Arizona republican., 1907-06-19

take will he necessarily turn around and knock this valley or will he put his shoulder to the wheel to help drag himself out of the mire? But no matter what his feelings at the time it would be but a few months till the rapidly improving conditions in this valley would convince him that he was the favored child of fortune and not the victim of a gold brick scheme.
 Besides does anyone imagine for one moment that our present water supply is not sufficient for three times the population we have today and that any new corners are dependent abso- lutely, on stored water? Is it not a fact that on five acres of land with water and with work a large family can easily make a living. not by rais- ing grain or watching alfalfa grow. but by intensive cultivation. Ask strawberry growers what the gross value of their crop is; sSSO per acre. What are the cantaloupe growers of Mesa making per acre on their crop? Two hundred dollars per acre net. Is it then true that anyone coming to this valley now must lie idle. starve or leave because of lack of water? With $500 and an ability and a will ingness to work any man can get a start here today. And for a man with out a dollar and a willingness to work no better opportunity is afforded any where. The demand and price for la
 bor is higher here than almost any where else on the continent today. The If lah f, A,-at b.a. IL which should be overcome.
 In other words there is no class of people for whom We cannot legiti mately advertise at this time except those who have neither money nor in clination to work. People with wealth. with brains or with brawn should all find attractions here. So why not ad- vertise for them at once and away with this talk about "too early to ad- vertise." These people who say that it is too early to advertise now will before long say that it is too late. You find them in every community and so we must expect them here. So let us not heed their cry but let us begin doing our part in transforming our valley by advertising it into Garden of Eden. It is needless to say that the best place to begin is at home. The knockers must be silenced and if possible be converted into boosters. To this end every man in favor of progress should constitute himself a committee of one. thoroughly familiar iZe himself with our conditions and thereby first convince himself what this valley really is. that he may talk with conviction and sincerity. It Is remarkable how little our own people how the mere study of facts in rela- tiOn thereto, will make optimists out know of this valley and its future and of the most rabid pessimists. Once convinced himself. let every man do a little missionary work and use every opportunity for boosting and for silencing the kickers.
 We in this valley have a medium of which without cost can be made a powerful aid along this line. It is especially true of this commun- ity that every summer a large per centage of our population leave the valley for California or other parts of the country. In California. especially, is it important for us to blow our own horn. as Californians are not over modest in their own claims. And back in our home towns north. east, west or south among our boyhood friends and