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PAGE EIGHT I Phone 1389 Phone 13S9 L o a n s REAL ESTATE nirrmrci ( W FOR PHOEHIX OUT DOOR HAVENS Newly Secured Tracts East ami West of City Among Createst Keal "Estate Deals Ever liccordcd in This Citv The three biggest real estate deals that have been made in the Salt River Valley since the first (if this year, and perhaps the most import ant that have ever been made in the valley in importance to the people, wire the sales to the city of Phoe nix of the three park sites. These were bought after the property hold ers of Phoenix had voted at the lale i lection to pay $2.1,nijo for new play grounds ami rest grounds to be owned and operated by the city. The first and largest of the tracts to be filed on by the city was the f'hnsty tract. It is located a short distance from the fair grounds and c'ose enough to the car line to be available at all times for picnics and like occasions. It will be improved extensively by the city, but the work will not commence for some time all the park funds voted at the elec tion having been expended for the three sites. However, Mr. Christy slated that he would build a road through the tract, and about it, and with the present growth of trees at the spot, it is already an ideal spot for the holding of picnics and out door parties. Eastlake park, which was the sec ond park site filed on by the city, was purchased from the Phoenix Street Railway company. It is that piece of land at the east end of the Washington street car line, and it is admirably suited for park oc casions. There is a ball ground, a lake and grass parkings, where swings and park benches have al ready been placed. The Eastlake ball park will be open for the use of all amateurs for their games and the other parkin'gs will be the common property of. the citizens and visitors to the city. Tile third park secured by the city was tile Monahan tract, a piece of ten acres, one-half mile west of Phoenix, which was presented to the city by Joe Monahan. This tract at the present time is a little less ap proachable by the man who does not own a car. than the others, but when the proposed loop of the Phoenix street car line connecting West Washington street and Grand avenue is finished, it will be as handy to one man as any of the others. These three sites, which the city lias secured in its own name, will remain real estate deals which are beneficial to the people of Phoenix and the Salt River Valley as long as there is a demand for outdoor ex ercise or recreation. In the greater cities, where parks may be found every few blocks, and where parks are the life of the working men and women, the value of such tracts is more apparent than here in the Salt River Valley. But here even, in the past year or more, there has been an ever-increasing demand for more and better parks for the old, the middle nged and the young. CHOSE SUICIDE. Rather Than Punishment for Assault ing German Officers. BERLIN, March 21. General Bocss. commanding the Twenty fourth infantry brigade, in Silesia, whs violently assaulted a couple days ago by two of his orderlies. The latter had omittiU to wake him at the usual hour iir the morning, and when he went to their room and reprimanded them they struck him with their fists and left him in sensible. Their dead bodies vere afterwards found on the railway, terribly muti lated. They had lain down across the rails and committed suicide by letting a train run over them, to scape the consequences of assaulting a general. EXPECTED SOON Customer Have you the new edi tion of Pepys' Diary? Assistant O, no, sir, next year's diaries haven't come down yet. Lon don Opinion. M'CABE RETIRES FROM WIN flY TWM union nniTU rinna II I LI. Lil I I II U uniun kalii rinirt Real Estate Man Thinks He Will Try I Farming, and Goes Out to Glen- j dale to Be Ready for Spring. I MILE S IF V. M. Mot'abe has sold bis interest in the Union Really company to his partner, Mr. llartman, and has re tired to his ranch. This was one of the most interest ing developments of the real estate world last week. Mr. Met'abe is onj of the successful ranch land dealers, ind has been associated with Mr. llartman for some time in the really business. Owning a 160-acre ranch near niendale, and having decided that lie had had enough of city life for awhile, the retiring paitner found himself in a very favorable position to let go. He will start getting his land into crops for the spring and summer, right away. Cotton will be one of his principal crops. For the present, friends of the McCabes may reach them through Fhone S59G. Wig Contract for Curl) and Walks in Oakland Tract (ioes to Cement Work ers' Concrete Company of Phoenix m of the largest contracts for cement sidewalk ever given in Phoenix, amounting in one and three-quarter and longest curbing and the city of all to about miles, was IS CLOVIS PLACE Just Outside the City East on Van Buren Street "Clovis Place" is the latest addi tion to the many new and attractive subdivisions that offer medium-priced building lots. Located on fifteenth and