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PAGE TEN " THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, SUNDAY "MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1914. BUSINESS WAS THROW AWAY YOUR RENT KEY, AND LET US BUILD YOU A HOME IN REAL ESTATE GOOD WITH GETSINGER Prospects for More Business Also Excellent with Him. OAK LA WD PRESENT 0 EXTREMELY SATISFYING TO ALL Mom y Market liecoines Less Stringent and Several Very Hood Loans Have Been Consummated During the Past Week Outlook for Fall is Such as to Please Eveiy-hodv Among real estate men in .Phoenix 1. st week there wits a distinctly bet tor f ruling over the general view of -ontiiti"iis tlmt is now being taken, ii. fact, the conditions have improved in the last week to a great extent, i ilfillii c 'he prophecy of this paper i-f some weeks aRO. The prospects for fall and winter now look better fr.an cer. vosier than ever. The effect of this better feeling vas made known by the loan market in this city. During the week the money tightness became less and in tnscu.uence a number of excellent ! una upon valley property were made by the local agents of Califor nia Investors. Coupled with this came the ex pected change in the weather and the itiite heavv p.-ecipitation on the i watershed which increased both the flow of the Verde and the Salt so 1 that the increase in the reservoir was not touched during the latter part of the week, all the water com ing from the Verde. Real estate men who have been over the valley from one end to the other during the past week are jubi lant at its appearance. They are unanimous in saying that it looks fine never better and this, too, is an asset for the fall increase in busi ness. The evident relief that is thus felt in the realty market now will have its effect during the month of Au gust, which is always a slow month owing to the fact that so many va cations are taken during that month. This year the offices expect to do a good husiness during August. IS SUPPLY IS LIGHT The market on choice city resilience properties in Phoenix may well be described by the terms, "Demand strong; supply light." For such is truly the case, and the fact is very well evident to the office of Dwight B'. Heard, where more prospective buyers have called to in quire about properties ranging in val ue from $:.50O to $l!.5(i0 than has ever been the case at this season of the year. The desire to eventually "own their own home" is becoming less and less latent, resulting in a rather embarrassing situation in the real estate market, despite the ex tensive building operations which have been going on this summer. The special demand of course, is for ths well constructed bungalow of medium size and price, very few of which t ever known to remain either ,un rented or unsold, after building oper ations have once been started. KENILWOR.TH KEEPS UP ITS SPLENDID GROWTH Building operations in Kenilworth are going very good at present ac cording to the Southwestern Build ing and Investment company. "We are hard at work completing the handsome residence for A'. G. Hulett and will shortly have the pleasure of seeing a handsome residence erected by B. W. Getsinger on the property he has recently purchased in this addition. J. B. Stewart is the architect for the new home of Mr. Getsinger and it promises to be one of the hand somest in the already swell residence section of th city known as Kenil worth. Inquiries concerning the remaining lots and building propositions in that section are being received daily and the operations of the company during the fall are expected to break all previous records. H. CLAY PARKER GOES GOLFING FOR A REST H. Clay Parker, the well known realty operator of East Adams street has gone to Iron Springs for his sum mer outing having earned it he thinks by his attention to business for the entire forepart of the sum mer. He has taken along a full outfit of golf clubs and expects to put in a good deal of his time on the linkt which have been splendidly arranged and are now among the best in the country. In fact so much interest has been aroused in them that letters have been received by the managers of the Springs from as far away as New York inquiring about them. Among the other Phoenicians to go to the Springs yesterday was Su perintendent C. M. Scott of the Ari zona Eastern system. o FAMOUS MUM RANCH IS SOLD FOR $25, Pinal County Ranch Sells for $25,000 to Jo. Anderson A big ranch deal was consumated in Phoenix this week by which the famous Branaman ranch near Hay den In Pinal county passed