Arizona republican., 1903-10-15
EZRA w. THAYER 127133 Adams Street
 RE1EMRE ERTTEw wTTTE HoRs I FRONT

will keep busy a large force of ma
 chinists to be brought from the cast
 especially for that purpose. But while
 the construction work is going on as
 fast as possible it is announced that
 it will take, even with the many men employed. the entire winter and next
 spring to complete the factory and fit
 it for operations next May.
 And what this enterprise means for the Salt River va.iey no one can really
 conceive. It is certain though that it
 means orly good things. The only
 doubt is the measure of prosperity;
 whether it will be great. or more.
 Hundreds of columns have been writ ten about it and other hundreds of columns will yet be written before even the home people fully realize the benefits that must follow. And the re- suits are already being felt in stimu lated values all over the valley, in quickening sales and property trans fers and in the rapid contracting of the farmers to raise sugar beets. More
 than that Glendale has got her little local boom nicely under way. There | is not now a single house for rent in | Glendale, and the demand is not mat. Every availa ble structure in that town has been turned into a lodging house | or domitory. It is said that in many | rooms from four to eight men are now sleeping and cots are being placed
 wherever a human can find comfort able quarters from possible stormy weather. Beside many of the men em- ployed at the factory have placed their cots there many Of them sleeping in
 the open. The boarding house and hotel l business in Glendale is booming. The | latter is not booming so fast for the l hotels are too small to do a very large | business but they have all they can attend to and would have even if they were much larger. While this may at | first thought seem to be a transient | boom and to some extent may be it is | more permanent than many ina zine. it | Is good for a year at least and after that for large part of each year. The 1 construction force will probably be larger rather than smaller from now on till the beet season begins. Then comes the sugar making making force | during the summer season and the | farm hands that will have to be en- ployed from next spring on for large
 part of the year will give the town a fair measure of prosperity permanent l ly. With a years boom assured to start with the prospects are surely al l turing to the town of Glendale.
 | To the farmers not only around | Glendale but all over the valley the beet industry promises much even be- 1 fore the resrvor is constructed for it is
 an assured fact that in beet culture
 more can be made out of the present
 water supply than in the raising of
 almost anything else. The main thing now Is to plant beets and not orly reap | the benefits offered but help the fac ! tory 10 a successful issue in it's under | taking. With large beet cIop it is ! sure of success and there is no danger
 of glutting the market as has some
 times occurred with other crops. The
 factory is willing and anxious to con- ! tract to buy all the beetS that will be | raised and can afford to do so for it cannot get too many and it might not
 get as many as it would like to have.
 The whole industry at this time seems
 to be a sort of cooperative institu- ton even though all parties are pri-
 marily working for their selfish per-
 sonal interest.
 Incidentally the agriculturists of the i Sugar company are working under the Maricopa canal this week and report | says with most fiattering results as
 the farmers generally are making con- tracts