Arizona republican. [volume], May 23, 1915, SALT RIVER VALLEY, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 30

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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN SALT RIVER VALLEY EDITiOX.
Thousands Of Fertile Valley Acres In Cotton's Snow White Bloom
FACE EIGHT
Cotton Yields Abundantly Under
Sonny Skies Of Tlie Sootlbwest
A man who has his eye only on I
. present or the immediate past ;
Mm gauges the future correctly.
Tl..- -;i?un that we have just
-eissel through has been a diseour
. ;i i- one for the cotton growers as
..$.11 the pcnins of the European war
tr.- pi ice of Inns staple cotton fell
i i proximately 23 ier cent: the Ari-
:i.t ) cypuan from a local value of
.t cer.ts per tHUind to one of
3". o-nts. The loss of the top 23
r c nt of val;;e usually means the
f profit to the producer and
h has unfortunately been the lot
f the majority of the cotton growers
the world over this year. The man
with cotton, moreover, has as a rule
1 t-n tetier off than the man with
1 ay. for he has had a. market for
l.i crop and while he has not made t
jtvh h profit if he has srowri his crop j
J hired help, yet if he has done his ,
work himself and with his family, he j
! ad a larger cash return from his i
' ihI than he could have derived from I
:- great majority of the crops grown, j
;.-oi land properly farmed yields
'rwn a Ivile to a bale and a
buy it because they can get it for a: As to the market:
much lower price than tiiey would out great promise.
: have to pay for land in, or that has j
i had alfalfa. They are. sold more j decreased
! than they should attempt to farm was last
i with the capital at their dispo."
As to the market: It again hold:
The acreage
planted in Kgypt this year has beer.
to ahf.ut -'. of what it
year, and the supposed
stock that was on hand last
ftirplu
and the consequence is that
; not the power to watt for
i get properly started, as it takes
I years for it to get in n prof itable
.ng condition, with V result
, they
they have I August has disappeared and a short
alfalfa to : ge is already being feared. Tile
two price has advanced since January
vie-j from 17c per pound eastern mill'
that points' to 21e or better and stiM
are forced to inkeshifts and I ye ems to be raising. 'In 1910 cotton
meet the fate of those "juo rely upon of the quality of ours sold for Hoc !
them; if not failure fif mere exist- a pound, or $1SO.OO per bale, and
enee.
New men, who
lished themselves
iar line are, of course,
no ex
'dominate ?n any new undertaking;
anil cotton tannine has been
oeption to the rule.
The season just passed ha."
It is Ilossible that nine see the
1 . - . .
have not estab I J" "-e 413 i.itui.
in any particu- ! While the industry-
ones pre
the
! tack
! low-
has had a set
this year on account of the
price s of last fall, I think that
we may look forward to the future
j with great confidence as the fun-
i.pf.n i ciamemai conditions are sound.
the third ol
the valley,
duct ion was
bales in 191.'!
results I
i,ir r that from
the
The
20i)
and
I
cotton industry in l lie valley Tias two co-operative
approximate pro- associations and one commercial
bales in 1912, 2200 i company in the Egyptian cot
last year 6200. Th i ton business. The- latter corn-
think have demonstrated i pany the Arizona Egyptian Cotton
desert land one half to ' company w ith headquarters in Phew
.nt cotton. The normal price is ap--rovimately
$100 per bale here. This
:r it has been $75. To produce
! W.ie. the cost per labor to the j has h:ul alfalfa,
,.kit.g stage is about $13 per acre bale to a bale
r per tale if a bale is grown to I reasonably looked
! e acre and for picking approxi- ! cut the use or
-n..t.!y $33 per bale. The man with
rood land and who has farmed well
as even this year gotten $23 per acre
!-.ve his expenses, and in normal
IT-S can figure on $30: surely not
Kid return on $100 or $200 land.
