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jj| c ® uairailll^€e & ure Any of Them'3m One Week w jrfmUHm nee£ * °* a s P sc ' a ' sanitarium devoted to the treatment of these ailments his long existed in Southern California. Our |f| [l institution, occupying the entire Wells-Fargo building, is completely equipped for the rapid cure of the diseases of which fHiv 'ilu \ \ ifv v < The comfortable surroundings, trained nurses, and care received from specialists who Ireat Iff lJflv4u I I wfiß&ißaßk •\ \ lIM A absolutely nothing else, nuke the cure of these troubles very easy. Unnatural discharges and |fl ' I IM ll' y' results of bad treatment of them, blood taints and all forms of weakness a particular specialty. ||| IS NEGLECTED Vast Resources Ignored by Capital RETARDED BY FALSE REPORTS THE RICHEST MINING REGION KNOWN ▲ Climate Fatal to Pulmonary Troubles—Temperature High but Sunstroke Is Unknown YUMA, Ariz., March 27.—Very few people on the coast know that La For tune mine, the great property recently purchased by and now paying Charles D. Lane some $90,000 per morlth. Is al most in sight of and only 30 miles from Yuma—Yuma the Neglected! There is not to be found a prominent locality more or less talked about all over the' land, and reached by a trans continental railway, that has been half so completely lgntored by Investors and enterprise as this same Yuma. Scare crow reports, which have placed the town, n-ally wonderfully blessed by na ture with resources unbounded, in a hole In the ground, usually as hot as hades, have doubtless done much to turn aside the natural march of progress. But the day Is at hand when a change must come. Indeed, tlhe handwriting of ap proaching change is upon the wall of her environments. A few weeks atco a re gion about 45 miles north of Yuma was found with a great vein of gold quailz across Its bosom. Samples weighing 600 pounds were brought In; and assays showed an average value of $2106 per ton, Including $30 in silver. Since then many mining experts have visited the region of this new find, and all fully verify former reports, that H. B. Gleason of Yuma and his partner have located two fabulously rich claims upon a 10 --foot ledge, in a dyorite and porphyry formation. The ledge extends from 300 to 500 feet along the surface, and all the tests made Indicate an average value of those surface faces of ledge reaching $2000 or over tb the ton. This new dis covery is in or beside the Flomos moun tain range. The only water there is found In natural reservoirs, soon ex hausted. The nearest permanent sup ply Is eight miles distant. A stage line Is established, but no stores are yet opened. One must take supplies from Tuma. It is, like Randsburg, no place for men without means and a proper outfit for protection on the desert. Hay can be obtained at Haines' ranch, thirty-two miles away, and there a small store has also been opened. The famous mountain promontory, Castle Dome, one of the soenic wonders in the seml-clrcle of mountains which give Yuma Its pictur esquely beautiful grandeur, Is some six teen miles southewest of the g|;at new strike. But these are not all the active mining localities that are or ought to be di rectly tributary to Yuma. Up theflver some fifty miles north is the famous Picacho country, where several hundred miners are now at work on different propositions; where several mills have been at work, for some time profitably and where an entire new milling plant has Just been shipped In for opening a new mine. It Is In this region that Sen ator Dorsey has twenty-six claims which he is developing and upon which he pro poses to erect a 200-stamj> mill this year. Frank Guerra, the mining expert now located at Yuma, is in active charge of the ex-senator's operations. AH around Yuma there is a virgin country. Irrigation Is necessary and ample water at hand, but aside from the ditches connected with, two pumping plants nothing has been done. Capital never had another such a. chance. Nor will it soon have again. Yuma has no bank. It has no fine ho tel to accommodate the misguided pul monary unfortunates who in San Diego and other coast points are sinking sure ly toward the Inevitable, when 90 percent would be cured In a year here. Six or seven general merchandise stojeß, one lumber yard, some saloons and restau rants, two drug stores nnd a livery and feed outfit embrace about all ther* Is of the business part of this city—said to contain from IfOO to 1800 white people, besides Indians galore and a. big floating population going to and from the mines. There are a custom house, an important weather bureau, a penitentiary and a big Indian a school across the river. Be sides Yumu'ls a county seat. A nice elec tric light plant is In operation and the city is abundantly supplied with water. After one is duly acclimated here the climate is healthful and delightful in the extreme. Really the heat In summer is no more