Arizona republican., 1907-12-25

pany are found in the cases of the Phoenix dealers. It is also true that Mir. Nroman comes once in a while from Palatine. ILL. where he has half interest in q number or fine race horses The other half belongs to Charles Dean. who drove lne space maker for Dan Patch during the fair. MT Vroman formerly had some large stables at Wheaton, but decided to send the horses over to Palatine. " here MT. Dean has two large farms and stables. and has in training about l3O head of fine horses. Probably fifty of them belong to Mir. Dean, some of them young stock. and the rest be- long to others Tor whom he is train ing them. for Mir Dean is accounted a top notch driver. About ten of the Dean horses are already considerably known to fame on the various tracks of the country.
 As a business man MT. Vroman is we'll known in Chicago and either per sorally or through his partnerships he holds close relations with some of the largest business men of the city, among them various hotel proprietors. etc. these being specifically mention ed for later reference. These things are stated merely to show that Mir. Vroman is the kind of a man il will not hurt Arizona to have for friend and he unnesitatingly states at this writing that he is stuck on the coun- try"
 Mir. Nroman came down here last winter to look things over. He only intended to stay fifteen days. but he remained seventy-five days. and some body got hold of him and loaded him up with patch of l60 acres. He re- gardS that as good turn. and is now sorry he wasn't struck twice as hard. He was too busy 10 get away early this year. but he sent the family town befora the fair. and the daughters have been writing him ever since to hurry up and get here. for he was overlooking the best part of his life. That shows how the family feels about the Salt river valley.
 Mir Nroman says that since his visit d year ago he has been enthusi- astic about Arizona. He quotes many instances where he undertook to tell his friends about Salt river valley or nnges. cantaloupes. etc. and was
 
 way he could convince them was to go to the fruit stores and buy the Salt river valley fruit and take it to his friends in the original wrappers and show them. In one instance Ie Was dining in one of the leading hotels of the city with the proprietor. stew ard and others. and he asked if they ever had any Arizona cantalOupes. They had never heard of them. or. if they had they supposed they were in ferior. He wagered a hat that they brought better prices than Rocky Ford. and proved II. The joke of it was that he ordered cantaloupe at the same meal. wrapper and all. and when il Was served there was an Arizona wrapper on it. Later he proved the question of price The hotel people supposed they were using Rocky Ford melons. having never examined the wrappers. He relates similar snci- dents in respect of oranges. proving first that the valley products are get ting a foOthold, and secondly that q lot of good. live business men in Chi cago are coming to appreciate the fact that MT. Vroman is helping to open their eyes.
 One instancs Is to the point. Mir. Nroman is intimately acquainted with the management of the dining car ser vice on the Chicago Northwestern Last spring he told the man. ager to try Arizona cantaloupes. He did so. and thereafter would have no other when he could get the melons from this valley. Regarding the or-1 angcs MT. VrOman thinks the valley has rather overlooked Chicago hereto fore. as one dealer said he had not been able 10 get Arizona fruit for three [, years until q shipment finally got in there. and he thought it must have been by accident.
 But. with all his other business af- fairs. MT. Nroman is chiefly a horse man bv instinct He likes good horses and likes to drive them. During tho last summer he made pretty fine