Sixteenth streets, and bounded on the south by Van Puren street, it is just outside of the city limits, cm the "ocean-to-ocean highway" and in a rapidly developing section, there is no reason why the Kellogg-Weldon Company, which is putting "Clovis Place" on the market should have any difficulty in disposing of the limited number of lots it comprises. The streets are graded, the tract has city water and electricity is avail able. There have been many changes and improvements made in the east side recently, and the development of this tract will be another boost for the district. o CONSTRUCTING HOMES IN NATIONAL FORESTS Favorable Action on Fifteen Appli cations in Tonto Reserve During the months of January and February, 1014, a total of Vl'.H acres of land within the Tonto national forest Arizona, wt-rp liste1 with tli i secretary of the interior and will shortly be opened to entry under the forest homestead act. The lands thus listed were applied for individ ually by fourteen applicants, and each one of these tracts was ex amined by a fore.st officer and found to be more valuable for agriculture than for forest purposes. Those whose applications within the Tonto national forest were favorably acted upon during the months of January and February are: G. M. Burleson, G. W. Hazelwood, Young, Ariz.; S. V. Gillett. Ralph Hubert, Pay-son, Ariz.; Thomas K. Turner, Harley J. Wills, William L. Turner, Young, Arizona; John Alfred Clerk, Gen. Del., Globe; Orlando Grantham, Roosevelt; Robert Peach. Pine; Ben G. Robbins, Tempe; J. W. Voris, Young; C. H. Risser, Payson; George ('. Baecht, Roosevelt. In addition to this, 4,728.93 acres were listed to applicants within other national forests in Arizona, and 4,941.24 acres in national forests in New Mexico. awarded lately to the Cement Work els' Concrete company, by. Greene it Giiffin. The work will be done in the new Oakland tract recently oi etied by that firm. With the completion of the con crete work, at the end of about two months- time, the Oakland tract will be one of the largest and best-fitted subdivisions in the southwest. The improvements in curbing and side walks will be followed by the in stallation of sewer, electric lights ."ml gas, and by the building of pergolas to all the street entrances of the new tract. A number of attractive designs for the pergola entrances have been submitted to the firm, and the one selected will give Oakland that dis t'netive appearance in keeping with its improvements and surroundings. In fact, it is planned to make Oak land a residential park. The Balm of Gilead trees recently placed in the parkings of the district have already begun sprouting their hives, and since they are one of the fastest growing species of trees known, it will not be long before the district is more than we'd supplied With shade.- There is considerable work remaining on the rolling of the caliche roads which have been laid ir the tract, but they will be in the best of condition at the end of the time which will elapse prior to the completion of the curbing and side walks. Since the announcement that Fhoe r.ix is to have a through main line railroad in the next year and a half, the lots in the Oakland tract seem to have gone faster than at any one period in their earlier history. In the week just past there have been averages of several sales in the tract each day. It seems that real estate values and. sites have already taken a boost in response to the announce ment of the approaching railroad. The improvements which have been in course of making for the last month are attracting the favorable attention of the many homeseekers v ho are coming to Phoenix, and the attractive offers made by the Home Builders for new residences in this addition, and the other Greene & Griffin tracts, are drawing the at tention of several of the old as wel! as the new residents. o RATTLESNAKE 11 ENTRANTE TO CANAL SHE KNEW Mrs. Short Those new neighbors of ours are very shiftless. Short How do you know? Mrs. Short Whenever I want to borrow anything they never have it. Exchange. o IN THE STUDIO The Lady Of course, Mr. Cobalt, they're awfully charming, but why do you paint nothing but nudes? The Artist Can't afford to gown 'em, dear leady, fashions change so quickly. London Opinion. Reaches Phoenix on 15,500 Mile Bare foot Hike to Panama and Back REAL ESTATE We make a specialty of Renting Furnished Houses If you have city property for sale ' at a bargain and want a quick turn, SEE US, and we will explain our Special Proposition to you. We make a specialty of Renting Unfurnished Homes FARMERS IT THIS YEAR'S S HOI Clovis Place THE NEWEST SUBDIVISION IN PHOENIX Electricity, city water, close in, on Van lUiren Street, and this side of Park Road. New residences being erected, and lots selling on EZ terms. For full particulars, see Kellogg-Weldon Land Co. 39 West Adams Office phone 1884. Residence phone 8945 Jacques Lauhno Le-Plume Seule. whose name translated into English is James Lauhno Lone Feather, known by his friends a-s Rattlesnake Jim, arrived in Phoenix on Friday over