Unfortunately the average cotton
firmer has not achieved the results
?in in the foregoing paragraph. In
the great majority of cases he has
n--t done so because his land has
ret been gotten in a proper state
.f fertility. Probably the greatest
i use of failure and discouragement
in this valley is that most men who
at to farm here do not know that
th.- Innd will not give good results
.ni:l it has hid alfalfa or some other
'::r.'triiiu9 giver plant growing on
t f..r three or four years. The great
Is f men who come here to
f .rrrt are sold desert land. They
tnree quarters of a hale ean be ex
pected, and from fertile land, and al
most all land in the valley that
is fertile from a
nd a half can be
for, and this with-
the cost of arti
ficial fertilizer.
Our Egyptian cotton is very si
milar to the Sea Island cotton of
Georgia and Florida in both quality
and value. The promise of the in
dustry here can best be appreciated
by considering the conditions there.
While we can raise from a bal"
to a bale and a half to the acre
when th.e cotton is grown on old
nlfalfa land and can get this yield
8
! , J - . . r , , t ar
i v-Cj -"'V - -" " :
r i .'vk .7., . v-. -
realizes the difficulties which have
been surmounted in this evolution.
Today an eifieient sugar organisa
tion requites the s r ies of specially
tiained men in every department,
agricultural expetts, chemists, me
chanical engineer; sugar bf'ilers,
cost accmmlants, an
ing organization, etc.,
tiiis high specializing
possible to reduce the
to a point where it r
efficient sell
. etc. Through
it ' has her n
lrice of sugar
epri ;
nts prob
ably th.e cheapest food product per
unit of nutrition available to tie;
general public today.
l'p to within comparatively recent
years, sugar cane was considered a
strieliy tropical product, one that
could not be produced eonunereially
successf.illy very far north of the
Tropic ef i-aiiccr. Impro'ed rnetlmds
of culture and manufaciure have
modif :e
extt.Ill
'.nr S
(od a v
t :
! this condition to sia H an
that an increasing .portion of
at;H'f!i .S'.'tes is considered
A'ithin U'e zone iff successful
i nix has handled over one half of
jthe business and the balance has
been about equally divided between
the two associations.
The cotton company, and I believe
the associations as well, make ad
vances on growing crops and gen
erally aid in every Kvay they can in
building up the industry.
Cotton has not only the advantage
! of yielding much more abundantly
i in this vallery than it ? does under
j ordinary conditions. any crjips do j
j that here but it has the added and
j very great advantage of having veiy l
: little weight in proportion to its
' value, which allows of its being ship- j
i ped to the markets of the world I
THE (iLEXDALK SI
SI, 500.000 factory, the only ore in the United
cans, ss
ss we)! as
LA'TORY
States equipped to mske
from sugar beets.
sugar from sugar
;i.Mit is
Arizona h
:han ,o;;i.
though it
tiule north
this northeTn
onv of latitude.
1 iowi
it entirely
mure favoial'ly situated
!;M:a or e ei n Klm-iiia. al
ls si-veral decrees, of lati
of the latter stales. Some
yptian Cotton Has Been Valoable
Prodoet From Its Introduction!
an- ! without an exce ssive charge for
(BY W. S. DORMAN)
The Egyptian Cotton now being
grown in the Salt Kiver Valley has
been a valuable product from the
first. Just what it is worth nobody
could tell until spinning tests had
bee-n made; true it was from Egyp
tian seed the fibre of which is well
without using a fertilizer, they
noi expect uiore man one nan oaie 1 1 unspoi lauoii. i ms laner au am - j,.n)Wn jn au eotton markets of the
even with the help of heavy f.-rti- j age is a very great one as our j v,frUU hut thp Kgvptian cotton ac
lizer. our advantage of course is le ng freight hauls cut heavily into j ,llmal(,(, .,,, ,M.i f eted bv botanical
a very great one. and as they can , the returns of many crops. ! experts of our Department of Agri-
iie on iiieu- returns, we siiouiu j --s our uasic cejmmions are 'i culture and grown in rizona
prosper abundantly upon the ones: sound v.-e ean unhesitatingly advise : n)tnrr mitter
u e ciin aieaui. ic is meiciy a ques- cotton men 10 come to i ne csan. xtiei . Cotton
lion ot using the intelligence tnat : alley ana grow Arizona Egyptiar
all who depend upon nature for 'cotton. " JJJfl
their existence most exercise. HERBERT B.'aTHA.
