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Arizona republican., 1909-04-11
WARNING 10 ORCHARD|sTs
Though Salt River Valley May Have No Citrus Tree Pests, the Danger of Them Is Imminent, Demanding Vigorous Methods.

Four gentlemen whose names com mand attention in the fruit world, es- pecially the growers of citrus fruits. visited Phoenix this week. spending two busy days in looking over the valley and departing for California on Thursday evening. Before leaving a representative of The Republican in terviewed them concerning their opinion of the valley and its future. While their remarks were highly complimentary, as are the remarks of all visitors, they were also critical and advisory, and, coming from such a source, the people of the valley will be deeply interested in what they said.
 Two of the gentlemen referred to are Ethan Allen Shaw and his son, Harry Shaw, owners of the second largest orange orchard in California, or, to put it more broadly and just as truthfully, in America. One of the other gentlemen is Albert F. Woods, principal assistant to Mir. Galloway, chief of the bureau of plant industry in the department of agriculture, and the fourth is G. Har- old Powell, pOmOlogist in charge of fruit transportation and storage in vestigations of the bureau of plant industry The two Washington men were here for a general investigation in the line of their official duties, and the Messrs. Shaw came with them merely to satisfy their curiosity as to the progress of citrus culture in Arizona, both having visited the val ley before.
 Briefly summed up, all four agreed that the valley is one of the richest in the world in natural resources. both for fruit and general agricul- ture, and that its future has been permanently assured by the work of the reclamation service, and that the valley is fortunate indeed to have such an official as Supervising En- gineer Hill in general charge and such a capable man as Engineer Reed in charge of the administration of the canals.
 They were equally as unanimous, however, in warning the valley that it stands in the very gravest danger from citrus insect pests, particularly the white fly, and that nothing should be left undone that calls for either money or work to prevent the importation of such pests, and that the recently created horticultural board should have the most sincere cooperation and support of every citizen to that end; that nothing should be permitted to pass its eagle eye that could in any possible 1asar har made no search for scale here, did not have time to do so, did not see any. and do not know that there
Arizona republican., 1909-04-11
SALES MADE BY THE
 VALLEY REALTY C0

The Valley Realty company sold 30 acres for H. P. DeMund to Herman Gardiner. a recent arrival here from Colorado. for s7,5OO. The land is about three miles southwest of the capitol and is planted in grain. The land was purchased by MT. Gardiner for the express purpose of planting 1t in beets.
 The same company also sold during the week for Charles F.. Kilborn of Los Angeles the seven-room brick house at S04 North Third street for s3,200.
 For c. F. Shilling they sold lot on the southwest corner of Tenth ave nue and Adams street for s63O. It was purchased by MT. Gwillin of Chatta- nooga, Tenn. He will move here and build a home on the lot
Arizona republican., 1909-04-11

cosy home plenty big enough for two, yet not so large that the care of it will be a perpetual hob goblin to the feminine mind. is the house at the corner of Center and Roosevelt streets now nearing com pletion for Charles A. Stauffer.
 In a large measure the house was designed by Miss Edith l.. Bennett, who is now Mrs. Stauffer. The ar rangement of the rooms, the placing of the windows, details of the deco rative work and above all, the size, shape, and placing of the closets was the work of Miss Bennett.
 The house is a brick bungalow with four rooms on the first floor and room for two bed rooms on the sec Ond. There are five rooms on the main floor, if the dining room and the living room, which are practically one, are considered as two. They are separated by heavy pillars only, stained a dark color Nike the rest of the wood work. These rooms will be divided by Japanese screens. There is a malapai fire place in one of them and a brick grate in the other. Back of these rooms are two bed rooms connected by a hall way and separated by the bath and linen closets. The entire rear of the house is flanked with d screen porch divid-
Arizona republican., 1909-04-11
They Will Move In On Their Return From Their
 Wedding Trip

ed into two rooms. A stair way runs from the screen porch to the upper floor which will be used for the present as a store room. A conve- nient arrangement of a rope and a pulley permits the stairs to be raised to the ceiling out of the way when not in use.
 Every window in the house is made of prettily designed leaded glass. The whole length of the living room has a bay window effect with a window seat running all along it. The space under the window seat can be used for storage purposes. The living room is tinted a light chocolate brown. Heavy old mission chande- Hers with colored globes will be placed in all of the front rooms.
 In the bedrooms the windows are se arranged so that there will be one on each side of the dresser and another oblong window just above it. Electric lights are also placed so that there will be one on each side of the dresser!
 Mir. and Mrs. Stauffer will reside in the house on their return from their wedding trip.
 The contractors for the house are Cisney and Cisney. The work of staining and decorating was done by the Taylor Paint and Paper company.
Arizona republican., 1909-04-11

