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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-21
CLEVELAND STRIKE IS
 PRACTICALLY AT AN END

morrow. In the meantime 1t was further stated that there would be an armistice and that the strikers would be advised to return to work tomorrow. Violence ceased to be a prominent fac tor in the strike during the day and evening. Mayor Johnson issued a proc lamation offering rewards for informa- tion leading to the arrest and convic- tion of persons placing explosives on the tracks.
 Fifteen thousand signatures to the petition for an election of the Cleve- land Electric society grant ordinance Will be obtained before Monday night, 1t Is predicted. The petitions will be filed with the city clerk, after which vote of the people must be taken.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-21
Coal Strike Is Settled.

Kansas City, May 20.-After 70 days of negotiations, the coal mining trou- bles of the south west. wssere 35,o00 men are upon a strike. were practi- cally ended today when the joint sub committee of the operators and miners reached an agreemnt on the wage scale and working conditions. It Is expected that the miners will go back to work next Monday m ming, under the wage scale and condit 1ns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-21
CAUGHT IN MEXICO.
imposed Italian EmbezzIer Is Taken T Into Custody.

ACity of Mexico, May 20.--News of an f kest was made public today follow
 receipts of dispatch which stated n ] Luis Sargosi Bernard. wealthy Nalan banker of Montreal, Canada, who Is accused of embedding 150,000 kfrancs, was believed to have sought refuge here.
 An Italian answering the description md whose cards bear the name of Luis 8ernard was taken into custody.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-21
Gould Defeats PlnnelI.

London, May 20-Jay Gould of New York defeated J. H. Pinnell, former Brit ish champion in the preliminaries to the Olympic court contests at Queens club today. The young American won in three sets straight. MT. Gould showed general superiority over his opponent at every stage of the contest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-21
Bank of Mceee Is Closed.

Magee, Miss, May 20.-The Bank of Magee closed its doors today and it's affairs will probably be liquidated. The bank has a capital of $20,000, surplus $10,- coo and deposits of about s70,000
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-21
SUMTER.

Livingston, May 2O-(Special.)-T cleo ton in Sumter county resulted in Bryan victory. Johnson only carried four out of 20 beats. Bilbro and Mayfield lead for supreme court judges. A. C. Thomas de- feated Fred H. Jones for tax collector. There was no opposition for superin- tendent of education. assessor and treas urer. It will take the official count to decide for county commissioners.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-21
cOOSA.

Rockford, May 2O-tSpecial. )-The vote between Bryan and Johnson in this coun- ty is close, though all beats are not re- ported. It is believed that Johnson will lead by a small majority. Following is the vote for county offices:
 For tax assessor, Elizie l.. Boyett 543 A. M. Selman 343. For tax collector, T. P. Cranford 173. H. G. Newell 464, R. A. Suttle 250. For superintendent of educa- tion, John H. Johnson 2S4 lief Sox 6O5. For county treasurer, J. A. Brown 17S Frank H. Ellis 337, M l.. White, 2s6.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-21
CLAY.

Ashland, May 20.-(Special.) 1.-The pri- mary election passed off quietly in Clay and about 1500 votes were cast. Bryan and Bryan delegates swept the county by handsome majorites. The following county officers were nominated: J. T. Bonner, tax collector; F. G. Mccain. tax assessor; w. J. Green. treasurer; l.. Left wich, superintendent of education.
 Mayfield and Chiffon are leading for supreme court justices The greatest in- terest was manifested in the race between c. s. Cornelius and Walter s. Smith for presidential eector from the Fifth dis trict Cornelius received 1137 votes and Smith 234, giving MT. Cornelius ma jority of over 900 votes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-21
WASHINGTON.