intense than In Phoenix and such a thing as a sunstroke even among people working out In the hot sun the year around was never heard of. SUMMER HEAT THAfT CURES. Dr. Mollar. a leading and skillful phy sician of Yuma, declares that people suf fering with any kind of pulmonary trou ble must stay In Yuma through the heat ed! term In summer If they want to get cured. Indeed all old settlers here de clare this is a fact, established by the ob servation of long years. It is'also freely asserted that no sufferer ever came here strong enough to walk about and stayed through a whole year without being cured. Yuma Is proud* of this record and believes that some day if will make her the greatest natural sanitarium on earth. ABOUT THE LAND GRANT. The supreme court of the United States will soon decide as to the valid ity of the title to the 69,000 acres of splendid land adjoining Yuma, which have been practically withheld from settlement for long years because of'an old land grant. Three years ago the case was appealed from the United States land courts to the supreme court and a month or so ago It was reached on the calendar, argued and submitted. According to precedent, therefore, a de cision may be looked for any day anil ; certainly It will not be delayed later than June next. No matter which way the decision goes the great tract of nearly 50,000 acres, all bottom land and capable of producing almost anything In the way of crops, fruits or berries and grapes to perfection will be thrown open to settlement. Below and adjoining this tract at various points are large bodies of government land subject to home stead entry upon which water from the Colorado river can and will be brought the moment the grant decision is reached. There Is, therefore, no such an opening in the west to procure a home as will soon be offered In the vicinity of Yuma. A big rush Is expected, and the city and country ought to double or treble the present population In a year. REPRESENTING YUMA THRIFT Only 39 years of age. though for twen ty years of that period a resident of Yuma, Althee Modestl Is easily the lead ing merchant and most thrifty business man In the city. In fact, his is the most marked and notable character one often meets. Though In active business here since 1877, no one can be found of all the neighborhood to accuse him of un fairness or even suspect him of a single act of dishonesty. And all this time he has made money as rapidly as the more unscrupulous and rapacious, and saved thriftily until, without question, he Is the best supplied with resources among the old-time residents of Yuma. He evi dently has full faith In the future of the city, for he holds large quantities of real estate, which he is all the while Im proving. The most modern and elegant of the brick business blocks In the town are his. He occupies a large structure with his own big mercantile establish ment, and builds to rent both business and residence strdctures. He Is Identified with a building and loap association, and manifests a conservative spirit ot prcgreste that would soon make Yuma a great and flourishing city if half Its residents would imitate the example of Althee Modestl. GOLD MINING PROPERTIES. There are few men better qualified to Judge the value of a mineral otaim of any LOS ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 28, 1897 kind than B. A. Haraszrhy, late chair man of the board! supervisors of Yum* county and for thirty-five years a practical miner. He Is associated' with Hon. J. H. Carpenter, now and for fif teen years past a member of the terri torial legislature. They have fisted with them for sale on the most open and fa vorable terms many choice and availa ble minlr.fr properties which some day will yield ample riches at the touch of capital. Mr. Haraszthy has a typical Yuma home, location a whole block containing four and a half acres, within the city limits and, under irrigation, handsomely productive. This place is on the lowlands near the limits of the city, where the great grant, long In liti gation, has its limits. His partner, Mr. Carpenter, is the resident manager in Yuma for the owners of this grant and as such conducts a considerable fruit and alfalfa ranch near by which 1s In possession of the grant company. They are standards of authority on the values of local real estate and mines In which* they are so extensively operating. WELLS-FARGO'S AGENT. Yuma was not always the law abid ing, peaceful and orderly secure place which It unquestionably is at present. There have been periods during the last quarter of a century when perhaps it deserved the repute now often erron eously attached to It —namely, that of being a bad town — However for the past tw-enty-slx years O. F. Townsend, Wells-Fargo's representative, has been one of the mainstays of Integrity and or der In Yuma. Aside from his long and tried efficiency as the only express agent in the place, he has served