Arizona orange belt off the map as competitor for the choice fruit, and as for the cheaper grade the quan- tity raised here is not sufficient to disturb the marketing of similar grades from other places. Arizona's greatest orange pride today is in the fine appearance of the choice fruit, which is not afflicted with the pests and Arizona should maintain that condition at all hazards, no matter if it does delay the development of the industry.
 The gentlemen all agreed with him, saying that they had no desire to disparage the orange industry here but in their minds the safe and sure foundation of the valleys prosperity was in alfalfa, stock and kindred products, letting the orange industry develop naturally and safely and conservatively. and also turning to sugar beets, gardening and the many other lines in proper proportion for early returns and quicker money. The southwest, they said, is an em- pire of itself, and will some day feed very large part of the country. but in the developing of an industry like orange culture time is required as well as money and much experiment tation. He said that to reach the highest success there should be ce- ment ditches, fumes and many other things yet lacking, and the planting of an orchard should be done also. only after sa careful study of tenn peratures, for a single frost might blast the hopes of years.
 Engineer Reed spent two days pi- loting the visitors over the valley in an automobile and showing them the irrigation system in detail and.
Arizona republican., 1909-04-11

the valley in general. They tray eled eighty-seven miles on Wednes- day between the Agua Fria and Granite Reef, and on Thursday they travelled seventy-five miles between Phoenix and, Mesa City and to va rious south side points, so they got general view of about all there was to see. The general verdict in respect of oranges was: the soil and water is right, investigate the tenn peratures. They said there was much of the land that was incomparable for oranges, though they were in clined to doubt the temperatures in some places pointed out as orange land, but that is a detail they were not familiar with in respect of rec ords. and could only judge from the contour of the country. The Messrs. Shaw said they were greatly pleased with the country, and when told that they would be down here hunting orange land some day they admitted that such a thing is not at all improbable, though they have made no investments as yet.
 They know that Arizona oranges "A' "i i4e'' "Sh 'hSS eiS aii iiSh'f and their chief concern in respect of them is to give the Arizona people timely and friendly advice. Mir. Shaw is very much of a philosopher and believes strongly in the doctrine of friendship rather than antagonism in the settlement of most all diff culties. Some jocular mention was made of the troubles between the orange men and the railroads, and he said they had found in California that they could gain a great many more points with the railroads by CO., operation and friendly discussion of
Arizona republican., 1909-04-11
Salt River Valley ReayWkH Building and Improvement Summary

their differences than in any other way. Whenever they had under taken to drive them the railroads shut up like an oyster and they got nothing, but when they approached them in spirit of friendliness the railroads usually met them half way, or at any rate they Gffne part of the way.
 Moreover. he spoke a little about knockers and boosters. He said he believed an undiscriminating all- round booster was only one degree less bad for a country than knock CT, though he believed in progress and in the discriminating man of enterprise to whom he could not apply the odious term of booster Incidentally, he said that he had been characterized himself as some thing of a knocker by a newspaper in his home town, simply because he advised a young man once to come to Arizona, and in doing so he was only giving what he thought was good advice for the young man. He was discriminating and telling the truth and in that particular instance some of his home people did not like it. He does not like to be called a knocker, however, and has no desire to knock this valley or her orange business, which has a most wonderful future, but he insists that prosperity will be better served by recognizing conditions exactly as they are, than by listening too much to the booster who says one can grow oranges anywhere here and un- der any conditions and with any kind of trees, wherever they come from, and regardless of the pest diff faculties experienced elsewhere that, according ito the booster. cannot pos sibly thrive in this climate.
Arizona republican., 1909-04-11

R. R. Brogan is one of the new salesman of the Southwestern Realty company. MT. BrOgan is from Kan sas City, where he was engaged in the realty business and also as a representative of the Standard Oil company. He has been employed by the latter company for a number of years.
Arizona republican., 1909-04-11
WORK SOON ID BEGIN ;. ON SUBURBAN TROLLEY
The Orange Belt and ScottsdaIe Rail. Way Will Be an Epoch in
 the Valleys History.

