Arizona republican., 1907-09-27
A TUCSON CITIZEN
 TALKS OF ARIZONA
Chas. H. Hoff Interviewed in Texas on
 Statehood and Territorial Prosperity.

Charles F. Hoff of Tucson has been visiting in Texas. in the neighborhoOd of Cuero where he has extensive prop erty interests. He was interviewed there about things in general in Ari- Zona and this is what was printed about it in the Galveston News:
 Hon. Charles F. Hoff of Tucson.
 Arizona. formerly of Yorktown. this county, is here with his wife and four children two sons and two daughters. guests of Mrs. Hoffs sister, Mrs. Hella Atkinson. Mir Hoff went 10 than coun-
 try in 1883 and has made good all along
 the line. being now q man of large
 means and known far and wide both
 as a business man and public man gen
 orally. He cast his first democratic
 vote in Texas for Ireland for governor
 in 1882 and has brought down a record
 for earnest. loyal support of the party
 of Jefferson since that time. having
 served as state party secretary of the
 territory as well as in the state organ
 ization to get statehood. Seeing the ef-
 forts at separate statehood would be long deferred he supported the effort al jointure with New Mexico. but the
 rest of representative Arizonians being so opposed to jointure. he did not push his position, with his oldtime vigor in public affairs. Now the legislature in territorial government without con stitution changes. enacts and re-enacts
 the laws SO much that there is no stability about them. being bound by no Constitutional limitations. MT. Hoff built the street car line system of Tue son and was its principal owner till he disposed of his controlling interests for lands when it was reorganlZed. II lS first class electrical system. In the electrical line MT. HOff considers the possibilities limitless, as in California and Arizona they are now leading cleo tricaI energy two hundred miles from the basis of generation. Such methods applied in Texas, he thinks. would work revolutions in this state.
 In the Tonto basin he says the fed eral government is damming a noun tain pass on Salt River ttributary Of the Gila river). where 2O0.0O0 acres of fine lands will be put under water and in a high state of cultivation. orange culture has proven great success in Arizona, the soil being the same as ,dlllOIllld anu ibh- ducive to its growth. MT. Hoff gives glowing accounts of alfalfa culture al Tucson, where he says General Man ming and Brewster Cameron, at one time interested in Arkansas Pass har- bor improvement, bought a thousand acres and put it under irrigation and planted to alfalfa. They cut it five times per year. get two tons per cutting and sell this readily at S20 per ton. They net from it S30.0O0 per annum. or 10 per cent clear on a valuation of s300. 600. When interroEated as to why they did not tackle onions with the big price Texas people were getting from them they replied that they already had their alfalfa going, understood 1t. and it was giving them no trouble and inn mense profits, so they were satisfied to stay with it. These gentlemen, he says. also make a great deal of money by grazing stock at certain periods on their alfalfa. as it does il no harm when properly managed. They also run large dairy lands. selling the milk by weight in bulk to others who retail it in the city.
 Mir. Hoff owns important land inter- ests in Texas-bay frontage around Rockport. lands in Nueces. Wilson. Colorado and other counties. and is looking for other such investments. as he considers Texas really like that Of Arizona. strictly a good proposition all along the line. He thinks New Mexico will now be admitted at once to statehood, as 1t is republican. and republican congress wants an early offset to the admission of Oklahoma with it's pronounced dem ocratic showin. but he fears good long wait is in store for Arizona.