Arizona republican., 1901-11-22

ly of the future of the valley. Captain Hill is an oid-timer in Arizona. com ing here in 1881. and secuted over the Arizona hills and plains for a num- Der of years quelling the uprisings of the Apaches and disturbances arising from the confederate soldiers from Texas. The column consisted of 16OO men. and they secured the plains of Arizona. Colorado and New Mexico. He was enthusiastic in his pleasure and surprise at the great strides Ari- zona has made in the intervening time. ''I never expected then to see this barren country actually flowing with milk and honery. and fairly teem- ing with the choicest civilization of the states. as I see it today" said he. ''I came out here and helped to make d territory of Arizona and now, forty years later, I have come out to help you make a state of IL, and expect to make it my home. and if possible, the home of my people,
 Mir. Maxwell was formerly treasurer of Crawford county. Kan. and in com pany with MT. Risk has visited Utah and California. looking for location, and they are so favorably impressed with this valley that they have about determined to make their home here and also help to make a state of our territory They are all citizens that this paper likes to welcome to our valley and city. for it is to such men of brains and means that we must look to develop the territory.
 The mass meeting held in the Mesa opera house last night was by fa-lthe largest and most enthusiastic Fever held here in the interests of the sugar beet enterprise. and from the nature of the remarks made and the interest ma lrnfF +aI -,1, they were "all of one mind" in that the sugar beet proposition was. as expressed by Bishop Johnson. the beet sugar expert from Provo, '.the best proposition ever presented to the peo- pie of Arizona
 The meeting was called to order by MT. E. A. Fowler of the Phoenix and Maricopa county board of trade who briefly stated the object of tine meet ing and set forth the great value of the industry. when once established. would be to the coming state of Ari- zona- He declared that he had been working on this proposition for q long time. because he saw in it a powerful aid to water storage, which was the paramount issue before the people of this valley at the present time. He said; With the sugar beet factory in the valley dispensing $500. 900 among the citizens of the valley: with the transcontinentaI road which is as sure to go through in the next three years as the sun will shine tomorrow: with storage reservoirs holding the heavy rains in the hills until We can utilize it all: and all of it I verify believe will ta ke place in the next five years, We will enter on an era of prosperity that was never dreamed of by the citizens of our commonwealth. Property will Increase in value 100 per cent: and to obtain all of these all we need to do is to say come to the sugar beet people, and they're ours He referred to the contracts required by the com pany. and introduced Mir. SampseII the representative of the Eastern Su- gar company. who explained that it was absolutely necessary that con tracts aGgregating 5000 acres must be had by the goth of December. to en- able the company to arrange their contracts so as to get machinery on the ground by March next. which is necessary in order that the mill will be in running order for the beet crop in 1902. If the contracts are not forth coming at the time stated, the com pany will declare it all off.
 President C. R. flakes. who had re- gently visited the Lehi sugar factory at the request of the board of trade while on his trip to Utah. from which he returned last Sunday gave some very interesting details of that factory. and fifures throwing great light on the subject. He said in the factory at Lehi there is 5000 tons of machinery which cost s1.OOO, 900. Dur ing the eleven years that the plant has been in operation the land upon which the beets were raised has increased 100 per cent in valua ation: during that time it has averaged from eighty t. ninety thousand tons of beets yearly with an average output of r 900. 900 of as fine sugar as can be found. It's daily runs 1000 tons producing 24.000 pounds of sugar.
 MT. Austin. the foreman of the fac tory, who drove me over the beet dis trict gave me the figures on his farn said President Flakes: he having hired all the work done at q cost s39.15 per acre, his yield on fifteen acres was an average of nineteen tons. netting him S46.5O per acre. the gross output being