Arizona The New State Magazine, 1910

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THE NEW STATE MAGAZINE-----------
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, FEBRUARY, 1910 PRICE 50 CENTS
PUBLISHE.D BY
JOHN ARDEN REAVES
ARIZONA
PHOENIX,
A
VAST
EMPIRE
Of Inestimable Wealth,
A Virgin Field for all
Lines of Business,
is traversed by the new anta Fe line (Arizona
& California Ry) between Wickenburg and Par­ker
Ariz. A tremendous development is in its
incipiency and unlimited opportunities are a .ail­able
to miners, merchants, realty men, profe Slon­al
men, etc. The present is that rare time in the
course of life that offers quick wealth to those \ ho
"strike while the iron is hot.))
Let us tell you about it.
PAUL P. HASTINGS
General Freight and Passenger Agent
Prescott, Arizona.
ARIZONA
Olice. 311 East Taylor Street
~H<ENIX. ARIZONA
THE. NEW STATE. MAGAZINE.
Published Hi-Monthly by
JOHN ARDEN REAVES
VOL. I. No. 1. PHOENIX, ARIZONA, FEBRUARY, 1910 PRICE 50 CENTS
The T reaSllre Territory of To-day
~ ighly Productive Empire Leading in Mineral Wealth and Destined to Be a Rich
Agricultural and Horticultural Region
So much has been said, about Ari­.
ona, both in the way of fiction and
.xagger:ated newspaper accounts, as
cow and andJ as oa rendezvous for
he much exaggerated character
nown as the western "bad' man,"
at it almost seems like giving the
ie direct to write of Arizona as she
is. ithout any reference to what
has brought Arizona to its present
stage of development, or without re­ferring
to her p'ast, and probably her
past was as tumultuous as the early
days of any other state in the Union
and no more so, it is enough to say
that the past is the past and Arizona
stands today on the thre&hold of a
new era, with her face to the morning
and her countenance radiant and reso­lute,
with the flush of hope and the
flash of determination; her hand is
out tretched in welcome to the in­dustrial
hosts of the far and wide,
many of whom are gazing hitherward,
and thousands of whom have entered
her portals and are participating in
her splendlid prosperity and enjoying
her s.alubrious climate and sunshiny
d-ays. Yes, indeed, the Arizona of the
pa&t is no more; the grea t herds of
cattle and sheep that used to range
fr ee, over her mountains and plains,
owned by a few men, are being di­v~
dec:L up and are now conducted or­derlY'
under the restraining influence
of the wire fence, by thousands of
all ranchers, with the result that
more 'and better 'beef, more and bet­ter
mutton, and more and better wool,
i produced in Arizona today than
ever before in her history. T he milch
cow is here, contributing her golden
p odiuct to the weal th of the territory
and her sister, the old range cow with
long horns and no butter fat record,
s passed away. How few of
the people of the United States
know the importance that Ari­z
na has attained as .an agricultural
state. There are three times as many
farms in Arizona as there are in
Rhod'e Island or Nevada, and more
farms than there are in Wyoming or
Del.aware; half as many farms as
there are in ·Montana, New Hamp­shire,
Connecticut or Utah; one-third
as many farms as there are in Col­orado,
Idaho, Florida or Maryland.
These farms, while they are much
smaller in the very nature of things
than .are the farms of the middle
western states, yet produce more
money per farm than do the farms of
Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, Id.aho, Il­linois,
IMaryland, Delaware, West Vir­ginia,
Maine, New Hampshire, Con­necticut,
Florida, Louisiana, Missis­sippi,
Alaohama, Georgia, South Caro­lina,
North Carolina, Virginia, Ken­tucky,
Tennessee, Arkansas, Okhla­homa.
Missouri, [Wisconsin, Montana,
Washington, Oregon or Texas. Yet
many of these states have nothing to
offer the world or contribute nothing
to the wealth of the world, except
through the productiveness of their
farms, whereas Arizona besides le'ad­ing
as she does more than half of the
states in the Union in production per
farm, lead's all of the states in the pro­duction
of mineral wealth. The ·total
money value of the product of Ari­zona's
mines is nearly $-70,000,000 per
year, leading Montana. Michigan, Col­oradlo.
Alaska and Nevada. If any
other state in the Union had made
this record, it would, have let out a
yell that could 'have been heard
throug·hout the civilized worla . $67,-
000.000 dug- out of the ground in one
year. Arizona le·ads the world as a
copper producing country. She i"s a
great agricultural state now. and
promises to be in the near future,
much greater in this line of endeavor,
but she is a Httle short on "boomers."
There is one mine down at Bi bee,
the Co pper Queen, that produced
more mineral wealth in 1906 than did
Goldlfield and Cripple Creek put to­gether,
$14,236,428. That is her rec­ord.
Had you he·ard about it? Hun­dreds
of people, aye, probable thou­sands
of people, know of Cripple
Creek, Colorado, and Goldfield, N e­vada,
that never have heard of Bis­bee,
Arizona. Yet it is a city of 17,000
population in Southeastern Arizona,
sitting exactly a-straddle of our great
copper belt, ·and probably t.he only
explana tion tha t can be offered for
the fact that you have not heard of it,
lies in the fact that the people of the
town are too busy to talk.
They've got a hundred and. fifty
miles of T-rails und'er one hill in Bis­bee
and mine hoists as far as you can
see; in fuct, they spread down the val­ley
six or eight miles and clear
around to' Don Luis., on the other side
of the mountain. They run an ore
train half a mile long down to Doug­las
every day and the two big smelt­ers
there turn out fourteen million
pounds of copper every month. There
are twelve thousand people in Doug­las
alone, and the whole city has .been
built in the last seven years-and
built right, too, out of brick and
stone, with broad streets, electric cars
and every modern improvement. [Bis­bee
produces the ore and Douglas
smelts it, and together they make a
center for the greatest mining district
in Arizona. Across the line in Sonora
• the great copper mines of Cananea
and Nacozari send. up their tribute of
concentrates to the smelters and the
whole copper district of northern
Sonoroa is thus made directly tribu­tary
to the wealth of Arizona.
As 'California has its mother lode,
running the length of the Sierra and
practically guaranteeing every mine
that is sunk upon it, so Arizona has
its copper belt. fifty to seventy-five
miles wide and· four hundred miles
Granite Reel Diversion Dam in the Roosevelt Project
long, cutting across the territory from
corner to corner and fathering almost
everyone of the big-paying mines.
This .belt runs irregularly from Bisbee
in the southeast corner to Kingman
in the northwest, and includes the
mining districts represented by the
cities of IDouglas, -Bisbee, Tombstone,
Clifton, Morenci, Globe, Jerome,
Wickenburg, Prescott and Kingman.
Besides marking the great mineral
belt this diagonal line likewise diVIdes
Arizona into its two geographical
parts-the mountains and the plains.
To the north of this Quartering line
the country is high and mountainous,
with broad mesas and pine-covered
mountains ; to the south it is low and
flat, a tremendous stretch of fertile
land dotted' here and there ·by hills
and mountain ranges, that only need
the magic touch of water, to make it
blossom into farming districts, fabu­lous.
ly rich in their productiveness.
In many portions of this agricul­tur
·al part of Arizona, waters have
been impounded and the lands are be­ing
tilled. In many other parts, new
irrigation projects are being put in,
and soon the lands under the canals
of these projects will be contributing
much more than their Quota to the
world's wealth. In other places the
money is being raised to finance other
irrigation projects and it takes no
prophet nor son of oa seventh son, to
see that part of Arizona that has been
described by the writers of fiction, as
the great American desert, become
the richest agricultural district of the
UnJted States, supporting more peo­ple
than it would be possible to sup­port
in a terri tory ten times its size,
in anyone crop coun try. Yea indeed,
Arizona is full of promise, of a bril­Iian
t and prosperous future and wise
is he who comes in now .and buys her
fertile acres. while the price is rang-
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Some of Our Leading Business Interests he Great Salt · River Valley The Most Potential Land
Under the Sun
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ARIZONA
ing from $150 to $250 per acre. For
just as sure as season follows season
the time wil1 come and shortly too,
when these lands will be considered
cheap at $500 to $1000 an acre.
This part of Arizona is a strong
man's country a place in which to
keep well and 'have a good time; the
finest place in the world fro~ Sep­tem'ber
to June. In summer It gets
hot-<Yood and hot--'but it is th ermo­meter"'
heat, not the sun stroke variety.
and the thresher gangs work ri ght
through it: al1 summer, ten to fourteen
hours a day, and never a heat pro:>·
tration. Then too, it is so easy to
get away from the heat. Just acros~
the quartering line the mountain half
lies high and cool a"s you could wish,
with green grass and running water
and fish and game everywhere. Thus
it is possible to live in Ariz?l1a in a
climate of your own choosmg, and
surely no man could wish for any­thing
better than the climatic condi­tions
of this great agricultural section,
froffi' September to June. !When the
varmer of the micLdle west is huddl ed
about his stove in the winter time,
feeding the grain he raised to his
stock so they will be able to help
him raise more grain next year, the
farmer in Arizona is out working with
his sugar beets, cutting alfalfa, sow­ing
wheat and barley and enjoying
life in its fullest.
Van Dyke, the artist, devoted a
book to the beautiful colors of this
grea t mesa section and Charles
Loomis and !Wharton James have
both tried to paint ats glory in words.
But after you have read your fil1 of
:turquoise skies and op alescen t su nsets
there is something yet-something
which you must see yourself before
you can understand, and th·at some­thing-
is embraced in the splendid pos­sibilities
that this great section offers
to the coming race of men. No land
under the sun is so ful! of promise
and no land has so certainly made
lood. where effort, intelligently di­rected,
has been expended.
MR. J. H. KINNEY
The real estate agents are the
prime factor in the development of
any locality. The homeseeker and
the investor alike seek information,
suggestion and advice at their hands ·
and they cannot ,be ignored where
success is to become an assured fea­ture
in the build1ng up of any com­munity.
For this reason, the number
and character of the various agencies
engaged in real estate transactions
must ibe given a prominent place in a
publication of this character.
And among our local dealers whose
reputation is of the hest and who are
'thoroughly informed on Salt River
Valley land values is ;Mr. J. H. Kin­ney
who has been in the Valley for
twenty years and there are few men
who are better prepared to give in­telligent
advice to the p'rospective
homeseeker than is he. He was for
six years the city marshall of Phoe­nix
and during his tenure of office
our 'Police force was maintained at a
high standard of efficiency and he
was one of the ablest and most popu­lar
chiefs of this important depart­ment
that the city has ever had. For
three years he has 'been in the real
estate business, his office being at 35
E. Adoams street, where he does a
general 'business in selling real estate
rentals and insurance. He has nego~
'tiated a good many important sales
and all of his transactions have .been
carried through with the utmost
satisfaction to both the buyer and
sel\er.
BIDE-A-WEE. MISSION
TURE CO.
FURNI-Of
al\ those engaged in the furni­ture
busines in this Valley, it is safe
to. say tha~. none occupy a more
unIque pOSItIon or are more entitled
to consideration than the Bide-A­Wee
Mission Furniture Company
w~o are located three-fourths of a
mIle north of East Lake Park on the
Park Road.
This ibusiness which was originated
as a p~stime by its founder, Mr. G.
M. SmIth, has grown ip'to an import-ant
,industry and has 'be~ome the
recognized source for partlc:ll~r pe.o­.
ple to secure well made, .artlstIc mIs­sion
furniture. Mr. ISmlth came to
the Valley about six ye.a\s ago, hav­ing
formerly been a m1l11ster ~f the
gospel in ICalifornia. Not hav1l1g a
reO'ular charge to look after here. he
put up a few cottage~ on the. well
selected site of what IS now Blde- ft -
Wee Place and these he rented to
winter tourists or health seekers. To
fill in his spare time, he began mak­ing
odd pieces of mission furniture,
for which work he seemed to have a
natural genius. His 'Work in this line
showed such merit that there soon
grew a demand which extended from
the Valley. He occupies.a big double
store at the above 10ca.tlOn and car­ries
everything to furlllsh the house
complete in the way of new ~nd ec­ond
hand furniture, stove, chllla, a.nd
glassware, crockery, al 0 a large line
of Itool ,guns, watche, revoh'er,
cutlery, !books an~ scores. of other
useful a rtic1es. HI place IS pa tr~n­ized
'by a large number of well 111-
formed people, for it. i . known .all
over the city th at thl IS a &enu1l1e
barO'ain store. lewcomers WIll find
her~ a very large stock of but slight­ly
used furniture and will often be
able to effect a considerable aving.
Ii\Ir 10rden al 0 buy furniture
fr~m . those who are lea\'ingthe vi-
SUGAR BEETS
I wish to say that the suO'ar beet industry, now in it infancy in
Arizona gives promise of its'" cominO' importance in the Salt River
Valley. 'Last season has placed the growing .of thi crop beyon~ the
experimental stage. All that is now needed IS to use the expenence
gained, as we have proved we oan produce tonnage, scond to no
place in the United 'States.
Alfalfa. or grain land planted to beet before January I t, and
properly cultivated" will make a yield of 20 tons to the acre, and
under eS!Jecially favora,ble conditions, 30 tons can bt; harve ted. .
As an example of what can be done, I submIt the followln~
records from the Glendale beet sug-ar factorv for the sea. On of 1909:
From 38 acres planted before Dec. 15-876 tons at ~4.75 per ton.
From 32 acres planted before Jan. 1-843 ton at 4.75 per ton.
From 33 acres planted before Jan. 26-570 ton~ at 4.75 !ler ton.
W. P . CA~IPBELL.
year to year until now Mr. Smith
finds a market for all the mi sion fur­niture
he can make and in addition to
his own work, he has the assistance
of a number of skillful workmen,
everything being- hand-made. A num-
1:5er of the handsomest homes in the
Valley have been completely out­fitted
with Bide-A-lWee mission fur­nittire
and in ,beauty of finish , artistic
effect and practical comfort and use­fulness
this furniture is unexcelled.
Samples of the work may be seen
by a short drive to the location men­~
ioned 3ibove, or at the down-town
sales room on East Van Buren street,
near Center.
FRANK GRIEBEL
218-220 West Washington St.
I t was only twelve years ago that
2\!fr. Griebel started his present enter­price,
and throul!h honorable meth­ods
and the application of correct
'business principles, he has gone for­ward,
until today his establishment is
one of the important enterprises of
this city, 'but not only enjoys a
splendid city .patronage, but his name
is also known all ?ver the country,
as he makes a speCIalty of fil\ing or­ders
for ranchers, mining outfits and
prosnectors. The stock is welt se­lected
<lnd embraces everything in the
way of fancy and staple groceries,
~anned goods, teas, coffees, provis­Ions,
etc. In fact, everything in the
grocery line is in stock at alt times
and the hOllse differs from the ordi~
nary store in that it is large enoug-h
to deal in everything. that the people
need. and does not have to make its
,pr~fits off of " limited number of
artt.cles. He also keeps dry ~oods
notion" anti furnishing-so making ~
specialtv of Ibeddin~. The large 'busi­ness
done is the best ,R'uarantee the
cu-stome.r can have of the freshness
andl
• punty of the well assorted stock.
P ohte clerks are pm loyed and by
square. honest clealinR' "nd ~ourtcous
~re;ltn:en.t. 2\-fr. Griebel has succeeded
In ·ht11ld1l1g- 111)" good substantial
t;ade. The Gri ebel W:J,R'ons are con­tll1l.'
al1y on the !Yo and the goods are
d,"itvered ,nro:nptly to all -parts of the
cIty. In trYIll<>: to nlease his cus.
