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LATEST MARKET REPORT
FURNISHED BY
E. F. SANGUINETTI
LATEST MARKET REPORT
FURNISH ED' BY
J. M. BALSZ
SENTINEL
Cotton 20c
Milo Maze, ton ?G4.50
Fetereta, ton 64.50
Cattle 6c to 10c
Hogs 8c to 15c
Lambs .. 16c
Turkeys 24c
Chicks 17c
Eggs 48c
5 Alfalfa hay, ton S16.50
5 Barley, 4ton $50.00 :
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FEARLESS CHAMPION OF CITY OFYUMA, YUMA PROJECT
AND YUMA COUNTY
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VOLUME 47
NUMBER 37.
HANLON HEADING DIVERSION DAM ALMOST
COMPLETED.
The Hanlon Heading diversion dam is almost complete,
and Project Manager Schlecht is seeing to it that the Ari
zona side of the river is being made safe and sound against
any sudden overflow that may come down either the Colo
rado or Gila river. This work is under the watchful eye of
Superintendent of Construction Ray M. Priest, who is on
the job all the time. The levee thrown up from the- railroad
out to the river, connecting with the diversion dam, is as
strong as any part of our entire levee system. When all the
work at that point shall have been completed the river will
have been revetted with rock for several hundred yards
above the dam as well as for an equal distance below the
dam.
At present the water has been raised at the dam about
four feet which is giving Imperial Valley something like 3,
000 cubic feet per second. But according to the Calexico
Chronicle this is not nearly half enough, that paper claim
ing that there already has been a loss of practically a mil
lion dollars in No. 6 district alone, that district requiring
250 second feet, whereas it is getting but 83 feet, or less than
one-third the water necessary to save the crops.
The new intake is being rushed to completion as fast
?s men and money can do the work and the engineers in
charge claim that when this new intake is finally completed
it will at once have solved the entire water question for Im
perial Valley. It is to be hoped that this will prove true, for
it is highly probable the people of Yuma Valley will never
again sanction another diversion dam at Hanlon Heading,
which means the new heading as well. The first million dol
lars of Imperial Valley bonds were sold a few days ago at
83 cents on the dollar with accrued interest, a very distinct
disappointment to the people of the Imperial Valley who
had expected these bonds to sell at par but little below.
THE BIG HE HIGHBINDER "SOAKS" YUMAITES.
Almost every man in the city of Yuma is up in arms
against the outrageous bills that have been presented by
the big He Highbinder for water and electric lights for the
months of July and August. The bills are so uniformly
higher than ever before that citizens are wondering what
it all means, whether rank highway robbery, or whether it
is a well laid scheme to force the people to buy him out.
One of my friends,, a city official at that, was presented
a water bill about four times as much as it ever was before.
Another city official whose bill had been running about $3
or $4 per month got an increase to upwards of $10. Another,
whose family has been gone for two months had his bill
more than doubled, though he was at home but little of the
time, and so on and so forth.
The Yuma Fruit Company is a fair illustration. The
electric light bills of this concern kept increasing to such an
alarming extent that Mr. Frazinelli ceased using the high
binder "juice," but the bill was even larger at the end of the
month than ever before. He became so exasperated that he
installed an electric plant of his own, but his bill for the first
ten days in August was upwards of $1 per day, notwithstand
ing he never lit a light. He is now operating his store with
his own electric plant at less than half what he had been
paying the He Highbinder.
Every other merchant in Yuma can do the same, and
unless we are soon to have "public ownership of public utili
ties" that is bound to be the solution of the whole vexing
question. When you have to pay $10, $20, $30 or $40 per
month for water for household purposes it is killing the
goose that laid the golden egg. The people won't stand it.
Now is the time for the city council to take the bull by
the horns and bring the public ownership question to an is
sue. It is a foregone conclusion that the people will vote the
necessary bonds to install a new plant rather than be
gouged to death by the big He Highbinder of Los Angeles.
WONDERFUL CROPS ON YUMA PROJECT.
