depositor ol bank In nil their money so ihai lie cloning of the inu business each and every d r dollar in hanli total amount of was iin n stock which In- pi nt I he I i any is an merely Km Hi re will be seen a Weekly II am can work on alfalfa hav with fi ed added Man I lit her a I -on Angeles orge FALL S ON OF HAYFORK A San I C Los le Nevins St Louis nine I San I Los s E is TQ BE BORDER Aug Local hunts merchandise to who cross the same Into Mexico are now required to report it the custom house once a week to manifest such merchandise crossing the International Ine with merchandise are asked for by the Untied States custom officers given them the purchase of the goods slips arc kept until end if the week when the merchant la to go to the custom nous ml make proper manifest The merchants have been Informed hnl this Is an old ruling of the oms department which has nit Into until recently orders received from Washington special mention was made of the As the result of the fact that many of American make were Imported for the cavalry of he revolutionists there also I Ing through the port classed as i.i.'n.iKiiie of war Up u i- il this new went into Mexico was the profitable field for dealers In saddles as matters stad local flj Delves larue supplies of lie articles which to ad f v In the ooiri try to Soil warmth are the eternal elements of production and are here is a fundamental production and you can't leave 01 of them out Vou can bank on richest In the world In all the water yon want an whenever you want it and weather for ten months 8 at Yuma Some of the great projects which uv conceived t develop our country A to it- utility require mor was the capital than fn man can levied by he city This true of such of the oct ns the Canal and asso bebl I I- an of our projects The The Has for the so the The of sav tl will be properly and is and a n D and wife San above Hard will leave for Pasadena on 1 visit Mv has fifteen acres of alfalfa on iis ranch that yields 100 ions hay annum lie thinks it is worth while to farm under the Ham where -in abundance of and with rich soil turns cash mm ma Yesterday afternoon at o'clock ini was 104 degrees with s humidity of per cent S of Service is from va It the n month The tinie intn was in San