'tomprs and throuO'h honest dealing
hI' h~s m~cle manv fri ends. The
telephone IS Main 43.
MORDEN'S BJG RRCOND HAND
STORE
GOinO'. east on Washin~ton from
the hllCl1leC~ center one i~ surprised
to find a ri't ancl wel\ <toel'pn 5tnrp
at thC' lo,.,tion of Morden's nil!' 'ec­?
ncl Hand Store. 401 to 407 E. Wac;h-
1I1(Yton on the rorner of Fourth ~trect
"fr .Morclen ha5 bp('n in husiness
hl'~f' for the past ~c\'en years and has
hll11t .up on.e o.f the lanrrst <1 nil most
promlllent IIlstltuti01l<; of this kind in
cinity or who have more than they
wish. He i. always willing to pay
a fair ca h price and it is welt worth
while for anv one to obtain hi fig­ures
before making a deal of this
kind. He is ' thorou~hly ec:tabli hed
and reliable in every way. and the
!lublic may rely on every tatemen t
he makes.
THE A. G. ~ARSWELL ELEC­TRICAL
COMPANY
One of the most gratifyinlZ feature5
of the development now takin~ place
in the Salt River Vallev is the num­ber
of new and substantial firm. that
are establishin~ themseh'es h reo
Among the more recent entrrpri!;e5
and one which will prove of Ilreat
usefulness to contractors and thoe:e
who expect to construct modrrn huild.
ings i the A. G. Car5wel1 Electrica
Company, whose rctail e:alesroom and
offices are at 121 'orth Fir t a\'enue.
Mr. Carswell came to the valle la~t
summ.er for th~ purpoc:e of in"tatting
el~ctncal equIpment in the Temoc
HIgh School. t that time he \ 'a~
the pre ident of on of the leading
Los Angeles contracting firms hut
while doing this work h~ contr'acti'd
tor. the electrical work in the audi­ton
urn and R'ymna~ium of the Tem )e
Norm~nl School and also for the in­stallatIon
of the rntire electricalolant
of the. Tempe pumpin~ station. With
all tlils :v.ork on hand he 5aw the
opportt:n!ttes for an exoerienced and
ent~rpnsmg man in thie; valley and
deCIded to locate here. Evente: have
pr<,>ven that he made no mi~take in
domg so. a~ am?n!! otrer large con­tracts.
WhlC~ ~e IS carr.vinl!' on are the
plectncal w!r1ng work in thc' .rational
Rank of Arizona buildinl?' thC' nr ' Y
M. C. A. building. the n.' P. Dc. r .. nei
and D.r. Plath new residt·ncc. The
work In thrse builrlin'" i~ conduit
work. and Mr. Car 1'.'(.1\ i~ the only
m~n I.n the .Territory eCluinprn to do
thIS ~Ind of IIlstallation, it havinq- he 'n
prevI~usly neccssary to J:tiv all work
of thl!; character to foreign roncern .
Mr. <;:ar~well h;'ls hrcn <'lIl{al{(C1 in
clectrlcal work for thr 113 t twenl'
year5 and ha~ on ratffl with Ih lar'­C'st
('onccrns of San Frallri co ann
L~<;. Angeles He is an xp rt Irt'­tnClan
and unclf'r-tanel all branch
of !he work. He will elo a iohhinf.!
busln~ss and :1leo rrtail alt kind of
electncal u,Ppli.(' anrl make- a pl'cinl­ty
of electnc Il{ns. The \'att(.y i 10
he c~nj1'r~ttll.ate(1 on having uch a
man In thl hne.
f You arc creltin", a purcha in, fU1I11 ?.r VOI'r ()~'Il nroduce 'hrn YO\l Il\ly
),Ollr Cltnnhes fro'll a I]('aler in yo
own community. ur
'\\'1'1], anyhow. not many of U
\~olt1rl C3re 10 havl' it u Ii h cI th:l!
"e hall ent an orcl( r 0 a mail orcler
ron r. for h()oll~ handlell 1 I
tore in Phoenix. • ,y a (Olff'n
THE ARIZONA CLEANING
WORKS
n indispen able nece
community is the dyer and clean
d . . h er
an . m. umm111g up t e reSOurces of
Phoentx we mu~t not overlOOk the
up-to-date ~ labh hment of the Ari.
z~na Cle~llIng. Work of which Mrs
Llllur Vltl on IS the proprietor. Th '
c. tabli. hr:tent i located at o. 235
E. \ a hlngton street, where Mrs
il on ha5 a weI! equipped plant fo;
doing all kind of cleaning dyeing
and pre sing. Both ladies ~nd gen.
tlemen's garment are carefully ane
thoro.ughly cleaned, either dry FrenCh
c1eantng, or the steam process and
for all clae; e of work done here the
prices are eminently fair and reason.
able.
Clothing which ha. become soiled
or .Iightl, damaged may be ent t~
thi e tabli!;hment and will 'be re­turned
within a day or two pra ctically
ae; good a new. )'1r5. Wilson em.
ploy a number of wagons which
\'ic;it all parte; of the city and orders
will be called for and delivered. She
i~ one of the few bu iness women of
Phoenix who have achieved marked
e:l1ccec;s through their own efforts.
he. sometime ag-o, purchased the
huilding in which her e tabli hm 1
i located and in addition to this, also
0\ 'ns other rroperty in the city. Thi'
i a mo t c;ati~factory e tabli hmen'
in which to h;l\"e work of this kin
done a" the utmo!;t care i exercise
and ,)'fre:. , i1.on i!; re . pon
all work "he undertakes.
METROPOLITAN TRANSFER
COMPANY
The date of the first settlement of
Salt River Va:lIey in Anzona i~
ouded in the silence of uncOl1n~ed
Long before Goll1mbu~
ered America and probablY
ile yet the Apostle.s ot the Saviour
manKind ¥vere doing the work a~­ed
them by the M.aster, the lust
ropean visited the weste.rn shores
America. Obscure foot prints or
se early adventurers were IOUh ~
the earl,ies·t Spanish priests and
lorers-. The temlple erected to tht.
.o.f the Twin Gods near Guad­'
ara i-s taken by many stud'ents of
e old to ,point directly to the vi sit
one of tr,e ~ostJe, probably
onus, to these shores, and certa1l1-
rev erence that some of the In-n
tribes had for the cross and the
ief in its etticacy against bad lUCK,
ts to an early teacher in the re­of
Christ, a teacher who la­ed
wi th and dued among these peo­in
the very mornIng of tne
istian era. How much truth there
in these deduction,s no man kno vvs
ever can know, but enough IS
wn to estaJb.Jish the fact that a
Ie did live in and till the s'oil of
Salt River Valley centuries be­the
first ,spanish explorer \' i~ited
exico.
"This ancient and my,sterious race
nished. No man knows how or
, and it became a wilderness.
e the sleeping beauty in the fairy
it lay smiling in the sun for cen­afte
r century awaiting only the
touch of water to spring into
an t life. At last the time has
me and the tran formation is now
.progress and the Salt River Val­the
Queen ·of ,the Golden VIi' est,
nds a welcome of health, wealth
There i r erhap., no bu ine whic hatPpiness to all who come."
add more to the comfort and pl eas he early American ,settlers in the
I re of t e people than that of th ' with an inadequate water sup-li\'
ery hl! in 5 and in Phoenix thert no trans·porta tion .facilities and
i~ not a befter place to 1(0 for tan tly harrassedl by the devasta-fir
t-cla turnout than to the Mctr s of ,the Indians yet .proved to the
ld the va tness of the wealth of
polit~n Tran fer Company at o. 4 splendid valley and th eir untirin'g
, e t " a~hington treet. of whiq
• fr E F Van Kirk i. the proprieto rts at last brought reward and the
. {r. Van Kirk know this bu ines! ernmen t took U'P the task of giv-the
valley a regular and ample
from tart 0 fini h and conducts h' supply. This great work is now
stable in an up-to-date manner. H cally finished and from now on
rig. are new and attractive and a rogress of the valley toward
way at the !;en'ice of patron . II ltural development will be much
maintain an office at 0 32 or rapid than it has been in the
Fir t av nue for I!'reater convenienc( t and the value of land wilJ in-to
th public and in connection witl ase in ,price by leaps and bounds
he' livery. at. 0 conduct~ a transf· the richness of the soil and the
h\l inc c; and thi Company is one 0 briousness of the climate become
th mo t oroml t and reliable yOI among men.
could tru t with the hauling of you oday there is in cultivation in the
trunk. mO\'ing your furniture, or fo' y 126,717Y, acres of land and this
any kind of expres ing. divided among the various ,prod-
They have vehicles for all purposl- , ...... ~ of the valley about as follows:
and are prepared to I{ive prompt s a, 70,826 acre; barley, 29,186
vice for a rea 'onable charge. . wheat, 6,031 acre; sugar beets,
Van Kirk is well and favorably k acres; oranges, 962Y, a'cres'
and ic one of onr substantial busi 754 acres, vineyard, 211~
men. This, table ic; also tile hom other crops, 21,274
the famou tallionc; Rus el Mc,
houl , Roydella and Jack Jumbo. is total of 126,717% acres is an
e:lc;on open~ on Eeb. 1. t 't hi yea e of 30,000 acres in the last two
on month earlier than l1!;l1at. rs and during that period no ad-ntage
has been enjoyed because of
MR. HARRY FRIEDMAN
I<. r "l\ a mail clftler
yon pr ull fit?
the government's irrigation project.
If JO,OCO acres new land can Ibe put
into culltivation -in two years on a
promise of water, how lo'ng will it be
before the entire quarter of a million
acre,s to be watered by· the project
will be in cultivation after the dam is
completed and water assured? A
man who will leave the valley this
year and .return ten years hence will
no more recognize ,the coun try than
would the old '49'er recognize the
Cal'ifornia of today. There is no spot
on the footstool so fu'll of promise
and in the course of a few years there
will be no twelve townships of agri­cultural
land anywhere in the world
producing so much of the world's
wealth as will the Salt River Valley.
The time is coming and that soon
when packing houses in Phoenix will
be packing Ithe meat that is raised in
the valley; shoe factories in Phoenix
wrH be making shoes of the hides;
woolen mills in Phoenix wil! ,be mak­ing
into cloth the fleece of our hc:rds;
cotton mills will 'be working up the
product of the greatest cotton fieldS
in the world; alfalfa mills will be
grinding a feed that will add 50% to
the productiveness of our valley
acres, and orange packing houses will
dot the entire foothill section from
Arizona's Capitol Building
Mesa to Arlington. All of this de­ve
lopment means that Phoenix will
in the very near future ,be a city of
50,000 to 70,000 people. The railroad
to Arlington will be buiLt and its pro­mOlters
deserve a niche in Arizona's
hal1 of fame. This road wil! make
tributary to Phoe nix a vastly .fertile
section that is already in ,production
and will add thousands upon thous­ands
· of more acres to the productive
area.
The building of the Soutl;ern Pa­cific
,through the San Carlos Canyon
will put Phoenix on ,the main line of
this great s)"Stem and the completion
of the Spreckles line from San Diego
to Yuma and the extension of the
Buckeye road from Arlington to
Yuma wil1 give us three great lines to
the Coast and will put into llroduotion
a ll of the Gila Valley from the Agua
Frio River to the Colorado. Thous­ands
of acres of :\,1 orange land can
.be IPut into cultivation and watered
with waters pumped from the under­ground
supply. 0 country in the
world can produce a better orange
and in a very few yea rs, long before
the kickers quit kicking, no country
in the world wi\! be producing more
oranges than will this plendid ection
of the trea!;ure terri tory. God has
Group of Officen at Atascadero Camp. A. N, C,
done much for us; the general !;ov­ernment
has done m·ore for us than
it has for any other section of the en­tire
country; now let us do something
for ourselves and, let one thing of that
something be to discourage kicking
and knocking against the men and in­terests
that have something and are
doing things 10'oking to our develop­ment
by those that have nothing and
are doing nothing towards the de­velopment
of the town or valley. Let
u all pull together, sit steady in the
boat, and be not afraid that some­bodly
is going to steal from us what
we have not, and all will be well with
us and in the course of a few years
the world will be ringing with stories
of the faJbulous wealth of the valley
and the commerciaL importance of
Phoenix.
In ju tice to yourself find out what
the article you need wil! cost you in
the home store before sending to tn
mail order house for it.
One dollar in the home town i
worth a thousand in the mail order
man's city. Moral-Spend the dollar
with the home merchant.
6 ARIZONA
Houses Worthy of Your Patronage
compete with outside j?bbers of whom
they often have consldera~le advan­tage,
not only in price but 111 prompt
delivery. .
Both the senior mem b.ers o.f. thl
firm are among our old time. cItizens
who have worked for the Improve­ment
and general welfare of the val­ley
through good times .and bad. They
have other Importallt 1l1terest.s her.e,
among which are heavy hold1l1gs III
the tock of the .Arizona 'auonal
Bank. of which Mr. Cha . Goldman
is also an officer. They now ha \' e a -
socia ted with them i\lr. idney Gold­man
who takes an active interest in
dire~ting the companv' affairs and i
doing hi full share a one of the
city's young and progres ive bu ine
men in promoting the general advance
of this populous ectIon.
BENNETT LUMBER COMPANY
The Security Block.
This hou e, which. is succe or to
the T. W. Chamberla1l1 Lumber Com­rany,
is conveniently ituatt~ witil
crnnal offices and yard at t!'le cor­ner
of Second Avenue and Jackson
Streei where they carry' an immcn e
s-tock of lumber and bUlldinri mlteri.11
inclt:ding lime, cement, doors, sa h,
nllluid ings, etc. The yards a:ljo·n the
trach of the Santa Fe, enabling th'm
to receive and re- hip goods \\ Ith the
mosL economy; they do a he . .!vy bu i­n
c~ !.> in all the line which the v han­dle
and everything is ordered ;n car­iO
:ld lets.
F. A. HILDERBRAN & co.
Few cities can boast of such an es­tablishment
as that of 1'. A. l:tlluer­bran
and ,Company at Nos. 10 and 12
West Washington Street. T'his is
without doubt" one of the most hand­somely
equipped Jewelry stores, car­rying
as large and select a stock ot
tine Jewelry, as any establishment !11
Arizona and will compare favora,bly,
in elegance of appearance, and quahty
of the goods carried, with the best
jewelry stores west of New York
City. Tlle beautifully equipped store
room is fi lled with a magnihcent stock
of 'fine jewelry, watches, clocks, sil­ver
ware, and the larges·t andJ finest
s.tock of diamonds and precious st on e~
in Arizona, als·o everything in modern
optical goods, :and novelties, cut glass,
sterlingj silver, etc., while the repair­ing
department is large and well
equipped with every appliance for en­graving,
and fine repair work, a num­ber
of skilled artists being kep t con­s.
tantly at work in ·this depar tment
alone, which is under the direct super­vision
of Mr. F. A. Hilde r bran, who
is himself an expert in thi s line. T he
house particularly prides its.elf on t he
beautiful stock of diamonds which
they have on hand, which often in­cludJes
rare 'and beautiful gems of
great va lue. T hey also make a spe­cialty
of diamond mounting and ex­pert
w~ .. t.ch r epairing, -being official
watch inspectors for the M. & P . a nd
P. & oK r ailroads. With suoh a house
as this located right he re at h ome no
one in the Salt River Valley has any
t:."cuse either for goin g to the Coast
or to the East to buy diamonds or
jewelry. IMr. Hild erbran has been
conducting the business for the past
four year s, ' having purchased it from
Geo. A. Cook, who esta blished it
th!rteen years ago. Personall y Mr.
