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1910 Yuma
By 1910 the town of Yuma had grown in population, the number of people living there growing to almost 3,000 souls. The population was more than double what it had been when Ralph, and then Ross, first came to the town. In 1877 the railroad bridge across the Colorado River was completed. Ft. Yuma still was in existence in 1910 but it was no longer a necessity to the protection of the residents of the town. There was a spur line which went into Phoenix from Yuma and one could travel to San Diego by railroad as well.
Irrigation of the verdant farmland along the east banks of the Colorado River running back more than twenty miles to the confluence with the Gila had been made possible by the installation of the Siphon. Water pulled from the Colorado enabled the growing of many k