the tracks of the Arizona Eas tern railroad, on his way from Flor ence to Phoenix. Jim is on a bare foot hike of 15,500 miles, starting from liuffalo, New York, to Colon, Panama, the objective point, return ing thence to Buffalo. He left Buf falo last July 4th and is scheduled to return to Buffalo April 18, 1!U6. Five Canadian French newspapers have placed a $3,000 bet each witn the World's Disptnsary people of Buffalo that Rattlesnake Jim will walk this 15,500 miles barefoot, and if sick enroute will cure himself by his own herb remedies, using no drugs or medicines whatever. He is not allowed to borrow, beg or steal. He makes his expenses by introduc ing the Sioux Indian war and deatn dances, Russian Egyptian and other foreign folk dances. These dances are put on at theaters according to he permission of theatrical managers Jim relying on the collection from the audience as an acknowledgment of his entertainment to them. Jim wilj pass from Phoenix toward San Diego through Yuma. From San Di ego he will take a boat to Port Beni to, uuat., thence along the west I coast route to the canal. So far, Jim has not been making ! expenses, and asks the populace to , jump in and show its confidence in a game man by coming to see his I dances, theieby helping him to make his way. y ff j Jim's nationality Is Sioux Indian ! by his father, and French by his ! mother. His home is 333 Jeanne Mance st., Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Xot only the farmer, but the resi dent of the city will be eligible to contest for honors in the mid-summer fair. There is only one regula tion: each entrant must be a resi dent of the county. After that re quirement is met anyone may enter tile truck, the vegetables, the melons, or the fruits that have been grown in the city back yard, the suburban garden or on the largest farm in the valley. It is high time, too, that the farm ers, the embryo farmers and the back yard farmers get their seed in tile ground. Some of the seed may not be matured by the time of the fair, so late in the season is it al ready, but in a majority of the cases planting at the present time will get results at a date which will meet tile ciays of the fair. The plants which should be planted at the present time, or which might have been planted some time past to advantage, are: Alfalfa, wheat, barley, oats, rye, asparagus plants, Indian corn, cu cumbers, carrots, tomato plants, fruit trees, olives, eucalyptus, parsnips, peanuts, beets, rye grass, Bermuda gras3, beans, onion sets, squashes, lettuce, pumpkin, radishes, grass seed, cotton melons, citrons, sugar cane. Exhibits in all the above list as well as in all other early fruits and vegetables which may be on hand will be received at the fair, and it is likely there will be a large repre sentative collection of the above gar den trucks especially. In the ease of the corn, the wheat, barley and other grains, as well as in the case of the sorghum forage plants and non-saccharines such as milo maize, Kaffir corn and feterita, where the grain has not had amide time to mature, the stalks may be exhibit-j ed as at prior fairs, and awards will, be made for the best and most ma-1 tured specimens. j Feterita will be especially boosted ' at the present fair and during the-' present planting season as one of; the most profitable and best grains! which can lie grown in the valley, and special stress will be laid on the exhibits in this grade of grain. As it matures in two to two and one half months and requires less water than the other grains there will be ample time for preparing exhibits. It a newly introduced grain in the? Salt Itiver Valley district, and bids fair for one of the most popular crops. It is hardly possible that new cotton will have developed sulfuient- ly to have exhibits of the white stuff that promises to be one of the great est S. R. V. industries, but the ex hibits of stalks in blossom, compara tive in growth and size will be well in order. Some of the early onions of the Bermuda and other types will In all probability be matured in time for the fair. The early summer squash, the smaller grades of pumpkins and almost all kinds of melons will have l,nn iha miirkiil sumn time and I will take their places in the compe titive berth at the plaza show. All, or nearly all of these crops may be raised by the back yard and suburban farmer with small acreage j inspire the youth to further effort j I instead of the old-fashioned purse of j I money.