Arizona republican., 1905-11-10
CHANCE FOR INVESTORS Either Man With Money or
 Man With Hoe Thousands of Acres of Sugar Beet Land, We'll Watered and for Sale at Original Settlers Prices.

It is often asserted that even the people of Arizona themselves do not appreciate the value of their own re-
 sources, and no better illustration of
 that truth can be found than the facts
 concerning alfalfa seed, which facts will be surprising for even the home people to read about. One often hears talk about raising alfalfa, the total hay product, etc, and in such discus sions there is seldom mentioned the matter of alfalfa seed, a little by product of such seeming unimportance it attracts no attention. But it may be worth while to note just now that in this valley there has been threshed this year 100000 pounds of alfalfa seed now quoted at ten cents, a total
 valuation of $70,0O0. And this seed is only from one crop of alfalfa, the last of the season, usually. The fields are | usually cut two or three times before for hay, after which the last crop is allowed to fully mature and is tnresh- ed for seed. Some eight or ten car loads of this years seed have already
 been shipped away to other markets.
 And the incident also serves to at tract attention to a land area on the
 south side that has hitherto been somewhat neglected by the press and by the people engaged in showing up | the good points in this valley. That is the region surrounding Mesa City and lying largely to the south of that town. From the ranches of A. J. Chandler
 alone, 135,0O0 pounds of alfalfa seed
 was threshed this year, and attention | is called in the same breath to the fact that MT. Chandler's fields are at the same time so thickly dotted with haystacks that the blackbirds get lost
 in flying among them. showing that he is suffering no hay shortage while
 saving a few dollars worth of seed These ranches embrace about 5000 acres, and are irrigated by wells alone They are not all devoted to the raising of alfalfa, however, and there is no
 section more fitted for the raising of
 sugar beets than right in that vicinity. The lesson of the above is that there is no better place for the investor or
 the agriculturist to prospect around in
 than in that particular territory. There are thousands of acres in that neigh borhood which may be described as
 the pumping belt and which are also
 under two or three canals, according | to the location, giving the buyer his OI ellH6T SOTl OI AS
 mentioned above, the land is unexcell- ed for beet raising and it is one sec tion where sufficient water is guar
 anteed for raising beets, even in the dryest years. If one proposes to en- gage extensively in melon growing or
 alfalfa raising, which requires more
 water, he ought, of course, to have a
 pumping plant to be safe, but he need l hay nf n rl ci1r1plU beets without it. And beet culture is
 the attractive thing just now, for it
 mas been demonstrated that the beets
 can be successfully grown and the
 market for them has been supplied;
 more than that is guaranteed.
 The sugar company has contracted
 to pay the same price for beets in Me
 sa City that it will pay in Glendale, | so the question of proximity to the
 factory is eliminated. There are two
 railroad lines between Mesa and Phoe-
 nix, and in all conveniences there is
 equal opportunity on the south side for the agriculturist with that of the north | side or anywhere else.
 And this land can now be bought for | from $25 an acre up, according to To- | cation. Much of it has been in cultiva- i tion before, but allowed to go back to
 desert during the years of scant water 1 supply, before the beet crop was possi- ] ble and before the pumping idea had 1 been developed here. Lands no better 1 than these beyond the north side
 pumping belt and under less favorable
 water conditions at the present time,
 that formerly changed hands at $15 an | acre, are now held at from $50 to $100 an acre. This south side region can support a population twenty times as great and investors do not know what they are overlooking in passing by
 this natural garden spot. Much of the
 land is held by non-residents, who are
 not familiar with changed conditions, or who do not intend to live in this country. Many of them are willing to | dispose of at least part of their hold | ings at less than its real value and it | is about the last to be had at bed rock
 or original prices in the pumping and | canal belt. Much of this land it is un-
 derstood is listed already with the | Phoenix and Mesa City real estate
 men, who will overlook their oppor-
 tunity if they fail to direct attention
 to it. And the investor might do him. self a good turn by making inquiry i concerning that part of the valley.
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