wa s
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CAXAL KOADS ATtY, FIXi:
Besides the thousards of miles of well-shaded section-line highways in the valley, there are hundreds
of miles of smooth roadways along the great trunk canals. These "elevated roads' are the
favorite routes of Automobile travel for the tourist and Homesecker.
Meiglbborlbood Ckalb Is Pride '
Off The Cifeenas Off The'S'buthside
spinners are always inter- !
I ested in ne-w growths of cotton thati
have promise and a prospect eif con- j
tinuity, but spinning tests in the j
mills usually take several months,
are expensive, and are not made i
I except when spinners are assured!
that if results are satisfactory, the.
i cotton will be offered in some cnian
j tity for what it is acually worth. j
j Xo farmer in our valley would pay '
a fancy price for a large quantity:
(if a new variety e,f seed wheat which j
: had never been tested here. It takes j
I pe rsonal contact and special induce- j
i ments to introduce any new and tin-I
i tried article; and except in the Am- j
! erican thread Co., mills, where it
had previously been used, Arizona
I cotton was untried. So it was when j
I Geo. If MeFadden &- Kros., through j
their Providence, agency were inter- j
in Arizona Egyptian cotton
in l'jll, that a dozen mills in'
England were inefuced to take
cotton low in price, all of our cotton
f which was classed so as to be eom
i parable with Egyptian classification
sold equal to ur at a premium ac-
eiirding to Liverpool quotations.. In
.short, Arizona iy-vyptian eotton has
! found its place in tile n:arke-ts of the
' world through the efforts of to-opi-
! erative organizations assisted by. the
I I "epartnient ' of Agriculture, and th
i j business men of the valley.
I It only remains for valley growers
! te k(ep a pure' seed supply through
j the Co-' .p rat ion of the Depnrtme'iit
! of Agriculture: grow the cotton, and
j the markets if the world are ready
I to ace-eat all that can be grown in
! the valley at current market prices.
Develop Cane
As Well As Beet
Sugar Growing
portions of California are very fa
vorable to sugar cane, although hun
dreds of miles nerth of Florida.
The Salt River Valley has attrac
tive sugar c-ane possibilities. Na
tural elements e'eunbine to assure the
production of a heavy tonnage per
acre. ' The problem lies not in the
amount of cane which ran be pro
duced per acre, but rather in the
amount of recoverable sugar that can
he produei-d per acre. This depends
elire-cfly upon the tonnage ,f cane
to the acre, the purity of the canes
and the sucrose content. From the
results thus far attained there is
very promise of a recovery of sugar
i--h will provide a good
farmer and a reason
the manufacturer.
arried -en by
and Western
in amount w;
profit to till
able gain to
Th'-- work now In ing. i
I he C. - AVorthinglon
The plant and equipment of The
Western Sugar and I,and Company
e largest investment of
l single manufacturing
the state. The company
undertaken the deveb;,
cane industry as well
Vecre-I;) r of Interior T.ane visiter!
' Salt. Rive-- Project, inspected Roos-
veil dam t:d works and approved in
j elusion of '',. aen acres of lurid in area.
to le served by system. The Salt
River projei t the most complete
irrigation sysceni yet established.
represents th
e-apitai in ;
enterprise in
has recently
mint of the
as the beet and it is the only sugar
plant in the weirld producing both
beet and cane sugar.
The proeluetion eif comme-rcial su
gar in its varir,us forms comprises
perhaps the' very highest scientific
development up- to the present time,
combining- the arts of agriculture
and the e -fficient processes of manu - i lowing
facture. The average layman scarce beets.
