Arizona republican., 1908-04-16

Tribune's article Is first printed as a text:
 U. c. A. King. Phoenix AriZ.. is enthusiastic as to the present perform
 ances and prospects of Arizona. He
 says that they are going to make the whole country wonder at what they do. They are ahead of all others in
 copper production with d total pro-
 duct Of 37,000,00O pounds last year.
 An Illinois farmer says that he can make more off of 40 acre farm in
 Arizona than he could on his 160 acre farm in Illinois Last year the terri
 tory produced 300.000 bushels of corn,
 3SS,000 bushels of wheat. 116,000 bush els of oats, 923,000 bushels of barley and 26l.000 tons of hay, making a
 total valuation for agricultural pro- ducts of S5.122. 900, on l43 acres. mak ing an average production of s37 an acre, which is the highest showing that can be made anywhere in the country. They are going ahead won derfully in fruit especially oranges, and also in melons and garden pro- duets. When the Salt River and Yuma irrigation projects are cOmplet
 ed they will add 100000 acres to the farming area, making total area of farming land reaching 100.000 acres. '"
 And heres the answer:
 The statement of the Illinois farm
 CT is correct and is verified by the signed statement of scores of farmers who give the figures to prove it, as presented in the recent Homeseekers' edition of The Republican.
 The statement that Arizona produc- ed 37,O00,000 pounds of copper last year. is very misleading. though it might appear to an eastern man that that is a good deal of copper. The fact is that Arizona produced last year 37.0OO,0OO pounds more" copper than Michigan, heretofore the greatest copper producer in the world. and 39,- O00000 pounds more than Montana. which held second place. More than that. Arizona stands first of all com monwealths in the total production of all mineral wealth.
 The figures published by the Trib- une on the yield of the crops enumer- ated are correct as far as they go. eX- cept as to acreage. which was prob ably a typographical error. Instead of 143 acres, it should have read l43,000 acres. These figures were prepared by E. E. Kaufman. statistical agent of the agricultural department. and there might be added to them very effectively the following from the same source:
 No state or territory in the union can show a production of such high average value per acre from the five crops enumerated as Arizona. and the beauty of it all is that such production can be maintained and in creased for years and years. A care full estimate of other crops and fruits of Arizona would indicate an acreage of 17.000 acres. Oranges alone will reach d valuation of s1SO.0O0 Melons. fruits and gardens make up the bal ance and easily reach valuation of s3,500.000 making grand total of SS,752, 900 worth of farm products grown on 160.O0O acres of land. mak- ing approximately 5000 per acre."
 It may be further stated that these are the fruits of industry in the era preceding water storage. With the ample supply of water assured from this time on. even better results are almost certain. Few people have a proper conception of the stupendous area represented by Arizonas 113.O00 square miles, however familiar they are with the map, unless they have visited the territory. Of this immense area only a small proportion is agri- cultural land. That is admitted. New ertheless. that small portion is not yet one tenth of it in cultivation and d large part of the agricultural area, represented by such immense noun | tain valleys as Grace valley, west of Wickenburg, as well as scores of lit- | tie mountain valleys, will not be titled perhaps, until new storage projects, | or irrigation methods have been de- vised by the coming generations. But there are yet thousands of acres un- tenanted, though most of it is titled |