Hilderbran takes an active interes t
in every movement for the better­ment
of Phoenix and in addi t ion this
enterprise has been identifi ed with
other important institutions of the
city, as he is of that coterie of young
and progressive men who are un der­taking
to make t rue our dreams of a
greater and more modern Phoenix.
GOLDMAN & CO.
• or could we cite a more conspicu­ously
worthy example th an th at of
Goldman & Company, which was es­tablished
here in Phoenix over thirty
years ago by Chas. and Leo. Gold­man,
and which is one of the olde t
enterp rises in Arizona to be continu­ously
under one management.
This is one of the great commercial
houses of the Southwest, and from a
small beginning in those early days
has grown to be a powerful organiza­tion
with an immense trade both at
A.n important feature of :he bu.i­ness
i~ that of ur.~hes for ran.:hmen,
such as redwood po t , bar:J~d \ ire,
nails and Page wire fencing for which
btter thty are the agent in this sec­tlc.
a . 1 he lousine s ha be~1l (.stai>-
A Section of the Hilderbran J ewelry Stort.
home and over a wide territory, with iJ~hed for ~(venteen year ar:d vas
a volume of transactions running into taken over b'\.' the pre ent CO',llpany
many hundreds of thousand of dollars '
annually. on Jan. 1st of this year. The "nlc r
Goldman & Co. are wholesale gro- of the present company are Walter
cers and hardware dealers and general B.ennett,. president; H. C UCllnct,
a~ents for mining sUlJplies, tools, ve- vice-pre Ident and E. W. Bennett, ,ec-lucles,
farm wagons, implements, har- I ctary-lru.5uI er, all of whom h:ld bec
ness. et c. closely con,?ected with the enlcrj)ri e
From the inception of the business for somc tll11l' before pur .. h,u:in/r ;1
the policy of the house has been to altogether. The man1gement Ilf ,he
deal only in goods of a recognized o,ld company':; affairs havin~ been :n
high standard of excellence and the t,le hal" 'h of Mr. H . C. Ben It 1:.
consistent outcome is that today it
would be difficult to find in the ware­houses.
of any concern in the country
a~ van ed. a stock of such uniformly
11Igh quality and bearing the names
and trademarks of so many manufac­turers
of national and international
fame.
T hey deal in everything in the
purest. food stu,l'f.s in staple and fancy
grocene?, prOVISIOns, etc. Thousands
can testify to the superior excellence
of Old Homestead flour for which
famous, high grade Kansa~ hard wheat
patent they are exclusive agents in
Arizona. Other products are on a
par and in vehicles they are general
agents for such world famed lines as
the Studebaker.
THE LONG HARDWARE COM
PANY -
hat i \ ritten between the l'
i at all times the mOst convinlnes
argument for it tell the tor Cl11g
tnking force and effect· this YobVlth
"ation illll~l~~iately ugg~ ts itselrr-anyone
\,1 Itlng the e tablishment t~
the Long Hard\\ are Company at ~
and ~ 1 ort~ enter treet. Charac.
ter and qualily III the good handled
and ma IlItudc of operation is e
pre cd In t.h bi, varied stOck I\'hi~
IS h re carned.
The bu inc s ha been established
for about twelve year and under the
managen nt of .lr. Frank Bennett
the pre ent proprietor, for. the past
t ~\ 0 year. .. 0\ tha t b~tldl11 g opera­tion
ha \'e reached the Immense pro­Ilortion
.they have recently a sumed
In PhoeniX and the urrounding COun.
try, thi tore ha become one of the
mo t Important upply depots in the
entir \'alley. The hou e deals ex­t
n i\'ely both whole ale and r etail in
builder . hard ware of all kind, a splen­did
lection of mechanics' tools made
by the mo t reliable manufactu rer
paint, oil, gla _, barbed and WOven
~' ire fencing, heavy hard ware, mining
upplie., tove and the leading make!
of gun and ammunition. E njoying
the big, teady trade which they do,
nable th III to offer patrons a splen.
did \'ari ty. and. I 0 e\'erything in t he
ne \ e t, mo. t up-to-date ~oo d . A
large part of their . ul)phes are reo
cei\ d in car lot and with th eir splen.
did buyin, faciliti and con nections
they ha\ formed with the mo t rep'
utabl ourc of upply, enables them
to offer tri Ily fir t cla goods at
pric \\ hich ntircly do away with
th n city of any alt River buyer
nding to the mail order hous of
he 1:.:1 t, or patronizing Coa t deal­r
. Ev r) thlllg old br the Long
Hard\\3re ornpany carne with it
the guarantee of thi trong hou e and
in uch rare ca e where a defect may
di covered, the eu tomer may read­ily
oblain an e ' change or the mone
back, if d ired. The tock represent
an inv tm nt of many thou_and 0
dollar and by laying in an immen
and \'aricd upply of builders hard
war , our loc. I building operation
hay b"n reatly fa cilitated .
FRANK WOOD
\\' ith • long practical experience in
th . ho ing !>f dri\'ing h,?r es, Mr
Frank V od I now operat1l1g one
the be t kno\\ n hor e hoeing hop
in the city at 1 5 , e t Jefferso
Ir ct.
~I r. \\' ood conduct one of the fe'
hop in th~ city which. make an e
elu i\' peclalt)' of hoelllg' hoL.C an
in t hi line hi hop ha · become one
of the m t popular in the alley. lIe
do a good part of the work him If,
more e p cially that reQ~liring any
particular care and atten.tlon. but .he
al employ ;pert a I. tant whIch
·nable him to h:lndle promptly t.he
lar.e amount of work which i - dati)
"rough t 10 hi con veni ntly lo cated
hop. I
JI r on lIy. he i popular al~d wei
lik d and h njoy a large CIrcle 01
fri nel and a pI ndid patronag . from
Ih own r of good hor c fie h In the
all y.
T he rece nt developmen t of the won­derful
natural resources of this val­ley
are but the superstructure on the
foundation for a great future laid
many y.e~rs .ago, . and unlike a g reat
many cItIes 111 thiS country, Phoenix
now has no boom features or institu­tions
w~ich hav~ b.een built up by
speculatIon, nor IS Its growth being
forced by hot-house methods but our
t rade expansion is being gain'ed along
sound and substantial lines and hence
while it may not be generally k n ow~
throughout the East, few cities of
her size can compare with her in the
substantial character of her commer­cial
enterprise. It is the aim of this
review to demonstrate these facts
more fully and forcibly by endeavor­ing
to show just what business ele­ments
go to make up all that is seri­ou
Iy entitled to consideration in the
busin.es.s life of the city, by briefly
descnb1l1g the representative concerns.
The hou e employs a number of
traveling men and is one of the im­porta.
nt factor in extending the com­merCial
supremacy of Phoenix. Hav­ing
ample capital they are enabled to
purcha e good in large quantitie
and at the mo t advantageous lime
which permits them to successfully
Workroom of the Ilild rbran pao)'
ARIZON A 7
strich Breeding in Arizona By ~Jt;S~~I{Ters
Interesting Article on One of the Great Sburces of Wealth in the Salt
River Valley of Arizona
The native habitat of the ostrich
cove r s the whole of Africa and South-n
Asia. There are three kinds of
QS tr'ich.es ; first, the Nubian or red os­tr
ich; second, the South African or
gray ostrich, and third, the Mid­African
ostrich, whose fle sh is .blue.
T he name is acquired from the pre­dpminance
of that por tion of the skin
of the bird th a t has no feath er cover-g.
The feath.ers of the bird' have been
ed as an ornam ent s ince earli es t
an tiquity. T hey we re used by t he
Egyptian Kings long before the build­ing
of th e pyramids. In fact, philos­oph
ers b eliev,e that the fir st primiLive
ideas of dress origin ated in a man's
sticking ostrich feathers in his hair
to at trac t the female sex. F rom the
ea'rli est times the fea th ers were ob­tai
ned from wild ostriches by hun Lers
e.i her s nari ng or digging pitfa ll s to
ca tch th em: Aft er capture, the feath­ellS
were ,eith er pull ed out or the birds
were skinned and robes were made of
the skin s. This mode of obtaining
f thers, as befo re state d, continued
fr m the ,earli est times down to with­in
the last thirty-five or forty yea rs.
In the early six ties a few ostriches
were tamed and domes ticated in
Sou th iAfrica. It did not take long to
convi nce the Bn gli sh th a t a new in­dustry
had sprung up in the world
that was d,estined to add grea tly to
t he world's we·alth and by the early
eighti es th ere were twenty th ousand
or thirty th ousand os tri ches in cap­tivi
ty, and the government of Cape
Colony was thoroughly awake to the
situation and had passed laws provid­ing
for an ,export duty, this to prevent
bir cbs being shipped out and farms be­i
g started elsewhere.
have y our bird left. A:t th is age he
is con suming from, say, six to eigh t
pounds of alfalfa pe r day, while the
steer at the age of three years, is
consuming from 40 to 60 .pounds per
day. It is th erefore easy t o under­s
tand: why os tric h raisi ng is becoming
very p opular wit h us. T here a re n ot
many bi rds for sa le in the Valley for
the r eason th at wh en a fa rmer app r e­ci
ates the enormous value of the bird
it is hard to induce him to se ll it, and,
he is n ot und er compulsion to sell on
account of age as the bird lives from
75 to 80 years and is in fi ne plumage
until he is 50 'or 60 years of age.
There a re many pr actical questions
which ,it is- impossible to answer in an
a rticle of this chara cte r, ,but which
will be chee rfull y answered by any
of the ge ntlemen engaged, in t his busi­ness
if the reader desires to write
them a t Phoe nix, Arizona. T heir
names will be a t the close of th is
a rticl e. H owever, a few facts migh t
be g iven .
A young bird of six months of a;se
is considered worth $150. The two­yea
r- old b ird $200 to $250. A three­yea
r ~o ld of g ood stock $300 to $350.
Of course there are ostriches and os­trich
es ; those producing finest feath ­ers
have practically no price as farm­er
s will not par t wit h them and fi ne
breeders me·a ning good-feather birds,
tha t reproduce in kin d, are worth any­thing
from $1000 to $5000 per pair.
Some idea might be had of the
profi ts which may be made from birds
by quotation from ·an a r ticle written
orn e t ime ago by E dwin M. Barbour
of ew York. This quotat ion is giv­en
rath er than an in te rview with men
who a re now actually engaged in the
bus in ess, as Mr. Ba r bour is a gen tle­man
wh o, in the main, was looking
into the business fo r pleasure and
recreation r a th er th an pro fi t, ,but who
was interested suffi ci ently in the bu i­ness
to go to the b ottom of it. Mr.
Barbour says:
lBy 1900, ostriches in captivity had
in creased in C ape 'Colony until it was
estimated ,that there were from 350,-
000 to 400,OOV domesticate d ostrich es,
and by this time the government and
people of Cape 'Colony were so cog­n
izant of the vast profits and so de­sirous
of k eeping the profits to th em­s
Ives that a law was passed a,bsolute­ly
prohibi ting the exportation from
the 'Colony of either the bird Or the
egg. I under stand all of the South
African colonial possessions have fol­lowed'
suit and today it is a criminal
offense to ship an ostrich out o.f any
port of South Africa controlled 'by
the British government.
A Mortgage Lifter if P roperly Handled.
"Let us start with 80 acres of land,
half of whi ch is in alfalfa, the ideal
food of os tri ches obtain ed in the Val­ley.
T he ,subject of acreage, fencing,
fee ding, help, etc, for the sake of
br evity and cl ear unde rstanding,
should properly b e t r ea ted under
oth er headings, 'but we must have
land to begin with and as we a re go­ing
to consider th e pr oposition du r­ing
a period of five yea rs, it may be
as well t o mention r ight here that
the 80 acres will have to be doubled
long before tha t time expires.
The raising of ostriches in t he Unit­ed
States has been carried on in a de­sulto
ry way for the last ten or fifteen
y ars, small farms being located in
Florida. North Carolina and .$'outh­ern
California. But these birds have
b en principally held for show pur­poses
and not with the id ea of exten­sive
propagation and the production
of feathers by the whole sale for the
ark-et.
Some 12 or 14 years ago one J osiah
H a rbert, a resid ent of the Salt River
V alley, procured ·a fine p air of os­triches
which a re in a sen se, the basis
of the lar !!,e fa rms now in this Vall ey,
alth ough th e s trains have been im-proved
.from time to tim e with fine
birds brought to t his country for ex­hibition
purposes from both Sou them
and Northern Africa. But it is only
wi thin the last five or six y ea rs tha$
the ostrich busines s in the Salt River
Valley has .fallen in the h ands of men
who are inclined to pus h it as a busi­ness
and during this latter period',
progres,s ha s b een very rapid, until
at the present time, the P an-American
Os trich Company a lone has upon its
ranches 2,000 ,birds, and incuba tor
room suffici ent to take ca r e of 1500
eggs at a t,ime.
That the bird will 'thrive in this Val­ley
has 'been amply demonstrate d. The
climatic conditions a re practically the
same as in Sou thern Africa and the
Pluckin, Feathe ..
a dvantage in favor of'the Valley, with
vast fi elds of alfalfa upon which the
birds wax and grow their fine st pl um­age.
The day is not far distant when
every farmer in t he Valley will not
be content without having on his farm
a few fine pairs of these birds.
That the business is profitable may
be seen fr om a comparison between
an ostrich and a steer at the age of
three year s, a steer is worth $35 to
$45 and will probably net his owner
ten d olla rs over the cost of his keep
up to the date of his sale. At the
age of three years an ordinary ostrich
in the Salt River Vall ey is considered
worth ab out from $200 to $250. E v­ery
year you pluck from him feath­ers
to the value of $35 to $100 and
Upon twenty acres of this a lfalfa,
we will build 20 pens for ten pairs
of breeders-t en .pairs make an ex­cellent
beginning-each pair having
two ,pens of an acre each; here they
a re alternated, allowing th e alfalfa in
one pen to grow while they eat down
the other, at an annual cost of abo ut
$46 per head.
"The advisab ility of plucking breed­ers
is an open questio n ; their feathers
a re not as good as fro m tho e birds
having no fami ly ties, whose limited
instincts are troubled with nothing
greater than a life of ea e on large
fi elds of clean and tender green. I t
Continued 0" Page 8
A Bunch of Y oun, Chicks
8
AR I ZONA
Buy of Home Merchants and ~~~PI '~b~,~~d
COlltillued flom Page 7 latlon of r d an un crupulou nlPu_
THE OST R ICH IN THE SALT GRAPES might make \\ hat would ccm St dealer
RIVER VALLhY 1 t 3 'ears ha occupied m) lo\\cr pri'c than uuld be a be a
is also claimed by some that taking
the feathers from "housekeepers" de­Sli
oys their ambition for rais!11g large
families. Be all this as it may, 11105t
farmers pluck their breeders and the
"unlucky thirteen" pairs that make
the enormous contribution' of 218
chicks got plucked for their pains and
so we will pluck the beginners of our
new farm. Remembering that the
plumage is slightly damaged through
fami ly cares, we will agree to sell the
pluckings at an average of $16.00
each. Bear it in mind that we get a
crop every 8 months from all ma­tured
biros or in other words, one
and one-half nluckings per year. This
places our breeders output of feath­ers
at an an11ual average of $24.00
which is certainly as 101Y as the most
consen'ative could wish. We shall
call our breeders "Class A" ami as
the chicks appear each year we will
add them to the list as "Class B,
Class c." etc. Also remember that
when each class of chicks reaches ma­turity,
they take their place as full
grade feather birds with all average
value of $20.00 ner crop or $30.00 per
year, so here we go tor five years
agreeing to accept ten chicks from
each l'air every year and not grum­ble."
