Arizona republican., 1905-04-18

 held at from $500 to $500 per acre and it isn't a whit better than the orange land here that goes begging at $6O.
 He also went to the Ventura lima bean country where people are paying $25O an acre for land and making good interest on their money. And 1t is no better than Salt River valley land and the beans will grow as well here as there if somebody will take the time and trouble to plant them.
 With the soil, climate, conditions here and with water storage assured. and the railroads and sugar factory straining every nerve 70 get here as fast as they can, there will be no bet ter place in the entire west for mon eymaking for the next ten years at least. People ought not to allow every little incident connected with the working out of these problems, to in terfere with their peace of mind or to weaken their faith, for the situation has got beyond the point of mere hope, it Is now beginning to transform into fact.
 MT. Walker said there was one thing he desired to have emphatically de- nied. and that is that he is getting
  ing of an office in Los Angeles is the first move. He says it is true that many people offered him fattering in ducements to go to Los Angeles but he has grubbed along here till the good times are knocking at the door and he don't propose to run away just when prosperity is coming along to distrib ute the rewards for previous effort. Not that he wouldn't like to live in Los Angeles and not that he couldn't make some money if he went there, but he feels sure that he can make more here and take pleasure in doing it. His Los Angeles office is situated at 390 Wilcox building. opposite the Hollenbeck hotel and he has the best reasons in the world for maintaining it. To begin with he has secured the right kind of a man there to run it. He feels sure that the office will pay expenses during nine or ten months of the year and he will probably run over there a little while every summer and will have a headquarters and a place to do business while he is there. He says work with him is not labor but recreation, providing he can secure little change of air and scene occa- sionally and he thinks Los Angeles Is just the place. But there is another reason. Those California people who are so enthusiastic over Arizona are not the kind who sleep on their op- portunities. It is Mir Walkers belief that there will be as much California money invested in Arizona in the next few years as will come from any other five states in the country Both those who have profted during the change that has come ever that section and those who like many people here are doing now, slept on their opportunities. are alive to the situation. Those who have made money want more, and those who were of little faith do not propose to turn a deaf ear to the second chance. These people want to keep closely in touch with the good things here. Mir. Walker wants to be one of the agen- cies for this campaign of education and he don't expect to lose anything by it. In the meantime he will have a good place to work in just as hard as he wants to during his periods of vacation.
 During his late visit he sold the lot adjoining the location of his Phoenix office, and which belonged to Judge H. C. Gooding of Los Angeles, to Robert F. CfalS. the cohSlueFdlloH hdileu De- ing $5000 He also completed two oth- CT transactions the papers for which have not been recorded. Incidentally he had the finest kind of a time visit ing with the many friends he already knew and forming new acquaintances. His trip over was rather a novel eX- perience He left here on Saturday, March 16. during the time that traffic on the railroads was impeded and 1t took him until II o'clock Monday night to get to Los Angeles. At one place in northern Arizona the train was stalled between two freight wrecks during a magnificent snow storm. the first he had seen for eleven years.