into the possession of Joseph Anderson of North Central avenue. The consid eration in the deal was $25,000. Every one of the old timers in Arizona knows the famous Brana man ranch on the Gila river. For years it was the stopping place for the cross country travel and the stream of overland travel that went up and down the Gila river from Florence to Phoenix and beyond. There are over six hundred teres in the ranch and it is stocked with 250 head of cattle. The result of this purchase on the part of Mr. An derson will be watched by his friends with a great deal of interest. In view of the ultimate construct! n of a dam on the Gila in the neigh borhood of San Carlos and the prob ability that the whole of the property will thus be brought under constant irrigation, it is regarded as an ex ceptionally good buy. "Summer business was good with me," said W. B. Getsinger yester day to a 'representative of The Re publican. "In fact, I do not remem ber when I have done quite so much business during the summer as I have done this rummer." "In common with many other firms we entered the summer season with some apprehension, expecting it to be especially slow. In view 'of that I planned to spend most of my time in the Upper Verde country, but in this I was disappointed and have had to stay in Phoenix to attend to bus iness. "The outlook for the coming win ter is splendid and we expect to be right there in the business. All our plans ae laid for a heavy winter's business. "We have a number of residential propositions in city and suburban property to present this fall and winter beside the usual attractive valley land deals." Getsinger and Tolleson, during the last week, disposed of a lot in Or chard Grove to Mrs. Dwight B. Heard. The lot is numbered 22 and is splendidly situated. ! o VALLEY ALFALFA SEED MAKES HIT IN MARKETS S. B. Folsom, alfalfa seed expert with the great grain and seed house of Albert Dickinson and Co. of Chi cago spent a few days in the f-'alt River and Buckeye valleys the past week. He says the local seed more than deserves its fine reputation for beauty and cleanliness and it is only the superior quality of valley seed that makes it possible to ship it to the eastern markets. He said that in all his experience he had never seen such alfalfa as he had seen at Rjuekeye and that he simply could not ask for finer color, fullness and uniformity than the seed produced in Buckeye this year. The Dickinson Co. maintains the greatest seed cleaning plant in existence and operates in all of the world's mar kets. Their local purchases are made through the Phoenix Seed and Feed Company. o "Are you economizing?" "I should say so," said the man who is always cheerful. "My wife j bought enough marked-dow n articles to save $50 on the original prices." 'Washington otar. Gill Sun Rain Heat Cold Wind and Weather Have little effect on Philip Carey Rubber Asbestos ROOFING Made and guaranteed by one of the greatest roof ing factories in the world. Guaranteed and sold in Arizona by the Bennett Lumber Company ' ' Busiest because Best and Biggest' ' Phone 1211 Cor. Second Ave. and Jackson St. ROOSEVELT LAKE IS OLD HREr-WELCH As Housewife Conserves Soft Water to Wash Her I Fine Linen So Do Fann ers Save Irrigation Sup plies in Reservoir BY HARRY WELCH Today "Safety First" is heard on ev ery hand, and the cry of "Safety First" j in farming means "irrigation." There , is nothing so sure as success. There is nothing more potent in farming than j watoer. When the farmer can get rain j when he needs it, and as much as he requires and more than is necessary i than he can put the farm on the proper business basis. The prudent housewife realizing the i value of rainwater stores it up in a barrel against a time when she needs it for household purposes. The prudent farmer, with the co-operation of Uncle Sam, has constructed a giant "rain barrel." , This storage tank will hold water enough to cover 1,240,000 acres a foot deep, the water to be used when his crops and lands most need it. In the Salt River valley, in Arizona, there are thousands of acres of splen did soil, easy to farm, rich in those properties that make crops grow and all that is required for successful farm ing is plenty of water. The climate is an Ideal one for growing things, and now that water has been conserved and is supplied there is a union of farming conditions that means suc cess. It was not always so. The Salt River flows through the valley, and at times the flow of this stream is enorm ous. Rainstorms in the mountains swell the stream