First Year
Cia s A, 20 breeders at $24 per
annum . ........... . ........ $ 480
Cla'ss B, 100 new chicks plucked
at 6 months at $8 .......... . 800
Feather income first year ..... $ 1,28ll
Class B, value at 6 mos. at $100 10,000
Secend Year
Class A, 2'0 breeders, as before $ 480
Class B, 100, 1 plucking at 6
months ($15; 0 at $2U (ma-turity)
... . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .. 2,500
Class C, 100 new chicks plucked
at 6 mos. at $8............. 800
Feather income second year ... $ 3,780
Class B, value second year at
$150 .. . ......... . .......... $15,000
Class C, value at 6 mos. at $100 1O,00u
Total value of increase ...... $25,000
Third Year
Class -A, 20 breeders as before.$ 480
Class B, 100 now and matured
10 pluckings at $20 .. . .... .
Class C, 14 months at $15, 0 at
$20 (maturity) .... . ....... .
Class D, IOU new chicks
3,000
2,500
plucked at 6 months at $8. . . 800
Feather income third year ,. $ 6,780
Class B, value third year at
$250 ....... . ............... $25,000
Class C, value 2d year at $1 50. 15,000
Class D, value 6 mos. at $100 .. 10,000
T otdl value of increase ...... $50,000
F our th Year
Class A, 20 breeders as before. $ 480
Class B, 100, 10 pluckings at
$20 .............. . ....... . . 3,000
Class C, 100, 10 pluckings at
$20 ........ . ............... 3,OOU
Class D, 100, 14 months at $15, o at $20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2,500
Class B, value fourth year at
$350 ................... . ... $35,000
Clas C, value third year at
$250 .................. . .... 25,000
Class D, value second year at
$150 ....................... 15000
Class E, value 6 mos. at $100 .. 1O;00tJ
Total value of increase ..... $85,000
The ralSIn<YO> h of gr. tahp est hdeurr ifnrugi tts I ea npda ss ome) a If a If a. an hone t comp tator. \\~ll~loleted hb. y
'attention, toget er WI °b' d f 0 the Thomp on -cedle.·, a~ hou ha n Ver madc any grcat t.IS
The ,best results are 0 taIne r mh·· . 11 \\'e h'\\'c other f r the r duct ion of I>rl'c" OIl I claltn
h pper and stand sIppIng we . ' - u b
ther ~re a eavy cro I' d ults :\lu 'cats :Mission, ~lalaga, in thi vall), it i \\orth) of n t mer
vanetles that gIve near y as gOO re ,. , ince th ir entry into the field 01
e that
etc. F 4 f Thompson Seedless I sold last year -495. 'j ha b en maintain d at a lo~e umber
worthr~f frui~c~~lsd ~ook care of 6 acres or' other fruit a well a: ten :~an .1~r ~rc t many year pr~\'r;~c~
acres of alfalfa doin<Y most of the work myse!f.. ). t~ e ttoh rt b Of. the ~Oll!pany in
We have {1O disO>ease here to interfere WIth the ."111e , and an prum!? lIIg e u In 1l1ttre t of
h d '11 r· to great age. Our market in the ba,;t arc never our CllY ha\ e pro\ n a 1110 t pot
arc a.r d WI d I"e et <Yood rices. A mall farm of 20 acre--, planted facto~, and the int rity brought e~~
~~P~~I:p~sa:ill~i~e r~tu~nf t~at \,ill a tonish anyone, unb they hb r If! thd rcondillct of theIr bU-iness
have seen irrigated land In Anzona produce. G C D -r L .a. amc or t 1 III a pro!l1incnt po-
J. ., ~. Il10n amon th leadlllg III titu!'
Class Bare no-,v old enough to be
paird off as breeders.
Fifth Year
Class A 20 breeders a before.$ 480
Class B', 100, 10 pluckings at
$20 ... . . . .................. 3,000
Class C, 100, 10 pluckings at
$20 .. . ......... . ........... 3,000
Class D, 100, 10 plucking at
$20 ........................ 3,000
Class E, 100, 14 months at $15, o at $20 .................. 2,500
Class F, 100 new chicks at 6
months at $8 ............. . 800
Feather income fifth year ... $12,780
Alfalfa land in Sou th Africa by rea­son
of the fact that ostriches are
raised u: en it. is worth one thousand
mon, Phoenix, Ariz.: R. \\'ickey,
Phoenix Ariz.; ~Ic. -eil-\\') lie 0-
trich C~., Phoenix. Ariz.: Arizona
o trich Co., Phoeni .. Ariz.: • 'ational
Otrich Co., Phoeni.·, Ariz.
The abo\'C name are i\'cll in or·
der that any reader oi thi- art,ic1c ca.n
verify it statement- or Obt31.l1 adth­tional
information by adclre--lIlg any
one of the parties \\ ho e addre e
are given.
THE O'MALLEY LUMBER CO.
Tho_ e conce rn which ; .. ; ... '"
pro;\'rc~. naturally take preced nee
O\'er all other--, and hould be ·h· n
due credit ior the important Ilart Ih y
have playcd in the iJui'din lll) r thi
Rare Specimens of P ottery Made by the Marico"" Indiao.-O E h'b' . S r A .
S ,..- n ". It.OO at lore ° "looa
addlery Company.
dollars per acre and there is no rea­son
why alfalfa land in the Salt River
V ~lley in years to come, when os­tnches
have increased so that the
business i~ re.co~nized as a great in­dustry
whIch It IS bound in the future
to be, should not be worth the same
figure. It will only be a short time
until feathers will be manufactured in
the Salt River Valley as well as raised
h~re. .~1r. Pickrell, a large raier of
bIrds, IS making arrangemcn Is to
start a manufacturing plant.
The followin.g are som~ of the per­sons
engaged 111 the ostnch business
in the Salt River Valley:
Pan-Ame:ican Ostrich Co." E. B.
Gage, PreSIdent; H. J. ~lcClung
~fanager, Phoenix, Arizona; A. /
Chandler, Mesa, !Arizona; J. ~L lIar-of
It Hh r Valley. Th re'id~~:
of!i r of thc com ')any are E. L
1l!11 y, Pr Id nt, and J. D. O''\fal~
ley, 1 r a ure~, both of whom hal'
n!ad mallY fn nd both in a commer:
clal and OCI, 1 \\ a).
ARIZONA SADDLERY CO
Plaot of the 0 ' MaUey Lumber Compaoy.
ARIZONA 9
~....,tle Hot Springs
hen God' made the world· He
ed the race of man in that quar­of
the earth's surface where the
ther was continually warm. Afri­rmed
by an equatorial sun, and
d by the Nile, whose waters
gathered from the snow crowned
of the mountains of the Moon,
e birthplace of man; and what
they were that grew there' lot
tics, nor rh eumatiics, nor weak
gentlemen; but men made in
image of their Creator; healthy,
lotlg lived, red blooded men. How
fo there there are who take into
co sid,eration the why of all this.
W y was not a more northerly cli­rna:
e used by the All Wi e? Why
cHd He plant men in the great hot
ho se of the world near the equator?
Be ause heat is life and cold is death.
Ev n in the most rigorous climates
the Master Builder has caused Hot
Springs to gush forth from the rocks
so that the children of man could
drink and bathe in them and live
he Ithful, happy lives.
ur own dear Arizona, sun-kissed
in its entirety, has not only been
ble sed with a warm salubrious, health
giving, life prolonging temperature,
but has also been given a bountiful
supply of hot mineral waters, that
gus 1 forth from the rocks in our
mountain fastness, to heal and make
wh Ie, diseased and pain-racked man.
11 over the en tire world these hot
sp ngs are dotted, and wherever they
gu forth the places have become
eel brated and have been beautified by
ma 1. Hotels have been built, rail­roads
constructed and the barren
places have been made to bloom. Did
yo ever run over in your mind these
places where men bathe and drink
th waters of the natural hot springs?
Ho famous they are.
he "Sprudel" at Carlsbad, Bo­he
ia; "Krochbrunnen" at Wiesbaden,
Germany; "Fountain Arago" at Ame­lie-
les-Baines in the Pyrenees; "The­esi
nbrunnen" at Carlsbad; "Kaiser­quelle"
at Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany;
"Hauptquelle" at Leuk, Switzerland;
"B gneres de Bigorre" in France;
"H uptquelle" at Gastien, Austria;
"Hauptquelle" at Teplitz, Bohemia;
"K'ng's Bath" at Bath, England;
"Alum Spring" at Aix-la-Bains, Sa­vo
; Schlossbrunnel1" in Carlsbad;
"L Tambour" at Bareges in the Py­renees;
"Doctorsquele" at Gastein, Au­stria;
"Grand Grille" at Vichy, France,
and in America we have "Hot
Springs" in Arkansas and the cele-brated
Castle Hot Springs, located in
a eau tiful little vaHey in the foot­hi!
s of the Bradshaw Mountains in
Central Arizona. No more ideal place
could have been selected on the foot­stobl
in which to locate heafth giving
spr'ngs than is the spot where the
wa ers of 'Castle Hot ! pring'S gush
from the rocks. This favored spot,
en owed as it has been by nature with
a low mountain altitude, perpetual
s shine, summer temperature in the
w· 1ter, a very low percentage of hu-
1m ity, complete absence of dust and
• ds, is an ideal rendezvous' for-peo:
pi suffering from those diseases that
Iar so prevalent because of our stren­uous
method of living.
t would almost seem that the great
tor had located the e springs in
particular place with the bene­n,
"Here may my children come
est and recuperate ," For a
nd years before the white man
o Arizona these springs were
and used by the aborigines.
, tire ome pilgrimages were made
desert wastes and mountain
s, to the end that at last the
pilgrim could lay himself down
s beautiful valley, bathe in the
s of nature's laboratory and gain
and str ength .
ground were sacred . Here
bal fueds were forgotten and
ional enemies of a .thousand
met her e, bathed. drank the wa­nd
forgot ,their anger.
prings were di scovered at la t
white man and for many
they were vi ited by men
n1. there, taking with them
nts and provi ion. In 1897
tie Il ot Springs Hotel Com­s
organized and the fir t ef­made
to beautify the valley
verti e its advantages to the
Today there is loca ted here
the finest hotel in America,
every desire of the epicure can
be satisfied and where the lover of
nature can revel. Bath houses have
been built that are modern in every
respect and equipped with appliances
to facilitate the application of the
mineral waters, by various methods.
The Pool, Brine, Vapor, Roman and
~lectric Baths are especially indicated
111 chromc dIseases, while the Sun,
::'hower, Spray, Needle and Scotch
Douche are available as desired,.
The Schott-Nauheim baths for the
treatment of heart disease, obesity
and neura1gic-rheumatic causes ar~
administered with much success.
In addition to these, Number One
bath-house is equipped with a large
!ounging room with a fireplace, sleep­I11g
room and a sun parlor.
Number Two bath-house at the up­per
pool is new and modern in every
way. Here are given the natural spout
and pool baths. The temperature . of
the water at these baths range from
102 to 115 degrees, producing results
far more satisfactory than the arti­ticially
heated waters. There are ac­commodations
for many b'athers at
one time, and besides the dressing,
shower, slab and massage rooms, the
bath-house contains a pleasant loung­ll1g
or cool1l1g room.
Unly expert attendants and masseurs
are employed. The waters and baths
are peculiarly efficacious for rheuma­tism,
anaemia, asthma and hay fever,
bronchial catarrh, insomnia, blood dis­orders,
catarrhal conditions of the
stomach, indjgestion, dyspepsia, kid­ney
diseases and nervous exhaustion,
and the convalescent from acute dis­eases,
especially those who have had
pneumOnIa, where the lungs are left
weak, forming a favorable soil for
disease germs, will here acquire re­generated
tissue and new strength,
because of the unsurpassed climatic
condi tions.
The town-tired man or woman will
find ,Castle Hot 'Springs an ideal re­treat
in which to re-'build, the tissues
tha.t have ,been wasted either by ex­cesses
or overwork. l~he magmricent
moun tain trails leading in every di­rection
from the valley, ' which have
been built andl ke.pt in good, order ,by
the -company, are exercise grounds
unequalled in ,their efficacious effects.
Walking or riding on the trails,
drinking in the dry mountain air, and
absorbing the oxygen, not only cre­ates
an -increases desire for food, but
gives the body the ability to aSSImi­late
it. Positively no case of tubercu­losis
or any other infectious disease
will be received. This rule is strictly
maintained both for the safety of the
guests and because persons suffering
irom such diseases would not be bene­titted
by drinking the waters and
would actually be injured by taking
the baths.
Hotel and Equipment
The hotel comprises three separate
buildings, modern and tirst-class in
every respect. The buildings are
placed as much as possible with a
view to sunny exposure, and are pro­vided
vvith private outside balconies,
where the guests may sleep in the
open air if they so desire. Rooms
may be had single or en suite, with or
without baths. The hot water is piped
direct from the springs to all the
baths throughout the hotel, thus en­abling
ti.e gue·,ts to take the hot
baths in theIr own rooms.
Attractive and comfortable bunga­low
may be rented by families or by
those who wish to occupy apartments
separate from the hotel.
The dining-room facing the Palm
Court is most attractive and pleasant.
Fully realizing the importance of nu­trition
in building upu the system, the
company provides the best of food,
which is prepared and served in a
manner to satIsfy the individual tastes
of the gll es ts.
The 110tel Gardens are productive
throughout the year, supplying tht::
tables wILh a variety of green vege­tables
and citrus fruits. The dairy
owned by the company furnishes a
bountiful supply of milk and cream.
A well equippcd stable of saddle
horses for u~e on the mountain trails
and to the various points of inter­est
is maintained. There are electric
lighting, ice and cold storage plants
on the premises. A steam heating
system furnishes heat when neces·
sary, but it is seldom required. The
plumbing is of the most modern and
<:.A Beautiful Cove in the cJ\1ountain
Fastness of Arizona
sanitary type. A first-class steam
laundry is maintained.
The company owns a comfortable
inn at Hot Springs Junction, for the
accommodation of those going to the
Springs, who may wish to remain
there over nigh t. The Springs art:
reached from Hot Springs Junction
on the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phot­nix
Railroad, from which point <In
automobile stage line is maintained
by the company. The 24 mile ride
from Hot Springs Junction to Castle
Hot Spring is a classic in natural
grandeur. Over a short stretch of
desert, the road winds up ' into the
hills, reaching at its summit, an eleva­tion
of several thousand feet, over a
road that has been especially laid out
with the object in vIew of bringing
out the very best scenic effects POSSI­ble,
and how well the builders oi this
road have succeeded can only be ap­preciated
by the man or woman who
has made the trip, and feels in his
soul the music of nature's melodies.
