Arizona republican., 1903-09-29

acre. according to what it will pro- duce and rainfall is depended upon all most entirely for water supply. But even at that farmers are making 10 per cent net on their investment by raising sugar beets. The output that goes to the Oxnard factory this year will aggregate 100000 tons and the av- craze price paid is s per ton. The lands produce from twelve to twenty tens of beets per acre, which, if any thing, is a lower production than that estimated by the experts who con- ducted experiments last year should be produced here Further, the percent age of saccharine in the Arizona beets is. according to the same experiments, higher than in California. and it is this percentage that fixes the value of the product equally as much as the tonnage. The beets when hauled to the OXnard factory are tested at once for quality and payment is made on the spot. Experts say it takes sunshine to make sugar and Phoenix certainly has more sunshine than Oxnard. Then, too, is the need of water supply at the right time.
 OXnard does pretty well or the farm CTS would not be getting rich. but the people of this valley have prospects for much better and morS reliable supply. Under present conditions the beet business offers more than almost anything else, and with the Tonto SUD- ply available it's a cinch. The OXnard lands owned by the company are leased to the farmers on a scale graduated according to their productive power, the rentals being paid when the crop is harvested. And the leasers as well as landowners are making good money.
 Now comes MT. Walkers deduction which leads to the slogan plant beets'' 1 That is, if lands worth $500 an acre will pay q dividend of 10 per cent, what may be expected of equally as good or better lands now worth only from $50 to S100 per acre, in a better climate f0: saccharine development and gross ton age and with an assured water supply when the grower wants it?
 And that brings up again the reser- voir project. MT. Walker says that California people seem to be almost as much enthused over the Tonto enter prise as the Phoenix people. They are all talking about it, for they realize that Arizona is Southern California s legitimate back country They know that Arizona'S s prosperity is their pros
 perity. and he says he thinks from their interest in the matter that they appreciate the conditions here and the glowing prospects for the future even more than do the Phoenix people. He thinks that if the full magnitude of the opportunities were appreciated every | body would be raising beets who had an acre of land they would grow on. While away MT. Walker made the ac- quaintance of a number Of California people who have investments in this valley as we'll as many former Ari- ZOnians who are interested here. Among those he met frequently were NJ H. Sherman. He says MT. Sherman showed him a number of invoices for pipe for the Phoenix city water works He assured MT. Walker that the new plant would be all that is claimed for it and that he would furnish the city with good system and the best oi service regardless of the expense MT. Walker says also that he believes Mir. Sherman Is deeply in earnest and will ] fulfill his promises.