Sugar and Rand Ce.mpany interests
eomprises a wide range of cane
: planting and cultivating, covering
i practically every variety of soil av
ailable throughout the Valley, ami
tile introduction of several Kinds of
s-'ed ete-emed meist de-sirabie unde-r
the couelitions.
rnde-r the plan e.f devejopinent, the
eventual result will be the farming
of from five thousand to ten thous
and aires in sugar cane and the si-
multan- ous (b.ye'lopment
be e-t acre-age, to the e-nd
riierations may be
throughout a large part
the cane campaign iramn
f sugar
that milling
continuous
of the vear.
diately f..l-
the termination of that of the
! ested
early
Xew
A .cut
t the
four years ago the mothers
South Side, many of them
Firsngvrs just moving into this new
ee.mmunitr, came together to organ
lie a. society of some kind to bring
tbem together for acquaintance and
i-.s me were mostly Christians we
i- i.led to let our work be educa
tional and philanthropic. Twenty
ir-mbers united at that meeting- and
we organized and asked an optional
Ie of five cents a month. It seemed
t- fce just what lonesome mothers
:ti the country wanted, and women
cf all beliefs could unite with, so
the fwiety grew rapidly until there
were over sixty members. . We elect--1
officers and five standing com
mittees. Plans for sewing, program,
t--x.iaJ. reception and sick and visit
5r.e. We decided to sew for the
Assrw-iated Charities of Phoenix anel
ri-ade pAjamas, sheet and pillow cases
hot water bag covers, etc., for the
children at the detention home, made
ciothinj for children to go to schoed
vith in our district, helped furnish
r. y and sick homes, gave stork
larties to mothers with new babies,
in cases of distress or fire, helped
re plenish the home and sewed for
hscwrsi to ruse money. We held one
m-- tit.? a month for this purpose but
c.ften the members took the unfin-sh-d
articles home to complete.
The other monthly meeting was
ooue-ational ana v.-e o.d most 01 our
ODE TO PHOENLX BELLES
Your college bred Poets may sing as they please
Of beautiful women afar o"er the seas;
May simper a song to a mummified dame.
May plead to a statue, or sigh to a name.
They breathe out their souls twixt a tear and a groan
To a Venus of painf, or a Hebe of stone;
Hut I'll sing to the praise, that old native compels
Of her own masterpieces, the Phoenix Relies.
What cold chiseled marble with Kate can compare.
With the red of her cheek, and the shine of her hair,
Anel where in all art is the light that can vie
With the rich fire of feeling that glows in her eye.
Or would you have wit, and sly coquetys charm,
There's many who's fun. while it stings, eleresn't harm;
Who'll dazzle your sense, while she filches your heart.
And leads you a slave to lovefs conquering art.
Rut how shall I dare, all unpolished to tell
The sweet, artless .charm., of the fair Anabelle;
Her virtue and grace would embellish a throne.
Yet blooms like the desert flower, modest, unknown.
Still why make distinction, since each in her way.
Has mind to subdue and has beauty to sway
Their various graces, and gifts half divine.
The genius of Shakespeare alone could define.
So, health to the bright living goddess at home.
And peace to the dead one of Greece and of Rome;
While the current of life still exultantly swells,
I'll herald the fame of the Phoenix Belles.
F. R. B.
it upon their recommendation, and I
with the assurance1 that a goodly I
ciuantlty of the there growing crop I
woulel be available in the fall of 1914. j
In every instance, except in the Am- j
erir.yi Thread So., mills, the cotton
was placed on first trial.
The fall of 1914 saw all cotton
markets elemoralizeel, anel common
cotton selling for 7, anel the Egyptian
at 13 and 14 cents landed Xew Eng
land mills. A stimulated fine goods
market naturally made a fair ili-maml
for emr class of cotton in Xew En- I
gland, but business stagnation in Eu
re.pe forced cotton from Egypt to
our shores at almost unheard of ;
prices.