After reaching the summit, the road
declines agal11 through canyons
around the edge of precipices, follow­ing
the course of Bitter Creek down
through Crater Canyon to the little
valley protected on every side by
mountain walls.
Here the Great Builder seems to
have decided that a rest place should
be built. And in this great confusion
of mountain crags and canyons He
fashioned a garden spot where man
could build and beautIfy. From the
earliest hour in the morning until
the shades of night are drawn this
little valley is sun-kissed in all its
rength and breadth, and, lying as it
does, at an elevation of 2000 feet, it
makes the most delightful place in
the world for recreation and rest.
There is no spot in Switzerland or
the wo·rld for that matter that is more
beautiful or offers more ideal condi­tions
for the treatment of the trou­bles
that are here treated or for the
man or woman that is tired and needs
rest than does Castle Hot Springs,
Arizona.
ARIZONA MUTUAL LOAN AND
SAVINGS ASSOCIATION
There are no institutions which do
more for the permanent and substan­tial
up building of a comm.unity than
those which encourage thrift and sav­ing
among the masses, and one of the
most active factors in Arizona in this
respect is the Arizona J.\lutual Savings
and Loan Association which has been
operating in the Territory for the past
ten years and which holds a record
for success and clean methods which
will compare favoraoly with that of
any institution of this kind.
This Company was organized by
local people who have heavy interests
here in Arizona anJ who are in ter­ested
in the development of this
part of the country. Its capital is
home money and its work has been
done right here in Arizona. These
men realized the drain upon the fi­nances
of Arizona in the annual re­moval
of almost a quarter of a mil­lion
dollars Iby outside companies of
this kind who return but a portion
in the form of loans. They deter­mined
to organize a company, incor­porating
all of the best protective
features of the modern building and
loan assoQiation , and the pre-sent or­ganization
is the result.
The Company has an authorized
capital of ten million dollars of which
one hundred and ten thousand dol­lars
is paid up. Certificates of a par
value of $100 are issued in lots of ten
hares and upwards and can be paid
for in small monthly payments; a
holder of shares in this company
may borrow money to the extent of
90 per cent of the b ook value of hi!>
hares after carrying them for twen­ty-
four mon th. 'fhi enables the
salaried man or anyone with a small
income to ave his money in an ab­solutely
safe way, and to build "
home and thu save rent long before
he would otherwise be able to do o.
The particular advantage of this As­sociation,
and it home building op­porLunitie
here in the alt River
Valley, lie in the fact that it en­ables
anyon e who has saved a small
amount to purcha e property and take
advantage of the sure and steady ad­vance
which i now taking place in
\!very kind of real estate in the Salt
River Valley. Not only is the inves t­or's
money safe and earning him a
larger percentage of interest than he
could obtain in any other way, but
he becomes a sharer in the progres­sive
prosperity of the community. All
of the comjJany's regUlatIOns are as
lioeral as is consistent with a,bsOlute
security and good business methods.
Share holders are protected by the
privilege ot a suspensIOn of dues tor
a period of six months at anyone
time shOUld necessity demand it.
!:!.very obligation of the company has
been promptly met and even au ring
the time ot rinancial stringency, a
year or so ago, they did not aSJ{ for
one day's extensIOn in meet111g pay­ments
of matureO stock. Tlle l>U~I­ness
of the Association has shown a
steady increase and the total matunty
value of the stock now in good stano­ing
is over $l,U\IO,ooo. The Oi11cers of
the !Association are men of means
and high standing in this community.
l 'hey are, Dr. J. ,M. Swetnam, presI­dent;
A. J . ,Edwards, vice-presIdent;
.1:' red L. Iblu'mer, secretary and man­ager;
Geo. H. N. Luhrs, treasurer;
Arthur J. Bdwards, attorney and
these, wIth F. T. -l'omeroy, form the
directory.
JONES DRY GOODS COMPANY
The mercantile establishments of
Phoenix are, many of them, splen­did
specimens of tile progress Ji com­merqal
life that exists in this city,
and one of nhe very foremost in thIS
respect is the Jones Dry Goods Com­pany,
on West Washington street.
l'hou~h only having been estab­lished
for about four years, this busi­ness
from its inception assumed a
leading place among the best dry
goods stores of the Valley and dur-
111g the years of its existence it has
shown a continual improvement and
increase both in the quality and vol­ume
of the goods carned and 111 the
class of patrona~e enjoyed. The
policy of nhe house has oeen to cater
to the most discriminating class of
patrons and in order to attract cus­tomers
of this kind they have spared
no effort in securing the very best
of all kinds of merchandise carried in
an up-to-date dry goods and ladies'
furnishing store. Tlley have succeed­ed
so well in their endeavor tllat the
house is frequently referred to as the
Marshall r leld s of the Southwest,
and it is not unusual to hear the sur­pris
ed comments of tourists and vis­itors
to the city, when speaking of
the splendid array of goods w llich
this house constantly exhibits.
The business has been under the
present 1l1f<lnagement, of which .\H.
Carl Behn is the active mem ber in
charge of the store, since last Oc­tober
and the former policies are be­ing
faithfully carried out and enlarged
upon.
Mr. :Behn came to Phoenix wi th the
highest endorsements as a man of in­tegrity
and successful experience, he
ha ving successfully conducted a dry
goods store in Bisbee, Arizona, for
several years before coming here. The
establishment here carries everything
to be found in any first class dry
goods store and nhe goods are pur­chased
in large quantities from the
most reliable manufacturers and job­bers;
the stock being most noticeably
complete at all times. In all season­able
novelties the house carries a
large line, comprising all of the latest
and most fashionable styles and the
stock is arranged in such a sy stem­atic
manner as to facilitate the work
of showing goods.
A considerable force of intelligent
and courteous clerks is employed and
they I?ossess a thorough knowledge
of th eIr re spective departments. The
,house has become widely known not
only throughou t the en tire Valley,
but in many of th e adja cent towns of
Arizona and it draws a trade fr om a
el ect c1:t s who would in many cases
oth erwi e make th eir purchases either
in the East o r on the Coas t.
Establishments of this kind are of
benefit to any community and a re im­portant
factors in fo rmin ~ a -ucce -
ful and perm anent bll si ne s st ruc­ture.
11t River Valley tores are IIp-tO­d
at~ , carry s pl endid . ele ction of all
kind of merchandise and they de­serve
the patronage of home people.
10 A R I Z 0 N A
E very Line of Business Represented in Phoenh
THE GOLDEN EAGLE STABLE ellure country 3 311 autho
Fattening for the Market.
FARMERS' MUTUAL PROTEC­TIVE
ASSOCIATION
This important business organiza­tion,
which is of a co-operative na­ture,
is conducting one of the most
complete and sanitary meat markets
in the Salt River Valley. They are lo­cated
at 36 North IFirst avenue, where
they established themselves in busi­ness
on the 15th of January, 1909, and
while they have already acquired a
very heavy patronage from discrim·
iMting meat buyers of this entire
section, they are no doubt destined
to grow to still larger proportions,
and will eventually control an im­mense
trade in choice meats, produce
and vegetables. Their remarkable
success is largely due( first, to the
fact that Mr. J ohn Stemper, the man­ager,
is an expert in this line and
through years of practical experience
has become thoroughly fami liar with
the necessary methods of conducling
a first-class market, and also to the
fact that their business is conducted
on the plan of giving a "square deal,"
both to the producer and consumer.
Their supplies are purchased direct
from the ranchmen of the valley, and
in this way they are enabled to go
out th emselves and select only choice
and well-fattened stock. They have
built their own stocky.ards and
slaughter house, thus being indepen­dent
in every way, and are enabled
to handle meats with the greatest de­gree
of economy and they have there­fore
quoted prices, which have not
only been a source of gratnication to
?leir large and growing list of pa­Jons,
but a continnual surprise ( 0
competitors. Their claim, that they
are offering the very choicest m ~ats
at prices which average from 25 to
40 per cent lower than can be pur­chased
anywhere else in the city,
seems to be well substantiated. And
in view of these facts, Phoenix, a~
wen as the ranchmen of the valley is
to be congratulated on the selection
of this point as a basis of operation
bX the men controlling the organiza­tion.
They have their own cold-stor­age,
.v.:here meats are kept in perfect
co,ndlti.on and they also carry every­th1l1g
In the fines t seasonable fruits
an~ vegetables. Mr. Stemper has had
a life-long experience in this line as
his father was a successful but~her
before him.
STEWART AND TEMPLIN
The devel opr:nent of the community
up to that pomt where mechanical
skill of a high order is required is one
Qf. t~e necessary requi si tes in the
b!ldd1l1g up of any city such as Phoe­l11X.
!o find an establishment where
proprietors realize this fact and are
prepared to meet it with the late st
methods in every departm ent, is to
find the up to date pro<Y ressive men
who are meeting with tl~e mo t suc­cess
in their endeavors.
Such an establishmen t is that con­ducted
by ~le srs. J. 1\1. Stewart and
L. R. Templin who are located on
North Center street, next door to the
postoffice and who conduct one of the
most complete bicycle and repair
s,hops' in the Salt River VaJ1ey. These
gentlemen came to Phoenix from
Marion, I·ndiana, five years ago and
after thor·oughly looking over the
fi eld\ started this busine s three years
ago. Both had had a long experience
with Stewart Brothers of l\larion, In­diana,
who are among the most ex­tensive
bicycle and vehicle dealers of
that section of the country and of
which firm Mr. Stewart is still a mem­ber.
Before emb.arking in their present
enterprise in Phoenix, both men were
connected 'With several establishmen ts
here and thor<lughly familiarized
themselves with the conditions and re­quirements
of this trade in Arizona.
This experience, in connection with
the knowledge gained in Indiana, has
prepared them to afford expert ser­vice,
not only in all kind of rep.air
work, hut also in selecting bicycles
materials and supplies which ar~
suited to this section. The result is
that their stock repre ents bicycles
and supplies of proven merit. Among
other well known makes of wheels
they carry the Tribune bicycles and
t~e Hartford and Fisk and Hearsey
bicycle tires. These tires having
been demonstrated to be those which
m~y ,b~ relied upon for long wear in
thiS d!mate. They also handle the
ExcelSIor and Consolidated Com­panies'
various make of wheel and
car~y rubber tires for every kind of
vehicle and ~hey have machinery for
properly sett1l1g all of these tires.
Th~y also <10. repairing of bicycle
and h~ht mach1l1ery and in addition
to their own services, have a number
of expert .1l?-echanics, the- establish­ment
requlrlng the services of six
people to carryon alJ departments.
130th memb.ers of the firm have
ma~e many fflends here and their es­tabhshment
is looked upon as one of
our most subs.tantial business houses.
There is perhaps no bu ine \\0 hieh
adds more to the comfort. and plea -
of the people than that 01 t llc
luirvee ry business, and . 1)h . I III oelllx t lere
is not a better place to go for a g~od
turnout than to the ~olden Eagle !Sta­ble,
now loea.ted on !Second ~tr eet op­posite
the City Hall. C. M. Sturge
is the proprietor and ma~agcr of till:>
pro perous busine , havlllg. ~ollle to
this country some t\\ en~y-h\ e ) ear
ago. In 18Y2 h~ tarted Il~ th~ livery
business. PrevlOu to thiS. ulIle ~e
had in other bu ine s operation., bUilt
up such a reputation for I.ntegnty and
ability that It enabled. him_ t<? g t
<Yood start on the crcdlt ot hi ehar­~
cter. He bou ht out the bu inc of
j. L. Grant, which was th~n !ocat.cd
on South Third ~treet, tartln 10 \\nh
twelve horse and one dollar in ca h.
Within three years his bu inc:. ha
inerea ed and expanded to :.uch n
extent that he ecured a lea e on the
<Yround of his pre-ent location, and
here built part of the pre ent tabl e.
In 1905 he bought the land and 1\\ 0
years later built an addition to the
stable, making it a:; it tand today,
one of the large t Qnd be t equipp d
tables in Arizona. Hi bu e meet
all trains carrying pa en r to the
hotels or any part of the cily. He
maintain an ambulance read) ior in
stant use, while he make a pec' Ity
of providing suitable \' hicle nd
teams for hunting and picnic parli •
Mr. turges is one of our mo t ub­stantial
bu iness men and h3 rned
the respect and liking of the clIlire
community by hi upright character
and hone t pr'lctic I bu ine war
GEORGE F. MERRYMAN
When it come to t.le I t ad art­ing
and we mu t lay a ~ay all that i
mortal of orne loved one it i a
source of ati faction to b~ abl to
commission the service of one \'holl1
w~ know. and who. can rmp lhize
With us 111 Qur gnef while he I k
from our burdened mind the worrie
a.nd cares, pertaining to the la t d
ntes.
Phoenix is fortunate in having an
undertaker ueh a. 1 r. o. I·, I er­ryman,
who ha been e labli d in
the bu ine here for the pa I elc\'en
years and to whom i entru d a
ve.ry .large mea ure of the ~ ork in
thiS hne, not only. in the Va\l y. but
from a large ecllon of urroundill
country.
~~r. ,1er~yman came ori inally from
Indlan~poh.. Indiana, and \\3 11-
gage~ 111 thl profe ion in Californi
for elg.ht year before comin here.
He .15 one of. the few undertaker
of An~ona holdll1g a diploma from a
!"ecogl1lzed college of embalmin b.
Il1g a gradu?te of the Chica$o Coil e
o~ Embalmll1g, an in tilullon of the
hlghe. L tandin~ in thi prof ion
the head of the faculty bein .1 r. ri
Barne, well known throu hout the
An Irrca-lion Canal OD Ihe Soulh Side
o lllllng. rtty On eill.
He .1I for Ollle years b
cated III neal and ta tClull e~n I~
quartcr~ 1 114 ' e~t J\lla Y arrangeQ
• 1115 :'t
I:. )11 • no geLllllg ~Clt led ·,oUI
b . 111 a h lIIe. Il ~ Ulldlllg, built e ann·
lor ~Ill 1 U4 . ::>ecOlld Av:peclalJ)
he VII la\ cone oi the han" Whert
lid 1110 t eomplet Iy equlP pectdSotnesl
t Oil nlllCIll~ III tile ~nQel'
In ~i Ile v quarters he ~ulh.
relt) ~h pel ueeorated In as a
\ hlc/t I:. J:lxl~ icct In si SO\I
I 0 h a to k and ampl!e.!i.e
3:1. 20 I e.t Ild hi:. t \\ 0 mar u~OOtn
lIlC r r lor 1I\ Ie and I male
g
S In
m t ry• n d modern cOlIs't ruacreli 01
an) thlllg 0 the klJld III the On
try. 1 h rloor are all c mentCoun.
celli Ilt \ 'In e.Olln g e .•1 .:110 1l1g up afnodr
aboul. h elect. 1 he bUII <1lng al,o
contain a I rge room x leet f~r
u rplu loe' nd abo u l:d as a wo k
rom. r
KAUFFMAN DAVIDSON
S MMEL, Inc.
rt\'iew is I
t he reader It
A R' I Z 0 N A 11
range Growing in the Valley ._ Citrus Fruits Raised Here Bring Top
Notch Prices on the Market.
Oranges have .been raised in the
Salt Klver v.auey lOr twenty years.
.L ne lust trees to .be plalHed "ere the
seed'llngs, whIch are not lllarKetable.
