Arizona republican., 1905-11-12
AIIRACIIVENESS OF
 SOUTH SIDE LANDS
Thousands of Acres, Sites of Happy
 and Profitable Homes.

w. T. Smith was seen yesterday for a little talk about southside lands, in line with an article in these columns a few days ago. MT. Smith said that all that the Republican published in re- gard to the matter was true and con servatively stated. He said he was one of the largest land owners in that section and was not sorry for it. He has invested from time TG time as op- portunity offered until he now had more land than any one man could take care of himself, and still the rest of it looks good to him.
 There are still several thousand acres however that can be had for from twenty to thirty dollars per acre, as good land as ever lad out doors and the man who wants land for any pur- pose, either as an investment or to till himself. will overlook one of the chances that are becoming rare Tn this valley, if he gives that section the go-by.
 Mir. Smith reiterated that it all lies under one canal or another and some of it under two or three ditches, while all of it is in a good pumping coun- try. The water table varies from twenty to forty feet below the sur d can be economically pumped and to Q good profit for many crops. Using Q canal augmented with pumped water, there can be no shortage even in drouthy years and in an ordinary sea son ample water can be had by either system alone.
 The land is adapted for raising all most everything from garden truck to no lot hnx been more profitably cultivated there than in most places. A case in point is that of Ole Oleson, not the man in the play but a real southside farmer who is making a success of life. He has a section of land and started it's cultivation only a few years ago, largely by means of a pumping plant He has made the farm pay for itself and erstwhile has a pretty good stand ing with the bank cashiers of the county. He isn't the only one either for industry. good judgment and just little bit of money to work with will make any farmer in that neighborhood indeDendent
 This land is not only under the ca nal systems and well situated for pumping, but is also within the reser- voir district, so if desirable the the owner may have the same reservoir advantages as the owners of other lands in the valley, but it is better situated than much of the other and for immediate use for it has reliable sources of water supply without the reservoir. which will not be able to supply water at the earliest before the second crop season yet to come.
 As mentioned above there is no bet ter place for raising garden truck. al- falfa or general crops, but just at this time special attention shoulc be given by agriculturists to the raising of sug- ar beets. There are two reasons for this, one being that the beet crop of- fers larger profits than almost any other and can be raised with less wat CT. The other is that if the beet crop offers equal inducements, which it does, the farmers should all plant some acreage to beets if only to help en- courage a good thing. The value to this valley of beet sugar factory in successful operation is admitted by eV- erybody and now that the farmers can help the thing along by planting beets those who have lands adapted to that crop should be eager to do so, for it will most likely be a splendid invest ment for themselves. And it is a fact that if enough beets are grown next year to make success of the factory, a large part of them will have to be