- A registered hog, a guild calf, several thoroughbred chickens, j or a like prize, which will grow be- I fore its owner and remain as con stant reminder of what he has done i i to gain it will take the place of the j j cash prize, and will De offered free ! K- hv the merchants nf th -it- j The University of Arizona has al- ready done some work toward in- 1 Each of those fairs was a success teresting the youth of the valley and toward making in I from every angle. There were hun- Up i dreds of exhibits, and hundreds of exhibitors, and the visitors to the booths arranged in the open air, about the city hall far exceeded the numbers expected. and This Fair With the interest which is already developed in the fair this year maong the merchants anil the citizens of other element which I Phoenix, and with the greater in vouth in their con- ! terest which the last successes have as well as by the larger producer. I ln the small patch in a back yard , where the p-mny ami toe owner takes tne farms. a special interest in his crop there , farm clubs. With the added attention lis an opportunity for competition j of the M. & M., and with the at ; against the farmer who has several j traction of the prizes which the fail acres to watch, which should give j will offer it is likely that theyoung him a wide margin, and which should j sters will take all the interest of throw several of the prizes offered a grown farmer in his acre or more, in the coming fair to the city man. j and will produce crops and exhibits I However the greatest opportunity equal to those of the older heads. , for the city and small raiser, is in There is one the early iruiis, sucn as piums, apn- will oenent tne yon in in tneir con-i cots, and grapes of the Thompson 1 test. That is the course offered in j inspired in seedless and mission varieties. Little ! practically every high school in the , reason why j time and care need be taken of the j valley in agriculture. It -is a short vines and trees of these varieties al- j course to be sure, but it is one in ready in tile yards of the owners, tended to interest the youth in what and the careful watching of the fruit. can be done with land and water, with a little water, is about all ne- I and which will have a marked in cessary to insure exhibits from nearly j fluence on the future farmers of every home in the city and valley. Arizona. ! For the Farmer Boys I For the Farmer Girls i It is likely the merchants will For the girls who have lived on take special interest and cure to see , the farms, who live on the farms or that the farmer boys are well cared j may live on the farms, there has for in their part of the exhibit. It j also been suggested a contest. It is may be provided by the institute, proposed to make a separate division under whose auspices the exhibit is ' of their products and to confine them held, that the products of the boys i to the work of the domestic science be shown in a Different division, j department. and that separate contests be held ! The work which they learn in the for the youth of the valley farms. ', kitchen at home and at the high At the last meeting of the M. & M. I schools of the county will have a place. As in the state fair they had cases of cakes, cookies, pies, biscuits, and other delicate cooked foods, cases of preserved fruits and vegetables, classes, and other such work will have its place in the lists, and like they have arranged to do for the boys, the merchants will offer erizes I for the best work the girls produce, i Past Fairs There have been two fairs in the past two years, each one coming in the middle of the month of July, as i I it is arranged this fair shall come. farmers, there is no Bill mid-summer fair should not be the history of the state. other things to j it was decided that a committee be , j appointed to co-operate with the in- j j stitute for the success of the fair, and that another committee be ap pointed to look after the awarding of i so they will arrange most probably prizes to worthy fellows o? the val- I for the county mid-summer show, ley in corn, milo. and like contests, j The arts of the needle and of the The prizes w hich will be orfered sewing machine, the hats which the by the M. & M. will be such as will ' girls have learned to trim in their the the of the county greatest in the Besides there. add to the interest of the fair. The new or practically new crops of the valley make competition and raise in terest in comparative results between the farmers. The citizens of. the valley are anxious to know if cotton will be a howling success or partial one. Everyone would like to see a sample of feterita, a new corn to the Salt River Valley, and which promises to take the place of sev eral other varieties. New and original ideas have sprung up every day on the farms. The farming cult of the valley like to ex change ideas anil methods. The fair affords that chance when they all meet at the booths about their com petitive exhibits. They meet, become better acquainted, and add to the show year by year, with the result that this is better than last, and that the next year fair will probably ex cred this in scope, interest and suc cess. - l To Roof Your Buildings Permanently Simply Use The all-mineral, absolutely fireproof roofing. It never needs coating or painting. 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These splendid lots 100x300 at $1000, with building restrictions of $3500. All improvements paid, including cement walks to car line, cement curbing, parking, city water, graveled roads, palms, and ideal home location. Ask for details of building plan and terms. Sales Agents Dwight B. Heard Central and Adams EBB