St. Stephens, May (Special.)-A very quiet election here Monday. On account of very heavy rain in the
 
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-21
LIM ESToNE

Athens, May 2o.-tSpecial.)- lowing to the fact that the state ticket was not counted in any of the boxes of the coun- ty until Tuesday, 1t has been impossible to get returns from the boxes of the county. The box at Athens was complet- ed last night with the following result: Bryan 257, Johnson 73. Booker 221. Clay ton 251. Cunningham 115, Hefin 266. Kyle 96, Moody 56, Tomlinson 25S, Brown 26S, Jones 267. Maner 271, Rainer 271, Clay 311, Walker 3l4, Brown 2SS, Pride 2sS. O'Neal 304, Pugh 265, Rountree 6S, Cray son 276 Inzer 262, Brickel 2ss, Aston 196, Bilbro 21, Chiffon 19, Lusk S9, Mayfield 30, Simpson 2S7, Henderson 303, Mastin 6l, Wallace 25l. Richardson 3l7. The of- ficial vote will be made up Saturday. which will be as soon as the county vote can be accurately obtained. Some beats in the county did not hold any state election at all, hence the vote for state officers in the county will not be as large as the vote for county officers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-21

American Turbine Engine Go. repre- sentative at Hotel HIlIman today.
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01

of March. and that season I raised three crops Of corn on the same ground. and of course harvested each crop for green corn or roasting ears and sold it at an average of ten cents per dozen ears. Amounting to one hundred and fifty dollars per acre for the season The corn was the small Indian or native variety. similar to the sugar corn grown in the eastern states for the table. Afterwards. hear ing of the big money my neighbors were realizing raising melons, I con- cluded to try my hand at that indus try. I chose a piece of ground I thought best suited. Gan old alfalfa pasture) and by strict account sold six hundred and nineteen dollars and sixty cents from three acres (rneasured) or over S200 per acre. Others claim to have done even better than this. but this Is actual figures. I have also tested cantaloupes and find them to net about the same per acre as melons. I am now trying strawberries and find the returns from this industry equals the melons and canteloupes
 Another of my neighbors claim the asparagus crop beats any thing he has tried and he is an old melon grower. Sweet potatoes grow to perfection here and of the finest quality. In fact Mir. Editor. after having been born and raised on farm and having travel ed over the greater part of the farming section of the Union. I am free to de- clare the Salt River valley. the farm CTS paradise. The possibilities of this valley are simply unlimited, and all that is necessary for the farmer to succeed here is a proper amount of brains and muscle well applied. and now Mir. Editor I have tried to be conservative in my statements and should any of your readers wish to question me further all they have to do is to address. yours truly
 JOHN C. JACKSON. R. F. D. No. l.
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rest in grain each year. The alfalfa and hay from it furnishes feed for my dairy stock. as dairying is my prinei- pal business. However last year I sold $50 sacks of barly from 25 acres at s1.30 per sack, realizing for me s455. This same field of course furnished good feed for the cows a few weeks of the spring. as well. I have forty milk cows which I value at an average of s6G. each. My income from these cows amounts to $25O to $50 a month Then I always feed the skinned milk to hogs, and I average $500 a year on the sale of hogs. In February l sold a nineteen months old hog that weighed on the scales in town, 545 pounds. for which l received five cents per pound. This was less than hogs usually bring. in fact I sold some for as much as eight cents per pound last fall Another source of income is that derived from the sale of calves, which bring from 8 to S10 each.
 have one hired man that pay S30 a month all the year. The rest of the work l do myself.
 J. D. SMITH.
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01
Yours very truly
 H. E. LEHMAN. Glendale. Ariz. March 9. 1908.
Arizona

