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the best of that of California has 8 to 10 degrees alcohol, while 

 this contained the same as the best Spanish wine. The product of a 

 Spanish vineyard is 10 pounds to the vine. His vineyard yielded 

 100 pounds of grapes to the vine. From this vineyard, only three 

 years old, and containing only 4 acres, he has this year made 3,800 

 gallons of wine of different kinds, which he has sold for $1 per gal- 

 lon, besides selling grapes to the value of $500. The net yield of 

 each acre has been $1,000. The testimony of vine-culturists is that 

 there is no better country for the manufacture of wine than that of 

 the Gila River and Salt River valleys, and the experimental test 

 above cited would seem to fully bear out the assertion." 



YUMA COUNTY. 



'HE county of Yuma contains an area of 10,138 square miles. 

 Along its western boundary runs the Colorado river, a 

 navigable stream, up and down which are regularly plying 

 steamboats which afford the great advantage of cheap water 

 transportation. From east to west the county is traversed by the 

 Gila river. These rivers are capable of furnishing the water neces- 

 sary to reclaim immense tracts of land and it will not be long before 

 Yuma will bloom and blossom with perpetual fruit and flowers. 



The work of reclamation has already begun. A canal from the 

 Gila has been started and is appraaching completion. This canal 

 will irrigate the Mohawk valley about sixty miles east of the town 

 of Yuma. The valley contains about 40,000 acres of as fine land as 

 lies beneath the sun. Another canal is projected to take water from 

 the Colorado river about thirty miles north of the town. It will 

 run in a southerly course irrigating about 15,000 acres of land lying 

 between the Colorado and Gila rivers, thence crossing the Gila in a 

 flume or pipes about one mile below Gila City on the Southern Paci- 

 fic Railroad, it will irrigate 12,000 acres between Gila City and the 

 town of Yuma. It will then pass along the foot of the mesas to the 

 northern boundary of Mexico rendering 300,000 acres susceptible to 

 cultivation. This canal will be forty feet wide on the bottom, and 

 fifteen to twenty feet in depth. Its length will be one hundred 

 miles. Other large canals are contemplated. 