as post master and In many other public offi ces always with honor and ability. He owns choice lots upon the principal street, has 360 acres across the bench of choice bottom land capable of the most, wonderful productiveness and ready for settlers with means to Improve It. Ho appreciates the advent of modern de velopment as much as any citizen in Yuma. His family of seven is one of the most interesting and in him and them the advance of the new prosperity which is even now coming to this won derful but so long neglected locality will find a most able, worthy and effective factor. A MODEL PRISON. When ex-President Cleveland super seded hl3 own appointment of Hughes and made B. J. Franklin governor of Ari zona in 1898, Hon. M. J. Nugent, one of the best-known and able residents of Yuma, became superintendent, of the ter ritorial prison. Among the clear-headed men of marked executive ability, who have In many ways shaped the territor ial destiny of Arizona during the past twenty years, Mr. Nugent has few equals. He has served the people repeat edly with decided fidelity in the legis lature. For aox years he was sJheriff of this dounty, and proved perfectly effi cient. Several other important territor ial offices at one time or another have been filled by him, and In his manage ment of the prison here since the Ist of May last he has .demonstrated a fitness, a capability and a clear-headed faculty for reducing expenses rationally, that ought to place htm beyond partisan lines. He 'has taken hold of the institu tion as a man might take hold of a big enterprise of his own. Practically he revolutionized the pjrlson service. For instance, formerly they were bringing wood down the Gila river on a raft. Nu gent put a boom across the rlveT, threw the wood In, and when It came down on the flwlft current, had It dragged out and corded up. Many cords of the wood are used Ho run the prison electric lights and to use for cooking and laundry pur ' poses for nearly 250 men. Then he set his prisoners to work and leveled a small hill that overlooked the prison walls too closely for prudence, Improving the appearance of the'prlson grounds as well. Nothing has been al lowed to fall Into decay. The adobe manufacturing business Is steadily pushed and. good shrewd bargains made for supplies. In brief, in consequence of his management the prison was ne vet in such a thoroughly satisfactory condi tion nor the prisoners better cared for or more contented and the cost' per capital per diem of maintaining the inmates has been reduced from sixty-two cents in 1896 first to 45 cents, and during the last two quarters to 40 cents. No such showing has ever been in this prison or in any other prison In the country conducted under Ilk* conditions, and M. J. Nugent by this record will hardly have to beg- the favorable consideration of whomsoever President McKinley chooses in due time to make next gov ernor of Arizona. It goes without say ing that Mr. Nugent is prominently and materially identified wlth.the pres ent and; future of Yuma, and ever hold ing out a welcoming hand to the advent of new capital here. Messrs. Devore & Speese of Yuma are prepared to accommodate miners with outfits of any and all sorts to reach the mines—burros, pack trains, carriages or drays. They have also a stage line run ning from Tacna to the locality of tho late newly-found gold field. Tacna is the nearest point to the new mines. A TYPICAL YUMA VENTURE. The only modern, three-story brick bloeleln Yuma at present is that erected by Col. P. G. Cotter in 1893. It Is a han I some structure, in the heart of the city. The lower story Is occupied by the post office In one division and the metropoli tan drug establishment of Dr. Cotter. It is the only store of the stort in the place where as large, fresh and complete a stock of drugs Is carried as is usually found in the best cities of the land, and also the only one in which a regulorly graduated pharmacist is employed to compound medicines and fill prescrip tions. The two upper stories of the block are admirably fitted up for oftVes. Dr. Cotter came to Yuma In 1887 as government physician at the Indian school across the river, fresh from hos pital practice after graduating from the Albany, N. Y. Medical college. His faith 'in the future of Yuma was such that upon retiring from his government position he made his home here, entering upon private practice, which has grown large and profitable. His enterprising investment In the big block which has become a positive necessity to the citi zens of the place represents the sum of his faith in the bright future of this long misunderstood and neglected city. Thus from the first Dr. Cotter has be6r. a decided factor in the local progress of Yuma in the past, as he Is now a most capable and clear-headed exponent of the grand development now at hand. YUMA'S NEW BIG ICE PLANT W. H. Halbert was one of the fortunate original locaters