Bisbee daily review., 1908-05-01
COCH|SE SLOW IN BOOSTING
 ITS ADVANTAGES
f Development in Farming Line Is to Come, Citizens Will Have to Wake Up and Get Move On.

Uet mOVc Uil-
 Tt is said that the Lord helps those who help themselves" sa'd a promi- nent business man Of Douglas in discussing what Douglas could have | If she went after it in the right spirit. The conversation came up over the subject of the National Irrigation Con gress sand Interstate Industrial Expo sition, which is to be held at Albuquer. l que in September of this year. Along the same line of conversation rhis gen i tleman stated: "If Cochise county is to develop her agricultural resources. either by dry farming or hy higstion, she will have to wake up and ask for lsomething This valley has been here l in practically its present condition; that is everything outside of Douglas and a small strip tributary, for great many years Histories differ little, 1 but it is safe to guess a few million, Eanyway,a nd nothing Lut few cattle, some Indians, jackrabbits. etc, have made visits. Here we have as good valley; that is the soil is as good as anywhere. Experiments show that when irrigated, we can raise almost anything. farming is also very popular and is working wonders in ] the countries where they are using it. There is no reason why Cochise county is not as well adapted to dry farming as other sections of the arid west. l Now, don't you know we are asleep. | Did any one ever know os q bunch of boosters going cut boosting for Co., chise county? Did anyone ever hear 1 lof anyone asking for immigrants to come here, for homesteaders to settle up the government lands here? In other parts of the great southwest all of these things are asked for and they are getting them. It all goes into the
 same old pot. Theya sked for it and
 same old pot They asked for it and
 we don't get it. Take for instance,
 those valleys in northern and, eastern
 New Mexico and western Texas. All lof those little towns are booming. Peo- Iple are coming in every day and com ling with money. The merchants are
 getting money all the time from these outside sources. Then again, farmers
 have to have supplies and they spend
 their money. They go out and plant
 the seed, cultivate the crops, gather them and come into town with the crops and money. Farmers are like
 miners, they originate wealth, bat
 farmers can originate wealth because Wall street don't control the sunshin., nor the rainfall, but it does regulate the price of minerals.
 1 q don't mean to say that farming | is so much better than mining, be- cause the mining industry is all right, ! but We Of Douglas and Cochise colni- ! ty have both. We don't have to de- | pend on one or the other, but we can tdepend on both, and if our farms were developed here today any stringency ! in the money market would be very
 slightly felt here in Douglas. The mines and smelters distribute large amounts of money and if the employees who spend that money spent it, or a large part of it, with the farmers for
 supplies, the money would stay at home and we would always have lots of wealth here in Douglas. As it is, look at the thousands of dollars that go out of Ts1uglas every month tob uy
 supplies which We can just as well
 raise right here at home.
 U "Cochise county has the greatest ad- Ivantages in the world, but we can do
 a great deal to develop these advant-
 ages by getting out and rustling a lit
 tie. Let us enlighten the world with
 the fact that We actually possess these
 advantages. We have been staying here at home content within ourselves, thinking We were getting the pulmbs, l but we are not. Every other section
 is advertising their advantages and
 to the person looking for a location they look very much alike, unless he
 sees some locality which has the nat
 ural advantages. And it must be re-
 membered also thstin this day and age of publicity and advertising the
 man looking for location is not com ,pelled to go about and look for htera- ture showing the glowing advantages
 of places to settle. They are brought Il EISNI tO Hil1 anu IIle iOCttlltlSS NhlSi ! get their stuff to him generally get
 him.
 Right along these lines I wish to
 say that I saw letter today which
 the secretary of the Chamber of Com Imerce had from the National Irriga-
 ton Congress and Industrial Exposi-
 tion secretary of Albuquerque. That
 big exposition is going to be the big, .i gest thing that ever took place in the southwest. Thousands and thousands of people are going to be there from
 all parts of the world and every sec, tion of the entire arid west is going to be there, and if Cochise county is not there. who will ever know that
 Douglas or the Sulphur Springs valley lis in existence? Such low rates are lgoing to be made into Albuquerque