To the Editor of The Arizona
 Republican,
 have realized over $:O. 100000 from my ranch of forty acres during the ten years of my residence on it. Being near the river the soil of the ranch is of rich sandy loose nature favorable to berries and melons which are my principal crops
 Last year l cleared $3.O00.00. By that I mean I had that much more money at the close of the year than l did at the beginning. I sold a little over S5.5000 worth of produce. spent something like s25Co for labor, living and travel. My principal crop each year is strawberries. From q three acre patch. last year I picked 29,G00 boxes. The selling prize was from ten to thirty cents per box. The pickers got two and a half tents per box. These plants were one and two years old
 Last year I also sold. $500 worth of melons from five hcre piece of ground. the larger part. of the receipts being from the early melons. Early melons on the market, of course, yield the big returns. for r is the "early bird that catches the worm" in the watermelon business.i Before most people had ripe melotns last year, I was taking one to three spring wagon loads of melons to town each day which netted me sS5 each load
 I cultivate all of. my forty acre ranch, raising hay and alfalfa on the most of it; but during the months when water is short. all water is put on the few acres of garden. To it. lustrate how I have TA~oduced crops on small pieces of ground that have made me big money. l will .recite few eX- amples. One acre of t,omatoes. in 1905 brought me $70O. TAey required an immense amount of attention and I have not tried tomato e. raising since. In 1S00 garden lands suffered greatly for want of water. That year I con centrated my water and attention mostly to a fine sig acre patch of strawberries, from which l picked 43000 boxes. all of which were sold by contract for the year. to a local dealer for 9h cents per hbx. That year l paid 11s cents per box to pickers. So it is easily figured to learn amount of money made out of six acres that year. In 1906, one and a half acres of watermelohs brought me S63S 50. That year strawberries sdId from 17Is cents to 40 cents per bt K These figures may appear large b Ut they are boni- fide l always keei the garden well watered. well cultiv. tied and free from all weeds. Anot,lef lining that I pay
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01
 Arizona. March II.
THE POULTRY BUSINESS.

To the Editor of The Republican:
 Sir:-Having been requested to write for your valuable paper some thing of experience in ranch work here at Glendale, I have concluded to take up the Poultry Proposition, since that takes part of my time each day. We'll We started in on January 1st. 1907 with about 1000 hens. We do not house our hens at night. They all roost out on trees or on roosts that are put up in the open air. They are made by setting two posts 10 feet a part Spike on, one 6, feet long, on each post, then take l As, IS feet long and put them about 13 inches apart on the crosspieces. That con- stitues the roost, and no tick or vermin bother the hens at night on the roost.
 The morning feed for the first four months consisted of about 90 pounds of whole barley soaked in water over night in a pan on q furnace. then brought to a boiling heat in the morn- ing. To this was added one sack of bran. say about 65 pounds about two quarts of granulated blood. and about ar pails of milk. This mash would do them until night The evening meal was whole barley about 30 pounds. The cost was about 100 pounds of barley per day at s15O per hundred and Ca pounds of bran per day at about so cents per sack or s2+ per ton. During 36j days of 1907 the
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01
A GOLDEN TESTIMONY.

To the Editor of The Republican,:
 Sir:-I am in receipt of letters from different states wishing to know some thing about Arizona in general. One man from Kansas asks about orange growing. I wish to make statement in general. As to what a man can do and as to what the climate will do for the sick Yesterday I had two letters. and a caller, A. M. Bowen from Dead wood, South Dakota, who had his mother, who left Deadwood last fall on her cot and had to stop over to rest on the way.
 Fourteen years ago I left a lovely home in the Black Hills of South Da- kota with an invalid wife and three small children. She had what the doctors called consumption saying she could not live. could not risk a trip an the cars, but set out overland on a three months trip. It was just at the time when $500 horse could not be sold for $50. l wound up my business with just enough to get me to Phoenix with one five cent piece in the purse, horses all run down, but the wife some what improved. On examination here
 
 throat trouble of too long standing to be cured. but that I had found the best climate in the world for that trouble. He did not think she could live anoth- CT year. She is better today than at that time. fourteen years ago.
 I rented for two years, not knowing whether il was best to stay, sent my children to school and worked hard to make a living. At the end of that time I determined to try to secure a small home. At that time found the farmers did not want to cut up large farms and have small settlers come in. but l did find what I wanted and in a favorable locality for water and the business I wished to follow, straw berry raising.
 l put out a few orange and grape fruit trees and a general assortment of other fruit trees. My land, fifteen acres, cost $150O. water stock S340 and l had to make a living while the strawberries were coming on It was melons and garden produce to pay ex- penses. The first $500 paid for five acres which I had deed for. I then turned attention to bees. with the old Not wy mAiO udS Illdue Il ROOQ thing, has married. got his own home and some 500 colonies of bees. The second boy married and has his home and both are doing well. I have paid out the place and the ten per cent in- terest that was all this time gather ing, learned how to grow oranges from the small start and now have an order for trees. to begin putting out a gener- al pomelo or grapefruit orchard. My last crop of strawberries netted $500. on three acres. This season l expect to harvest from five acres. three acres fall setting, at least S2000.
 I am 72 years old, the 9th of April. 1908. my wife is 50 and thanks to this glorious country, I am feeling as young as l did at 50 if not better. I was in the orange country of California last season and made up my mind to put my place out to the trees that in ten years will put my place up to the 5000
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01