:,ome at the .budded HUIt nas Deen
b nn,g nve or SIX years', but the great
Dulk 01 the opchards came 11110 uear­mg
111 l ~U/.
.r' our years ago an Orange ,Grow­ers
tAs'soclation w.as orga11lzedJ and
thIS aSSOCIation pacKed, and marketed
the crop at l~O/-1S for the .hrst tIme.
T he pnce receiv ed tor the rtnzona
crop ranges tram .two to three tllnes
as much as the ,1.,alitorl1la grower re­c.
ei ves tor hi" oranges,.
'r'he Arizona orange is· the first to
a ttain i·ts matunty a nd is the one
s eet orange on the market 111 Ue­c
oer, w uere as the Lallfornia or­ange
does not attall1 Its marunty un­til
l' ebruary, and there tore their lJe­e
ber shqHnents are .green oranges
bl aChecL yeHO W to aeccl ve tne puo­lie.
The l'lOrida orange, .being raised,
in a climate de,pendent upon the nat­ural
rainfall, is uncertain as to qual­i.
ty. '1 hose marketed in lJecember are
a a dehcient in color and tiavor.
Sec·ond, the wonderful keeping
qualities. '1 he Arizona orange being
gDown 111 an almos,t dry c11mate, the
IfUlt can .be bought and neld for week·s
and even months with little or no
1 s from decay, thus encouraging the
d eal er to ,purcnase this bran.(jI and
hOld it tor his special trade.
The Arizona crop was very popular
in the .toast this year and retailed
r eadl1ly a t from 2:> to 40 cen ts more
p r cLozen than did either the .Cali­l
ornia or ,}-lorida .product, and the
.A:ssociation could have handled lU,-
cars as readily and at as high
prices as theY' did the caroS
shipped. The general man.a.ger of the
Association, Mr. Fleming, showed the
wflter many letters from conSIgnees,
stating that the fruit was the hnest
ever offered on their market and
olOgizing .for the smallness of the
returns, Which was largely due to the
nClWness of the brand. buyers for a
hile confounded! it with the Cali­fmnia
product, .but it did not take the
eons,umer long to .a'ppreciate the dif­f
rence and th en tne dealer began
c amoring tor that iArizona orange,
and 1O,OW cars cou1d have been diS­posed
of this year at !prices lal!'gely in
exces,s ·of the ,pri·ce received.
The ' IDesent" and the " Cactus"
b rands are now establishecL .and a de­a.
nd is already made for them. Next
ason they Will be known and sought
after as .soon as they s·how on lhe
ma.rket. There is perhaps no test as
exacting as that made .by the eastern
trade and when it is. willing to place
a higher price on Arizona fruit .than
on any other, it does so because it
r ecognizes the f.ruit's su.periority
over everything '0'11 the market.
.There are about 1000 acres of or­chard
in the vaJley in fuJI or 'partial
bearing, and proba'bly 500 acre.s more
re being set out this year. The trees
tihat are in bearing have never given
a full yield on account of the hereto­fore
uncertain and meager water su.p­ply..
Oftimes the water s.up,ply would
faul just at the psychological moment
nd the crOUl was lost. On this ac­aunt
the planting ·of orchards .has
een held back. 'But now all this has
een changed. With the completion
f the Roosevelt d·am every foot of
the valley will have an ample supply
of water to care for it. And' in antici­pa'tion
of the finishing of the dam,
many pl anters are already at work
etting out trees and preparing to get
.-eady, .by the time the dam is finished.
The water supply thi,s year for aU of
the lands under the old ditches wi·ll
be ample because dams are in thM
ill not wash out with every freshet,
nd this is making it possible to get
planted a lot of young orchards.
There is more land now under com-leted
canals, and that will, with the
completion of the storage reservoir,
have a perfect wa.ter ,supply, in this
valJey than there are irrigated acres
in the whole of Southern California,
·south of the Tehachapi mountains.
There is as much good orange land
in this valley as there is land under
wa.ter in San Bernardino and River­side
counties, and these two counties
in California ,produce about $17,000,-
000 worth of oranges per year, even
at the low price paid for the Califor­Ilia
fruit. When the Salt River Val-ley
gets in as full bearing as are
these two counties, the orChards here
wiJJ produce a return at nea.rly ~3U,­UUO,
WU, or an amount equal to the en­tare
citrus crop of 'Calitornia. This IS
not hot air out a statement that is
borne out by the condition of the
market.
The Grape Fruit
One of the most profita'ble of the
citrus fruits is the grape truit, and tlle
Sa.Jt ,River Valley IS tne natura,l horne
of this delicious fruit. .N a gri1jpe auit
raised in America can ·compare with
it, either in quality or texture, and
the demand tor the Arizona grape
fruit in the eas t, easily. proves Its
su,premacy, and it exceeds the supply
to such an extent a;s to warrant the
prediction that there will always be
a g ood market for all we can rais e.
The association here has hundreds of
ordlers for the .fruit at $3.00 per box
F. O. B. Phoenix, and when one stops
to think that one tree in full bearing
will produce 15 boxes and that you
can get eighty trees on an acre, you
can torm some idea of the ,profitable­ness
of a 'grape fr uit orchard. The
present sup,ply of grape fruit raised
in America IS not twenty per cent of
the demand and the d,emand is in­creasing
at a more rapid rate than is
the supply.
No section in the world offers the
opportunities to the ma·n with a fe.w
thou>sands, to become independently
rich in a few year-s, as does this val­ley
in the rais'll1g of ci.trus fruits, and
the man who will fool around in a
one crop country and not sell out and
come here, does not deserve anything
better than he ha,s,
The .grape fruit tree is hardier than
the ora'nge and will .s·tand some things
tnat WOUld .hurt the orange tree.
The condltlons around the foot
hiIJs of the valley .are ideal tor the
raismg at either .fruit and the man
plantmg an orchard can take his
choice.
Lemons
For the first time in the history .of
the valley, a s.hipment of lemons was
sent east from this vaUey in 19U8 and
were sOJd at auction, .bringring the
largest .pri·ce at any sale :Lllat day.
The consignee immediia·tely wired the
Association .statll1g that tl-. '! lemons
were exceedingly .nne and asked for
another car. 'l "here were only a few
car loa:dis raised in the valley but the
handlS.ome returns realized this year
ought to materially increase the acre­age.
The general conditions that are
tavorable to the prod'uction at or­anges
Or grape fruit, obtain in the
productIOn ot lemons and it is not
necessary at this time to -go further
into the subject.
This vaJ'ley is absolutely free of
sca;le, which is so destructi.ve to the
orchardis and crop in (California and
Florida. The hot summer ·c<loks it
out and trees that have ;been known
to have been <infectecL were made clean
and healthy after one summer. Thus
it will be seen tha.t all of the condi­tions
of air ,and earth ·are ideal for the
raising of ci tms frui tSi in the valley.
,Land can 'be purchased at from
$100 to $200 per acre. All of the ter­ritory
north of the MaricOJpa ditch
and the Mesa di.strict is believed to 'be
ideal c~trus land. There are .at least
100,000 acres ·of fir s.t class citrus land
in the vaHey.
It is the only place In America
ORANGES
,Comi:1g to the Salt River Valley from Ohio some years ago, the
growing of oranges attracted my attention. Not caring to plant an
orchard', but thinking a bearing grove would suit me best, I pur­chased
20 acres that had a little less than 19 acres of bearing trees
on it. During the past year, I picked my first crop and took over
$4500 worth of fruit from my orchard. It costs about $60.00 per acre
La fertilize, cultivate, prune, pick and pay for the water, and' th1s
leaves $3300.00 net from my nineteen acres, which I consider good
fair returns. I believe there is no place in the United States where
oranges c·an be grown, that has a future equal to the 'Salt Rive: Val­ley.
Our fruit is the earliest on -the Eastern markets and IS the
sweetest orange at all times. To any. one wishing a fruit ranch, the
Salt ·River V c. lley offers the greatest Illd-ucemen ts.
DANIEL ,nILLER,
R. F . D. No.2, Phoenix, Ariz.
where that amount of citrus land is
tor sale, and better returns can be
realized than in ,California where land
is worth three times as much as is
asked here.
H you do not believe .all of this,
buy a railroad ticket and: come out to
the Salt ·Raver Valley.
COMMERCIAL HOTEL
To the commercial traveler any
commendation in behalf of this house
would be a mere waste of words, for
so long has the standard of excellence
for which it is well known been malll­tained,
that its name has become al­most
synonymous with comfort. This
hosteJ.ry has been located in our city
since 1886, when the building was
erected by Mr. George H. N. Luhrs,
the present proprietor. From its in­ception,
the house has been recog­nized
as <lne of the most comfortable
hotels in the Territory, and under the
broad and liberal management of Mr.
Luhrs it has continually grown in
popularity and favor and is today
patronized by many of the most dis­criminating
tourists and commercial
men who visit the city. It is cen­trally
and conveniently located on the
corner of Center and Jefferson streets
and is convenient to street cars, de­pots,
theaters, the post office and all
business houses, and in fact is in the
heart of the business district. It is
a substantial structure, built of brick
and three stories high and contains
fifty-seven rooms which are let on the
European plan for one dollar a day
and up. The house is equipped with
gas, electric lights, hot and cold baths
and each sleeping room is well light­ed,
well ventilated, and supplied with
apparatus for heating in winter, while
the wide verandas afford shade and
make this one of the coolest hotels
during the summer. Several of our
best restaurants are within but a short
distance of the house, while a first­class
bar and barber shop are oper­ated
in the building itself. Mr. Luhrs
is one of our public spirited and sub­stantial
business men and has done as
much as any other one citizen to
bring about the era of prosRerity
which is just now dawning on the Salt
River Valley. He is a firm believer
in ·the future of this valley and in the
sure returns to be realized from in­vestments
here .and he has ,backed
his belief by heavy investments in
local property.
Growing Olives in the Valley.
When the his.tory of Arizona is
written, the credit for placing the
gjrowing of olives upon a successful,
commercial basis will be given to the
Munger Brothers·, and justly so, be­cause
it is due to the years of effort
of these brothers that the olive or­chards
of the SaH River Valley have
become a source of revenue to their
owners whereas before -the advent
here of these energetic young men
with their scientific and practical
\deas, olive growing was an. industry
of most discouraging experience III
which the profits were represented by
t·he minus s,ign.
Some owners h'ad almost decided to
cut down their groves that the water­ed
land migh t be set in citrus fruits
or devoted to other crops. However,
since 1902 when the Munger Brothers
began op'erations here, things have
been looking up a little ea,ch year until
'today olive groves in the Valley are
a dependable and liberal source of
profit and the fame of Arizona as the
produ'cer of pure, high gr~~e. olive
oil in the 11.OW celehrated Ohvette
Brand," has ,been s.pread to every part
ot America.
The Munger Brothers have, during
the la t seven years', succeeded in lay­ing
the foundation of an industry that
is right now giving thousands. of dol­lars
,to the Valley ranchmen, in ad­dition
to $10,000 to $12,000 a year paid
out in wages, improvements, etc., and
an indu try which will continue to
grow and in future years will be a
greater and greater means of revenue
and profit.
N at only have the efforts of this
company createdJ a market for Arizo-na
olives, but they have demonstrated
the proper methods for bringll1g
groves Illto regular and heavy pr0-
duction. Their fine ranch located
northeast of Phoenix and known as
"Olivette Ranch," is planted in olives
and citrus fruits and is a model ranch
fr0111l a modern and s.cientific stand­point.
Here is also located their plant
tor the manufacture of pure olive oil
and pickling green and ripe olive!>.
The success of ,thiS venture is due
to the fact that its promoters have
conducted it on the sale principle of
prod-ucing as fine and pure an olive
oil as it is possible to extract from
choice, selected olives and the result
of this policy, so consistently adhered
to, is that the Olivette Brand of olive
oil commands a higher price in the
American market than the oils of
Italy.
The Arizona olive products were
awarded Gold Medals at the St. Louis
World's Fair, Seattle Exposition, and
have reecived first premiums at the
Territorial fairs at Phoenix for the
last five years.
In addition to utilizing the olives
grown on their own ranch, this com­pany
IbuY's almost the entire crop of
the Valley. In many oases the crop
is purchased! on the trees and the
cOll1jpany's own pickers attend to the
harvesting. During the picking sea­son
which covers several months, a
large force of pick('rs is given steady
employment at wages varying from
two to four dollars per day for each
individlual. The most approved and
sanitary methods are employed in the
manufacture of the oil and the result
is that "Olivette Brand" of olives and
olive oil are products that rank with
the best, and are a credit to An­zona.
J. F. BARKER & CO.
One of the marked evidences of the
substantial commercial growth of the
Salt River Valley is shown in the
number of strong and progressive
houses that are selecting Phoenix as
a base of their operations. An ex­ample
of this may be cited in the firm
of J. F. Barker & Company, wholesale
brokerage and commission merchants,
whose general offices are in TucsolI,
where they have been transacting an
enormous business in general commis­sion
for the past six years and who in
September last opened an office and
warehouse on First aven ue in Phoe­nix.
The firm are extensive dealers
and shippers of bananas, green and
dried fruit, vegetables, nuts, evapo­rated
and ground chili, butter, eggs,
etc., in many lines buying and selling
in car lots. They are looked upon as
one of the old and reliable firms in
this line in Arizona and their opera­tions
extend over a large territory.
Their long familiarity with this busi­ness
enables them to handle goods to
the greatest advantage to the buyer
and shipper and they have the reputa­tion
for being prompt and fair in all
of their settlements. The firm is com­posed
of J . F. Barker and L. B. War­ren.
Mr.Warren being the re ident
manager. It is such strong in titu­tions
as this which are doing the mo t
to Ibuild up our commercial suprem­acy.
12 A R I Z
Real Estate In the Valley •
Residence of J. L. Irvin
J. L. IRVIN
W!th the w~rk of the Reclamation
ServIce, resolvll1g of the desert into
comfortable, profitable farms the
pro ble~ o~ ranching in this co'un try
~s so slll1pllfied that ranchers are com­II1g
west by t.hou ands to locate. Who
~hen cou.1d gIve the newcomers better
InformatIOn or locate them more suc­cessf1!
lly than a man who has been a
practIcal rancher for ten years and
w~o has been a resid.ent of th~ Salt
RIver Valley for over sixteen years?
In. J. L. Irvin we have such a man'
H.ls offices are located at No. 11 North
FIrst avenue, and while he handles
rentals, loa:ls an.d insurance, he is
more exclusIvely II1terested in orange
and alf<l:lfa lands, and can give ex­pert
advIce on the best buys to be had.