until it reaches an immense size. The water once went to waste, but not so now. The work of storing this flood water has been ac complished and In addition diversion works, which turn the water from the stream bed into the big canals, have been btlilt and are in operation. Water storage for 240000 acres has been constructed: The storage dam. the Roosevelt dam, is the second larg est "dam in the world. It is a great structure built of stone, steel and ce ment. It was built with great pre cision and care. The blocks of stone that go to make this giant wall were all washed under hydraulic pressure be fore being put into place. Some of them weigh thirty tons, and each is set in a bed of concrete which unites the whole into one solid mass. The dam is built in the form of a great arch. Tt is 285 ft. high from the foundations, which are set into the bedrock of the river to a depth of thirty feet. The dam covers an acre of ground at its base. It is 1,080 feet long on top where It is crowned with a beautiful roadway with protecting parapet, twenty feet wide in the clear. The dam Is also connected by two splendid bridges with the road way on the .north and south banks of the canyon. The narrow walls of the canyon are t Prettiest City Addition in Phoenix. 2 blocks North Washington Street Electric Line. 2 Blocks North State Capitol. All City Improvements Made. liots 60x145 with alleys. No Shanties Building Restrictions. GREENE & GRIFFIN, 127 North Central Avenue. Tel. 709. coming proficient in the handling of powder and in making the great rock cuts which are so frequent in the east ern' half of the trip. In the building of the dam too, the Indian was a valuable adj worker and today the road master on part of the trip is a former Apache chief. With the stored water locked up in the hills, the farmer in the valley is safe in his farming operations. He can plan ahead with safety. He knows that against the time of need the water is waiting his call upon it. He has found out that "Safety First" is now con sidered and so to irrigated farming he looks for success. Under these favorable conditions crops of endless variety are grown with profit. Reason follows season in sil ent order. The year is a round of har vest. The land is one where winter is paradise. Here is the rose, fences aglow with blossom, lawns and gardens refreshing and green. Palms, olive and orange nodding gracefully to the soft, balmy breezes of December and Febru ary. The land of sunshine. Where wealth, happiness and harvest abound. o MPHISOKD VICAR IN CHURCH TOWER tr.ma'.-y tasks. After three hours' vain tugging at the bell rope the vicar, in desperation, broke off a bar of the tower window, and tying a white handkerchief to it waved it through the window. A farm servant later noticed the distress signal, and brought the vil lage carpenter and other helpers. The task of getting the vicar down from the towe.- was difficult, and at the lust moment he narrowly escaped falling to the floor. WILD GOOSE CHASE Instigated by Wireless Hoax on Ger man Authorities. AN UNCANNY SCOT PARIS. Aug. 1. A Scottish visitor to France, though with the un-Scot-tish names of John Sicm, has been the victim of too much confidence. Walking in the Tuileries Gardens, he met two strangers Americans. At a cafe in Montmartrc, one of the Amer icans asked Mr. Siem for French change for 500 dollars. The Scot produced $500 in French notes, but all he got in change was a blow in the face from one American, while the other snatched the $500 worth of notes and fled. In Vain He Tolled the Bell to Attract Relief BERLIN, Aug. 1. A remarkable hoax by wireless was played on the maritime authorities in Heligoland last Sunday night. I ! The wireless station received a mes- , j sage from an unknown vessel that a j i German torpedo boat was in distress in j I the North sea, and four destroyers i were sent to render assistance. After a long, fruitless search an in- , spection of torpedo craft took place, and it was discovered that torpedo boat D 8 had disappeared, nobody knew where. A further search was j then made. The Heligoland authorities later re- j ceived a telegram from -the- German j consul at Bellestrand, Norway, stating , that the D 8 had arrived there safely. ! The authors of the hoax are supposed . to belong to a foreign ship. j LONDON, August 1. Three hours' tolling of the bell of the parish church at Ulrome, in Yorkshire, on Tuesday afternoon, caused some re marks among the villagers, but no one went to see what was the cause. The vicar, the Rev. Paiilus Ash