Notwithstanding this fact Arizona
Egyptian certton was not lost sight
of by mills that had tried it. Even
our English friends whei were turn-
i ing away Egyptian cotton offered
from their ow-n peissessions, were in
the market feir this splendid new
cotton from Arizona: it hael stied the
test, and while; extraorelinary . con
ditiems, because of the war maele all
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SUdAIi CAXK -GROWS LLTXUI?IAXTLY TIE1JE
Sugar cane was first grown commercially in the Salt River Valley in 1914.
yielded from 30 to 55 tons each.
Selected 'Acres
freshments.
hutineseit that day and served re- hooks in our
We
co!ers
furnished
which are
year
yel-
X'EIGIIBORIIOOD HOUSE
Social Center for the rapidly developing District South of Photnix. Built
by co-operation, it represents the splndid community spirit so
prominent in the valley.
low and green find our club flower
is the Sunflower. We always choose
our subjects to dueate and elevate.
We hail W. C. T. V. day and hail
workers come from the city to in
struct us along those lines, and mis
sionary day and had the missionary
from the Pima reservatiem and his
male quartette give us a history of
Indian work in Arizona; Mother's
day. Children's day, picnics in sum
mer, agricultural evenings when men
were invited and given refreshments
tit which papers were read on bee
culture, cotton raising, alfalfa, elairy
ing, poultry, gardening, tree planting,
etc.; Domestic science day, physical
culture clay, parliamentary rule anel
how to use the ballot, good fellowship
day, when we invited all the clubs
to come and participate in our pro
gram on April first.
Current events, household econom
ics, etc., and all -meetings were de
monstrated if possible and inter
spersed with music. Our homes soon
become too small to accommodate
such a number so the neighborhfioel
Club and the Union Sunelay school
c V -r. - -
. :."M&t..M.t.v-i
. '
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'Citrus Homes' Proven Frostless
By Five Year Careful Test
$66 Per Acre
13 Acres of new alfalfa, ex
cellent stand. Very best
land, with Class A water. A
chance for the; man of limit
ed capital.
Was $165
Now $1374 per Acre
The new subdivision, near Ingleside Club, at the foot of Camef
back Mountain, CITRUS HOMES, is surrounded by bearing
groves bringing good, big returns annually. The C1TUUS
HOMES tract is absolutely frostless. During" the severest win
ter of the past thirty years the temperature has not reached
the frost line. This land is placed on the market for the first
time, in 10-acre tracts at, per acre
$200
To ineluce
planteel to
town anel
been cut.
buyers, land
best alfalfa,
on car line
Class A land.
now
near has
Ad-
Orangewood is Noted
joining owners are asking
much more. Better see us
about this -
Acre Homesite
Pure sejft water, anil beauti
ful environment makes .this
the one place to build a
home. Planted to Oranges
and Grapefruit. Can bo
bought with only part cash.
For Its Pure Water
Pure, seft water, 99 29-30 per cent pure, is one of the best ad
vantages OUAXGEWOOD has. Located on 'North Central av
enue, there is paved street all the way, also electric lights, each
of which is a big item. Hut neither of the se ran compare with
the scenic effects which make this spot wonderful. Builil your
home in OKAXGEWOOD.
and
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mail.)
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I
J . Tne,
PHOENIX TRUST CO.,
PHOENIX, ARIZONA,
Gentlemen:
Please send me information and
crop statistics concerning your land.
(Name)
.City)
(State)
Acre Tracts for $250
One of our companies has
just a few of these acre
tracts left. To close out, we
are offering you this acre
on car line, city water.' just
at edge of town for $2."ft. An
ideal place for a truck
farmer.
15 Acres at
$135 per Acre
Very fine stand of new al
falfa on Class a' land. We
know of no better land in
the Valley at any price. Only
part cash required.
20 Acres at$162.50
Old stand alfalfa. Has been
laying profit for number of
years. ne mile from town,
on car line, with Class A
water rights.
Write for More Information
Phoenix Trust Co.
1() W. ADAMS ST. ' PHONE 1311
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