Last year, according to government reports, Yuma Pro
ject produced the best crops that were grown anywhere in
the United States, all the lands, including even those given
over to Bermuda pasture, producing an average of $50.75
per acre. Much of the land that has been planted to cotton
averaged $100 per acre, and this was turned in by Reclama
tion officials when the crops were selling at a minimum
price. If the maximum had been taken the general average
would have been even higher than that officially given.
This year there is every reason to believe that Yuma
Project will break all previous records, not only in actual
amount raised per acre of the different commodities but in
price as well. One of our well known business men who has
200 acres of land leased from the Yuma Indians across the
liver' has harvested his "harry" Peruvian seed on 40 acres
and sold it for spot cash to Mr. E. F. Sanguinetti for an even
FOUR THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS, or
more than $100 per acre for the seed crop alone. This wide
awake farmer-business man had already harvested two fine
cuttings of alfalfa hay from the same field and will get at
least two more cuttings worthbout $15 per ton on the farm,
and in addition will sell his "straw" left after threshing the
seed for $10 per ton. If this isn't "goin' some" then what
would you call it. But in addition to this bananza in "har
ry" Peruvian alfalfa, this same man has sixty acres planted
to Egyptian cotton and he tells me that he will harvest at the
least calculation 40 bales, from the 60 acres. With this staple
at 50c per pound it can be seen that he has a $10,000 cotton
crop in sight. In addition to that he has 40 acres in milo
maize and he expects not less than a ton per acre, which at
present prices will give him something like $2500 for that
crop, making approximately $16,500 on 140 acres, with the
remaining 60 acres given over to pasture for his several hun
dred head of hogs. Can you beat it?
MARK ROSE AND HIS SCHEME ONCE MORE
Last Saturday morning the esteemed Morning Sun
printed an extended article on the Mark Rose All-American
canal scheme which was taken from the Calexico Chronicle,
alleging that three surveying parties were ready to begin
the survey of the proposed All-American canal, and further
stating that one of the surveying parties was then in Yuma
for the purpose of inspecting the Reclamation records.
Up to last Saturday the Reclamation officials had heard
absolutely nothing of the Mark Rose surveying party, and it
is more than doubtful if "three" surveying parties could be
made up: at this time in this entire section of the country.
Whether or not Mr. Rose has satisfied Secretary Lane that
he has the necessary funds to make these surveys no one
here knows, but the assertion in the article alluded to that
the canal can be constructed for $3,000,000 is all pure bunk.
It will require nearer TEN times that much, else all previous
surveys made by the government are wrong.
" From time to time it has been intimated over in Imper
ial Valley that if this canal were constructed it would give
power enough to furnish that valley with all the electric
ergy it needed. It may as well be understood right now by
Mark Rose and his associates that Yuma Project will have
the firsts use of all waters flowing from Laguna dam for
power purposes. In no distant date the government will
probably erect a power plant at the so-called "ten mile drop,"
which will give power enough to pump the water on the
mesa and at the same time furnish all Yuma project with
all the power its citizens may require. Until the plant is
constructed quite naturally the Sierra High Power Line will
be utilized to furnish the power for pumping water on the
mesa, but the government will not deal with the big He
highbinder in this matter, but will get its "juice" direct from
the power company at probably less than two cents per
KWH.
PRESIDENT APPEALS TO ARMY TO KEEP STAND
ARDS HIGH.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. (Night telegram) Sol
diers of the national army were welcomed into the nation's
service today by President Wilson with a message of affec
tionate confidence and a prayer to God to keep and guide
them. Everything these young men do, the president told
them, will be watched with the deepest solicitude by the
whole country and the eyes of the world will be upon them
because they are "in some special sense the soldiers of free
dom." The first soldiers for the army raised under the 'draft
law start from their homes for the training cantonments
Wednesday. The president asks them as brothers and com
rades in the great war to keep straight and fit by a standard
so high that living up to it will add a new laurel to the crown
of America. The message follows:
"The White House, Washington.
