Arizona republican., 1908-04-01

big advance. And meanwhile YOU see, if you invest SlO.000 now at $1.O00 an acre, you will have drawn at two per cent, reckoning only at simple interest. the neat sum of thirty-two billion dol lars to help keep the children in school and have piano in the house to make home pleasant for them.
 You will pull down twenty dollars a year for every acre of land you own here under these new government ditches. That is two per cent on $1.00O but if you can buy the land for $50 an acre you will make the same money and that is forty per cent year on your investment.
 Just now you can pick up quite lot of this Salt River valley land at S50 an acre if you wont rush out and go bidding at the top of your voice and shaking your wad over your head Now forty per cent year on l60.- 0O0. 000 year investment is what the boys at the brick yard would call q soft snap Why just see what your $l0.0O0 at forty per cent would fetch into the family in 160.0O0, 900 years. Six hundred and forty billion dollars. Your family would be in the Morgan Rockefeller class by that time. You might make money faster perhaps. buying into a good copper mine but copper mine is no place to bring up a family and wealth is not all we live for.
 ARIZONA LEADS THE WORLD.
 IL is true Arizona leads the world in copper mining and thousands of pretty fortunes have been made by our peo- pie in the industry. but show me the Arizona family that has ever made six hundred and forty billions of dol lars by copper mining. Show me the Arizona copper mine that has paid an average net profit of even two per cent for 6O,00O.OOO years. No. in the long run there is nothing like the land. You can raise an awful lot of fool stuff on 310.000 acres ol land, es- pecially where the soil is strong father and the climate a kind encOur- aging mother to crops; yes it is as tonishing what a lot Gf stuff to eat you can raise on 31O,OO0 acres in a sub- tropical climate where roses bloom in the open in January and you can plant two or three crops year.
 A WHEAT COUNTRY.
 This Salt River valley is good wheat country, if you care for wheat. IT will produce 40 bushels to the acre with good farming. That is 12.000.OOO bushels if you plant all the land to wheat. But of course it will not pay to raise so cheap a crop as wheat on land worth s10OO an acre.
 AND SWEET POTATOES.
 It is the best sweet potato land in the world and will produce 500 bushels ] to the acre. If you plant the whole , valley to sweet potatoes you can raise ] 1S6. .0Oo. .000 bushels and at fifty cents a bushel the crop would be worth $93- l 060. .O00. They retail for $50 a bush {, el all over the United States. A net ! profit of three cents a bushel would 1. pay the interest on the cost Of the land ' at S1.0o0 an acre. There ought to be | no trouble in clearing a net profit of | three cents bushel on sweet pota- { toes, and of course there would not be. !
 AND, OH. ORANGES.
 This valley produces. owing to the . dryness of the air and the brightness , of the sunshine. the Sweetest and most | finely colored oranges in the world. l They are the earliest oranges on the ] market and bring the highest prices. ! You can plant ninety trees to the acre and each tree will produce when in full fruitage, an average of 800 oranges worth two cents 1 a piece. boxed. Then the value Of the | crop with all tine land planted to | oranges stands thus. 31OO0O (acres) x | go Urees) \ 5000 Coranges) x (cts.) 1 S279,OOO, ,OO0.
 That makes our little old S67, ,OO0, 900 | output of gold. silver and copper look | lonesome, doesn't it? But of course l not all of the ground is prime orange ! soil and you could not sell SO many ,