Excerpt from Facts, Figures and Pictures About the City of Yuma and the Acres of Valley and Mesa Lands Along the Colorado River Which Is Being Reclaimed by the Reclamation Service Under the Yuma Project, the Greatest Farming Country in the World Now in the Making The people of Yuma enjoy all of the modern conveniences of life. A privately owned company furnishes the people of the city with filtered water, gas for cooking and heating, electricity for light and power, all of which is conducted to the business houses and residences in such quantities as are desired. An ice plant of large capacity furnishes ice for all domestic purposes and supplies ice for icing all the thousands of cars of fruits and vegetables carried through Yuma by the Southern Pacific Railroad. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.