of the great La Fortun i mine near Yuma, now clebrated as the great producer owned by Charles D. Lane. He Is one of the first successful miners deriving well-earned gold from the many rich mineral fields In thU vicinity to apply his capital towards the establishment in Yuma of a great Ice plant, which is so much needed by the residents of the place that it partakes of a public benefaction. Beeides, In a place where ice is so much of a necessity It ought to keep right at home all the money that has Hitherto gone to Truckee or out of the territory for an Inferior Imported article. With Mr. Halbert In this public spirited project Mr. M. L. Pool, for the last three yeans the efficient and popular recorder of this county, Is associated, so the enterprise will be conducted under the Arm title of Halbert & Pool, who enjoy the highest possible financial standing among the most re liable firms in the west. The plant, which has been ordered of the Vulcan Iron works, is one of the most complete and modern, including a Corliss engine and eighty horse-power boiler. Its capacity will be ten tons a day. This will be operated in a new brick building, 40x80 feet, having an added complete cold storage capacity of three car loads. No other establishment preliminary to the Immediate rapid ex pansion and growth of Yuma could, under the circumstances, be better de signed to meet present and anticipated early future demands In a city like this about to forge ahead with great strides THE GOLDEN CROSS MINES. The Golden Cross group of mines, twenty-two miles west of Yuma In San Diego county, Cal.. embrace thirty claims and 500 acres of mineral lands. The ore bodies are numerous and immense, but low grade. One 100-stamp mill upon the property, fully equipped with all the most modern appllanjs*s, is In constant operation. Some 226 men are employed. Another mill of forty stamps Is being overhauled, and Willi start up soon. Only three claims are being worked to supply all the ore needled and more, for vast bodies of ore are In sight that might be taken out fast enough to feed another 100 stamps. This property was first takfcn hold ofi by the Golden Cross Mln- TO THE NEW YUMA FUND. Ing and' Milling company, but bad luck and the vicissitudes,of law attending the introduction of vast mining enterprise compelled the aUpolntment of a receiver, and the court having jurisdiction ap pointed to that position W. W. Stewart of the well known San OlegO firm of W. W. Stewart.* Co. Mr. S_tewart found the affairs of the former administration In a condition of chaos. By prompt ar.d Judicious measures he lias restored or dier and today there Is not a better man aged big property on the coast. A Are started in the main rhaf t of the princi pal mine being worked before his ad ministration has been extinguished and Its ravag.es repaired at the rrecessary cost of $20,000, and this has been paid and 180*0 more turned over to the trus tees. At present Mr. Stewart has ths entire property, mines and reduction works, In the highest degree of effective and economical operation under his per sonal supervision. The office affairs of the receiver are In the hands of J. Mar tin, an expert accountant, and formerly a banker, driven out Into this section for his health, and who takes especial Interest in the welfare of the company and Is a valuable auxiliary aid to the receiver. ■ DEPOPULATION OF FRANCE A Frenchman's View of the Sub ject The population of France is now defi nitely known, and as was to be expected, the increase since the last census is in significant compared with that of neigh boring countries. Is this a sign of weak ness? Does it mean decadence? We will endeavor to supply an answer to these Important questions. There are people who maintain that an Increase of popu lation does not always coincide with the richness of a nation, that quality Is of more consequence than quantity, and so on. It is certain, however, that from a military point of view—especially as regards Germany—the numerical Infer iority of his country cannot but be a source of the deepest anxiety to every patriotic Frenchman. Let us examine a few of the statistical facts disclosed by the recent enumera tion. Rural depopulation is general ev erywhere, but even In the most prosper ous of our towns there is no augmenta tion worth speaking of. According to the la«t London census the number oi Inhabitants resident In the British cap ital was 4,411,270. That Is to say about 300,000 less than the whole of Ireland The increase during the preceding quin quennium was 200,428. Now let us turn to Paris. The prospect Is by no means brilliant, notwithstanding the fact that the totals show an increase of 87,250 In habitants. As the compilers are care ful to point out, this result has occurred in spite of a diminution of natality. It simply proves once more that the mania for centralization causes a steady flow of Immigrants from the provinces to