kenazie. had clambered up a long ladder in the chu.'ch tower to inves tigate the upper chamber, but when he started to descend a, rung snapped thus imprisoning him m the tower. He thought that if he tolled the bell on a week-day some one would run up to the church and release him. He tolled. He kept on tolling, and the villagers kept on with their ens- AUSTRALI AN CADETS MELBOURNE. August 1 The mil itary "new year" under the universal cadet training scheme is now well launched. There are at present 85.454 cadets in training of all grades and r.inks. As showing that the lads are settling down to the scheme and recognizing the necessity fov the small sacrifice of time it entails, only 2,503 prosecutions have taken place in cases of cadets who have neg kcted to make themselves reason ably proficient during their training and have not attended the regula- , tion number of drills. I The Maryland Terrace Apartments (Located West Washington Street and 18th Avenue) Six strictly modern apartments of four rooms bath and screen porch each, Hardwood floors, all built-in features, gas ranges and bunga low hot water heaters. Shade, lawn and porch plants. Facing Capitol grounds $37.50 South face on Wash- ingston Street $32.50 West apartment $35.00 These are by far the best unfur nished apartments ever offered at these prices. Will be rented on yearly lease only, to small families. Prince & Tuttle High class rentals a specialty No. 14 West Adams Street of sandstone making the site an ideal one. Back of the dam about an eighth of a mile, the narrow canyon suddenly opens out into a great natural basin which extends in each direction north and south about fourteen miles. The reservoir or basin resembles a great bird w ith wings ' out-stretched and head resting at the point where the big storage dam is built. Thp water stored in this lake passes through certain tunnels connected with the dam works and in its passage gen erates electricity. On its release it runs into the bed of the Salt River and follows this course until It reaches the diversion dam forty miles away. This diversion dam, as before told "backs up" the water so that it flows into the big canals and in this way reaches the farms all over the project. The water in its journey down the river generates electric power. Tower is also developed on the canals in the valley, and also at the diversion dam. This power Is sold to the cities in the Salt River valley for traction, light and other purposes and is also seld to mines and factories. The Roo.sevelt reservoir is the larg est artificial lake in the world. The water is stocked with fish, and the place will eventually become a favor ite resort. The road from Phoenix to the dam is wonderful. Interest in creases every moment. From the city of Phoenix, the busiest and best in Arizona, the road runs through farm sections which delight the traveler, then a run across the so-called desert, full or attractions for the visitor. Half of the journey is through the Supersti tion Mountains. These great rock bar riers are full of deep canyons, weird forms of wildly colored rock masses. The trip is a never ending surprise. The splendid view overlooking Fish Creek where the little stopping station is like a dot in the canyon bottom over a sheer thousand feet below Is only one of the delights. In part the road runs along the banks of the Salt River, and at this point the stream resembles a quiet eastern bass river. Oddly shaped cactus growths abound everywhere, and the frequent glimpses of bird and ani mal life on the journey add new and Interesting features at every turn. Before the building of the dam there was no road. The only way to enter the reservoir country was over wild Indian trails on horseback. The sec tion had an 111 reputation. The wily Geronimo. In early days, selected the Tonto Basin as a favorite retreat when too closely followed by the soldiers of Uncle Sam. Tne coming of the road, the filling up of the Tonto Basin,, which is now the reservoir, have changed conditions. The-Apache Indian today is peaceful and useful. It Is to the Apache Indians in a (Trent "'" that we owe the road. When labor was hard to secure the Indian became the workman and hundreds of them worked in the building of the road, laying the rock walls with great skill, quickly be- ! I Next season Los Qlivos homesites will cost more and there won't be so many to choose from! Why not do the right thing by your family now? "Ask those who live there" Dwight B. Heard "Everything in Real Estate" Southeast Corner Central Avenue and Adams