~e has carned through some of the
bIg deals of the valley, and is as ready
to ac<:=ommodate the small buyer as
i!le bIg one. He has city property
Isted as well as country, and can
generally find houses or rooms if th
are wanted. by transi ent guests. B~~
he excels I~ hIs knowledge of real
estate, and IS one of the best posted
men 1!1 thIs country on the values of
thd lands. He welcomes all visitors
an you may be sure of attention'
courteous treatm.ent and sati factor'
results when tradll1g with Mr. Irwin. y
N. J. HANLEN & CO.
The old method 'of going out to
hunt for what .you want in the way
[f real estate I!1vestment or a buyer
or what you have to sell has been
r~legated to the discard ~long with
t e bull plow and scythe. N ow the
prUdent .Investor tells his wants to
some reliable real estate broker and
makes use of his knowledge of local
c~r7~:tlOls befor.e pu~chasing, and the
h . h aces w!th hIm the property
e WIS es to dIspose of, and in the
fffic
d
of tht; broker the buyer and seI­er
h 0 ibuslness without ever seeing
eac o·ther. Thus the vexatious fea­~~~~
Jedf both buying and se!.ling are
. .over to a man that makes it
IllS busll1ess to handle this k' d f
deals Th II In 0 ffi ' . e we. regulated real estate
0 1 ce IS a cleann~ house for the peo-fa~
c of t a communIty and their impor­mateed
0 Pht o w~ chan not be over esti­i
. oel11x as many such clear-ng
hoyses, but no one that is more
deservl11g of men tion in th '" I
number of "Tll e An'z .ona" e th I11ltJa.
that conducted by N. J. Hanlen &n CIS
succeSSors to Page Hanlen & C o.
43 rWest Adam street M 11 0 '1 at
I . r. - an en
hcaams eb lere from .W infield , K an a and
U. S. LAND, TITLE & LEGACY CO.
It does not require a very keen
~ye to dI scern the plain ly drawn shad­P':'
s th at fortell the future of the S alt
RIver Valley, and that it is de tined
to be one of the populous re idence
centers .of the Southwe t. There are
la~ge thl!1gs here now, but larger
~ll1ngs are tc! come for ·the future. An
InterVIew WIth th e pre ident of the
U. S'. Land, Title & Legacy Co. would
convll1ce 'almost an y one that now IS
Suburban Residences. rio. Cen ral ftv
the time to invest in' Salt River V II
real esta,te as he is th a ey
n:iliar with the soil cli~~tughly f~­hons,
etc. of bhe V'll I e, condl­,
o f, an d h as' been hiam seeyl,f at h 0 knows
h
of md any investors already e m~~i~s
an some profits 0 I I' g
and still h n Oca II1vestments
property li:~s ~fe o~!n~~e most select
~nd alfalfa ranches and c~~ovle , fruit
Improved property H hY ots and
man 'accustomed to'la e as been a
came here three rge transactions,
formerl t . years ago and was
. y ex enslvely engaged d r
Indreal est~te in N ebras-ka and eC \ng
ra o. IHe IS thoroughl . f 0 0-
the c!rifferent projects J ~I ormed On
and IS looked le country
?n irrigated land~on as an author,it;
mterests in Color~d He ~as extenSIve
has 'backed ,hi belief i~nth I~aho and
the ISait River Valle e uture .of
vestments of h'IS owny , Hbye heavy . In -
the above com pan (h organI zed
and makes a specirlt ree y e~r ago
selling land, rather t~ of b~Ylng and
agen t Tl" an actIng a an
. . 11 IS one of the
lJa'ble agencies we have . most r~-
and prospe ctive in\,etorsln ;ho~ nlx
l~nd pecula tors will d ' Ie, pe.clally
VIew them. 'owe I to II1 ter-
W. K. JAMES
Few men eng~ tl
d
· een an actIve factor in Our '10 I
evelopment. The member ca
firm own city and ranch s of the
have demon trated their ~~~~drty al;d
the valley by thus becom' ence In
holde:s and tax payers. I~ p.ro~ert.y
ness I conducted on I lelr u 1-
what they. tell a prot ~~c~?vuearbu and
can be relied upon to be tl yer
truth. They will be lad le exact
inquirie from people i~tere t~eda~s~hr
vffalley, and will give their ver;\e ~
e orts to carry out .
confided to their ca any transactIOn
busines in Ph . n le real e tate
~ations that ar~e~~jo~~de bthe qua lifi ­Ject
of thi sketch, Mr. W YKthe ub­who
wa born in I d' . . Jame ,
reo wes t 25 year a"'o nF lana1 and ca me
was engaged in th'e ba~rk' 0 Ybea~ he
Illg u Ines
• IS a Good I ment
-
1\
A T,pical Cit, Hom.
ARIZONA 13
A Square Deal The Railroads are Entitled to the Same Con­sideration
Given Other Business Enterprises
·Woe have heard a great deal in the
past few years about "The Square
Peal." Theodore, the Magnificent,
rang the changes on it frequently and
in his efforts to bring .about a con­dition
of "Square Deal" one was led
to the opinion that, that much to be
desired consummation depended, very
largely, on the tearing down of the
one great, vital, fo r ceful, ,building,
dvilizing influence of the co un try­the
railroad. What devils incarnate
these men who build our transconti­nental
'highways have been pictured.
"Undesira'ble citizens" was pro·bably
the least offensive of the epithets that
were a pplied to them.
The busine s of railroad building
and operating needs no defenders ncr
apologists. It is the greatest indus­try
of all modern times, and it has
been devel oped and brought to its
prese t, efficiency by American brain
and brawn and genius. It is the
great st thing tod,ay that has to do
with the material welfare of a ll man­kind.
It gives value to everything
tlhat man produces. 'Without trans­portation
facilities the great crops of
grain rai ed in America, hauled to the
seab ard on American railroads, and
sold to feed the hungry hordes of
Europe, Asia, Africa and the islands
of the sea, would not be produced,
and if produced would rot in the fields
that produced them. The value of
every product, grown or manufac­tured
is added to or lessened by the
ireedom or difficulty with which it can
be t ransported to the place of ulti­mat
consumption. Yea, we can go
fart er than that. The value of men
the selves is in creased in proportion
to the freedom with which they are
mo ed to the points where their ener­gy,
skill and power can best be util­ized
. N ever in the history of the
coun try have the transportation agen­cies
of the land, asked for special priv­ileges.
They have only asked for a
"Square iDeal," and the man or trans­portation
company bhat will ask for
more deserves severe re'buke, and if
he i getting- less than a square deal,
he should fight for it, even though
be happens to be a railroad man.
ear read er, did you ever stop to
think that the great railroad systems
of America have been a ll built up
within the life time of many men that
ar living today.
he maQ'nitude of this American
railwa,y system of ours, runs into fig­ures
which are astounding in their
prop ortion s. I othing has ,been able
to stop the progressive spirit of the
railroad builder. He has at times, to
be sure, been checked, as he was in
the panic of 1907 and 1908 which was
largely brought about by the crusade
that was ma,de against him, in high
places in the Government; but even
during that period, bhere were 3,918
miles of main track laid in the year
• 1 08, and at the end of that year there
ere in operation in the United S tates
2,046 miles of main track. These
t ads represented a capital stock in
onds of sixteen billion, four hundred
illion dollars. Their gross earnings
r that year, were two billion, four
~undred and seven milli on dollars and
eir net earnings were seven hun­red
and seventeen million, eight hun­red
thous.and dollars. For several
ears we have ,had thundered to us
rom high places, in rousing tones,
he grea,t total of millions "taken from
he people," by the railroads and yet
ardly a chirp as to the big sums paid
ack through the purchase of la'bor
nd supplies. In the panic year of
~908 the American railroads paid out
the enormou sum of one billion, sev­en
hundred and e'ig.hrt:y-nine mill ion,
two hundred thousand dolla,rs. Don't
you think, dear reader, that it would
make ome difference to the American
people if this great industry was
throttled or destroyed? Would not all
forms of human endeavor feel it, if
this great industrial, fo tering enter­prise
were eriou ly cri ppled? These
same railroad during the panic year,
g"we employment to 1,500,000. As
before sta,ted, this grea t business has
been built up from nothing during the
pan of an old man's life. In the
be~inn in g, railroad builder. ,had to im­port
mo t of their locomotives, rails
and other railroad equipment · from
England. Now we ha\'e ten times as
many miles of railway track as there
are in the United Kingdom of Great
Britain. One of our builders makes
more locomotives each year than does
any four European concerns, We ex­port
locomotives to Europe, Asia,
Africa, South America and the ,islands
of the sea. 'W'e have more miles of
main track than Europe, Asia and Af­rica.
combined. Think of this for a
moment; Asia has a population of
850,000,000 souls, IEurope · is densely
populated and yet America with pos­sibly
90.(){)(),OOO has in 90 years built
more railroads bh'an a ll of these coun­tr
ies combined . Asia is not "suffer­ing"
from rai lroad monopoly. She
li es there wrapped in her bl anket of
thousands of years of tradition, with
no past to point to and no future to
hope for. Do you not think, dear
reader, that despite "the terrible ex­actions"
of these "undesirable citi­zen"
that have built our railroads,
that we are immeasurably better off
than are the Asiatics who ha,ve not
thus been "exploited?"
Tlhis is the story told by the figures
of 1908, of the evoluti on of an in ­dustry
that had its beginning in this
coun try in 1829. The capital of the
r ailways of the United ' States repre­sents
more than an eighth of the
v:alue of the country's real and per­sonal
wealth in the aggregate and
pays more than one-seventh of the
taxes paid on real and personal prop­erty.
The gross earnings of the roads
in 1908 amounted to a sum that was
not far from three times the interest
bearing de,bt of the Nationa,l Govern­mrent.
Their a~~regate income that
year was four tImes as great as that
which the 'National Government took
In at all of its custom hOtlses and tax
collecting agencies. Do you think
that an industrv of this magnitude that
so touches and affects the lives of all
of our people, is worrhy of fair treat­ment,
of "a auare deal?" I believe
you will say "Yes." And yet the man
who would arise in the halls of legis­lation,
either at Phoenix or at Wash­ington,
and s'ay it just tha,t way. could
beQ'in figuring at once on what he
proposed to do after his Stlcces or
w~s elected at the next election.
There has been one thing that has
been made more of. and has been
roared more ab out, bonh in the ,ra­tional
and State lel!islatures a,nel on
the street corners bv irre pon ibles,
who have never had a pound of
fre ight to hip or receive, or who
have never out two bricks tog-ether
on the face' of the earth. and that
thing is the capitalization of the
American railwavs. If one would lis­ten
to these fellows. he would come
to imagine that e1ch of our railroads
a separate island consi ting of a
snllal! block of right of way surround­ed
by water. The plain, 'bald facts
of the matter are these: The rail­roads
of this country could not be
replaced for the sum total of their
c3lpitalization. If every mile of track
and bit of rolling stock, if every pas­senger
depot, if every freight ware­house,
and all of the other equipment
of the American railroads, could be
' wiped out of existence tonight, leav­ing
the ground beneath nhem to re­vert
to the original owners or their
accessors, you could 'by no means
begin. to reproduce them for the face
value of all their outstanding stocks
and bonds. There does not begin to
be nearly 0 much water in the aver­age
American railroad as there is in
the average Salt River ranch .
To prove this statement you must
figure along the same lines that you
have permitted many men, hig.h up
in American politics, to figure out for
you the railroad problem. And here
is the way a political wizard of hys­terical
figures would cipher out the
water in the stock of a Salt River
Valley ranch. He would figure that
you or your father took up the land
under the desert land act. That makes
your half section worth just what it
cost to pay for your filing and prov­ing
up, $160.00. You have now
of course on the farm, a modern
farm-house worth, probably $4 500;
barns, cribs, granary, wind mills' and
other improvements, that would fig­ure
up another $3,500. Then he would
work out a statement that read like
this:
Original cost of land ....... $ 160.GQ
Present value of improve-ments
.................... 8.000.00
Total "phy ical valuation" .$8,160.00
You probably now hold your land
at $250 an acre and you capitalize
your farm for $80,000. When Mr.
Wizard ubtracts from this $80,UOO
capital ization the "total physica l valu­ation"
a he figures it, of $8,160.00 and
shows conclu ively that you have
watered your stock to the extent of
$71,840. Simple, is it not? And yet
it is against just uch jugglery as that,
that the railroads have had to strug­gle
in the last few years, in attempt­ing
to get rates that would give a
fair return on the actual amount of
capital invested. But of cour e you
object to these figures. You insi t
that this is not a fair way to figure
ont the cost of the ranch nor to set­tle
its present value. You point out
and rightfully, that there have been
years of labor put into the develop­ment
of the ranch. You point out
that the government has bailt dams
and dug irrigation ditches and that
now water for the land is assured and
its earning capacity greatly' increased.
You also show that year by year dur­ing
all the time that you have owned
the land, ,there have been large
amounts of money taken from t,he ac­tual
earning of the land, to keep in
place temporary dams, and to dig
ditches that water might ,be conveyed
to it so that it would produce. You
also show tha't when the land was en­tered,
IPhoenix was an oasis in the
desert, with no other transportation
facilities, than those offered by a stage
coach line; that in those days you
had no market for the things you
could rais e, and thM now you have
two transcontinental lines and Chi­cago
is within seventy-two hours of
your ranch. Nearer by many hours
than was Yuma or Tombstone, when
his land was entered. You say now,
,phoenix is a town of 20,000, the moun­tains
in our back yard are teeming
with men who a.re clamoring for the
things that can be raised on ·the
ranoh; that you have rural free de­livery
of mail, and that all of these
things add to the value of the land
and do not represent watered stock
in the capitalization of $80,000. You
are right, bu-t if you will examine
them closely you will find that many
of these claims of "wa ter" in the stock
of railroads rests 011 no better foun­d'ltion
than do these claims of "wat­er"
in the stock of your ranch. The
men who have developed the railroads
and the men who have developed the
ranches have gone ,through much the
same experiences. They have had the
a.me tri!lls and are entitled to equal
faIr dealing. When the railroads first
came into this country they were wel­cC!
med as a nece sity and a ble sing.
RIght-of-way was granted by individ­uals,
States, Counties and the Nation­al
Government all over the country.
Chi~ago' ear,Iy exper~en.ce in the pro­motIOn
of radway buddll1g bears this
out. There are twenty-four railroads
running into Chicago and there are
but six pas enger depots. Why? Sim­ply
because in the intervening years
the price of real estate has gone up
to such an extent that even the rich­est
railroad corporation in America
could not afford now to buy an inde­oendent
entrance into the heart of the
city. The other eighteen roadl< ob­tain
their entr1nce by means of cer­tain
trackage rights and leases. And
the e same trackage ri~hts are no
more tangible or visible than are your
water rights that makes your ranch
COllti"u~d 011 Palf~ II
14 ARIZONA
Fortunes Have Been Made
Continued from Paze 13
A SQUARE DEAL
worth $250 per acre. But they are
real ,values and you would discover
that If you were engaged in trying to
reprod'uce the American railroads for
the face value of the·ir stocks and
bOt;d.s. And ye·t bhe men who an:
~tr~v111g to destroy the railroads and
Incidentally your ranch as well, would
regulate rates so as to make what
they are pleased to term fair returns
on the actual cost of the construction
of the . railr~ad pro,Per-ties and they
det~rm111e this physical valuation by
takl.ng the actual construction cost and
addmg th~ present equipment and real
est.ate at ItS value when the road was
bUilt.
Suppose they should aHempt to reg­ulate
the selling price of ranch prod­ucts
so as to yield a fair return on
bhe actual physical valuation on the
land determining that valuation as
t~ey propose to determine the valua­tion
?f 't~e railroads. How would
you lIke It?
I~ is a mig-hty easy matter to or­ga11Ize
a&sociations of business men
and ha,:e them g-et together and in an
academic way, figure out the correct
rates for a railroad to charge, but they
would be ·the first men in the world
to howl their heads off if their cus­tomers
would organize into a society
for the purpose of determin-inO' what
nr?fit they should charge 0; the
thIngs they have for sale. It is an
easy matter to run a railroad from the
nlaotform of a citizens meeting or
fr?m the floor of a legislative 'hall
With one eye cocked on tile pres~
galle~y. 1?ut to do the stunt in actual
practlc.e IS an entirely different thing
and t~IS may accollnt for the fact tha.t
no r aIlroad ever offers bhese wise boys
Cl
b
chan.ce to exploit thelr knowledge
v a ktng them to conduct the affair~
of any of the departments of the road.