the capital. Persians may sleep 'j\ peace. The Seine will always be lined on both sides, even though the people lining It should have no children. The dearth of children In France is dUe to the fact that the French people do not choose to have families. This is proved by the census In the most striking and conclusive manner. The old fable that diminution of population was caused by excessive mortality during infancy can no longer gain credence. It is not the high death rate that Is blameworthy, but the low birth rate. Neither can the defective natality be laid to the charge of poverty. The richer a Frenchman is the fewer children he has. This Is equal ly true In town and' country. The rich, lihe educated, the cultured, are the cul prits. The census Just taken confirms the melancholy reflections which were published some time ago by Dr. Bertll lon. His assertion that If France was to be repopulaited It would be thanks to the lower orders. Is amply sustained. Grenelle heads the list for births, while the are at the foot. Poverty Is unquestionably one oflthe chief causes of depopulation, but It Is far fri m being the only one. If the birth rate diminishes in the lower stratum of society, poverty might be Inorlmlr.ateU; but, unfortunately, the figures point In precisely the opposite direction. Should we not rather blame thedecadenoe of an effete civilization in which refinement is pushed beyond the limits of reason? Ma ternity Is an Instinct; it is-nature itself. Now there is nothing so hostile to In stinct as education which Is based essen tially on hypocrisy and makes.children actors, teaching: them to dissimulate tiheir real thoughts, and, after rapid're flection, to substitute for them others which may conduce toward politeness, but are destitute of all sincerity. By dii'Jt of alienating man from natural hab its education will end In making him a purely artificial creature, unfit for his position and incapable of adding vigor to the race. Women, unsexed l by lux ury, will develope an Increasing dislike to maternity. That will be the opportun ity for less civilized peoples to Invade us andi make slaves of us. until they, too, In their turn, shall become tender ar.d neurotic.—Scalpel. IN THE SUNK LANDS What the Earthquake of 1811 Did in Two States There is no stretch ot country mer gloomy or desolate than that vast ter rltory in Southeast Missouri and At kansas known as the sunk lands. Th bottom seemed to have dropped ou when the "big shake," as the natives eal the earthquake of 1811, occurred. . To a novice In woodcraft or swamp navlga tlon, It is a most hazardous undertaklm to penetrate far beyond the borders o this wilderness of cypress, elbow brush and other specimens of the lowland trees and tangled vine thickets. It is comparatively easy to move about when the cypress monopolizes the swamp and when the season has been very drj along In the fall, one can travel dryshoc over parts of the great waste. Ther are numerous lakes, large and small some of great depth. Most of thes areas of open water are dotted wit] islands, and in many places fallen cy press trees and great black stump make resting places for enormous tur ties, snakes and other reptiles In sum mer, while in winter the raccoon, otter mink and muskrat perch upon them t< sun themselves in the daytime, and a night they use the logs when in pur suit of prey. All throughout the sunk land district are Islands from a half to twenty acre In dimensions. The larger ones contait oak, hickory and smaller growths o underbrush, but most of them are cov ered with small cane, on which deer tha find their way into the solitudes feed and fatten. One of the most remarkable of thes Islands 1h known as "Hone Island," and covers an area of about six acres. Till island Is a rendezvous for professions hunters, and it is rarely that the buz zards are not seen soaring above. It 1 a desolate, forbidding place, and gits It name from the fact that it Is literally covered with bones of animals and birds, from the horse down through net ural history to the bones of ducks arid geese. Of the latter great heaps of them can be seen at different places. Thes bleaching bones tell of merciless slaugh ter of wild game for their pelts and feathers. It seems strange that men should de rtroy thousands of ducks ar.d geese Just for their plumage and quills. Every year when the weather is l too warm to ship game three men, who make "Bone Itiland" their place of abode, kill ducks and geese, strip them of their feathers, and throw the carcasses In heaps for the buzzards to feed upon. The beautiful wood duck, which rears Its young In the great swamp district is the first bird to be slaughtered. Tin feather-hunters begin in August to de stroy thes*e birds-, and never strap untl they mate In the spring. Later In the season, when the big flight of wild fow moves southward, the slaughter Is some thing unprecedented. The bird's are ' potted" In