Show r colorado city I 1 IMPORTANT settlement A correspondent odthe of the san francisco herald says 1 1 i 1 A new city uns has lately been licit located e of on the colorado river immediately below its j junction u nation with tile gil which promises soon to b become a commercial point of considerable importance the is 10 on the southern bank oi of th the e colo I 1 1 I 1 rado river opposite fort yuma and at al the I 1 crossing of the great emi emigrant amilt road from texas and mexico i 1 the party making this ahi is exploded the gulf of california from to tike head of the gulf and found ilo no other place on which a locati location pil could be made as the for i twenty five or thirty rifle males on oil the ed eastern stern side aide 1 of the cuitis a desert of wit dioio ut any atesh water vater or of any kindi kind 4 1 I the colorado Xo lorado river from five pr or six ax miles below the junction is subject to overflow no safe ate and eligi eligible lile location far fay a amnun be fiend below the navigability of the colo abril i rado has been filly established as fai up w ag forti yuma steamer general jesup jesop has been enraged in transmitting government stores to that place I 1 I 1 i major Heintzl egian who was ut lat ly in corn com mandat mand alport Port yma Y ana ma has been uj no the colorado carado about an Iii indred miles and expresses ll 11 1 js api pi I 1 1 I 1 nion that it is a better fiver fo for I 1 navigation thin I 1 I 1 4 1 I 1 the ohio I 1 i the distan distances p es from col colorado orado city ar are aa follows follow s I 1 i to san die dietro 0 o 18 mile mies s d directs arec t do by the road I 1 I 1 I 1 to el paso miles by gia graya jv s q purvey I 1 to salt sal I 1 lake aft city y by water all and d 1 1 lan ian i I 1 1 to san francisco by lard land via san I 1 I 1 1 j joaquin 01 quin 1 I 1 i 1 to Gua guaymas 35 0 milf mis mi s by arid and to tile the 1 principal towns iodus in in sonora by laud land to 50 5 0 i miles I 1 I 1 I 1 the objects in making this location are to io form rin n depot of supplies for emigrant battlers Bett lers I 1 and miners minars in the new territory to I 1 i to the nor therit states of afi mexico Mix ico free of mexican duties to 0 facilitate the discovery and aind development of 0 the ad rich min mineral to i exist iri in the between betwee bc tween i the gila gi a andico and colorado colerado rivers and to open the navigation of the to the mormon settlements menti in utah stahl I 1 territory T I 1 t I 1 I 1 the iu niber of pers us ms now hying i in 1 n the I 1 j great american basin bain I 1 is eitai estimated abed at P t from fram eighty to 6 one ate hundred thousand equal ta haaf I 1 the lie con consuming fion of cal durnia these the industrious a and n ad thrifty people dei berve v ull all their i supplies front from st louis lou is miles by water atar to council bluffs and 1290 diore by land over plains and mountains lq iq the thee evi vent gilt 0 of ue settlers act in I 1 the lie 9 great rea faaui bavi having us 0 ofero I 1 pro duce for exportation the co colorado orad orado 0 ariy riy river er affords I 1 tile the only natural and practical toute fl fur ur its trane lions por t tation if this thiis permanent and increasing trade can be secured scoured to san by the like navigation of tile the aalf of Califor california oin and tile the I 1 colorado river it will increase her interior trade at least fifty per cent besides kif hf fording j very very desirable relief to her iner chants in disposing of extra supplies i 1 the route for a railroad lately surveyed by I 1 col gra gray Y tor for the new anew york Com piny through pe doxas aasand and th the lately acquired territory wv croF crosses ses tile colorado river river nt at chis lug point the davig navigation of the lite colorado river and the i c r exploration of the immense country w watered ty by tributaries tributa ries is one of the mst m st inhere interesting stin grAnd mid n ibos s of the present day 1 |