Arizona republican., 1908-11-18
IA PERMANENT WATER SUPPLY. Sugar Factory Operations Will
 Be On a Large Scale TO PERFoRATE THE EARTH Glendale Country Will Look
 Like a Sieve Six Months
 From Now--Big Agua Fria
 Plant--Completed Organi-
 zStion of the Company.
ID PERFORATE THE EARTH

izatiOn of the Southwestern Sugar and Land company is now practically complete and as perfect as it is com plete, that is to say, the best men pos sible to secure have been placed in charge of every department. Lafayette Myers who was in charge of the beet growing branch of the Eastern Sugar company's enterprise here, and who worked such a success in the growing of beets the first year 1t was tried, has been secured as a farm expert for the Southwestern company. Whatever may have been the criticism of the management of the Eastern Sugar company's factory, no one can find fault with Mir. Myers management of his part of the business and no one could be employed now who will in still more confidence in the local far mers who are to grow the beets.
 Since leaving here MT. Myers has been in Wisconsin where he has made great success of beet growing. He went to the Janesville section where but $500 acres had been devoted to beet culture and in a single year in creased the acreage to 1000. MT. Myers is expected to arrive here this morning to take up the work of in structing the valley farmers in beet culture and to have | charge of the cOmpany's farms He | will be accompanied by his family and | make this his home for the next year at any rate.
 Speaking of the company's farms it | is timely to remark that the company 1 now has q hundred acres of beets | planted and up almost ready for culti- | vation. Mr Davie said yesterday that the field looks as fine as any beet field he ever saw and the stand is practically perfect.
 George Bushby a man of experience has been placed at the head of the fac tory as general superintendent and will be here in a day or two. Roy Smith is in charge of the operations of sugar making and has been here some time.
 The water supply of the factory is to be looked after by A. H. Rose of California an expert in this line of activity. This is a most important fea- ture of the project and Mir. Rose is considered the best expert that could be procured He has dug more wells
 
 MT. Davie. He knows a well when he sees it and knows how to drive or bore or dig one when he don't see any but thinks there ought to be one there. The plans of the company for a water supply are more comprehensive than most people imagine.
 The two old wells at the factory have been cleaned out and put in re- pair and are now furnishing 750,Oo0 gallons of water per day. A drilling out fit is now at work on the third well at the factory and is down 100 feet It is planned to sink eight wells making a total of ten in the near vii cinity of the plant. If there is any water under that part of the earth it is the plan of MT. Davie to make it available and the two wells now in commission demonstrate that there is at least considerable water there.
 Within ten days two more drilling outfits will be at work. One of them will be near the factory and the other will be on or near the Agua Fria river, where it is proposed to develop an in exhaustible supply. There is plenty of surface water there but the com pany proposes to go to great depth as an experiment anyway, both to test the supply and the quality. All Agua Fria water is good. even better than the river water up in the hills for it is purified by percolation through the sands, but there may be a difference in quality. at different levels. even on the Agua Fria. It is Mir. Davies idea that the best water is none too good for the making of beet sugar and also for supplying the town of Glendale, which will be done as an auxiliary en- terprise, the pipe line being made large enough for all purposes. But the wa ter developed at the factory will be even more convenient and a double in surance against any lack of that fluid which is so important during the su gar making period of the year.
 All these water supply operations are to be under the personal super vision of MT Rose who is regarded as a regular encyclopaedia on water and how to get it.
 Mir Davie will leave Friday for New York City for a stay of ten days or twor weeks on pressing business mat ters.
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