the n!ght when big guns' are used' that do deadly work among the flocks, as they rest in the patches of open water. Not far from Bone Island there is a ridge on which many oaks grow that are- prolific in acorns. There the mallards go to feec In countless* numbers. The writer has seen a moving mam fully 100 feet wide and 300 yards long, of ducks In the gra> of the morning along this ridge, strug gling to secure some of the acorns that fell from the oaks. One of the hunters on the island was-laying for a phot, and when his big gun Bounded the pande monium that followed was indescriba ble. The roar of 10,000 wings- and tin cries of frightened, squeaking, fleeing game were absolutely startling. The hunter's* double gun left thirty-five kill ed and wounded mallards In the water when the rest had flown. Inside of an hour the ducks*had- massed again, when forty-seven l were added* to the thirty five. Four double shots dtirlng th# ir irnir.g resulttd in 105 due In' being killed. At night Feventy-flve more fell before the murderous weapon of the pot-hunter —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The English Speaking Race J The following Is an extract from the address which Lord Salisbury delivered at the recent dinner in London to Mr. Bayard: While wars and rumors of wars are go ing on. while the waves are troubled up above, there tea silent processor creation going on which some day or other will show itself in great continents and moun tain tv While we are discussing and dip lomatizing, by the steady operation ot natural causes and the superiority of the English-speaking races, that language Is becoming dominant In the world. It is spreading, not only In the United State-, of America and In England, but over vast territories in Asia, Africa and Australia; and think—think welt—what it means, that all those distant races of the world should speak each other's lan guage. It is a great stumbling-block and a great opportunity. If they are welt guided, it means the rule of good feeling, Christianity and peace. If they are not well guided, it means a perpetual oppor tunity of taking offence at each other's words and actions, which adds infinitely to the danger and difficulty of their re lations with each other. The progress of the English-speaking races Is the most marvelous phenomenon of our time. It mear.s a great machinery for the manu facture of the public opinion that is to guide the world. As- In all times, there* have been two forces that have contest ed with each other the power of govern ing the society of men—the official, or ganized government and the public opin ion, by which, more or less, that organ ized government has always been con trolled and Influenced. But in our tim*? the organized government Is distinctly losing force and the public opinion istfis tlnctly gaining in power: and as that process goes on, more and more Import ant does It become that that public opin ion should be rightly guided. Those whose voices are heard by tho English-speaking nations have a tre mendous power and bear a terrible re sponsibility. It Is with them that tho real shaping of the futuredestlnles of that world lies; and-If I look back with a dsn I- ! ration to the official life In this country !of the distinguished ambassador who I sit? here tonight, it is not mainly I —though It must ge greatly—for his official distinction end' for the work* he has done in hls'olflce; but In t hlaeoun- try h>' has thrown himself with great zeal unci power and Indefatigable effort into the duty of presenting American and English opinion to each other, and moulding them In a common and a bles« sed form. In that he appears- to ma to have deserved highly, not only ot this country and of his' own, but of Eng- Ilsh-speaking races all over the world, and not only that, but of the English*-, speaking races the world that Is to be. If there are no men to take up the torch that no hands down, if no effort la mad* to present the public opinion of the tw» nations to each other, to enable then* to understand each other, and oveT »om? temporary causes of offence, It m*y well be that all the power that Is given to them will, be given to them only for their own destruction and the calamity of th" world, and all that force will bet utilized in injuring each other; but It. on the other hand, the high standard* which he has held forth, the noble senti ments which he has Impressed, the un waryir.g Z* a! for the public good; Which) \ he has unit,irmly displayed—if they caw ' .mpres..- themselves on the public opUlon - of our time, then the growth of the Ens;- t i li-i.-speaking races and th' vast InflH- ; i-r.ce which they cxci' ise may well be |t"| more powerful machinery than has eJI-J I isited yet for bringing to us the relfrt I Justice and of peace. To Cure a Cold In On* Day | Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablet*,*! 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