acres. making $500. but the man that bought it from me afterward soId it and made a greater profit than did I.
 That summer I decided to move to Idaho. and with my family located there on a ranch. The health of one of the members of my family was not good there. so I sold out and returned to Arizona
 l bought so acres of alfalfa land, with no buildings, near the Chapin Ranch. For this I paid S100 per acre. 40 acres of this I soon after sold for $125 an acre. Two years ago 1 bought the Chris Miller ranch of 40 acres, the ranch was well improved with good buildings. For it I paid s6000. This is located two miles west of Alhambra. The ranch is not for sale in anyway. It will be my future home. and stock ed as it is. have it is such shape that it is big money payer. Cattle and calves are my basis of operation. sell no hay. for feed everything to my own stock.
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Arizona republican., 1908-04-01
TWO HUNDRED PER MONTH.

To the Editor:-
 As I have been asked to give from experience my ideas on Salt River val ley as a farming country, I will say there is no country in the United States to equal it for farming and stock raising. Although l have had only limited supply of water I have made money every year for fifteen years.
 My ranch contains 621s acres and have made two hundred dollars per month. Some may want to know how I make it. I do it by pastureing stock which has averaged me S207 per month for the last eleven months. I have sold pigs. hay. butter and eggs to pay my expenses. Poultry raising is also profitable. The only disagreeable part about It is having to be at home twice a day to turn the eggs in the incu- bator
 T. J. WALKER Phoenix. Arizona, March II.
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01
FORTUNES FOR DAIRYMEN.

Salt River Valley is the typical dairy country of the United States, one might say of the world. This is a broad statement, but when one takes into consideration the conditions pre- vailing. it cannot but be convincing. especially to the dairyman of back East" who has to contend with cold weather. excessive rains. increasing droughts and short seasons for raising hay and forage.
 Contrast these conditions with our msld climate and moderats rainfall, irri- gation the conqueror of drought sup plying the moisture needed, absence of barns, which are unnecessary either for the COW or her feed. Consider our continuous alfalfa crops. cut every six weeks from April to November, when not pastured the discing of barley on the alfalfa fields in the fall giving un- limited winter pasture that can be fed off three to six times, before being allowed to grow for grain crop in the spring-such conditions as these will support more animals to the acre and at lower cost of milk production, than anything else in this country.
 Our milk cows are mostly grades there being few registered animals in the valley. nevertheless the creamery patron who uses good judgment In his selection of cows can average sixty to seventy-five dollars per year for each COW. with only the pasture and a little hay fed for three months to deduct from the net profit. This too is not taking into account the calves and hogs raised from skim milk.
 Our product is all consumed within the Territory and does not half supply the demand. carloads of butter being annually shipped in from the East.
 Butterfat prices range from 20 cents to 94 cents, Butter in pound pack ages retails at 25 cents to 40 cents
 To the twenty or eighty acre dairy man who has good cows and appreci- ates them. the ptypertunity in this val ley for contentement and prosperity is unsurpassed.
 ELLIOT EVANS. Phoenix, Arizona.
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01
Phoenix. Ariz.. March 20. 1908.