The railroad organizations of this
chun.try have much to their credit for
t e manner in which they have helped
to. develop every institution and enter­I)
rt.~e. that h a ~ contributed to the up­hl1Ildlng
~f this country. StronO' men
f~Hm lastIng institu·tions and d~ not
J,l-e w~ak. me.n, sink under them:
Great InstitutIOns and organizations
a:e. not as ~rasping as they are am­bItious
,and the best work of any
man, whether he 'be a railroad man­ager
o.r what not, is to give his time
~nd hIS ·~alent to the work of help­h~
g. to. bUIld up. others. The railroads
me, In .the ma111, gone on doing- their
w?rk falohfull:, and well. in spite of
n;tlsTepresentatlOn and radtical lelrisla­i110n
; because the same providence
at tempers the wind to the shorn
~~~b, watches. over the shearers as
~ dl, hand, while the radical legisla­tIOn
. as cramped and hindered and
handicapped in some instances it has
nblot ?een without its compe~sating
ess1l1gs.
The railroad is an essential and im­ptortant
part of every community that b e,nters and touches. So far as its
, uSlness, a~ anyone point i& con­ce~
n~~, hl-t IS a purely local business
a,n I 51 oul~ respond to public sen­;
I::den! as QIUlckly, promptly, honestly
SIncere y, as any other business
respond,s to the demands of l'tS I'
ents L'k c 1- b " I e every other business and
uS111e~s man, it should have an in­i~~
est 111 al! that makes for the bet-
Th
meHn1: of ItS supporting community
"the rtetalv en P011'1t '1 11g Ch urch spire and.
for :~d~aISe wi~~o~~h~hlc~l~hi::~o~~atl;~
JOU ,not have advanced. The are h eserV:dng of everything- good thIt can
e sal .about them, but when you
are ,passIng around enconiums don't
r~·~het. the
l
, li,ttle old wayside' depot
\VI I~S Ittle old streaks of rust'
str etch111g out on either side, enablin '
YOll to clasp hands with alI k' dg
Tt does f . man 111 .
\'.· I,"t theooer oYtOhU, tnd matlerial matters
- ers 0 a on '. 1
~rd r'~ral and mental line~. sPWhuean
le I~t e .old depot comes into its
0 \\'11 . It wIll form one link of t:
a~9'le, lI'e other two sides of ;hi~h 1'I1h be the church and the school and
~f t e men w.ho operate the depot and
1. out-reach111g connections are h t
they should be, then it and'theyWwDI
be worthy of place in that honored
company.
THE ARIZONA ABSTRACT AND
TITLE COMPANY
AU authorities upon real e tate
tran actions agree that it is an im­possibility
to make exchanges in real
property with any degree of safety,
without the services of an ab tract
company, whose books are accurate
and reliable, and· afford a clear and un­broken
record of the various owners
of the property from the time of it
purchase or ceding from the govern­ment
right down to the date of the
last sal e. Thousands upon thousands
of purchasers of real estate who have
paid th eir money in good faith and
accepted an ordinary deed as uffi­ci
ent evidence of a clear title, have
at some later date found to their ar­row
th at th eir title was invalid and
have bee n compelled to relinqui h the
property they had paid for, and in
many cases after expen ive improve'
ments had been made, All of these
difficu l.ties may be avoided by having
an abstract made by some reputable
company, whose files are complete
an? accurate. In this respect no more
relw ble company with better equip­ments
ca n be found in the Salt River
V ~I1ey than thS Arizona Abstract &
!Ilte Co., of which Mr. Geo. A. ~Iintz
IS manager. T he company is located
at 136 West Washington treet and
was established in 1899, They h~ve a
compl ete property index of the county,
th eIr books going clear back to the
gO\'e r.nm ent, and a the cO'l1f)any ha.
a capital tock of $50,000 it i lool.-ed permanen
Harvestine Barle,
u,pon as :1?eing as res,ponsible as an
company 111 ,the valley Mr '1' h y
b een ~. n An'z ona twen' ty-t.h r"e' e11 1 tz as
and IS therefore famT . year,
country . The'l r c h arges laIraer WIth the
abJ.e as can be expected as reason-contemplating
the pur~h~~d an? one
estate or mines or who e 0 real
would do well to call on 0:hl!s proper ty
to furnish the abstract bef~s COIP~ny
any transaction. re c OS111g
ARIZONA AUCT ION AND DE
VELOPMENT CO, ~
Although the~
responsible real estatema~y a~le and
Phoenix, there are none g:~cles ffin
any surer, quicker 0 0 er
method of turning'r~:1 r;~~~ ~rofitable
than the Arizona Au t' - e 111 to cash
opment Company wh Ion and Devel­remarkably
ucce~ ful o have
d
'!lade a
d t· . reCor 111 co
u~ Ing auction sales on r I n­This
COmpany has I ea ~ tat.e.
Ph~enix since Dec~~eberoperatl11g In
dUrIng that time it ..' 1908, and
eer Mr B W G P~1I1clpal auction
.' . . . ets1l1ger ha
tlOned off real estate in th 's I . R~uC
Valley and other Ian Ie. at. Iver
running to several h t' S din ArIzona
of dollars in value une re thousands
In their particul~r line th .
other concern which h ' d ere I no
w~ere near the volume ~f O!le any­WIth
greater satisfaction tob~1I1I1es ,or
concerned. Their fir t bi , partIes
of r~al estate was held i~ 'Tctlon ale
AprIl, when they old emp la. t
thousand dollar wo t~earflY twcn~y
one day'• 0 ther 'I mpurtraont lsaal nd In a es were
• In ARIZONA 15
me Merchants Make Things Right
COLLINGS VEHICLE AND
HARNESS COM'PANY
ELCZER BROTHERS CO,
The big wholesale liquor house of
the elczer Brothers Co. is a striking
exa pie of what may be accomplished
in the wholesale line in Phoenix when
the advantages of our city are real ized
by en of ability, energy and progres­sive
spirit. The success of thi hou e
not only emphasizes the fact that
P hoenix is a jobbing center of grow­ing
importance but it shows that the
people of this valley and its tributary
territory have abundant means to pur­cha
e some of the luxurie as well as
Sugar Beet Factory, North of Phoenix
the necessIties of life. Few concerns
in any part of the country are better
equipped to supply the wants of the
trade in high grade beers and pure
wines and liquors, than is the Melczer
Brothers Company. This house was
established in 1893 and at present they
110t only supply our local dealers with
most of the goods they handle, but
their traveling men cover practically
all of Arizona and their outside sales
are an important feature in the annual
volume of business of the city.
There is nothing that can be called
for in the ·c'hoicest brand,s of hand
made Sour Mash and Fire Copper
Bourbon and Rye Whiskies, choice im­portations
of Scotch and Irish
Whiskies, imported Ports, Rhine and
Moselle Wines, Brandies, Gins and
Sherries that cannot be supplied from
the immense stock of this house. They
are also exclusive Arizona agents for
the celebrated G. H. Mumm & Co.'s
Extra Dry Champagnes as well as
other leading brands.
This house is also the exclusive ag­ents
for Budweiser, pretty generally
conceded the fines~ and probably the
most famous beer in the world, and a
product which is more generally
recommended by physicians becau e
of its absolute purity than any of the
other light stimulants. They also a re
the agents for all of the other pro­ducts
of the Anhauser-Busch Brewing
Company as well as the Ranier beers.
The patrons of this house know that
any goods 'purchased of Melczar
Brothers Co. are exactly a represent­ed
and the best obtainable. It is
doubtless this fact that accounts for
the permancy of the patronage they
control. They carry large reserve
stocks in the bonded warehouses of
Kentucky, Illinois and Penn ylvania,
thereby giving the purcha er the ad­vantage
of having their good get
old and mellow at the expen e of the
Government; quite a saving to those
who take advantage of thi feature.
Being direct importer them elves and
buying and carrying both foreign and
domestic goods in large quantities,
both free and in bond, enables them
to quote prices so low that buyers
cannot fail to see the advantage of
dealing with a house of such ample
resources and facilities. Mr. Louis
Melczer, the president and manager
of the company, is one of our city's
most capable business men and his
dealings are conducted on broad and
liberal methods and as a result he has
the reputation of treating every cus­tomer
with absolute fairness.
THE BUiSY ,DRUG STORE
A, L, Boehmer, Proprietor
Purity in drugs and medicinal com­pounds
is a specialty which has made
the popular pharIl1\acy of Mr. A. L.
Boehmer "The Busy Drug Store" in
fact as well as in name, and which is
easlly placing it in the front rank
among the high class drug stores of
Phoenix.
This is one of the old and well es­tablisehd
drug stores of the city and
has been owned and personally man­aged
by :'Ilr. Boehmer for about three
years. ,Located as it is, at 1:he north­east
corner of Washington and Cen­ter
Street, the business heart of the
ci ty and probably the busiest corner
in the Salt River Valley, it has nat­urally
become one of the popular trad­ing
places, not only in drugs, ,but in
the large variety of pretty 'and useful
things usually carried by the modern
drug store. A neat and sanitary soda
foun tai 11 is also an attractive fea tu re
and has made this one of the handiest
and most popular places for the ladies
to drop in for a refreshing beverage
while on a s,hopping tour. The cen­tral
location and courtesy of the man­agement
has also made the Busy Drug
Store the favorite place for making
down town appointments as well as
the place to wait for the car, etc.
The store is cheerful and well
lighted and the stock includes a large
and varied assortment of all kinds of
Company B, First I nfantry, A . N. G,
drugs, herbs, patent medicines, toilet
articles, fine stationery, perfumery, ci­gars,
physicians' s't1pplies' and sun­dries.
Here they pride themselves
upon the accuracy of the prescription
department which is looked 'after per­sonally
by Mr. Boehmer, who als·o
has the assistance of three experienced
registered pharmacists. The store is
kept open from 7 a. tn. until 12 o'clock
at night and every accommodation
which could reasonably be expected of
a city drug store is tendered to the
public.
HILL'S SEED HOUSE
The Only Exclusive Seed House in
Arizona
The imf'ortance of an absolutely re­liable
source of suoply of seeds and
nurserv stock in thi portion of the
horticultural and agricultural section
of Arizona. is apparent to every tiller
of the ~oiI. and for the past ei~ht
years the ranchers of this wonder­ful
st>ction have been fortuna,te in­deed
in the matter of having at their
command an exclusive store of this
character \v1h'erein they can purchase
goods of this nature with a degree
of absolute certainty. Hills Seed
House, which is now located at 126-
North Center street, has not only
weathered the test of time and a dis­criminating
public, but has grown and
prosnered with the m~ rvelous de­manns
made upon it until today it is
possible to .secure in anv Quantities,
garden, ·field, lawn and flower seeds,
also everything suitable for our oe­cnliar
climatic conditions in the line
of citrus and deciduous fruit trees,
ornamental trees . shrubs, decorative
house plants, bulbs, etc. It is also
recognized headquarters in this sec­tion
for poultry raisers. and to meet
tJhoe f!Towing demands in this profit­'
able industrv a full line of poultry
foods and ICon key's gu~ranteed rem­edies.
tonics and inst>ct destroyers are
carried, and they also have tht> ex­clusive
agency for the famous Pt>ta­Juma
incuhators and brooders. Trv­ing
L. Hill, the proprietor of this im­nortant
enterprise, came to the valley
22 yt>ars ago. rand in these years has
acouirt>d a superior knowledQ'e of soil
and climatic conditions and now he
c~n imnart advice that is of ine tim­ilble
value to the ranchers of the val­ley
in milking the proper selections of
seeds suit~ble and profitablt> to plant
in the different loaal ities. 'His nurs­t>
ry department is located on lSouth
Ct>nter street where are kept every­tihing
in the wav of fruit, ornamental
tret>s and shrubbery. but the demands
of late have been so great that he is
comnelled to draw nursery stock and
alfalfa seed in car load lots. To com­nile
a horticultural and agricultural
section in the initial number of "Ari-
70na" without the oroper mention of
the man whf) has ft,rnished the bulk
of seed that has produced the founda­tions
upon which our reports are
fOl11lden would be far from complete.
'1"r. Hill has iust issued a 60-page
iJ1" trated ratalo!lue containing much
valuable information on planting and
ap'rirllltnre in the southwest which
will be mailed free upon request.
16
A R IZONA
Buy Goods Where Y ou Can Sell Your Labor
E L VY & H ULETT
The Quality Drug Store
This house is one 0'£ the old and
well establ ished drug stores of Phoe­nix
and is well qualified to fi1\ the
high position it holds both among
physicians and the community at
}arge; the business has been und·er the
present management since 1900 and
is now located in the commodious
store room at 27 and 29 East Wash­ington
treet, corner of Cactus Way.
The store is one of the neatest and
most handsomely fitted up drug stores
in the Salt River Va1\ey and the cour­teous
and genial personality of the
managing partner, Mr. A. J. Hulett
has made it as popt.iar a r etail stor~
as we have in Phoen ix. The house
carries one of the largest and most
complete stocks in this line in Ari­zona',
which includes every thing in
pure drugs, chemicals, toilet acces­sories,
a1\ the standard and rare per­fumes,
leather articles, fan"y !;.:'0ds
all the popular brands of cigars, etc.;
while the beautiful, new sanitary soda.
fountain, which is under the direction
of an expert, is one of the best pat­ronized
refreshment places in a1\
Phoenix.
The prescription department is wide­ly
known for its accuracy and care
a.nc:I is endorsed . ?y our leading phy­sIcIans.
In addltlOn to the immense
retail b?s\ness this h.ouse enjoys, they
are bUlldl11g up qUlte an extensive
jobbing line and th,oughout all Ari-
70na, Phoenix has become ,the supply
depot, through efforts of this firm.
for thousands of dollars' worth of
g-oods which were formerly purchased
from coast jobbers. Buying in large
quantities and disposing of goods on
so big a scale, assures parons not
only of moderate prices, but that the
dru.gs ~nd chemical.s are always f resh,
whIch IS, a great POl11t to the physician
who wntes the prescription and the
man who takes the medicine.
Mr. Hulett is himself a registered
ph~rmacist and is secretary of the
l\r.lzona Board of Pharmacists, a po­s!
tlon he has held since the organiza­tion
of that body during Governor
Brodie's ~dministration some years
ago. He IS one of our energetic and
progressive business men and has
shown the abi lity and desire to kee-p
abreast of the t!mes in giving the
people of Phoe111x and, vicinity the.
best and purest goods, the mosl
orompt and courteous attention and
the lowest prices.
CHARLES WATTAWA
A business establishment which i
becoming one of the important mer­cantile
enterprises in Phoen ix is that
conducted by Mr. Charles Wattawa at
201-7 West Wa hington street, where
he has been located for a number of
:-rears. .~1r. Wattawa has had a most
mterestmg and varied career and his
by iness experience dates ba~k to the
time when he wa but a boy of J 1
years, at which early age he
filled a fulL hand's position in a saw
mill. He continued at work in vari­ous
capacities, and through these
early years wa an earnest student.
and b~ home st