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building in the city. There are a few
stores, with quite an extensive stock of
goods. The hotels are not very extensive,
such only in name; the Palace and Colorado
are the two principal ones. Yuma has
one weekly newspaper—the Sentznel.

Most of the Spanish and Mexican
houses are surrounded with high fences,
made of poles, set in the ground close to-
gether, to a depth of three or more feet, and
secured together about four feet from the
ground, with narrow strips of raw-hide
interwoven, when soft, around and between
the poles, so when the hide dries the fence
is very strong. Many of these fences pre-
sent a very ragged appearance, as the
poles range in height from four to twelve
feet above the ground. The more enter-
prising of the people saw these poles off to
a uniform height, when they present a
much more artistic and finished appear-
ance.

The Railroad Company have large ware-
houses here built of lumber, for the ac-
commodation of both the railroad and
steamer business. The boats on the Color-
ado River are all owned by the Railroad
Company, and are run in connection with
the trains.

Just above the railroad bridge, on the
west bank of the Colorado River, is situ-
ated Fort Yuma. It is located on the top
of a bold, round butte about one-fourth of
a mile in diameter, rising about 200 feet
above the river bottom, and projecting
into the Colorado River to meet a promon-
tory of about the same height on the east
side. Between these beld points flows the
Colorado River, about 300 yards in width.
The Colorado River reaches this point
from the northward, and the Gila (pro-
nounced Hee-le) from the east, forming a
junction close above the points named.
It is proposed by those managing the in-
terests (so we hear) of the Texas & Pa-
cific railroad, to build a bridge across the
Colorado River at these bluffs, some work
of grading having been done in the fall of
1877, just previous to the locating of the
present railroad bridge, a few hundred
yards below.

From the high butte above named, a
view can be had of Yuma, the valleys of
the Colorado and the Gila rivers, the
mesas, and the surrounding country for
many miles.

Stages leave Yuma daily, carrying pas-
sengers, mails, and express, for Florence,
225 miles; Tueson, 595 miles, and Apacha

Pass, 665 miles, all in Arizona; to Silver
City, 790 miles, and Mesilla, 915 miles in
New Mexico; then to El Paso, Texas, 965
miles, and to the end of the Texas & Pa-
cific railroad, at Fort Worth, 900 miles
further east, making 1,865 miles between
the Southern Pacific and the Texas &
Pacific railroads, or Yuma, Arizona, and
Fort Worth, Texas.

COLORADO RIVER STEAMERS.

Passenger and freight steamers leave
Yuma for Aubry, during the summer
season, weekly, commencing Saturday,
May 4th, 1878, and continuing until Oct.
26th; from that time until January 4th
following, they will leave every alternate
Saturday. Steamers for Camp Mohava
leave every fifth Wednesday, commencing
Jan. 16th. These steamers run to El
Dorado Canyon, from May 1st to the last
of October (stage of water permitting).

Distance from Yuma, per river steamer
to Castle Dome, 35 miles; fare, $5.00;
Eherenberg, 125 miles, fare, $15.00;
Aubrys, 220 miles, fare, $28.00; Camp
Mohava, 300 miles, fare, $35.00; Hardy-
ville, 312 miles, fare, $35.00; El Dorado
Canyon, 365 miles, fare, $45 00.

The Colorado is the principal River of
Arizona. It is principally supplied by
the Grand River, which rises in the Middle
Park of Colorado, and the Green River
which rises in the eastern portion of Idaho.
From the junction of the Grand and
Green rivers, the stream is called the
Colorado, and with its windings has a
length of 3,000 miles to where it enters the
Gulfof California. Itis navigable at all
times about 500 miles, and in a season of
high water about 150 miles further, to Call-
ville. The Grand Canyon of the Colorado
has been “written up” so often that it
would be unnecessary for us to more than
allude to the fact that the time is not far
distant when a trip to the Grand Canyon
will be one of the most attractive, and quite
ascommon as to Niagara Falls to the people
of the State of New York. For nearly
300 miles the channel of the river has been
cut through the mountain walls that rise
up on each side from 1,000 to 3,500 feet,
forming the largest and grandest canyon
the eye of man ever beheld.

 

See AnNEX No. 55 for further informa-
tion.

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