Yuma Case Study

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The developers of the land in Yuma County had to overcome a great amount of challenges. One of the challenges that they had to face was transporting water all the way from California to Arizona and it was not easy because they lacked the use of farming technology. There was farmers who were not experienced as some of the other farmers and it led to many difficulties and mistakes. There was a lot of room for improvement. There was 54 veterans who were drawn by lottery and they received homesteads in the Gila Project. To be be chosen you must of been 40 to 160 acres from South of present day MCAS. But the 54 veterans were not full of luck neither. They had to overcome plenty of problems including having too much soil, plenty of water, plenty of soil. Farming was not as easy as it is now and they had to find new ways to farm which would take them a while to discover. …show more content…
The Yuma project made the population of Yuma to grow a lot. It also made the production of crops increase a lot and more profitable. Because of the Yuma project, businesses were able to be ran and sustained. Also because of the Yuma Project Yuma lost money.
In 1905 the population of Yuma was about 2000 people. The population of Yuma County increased a lot since irrigation started. The population now current day is almost 100,000 people and it's gone up by about 98,000 people. Since there is now more people, that means that more businesses are being started and more jobs will become available for more people. This happened just because of the Yuma Project. In the making of the Yuma project floods were an issue. There was the flood of 1905/1906 it caused a lot of damage to Yuma and destroyed a lot of buildings. They lost a lot of money because of this and they had to pay to clean the damages that the floods left and it was a disaster. Then the Yuma Project created the Laguna Dam and the Laguna Dam helped a lot on preventing

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