To the Editor of The Republican:
 Dear Sir:-Accepting your invitation to give my experience in farming in the Salt River valley. l am somewhat at a loss where to begin. l began farming about fifteen years ago, rais- ing wheat and alfalfa. l think it was about the first of November, I sowed wheat and alfalfa on about five acres as q starter. On the fifteenth of the next April l harvested as fine a crop of wheat as ever grew in any country, and during the summer 1 cut four crops of alfalfa from the same five acres. averaging fully one ton per acre per cutting. and during the win ter I pastured two crops. I was tenderfoot then and thought I had beaten the world. I soon found out my neighbors had been doing as well and even sometimes going me one crop better. During this year I took some items in raising corn in the valley. As had had some experience in raising corn back in Illinois.
 l chose a warm sandy location and planted my first crop about the first
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01
What the Actual Farmers Of the Valley
 Have to Say.
Continued from page 3.

or $500 per acre California homes. shail answer personally the letters of inquiry and hope to see some of the enquiring. I had some men from Cal ifornia looking at my POmelo trees. who said. If you can grow those why not grow 1O00' and it was then my in- tention soon to begin planting more.
 l thank God that l came to Arizona when I did and if l should live to be 100 years old, which I may. I will be found in the Salt River valley. have given facts that can be proven and two fold more if necessary.
 C. C. CHAMBERS. March llth. OS. R. r. ID. |
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01
To the Editor of The Republican:-

To the Editor or The Republican,
 Though coming from Missouri. two years ago, il did not take me long to be shown the great possibilities of ranching iA Salt River valley, com- pared with that in eastern states thought l was paying a stiff price when I got. here. and paid s4000 for this forty acre ranch. located five miles northwest of Phoenix Today however. would not sell it for cent less than SS000.
 The first year I paid a great deal of attention to and kept very close record of costs and results. A large part of last year l spent in California and kept no records.
 The first work I did on the ranch was to get all ditches well cleaned. and land into first class shape, by stirring up deeply. Twenty acres was in fine stand of alfalfa, the rest fin grain. At the close of the year l found that the alfalfa had netted above all expenses S23 an acre, and the grain s25 an acre.
 This year I am watching with con- siderable interest. and everything is favorable to d big production. This spring I fed thirty-five head of cattle on seven acre field of barley for three weeks. at the rate of $2.50 per month per head. I expect such pas tire receipts each year to pay the cost of seed and work putting in the grain. Beside the grain and alfalfa I always have about 15O hens that average me a dollar a day the year. round. l have a nice garden that gives me all the fresh vegetables that I wish to use. The only labor that l hire is the ad- ditional help necessary to put up the hay and thresh the grain.
 J. P. GRAHAM.
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01

particular attention to is the earliness in getting melons and berries on the market each season.
 Beside the gardening. I always real ize well from the chicken business. In 1906 l had 400 hens and sold $500 worth of eggs. The feed for the chickens was grown on the ranch. The alfalfa and grain yields me some in both feed for my stock and sales of hay. When the dam is completed and the new water system has been thoroughly worked out I expect to make every acre count as I now do a part of the ranch
 J. w. BLACK.
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01

cost of feed was about $S39.50. But there were some other incidentals say about $50 for blood mericine, that would be SS9.50. We sold all of our eggs to one firm in Prescott. Arizona. and received from that firm S2254 last of December. 1907. Deducting SS90 leaves a net cash return of s1364. We did not count the eggs that were used in two families of us on this ranch. l want to say right here to my poultry brothers that We have not sold over twelve dozen of hens in twelve years that we have resided here at Glendale. The theory that a hen does not pay for herself after the second or third year is all bosh. l could give you the details Of every month. but think this will suffice.
Arizona republican., 1908-04-01
To The Editor of the Arizoni

To The Editor of the Arizona
 Republican:
 My ranch consisting of twenty acres is located near the river in the melon district southeast of town. The soil is rich and sandy, therefore adapted to gardening. and like my neighbors raise much small stuff on a few acres. In response to what 1 raise and what I am making from my ranch, I will state that I pay most attention to the raising of asparagus, which find thrives well and is most profitable. have in 21s acres, most of which has been in asparagus for the past eight years. Asparagus begins to yield the third year after planting My ground is in long ridges, and is just the proper kind for the shoots to grow fast and easily in. The first in the market each year brings a big price. but through out the season I always get good prices. Last year I sold s675 worth of asparagus. which l think is a good profit per acre. I do all my own work.
 Asparagus is not all that I grow, be- side some alfalfa for feed l usually grow a lot of melons and some vege- tables. Last year I had in 311a acres in water melons. which netted me $340., and one acre in cabbage which made me $I25.
 F O. DFSNIT