Arizona republican., 1908-04-01
WHOLESALE
And Retail Grocery Business Conducted
 By ]. w. Doris.

In review such as The Republican is today making of the conditions that have done much to develop the Salt River valley to a point where the Government became interested and began work on the greatest irrigation project in America. if not in the world, it is essential that men. who have by their great business capacity and sterling worth as citizens contributed to this development should be men, tioned. No more striking example of what a man with a good business training and d determination to win. despite all obstacles, can be found. than is eXemDlified in the life and success Of the subject of this sketch. Mr. J. w. Doris. who came to Phoenix twenty years ago from California, wither he had drifted from his native home in Mississippi. Business re- verses in the great land of the after noon left him stranded so far as money was concerned. but he had a great fund of something better than money. something that money cannot buy. nor can thieves break in and steal and that something was a de- termination to win.
 He came to Phoenix to make the fight. resolving within himself that he was going to stay here. going to fight it out and going to win He started a confectionery which he conducted for some time and with his meager sav- ings and the credit he could secure he purchased grocery stock amounting to about s60O0O In seventeen years he has built that stock up until today he is carrying from S75.000 to SSO. 900 worth of every thing that is usually found in first class grocery store His retail department is by long odds the most complete in the lines carried and most artistic in its general ar engagement of any store of its char acter in the southwest. in short we doubt if any town in the country has more complete or beautiful grocery than the mammoth institution at the corner of Washington and First strets. where it requires thirty people to han dle the large volumn of trade trans acted each day, which in the course of a year almost reaches the half mil lion dollar mark. Two travelling sales
 
 trade in Phoenix and all the towns throughout this section that look this way for the necessities of life.
 Some idea of the magnitude of his wholesale and retail business can be gained from reciting the fact that he receives from 150 to 200 car loads of food products annually
 Mir. Doris has succeeded. primarily because he deserved success. and there is no man in Salt River valley mean enough to begrudge him any measure of this success. He is also vice. -presi- dent of the Doris Heyman Furniture company. and in addition to his vast commercial interests. is the proud pos sessor of very extensive ranch lands throughout the valley which not only demonstrates his unlimited faith in the future greatness of this fertile section but his good judgment as well. He has ever been foremost both with his time and his money in those things that have had to do with the better ment of Phoenix and the social life of the city. He is president of the construction committee of The Young Mems Christian association building and was one of the largest contribut- ors to this worthy project. In short it was due largely to him and his efforts that the building of this much needed institution was launched and successfully carried through.
 Every, community has some public spirited men. but the community which has men who will put their shoulders to the wheel and boost all the time, in season and out of season. is to be congratulated. and this the community has in the person of J. w. Doris.