'To the Soldiers of the National Army:
"You are undertaking a great duty. The heart of the
whole country is with you. Everything that you do will be
watched with the deepest interest and with the deepest sol
icitude, not only by those who are near and dear to you, but
by the whole nation besides. For this great war draws us all
together, makes us all comrades and brothers, as all true
Americans felt themselves to be when we first made good
ADDITIONAL CARRANZA TROOPS .SENT TO LA
BOLSA A PURE FAKE AND CANARD.
The recent story started in Los Angeles, subsequently
reaching Calexico and finally reaching Yuma last
week, alleging that Carranza has recently sent 300 addi
tional soldiers to La Bolsa, for the avowed purpose of at
tacking Governor Cantu in Baja California, is about the sil
liest "fake" and canard that has been started for many
months. There isn't a word of trutrrin it.
Capt. Carlos G. Calles, commanding officer of the Car
ranza forces south of our border, was in Yuma Thursday and
Friday. He was here for the purpose of purchasing supplies
and decorations for the big celebration he intends to give
just below the border on September 16, Mexican Independ
ence Day. I was with him much of the time while he was in
the city. He has many friends here in Yuma who were
"raised up with him" in Tucson, notably Al and Arthur Ver
dugo and Ray Howver. He was more than willing to talk
about affairs in his territory and was greatly exasperated
when he read the "canard" as first published in the Hearst
papers of Los Angeles, re-published in Calexico, and then
re-hashed here in Yuma.
"It is absolutely false in every respect, a canard pure
and simple," declared Captain Calles, when I asked him for
a statement for the Associated Press. "You can say for me
that President Carranza and Governor Cantu are working
in perfect accord. My mission below your border is to reju
vinate that rich section of country. We intend to build a
nice town down there and make the lands of that section
produce something worth while. I am exceedingly anxious
to make some sort of arrangement with your project man
ager, or through him with the Washington authorities to
utilize the 'waste water' that flows back into the Colorado
at the end of your irrigating canal. My government is per
fectly willing to stand its share of the cost of delivering the
waste" water' to us at the border, in fact we are willing and
anxious to do anything within reason to be allowed to use
the water that is now going to absolute waste. We are an
xious to continue the canal from your 'spillway' down along
the edge of our mesa as far as we can take it, so we can di
vert it down into the 'bottom lands,' lands that are exactly
like your lands in Yuma Valley.
"Of course," continued Captain Calles, "if all the water
now going to waste is eventually used in your valley or on
your mesa we would then have to devise other means for
watering our lands. But if such a thing be possible we
would be willing to pay for the construction of another si
phon if by so doing we could obtain water from your fa
mous Laguna dam. My ambition is to build up a farming
community below the line that will be a credit to this sec
tion. We have absolutely no ulterior motives in locating
there.
"This story about my receiving additional troops prob
ably originated from the fact that last week, as on many
previous occasions, I received a lot of supplies from Guay
mas, supplies for my soldiers and additional implements with
which to till the soil. But there wasn't an additional soldier
on the boat. I have all the men I need and we are perfectly
friendly with the Cantu government."
That certainly ought to put a stop to the nasty inuendos
rhat are being made apparently for the sole purpose of stir
ring up strife between the Carranza and Cantu forces. It
would seem that now is a very bad time to try to create
trouble between our neighbors. Far better that we do all in
our power to keep them on friendly terms. We hear enough
of war every day without trying to bring it to our door by
publishing stories that if investigated would be proven abso
lutely without any foundation whatever.
our national independence. The eyes of all the world will
be upon you, because you are in some special sense the sol
diers of freedom. Let it be your pride, therefore to show all
men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but
also what good men you are, keeping yourselves fit and
straight in everything, and pure and clean through and
through. Let us set for ourselves a standard so high that it
will be a glory to live up to it and then let us live up to it and
add a new laurel to the crown of America. My affectionate
confidence goes with you in every battle and every test. God
keep and guide you.
"WOODROW WILSON."
' "And why not prohibition during the war? It would be
a shame for the Sammies to get the Jimmies," says "Prickly
Heat Friday" in last Saturday's Morning-glory, And why
not add that it would keep a wood-en head from getting
"soaked?"