Arizona republican., 1908-01-22

that land near Roswell. that did not compare with this valley. is selling for | $500 per acre Los Angeles he be- lieves is the proper center for this val 1 ley to work from. Mir. Kelly of the F. J. BennitJ company gave instances of men who had looked over California and this valley and settled here in preference. A notable case is J. H. Fleming. an orange grower for many years who is now at the head of the Phoenix association. and a compara- lively newcomer, Mir. Fleming being
 only one of many who might be named. He spoke of the great travel to the coast. It has been estimated
 that 40O,0OO people have gone into Los Angeles this season, and the larg-
 CT number of them have had money to
 invest if they saw anything that ap-
 pealed to them. Many have settled
 there but many others did not and
 many of them would have stopped in this valley, had they known Of its eX- istence and possibilities.
 Elliot Evans spoke of the twenty acre ranch as being the future money making farm in this valley and also of the present being the Opportune time to advertise. The time is ripe. Mir. Hahn spoke of the expense of such campaign as proposed but faV- cred it none the less and emphasized the necessity Of every one doing his part All must be cnthused and act in unison and as for the time. he said in his opinion it was not only ripe. but overripe. but there will always be an opportunity here for good investment. Mir. Jansen. Mir. Cowgirl. Mir. Landis and Mir. Goldsworthy also added their oratory to the sum total and others perhaps whose names were not se- cured.
 Then came the real testimony. the re- marks of Phoenix newest citizen. A. L. Waterhouse. Mir. Waterhouse said that he had been located in San Der nardino for some time. Desiring to make a change his wife suggested that he give Phoenix a loOk-over. It was his first intimatiOn that Arizona was fit place for a live man to make his home but his wife said she had met some Phoenix people and they were the best ever. so he decided to take a look at Phoenix. He arrived here Monday morning and has had his eyes open ever since. Yesterday he strolled into the meeting, got up and an nounced that this valley looked better to him than anything he ever saw in his life and he is here to stay. He had already instructed his California agent to dispose of all his property and just as soon as possible he proposes to own something in this section. If he goes away it will only be temporarily on business, and will come right back again and to demonstrate that he was not joking he walked up to the secre- tary's desk and put his name down as a member or the Phoenix and Mari copa county board of trade He said he had learned a whole lot in the pre- ceding 4 hours about how things are done here. and while he had heard lot about apathy and all that sort of thing he still believed Phoenix had the livest bunch of business men he had met in his travels. And he ought to be a judge for he is a business man himself. He believes that if the tour ists who visited California knew the truth. there would have been thou sands of them here this winter.
 one or lne lactS llal nave not been made sufficiently public, is that by an extra $3.50 the tourists having return trip tickets to the east. from California can stop over in this valley and take a look. Most of them do not know this and those who know it never meet anybooy in California to apprise them there is anything here worth stopping over to see. Messrs. Gold worthy and Landis spoke of these things and also of the probability of securing a weekly through sleeping car service between Los Angeles and Phoenix over their roads