It is definitely announced that &C., tual work will begin within ninety ! days on the Orange Belt and Scotts- daN railroad The construction of this road will mark an epoch in the history of the valley-the era of the trolley.
 The preliminary surveys for the road will be made as soon as the route can be mapped out, and the actual work of construction will be pushed as rapidly as possible.
 At a meeting of the board of di- rectors of the company, which was incorporated over a week ago, the following officers were elected: President, Winfield Scott; vice pres ident, l.. J. Rice; secretary, N. A. Morford; treasurer, Frank T. Alkire. The capital stock of the company is $150,OO0, a good part of which has been taken up in the city and by property owners along the route.
 No city franchise will be applied for or required by the company, as tentative arrangements are in prog ress with one of the other two com panies for the use of their tracks in the city limits. It is probable that arrangements will be made by which two of the companies will have the same station in the city, the loca- ton of which has not been deter mined. Connections will also be made with at least one of the railroads for the discharge of freight, for the new line will carry freight as well as passengers.
 The cars will be operated at first by gasoline motors and will be used for passenger service in the day time and freight carrying at night.
Arizona republican., 1909-04-11

Mrs. Aylwin will sell switches, puffs, etc, at cost. II s. Center st, Room 15
Arizona republican., 1909-04-11
POINTERS

As long as the bridge question is before the public and until it is de- termined one way or the other, space views of property owners on this subject whether they live north or south of the river. With the single exception of inter-urban railways, bridges over the Salt river will do more toward development and a re- newal of commercial activity than anything else now in contemplation, and the large property owners are the ones who will have to pay for the improved conditions. A man whose taxable interests in the city and the valley will run perhaps close to six figures, is w. B. .Twitchell. The word bridge" acted on NIT. TwitchelI like a spur on d horse. T will gladly pay taxes on two bridges or three bridges" he said emphatical- ly, and I will tell you why. People come here from the east and find Phoenix spreading over the desert like a flat pancake burnt at the edges. There are no boulevards, no bridges, and consequently, poor fa- cilities for the conducting of inter urban business. The rich surround ing country is tapped by country roads instead of trolley lines and freight carriers, and naturally, the prospect is not inviting for the man who wants a farm at a reasonable price-which can only be obtained in the outlying districts-so the pros- pective settler moves on to other fer tile fields. With bridges, boulevards and trolleys, the tourists will squat. want to see the bridges and I am willing to help pay for them"
 R. R. Brogan is one of the new salesman of the Southwestern Realty company. MT. Brogan is from Kan sas City, where he was engaged in the realty business and also as a representative of the Standard oil company. He has been employed by the latter company for number of years.
 Some months ago Dr. Thomas R. Bours of Milwaukee visited Phoenix and bought a twenty-acre ranch out near the Clayson orange grove. He bought it merely as a matter of speculation, with the unearned in- crement in his minds eye. Then he formed the habit of going out once in a while to see if his ranch was still there, and he used to sit under an olive tree and smoke his pipe while the sun was setting over the camers nose. Gradually he be- gan to get attached to the ranch just as one does to a stray dog that follows one about. He listed the land with his agents and went back to Milwaukee to wait for the values to float up to the price he put on it. Then, not long ago, when a belated blizzard struck Milwaukee, he began to think about the sum- sets over Comeback mountain, and the olive tree he used to sit under, and the orange orchard across the way, and the result was that he notified his agents, Greene and Gri- is coming back in the fall to build the cutest bungalow in the valley on it and that he is going to live where they don't have blizzards. In accordance with the doctors direc- tions three acres of the ranch have just been planted in young orange trees and the whole ranch fenced with Page wire and cement posts. When the Valley Beetle (Coleoptera Wallis Salina), sometimes called the sunshine bug, gets his nippers on you, you have seen your last snOw- storm.
Arizona republican., 1909-04-11

Crump pays 2Oc cash for eggs.
Bryan morning eagle and pilot. (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1909, 1909-02-26
HOLY GR0ANING.
The Sin Of Worldly Pleasure In the
Seventeenth Century.

Seventeenth century.
Buckle gives a graphic picture Of the
attitude Of the kirk OF Scotland to
worldly pleasures during the seven
teenth century. Cheerfulness. especial
ly when II rose TO laughter. was to be
guarded against. Smiling might occa-
sionally be allowed: still. being a car
nal pastime, II was sin to smile on
Sunday. No husband should kiss his
wife and no mother her child on the
Sabbath day. Testing was incompati-
BILE with a holy and serious life. The
ministers were given much to weep.
Ing. grooming and lamentations. Ono
the Rev. Alexander Dunlop, was noted
FOR his holy groan." To engage In the
frivolous art Of writing poems was
condemned. Men should not disport
themselves with music; dancing was a
serious SIM" joyousness even at
christening was scandal. One should
speak and walk with gravity and So
lemnity: he should not enjoy his din
ner; only the ungodly relished food
The great object of lie was to be in
state Of affection. Whatever pleased
the senses was TO suspected. Whatever
was natural was wrong. The church
men grew sour in countenance harsh
in voice. Joy and love disappeared or
were forced to hide In obscure corners.
Bryan morning eagle and pilot. (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1909, 1909-02-26
Balloon Talk Of 1906.

Robertson. the celebrated aeronaut
who assembled from Petersburg last
rear, is endeavoring to obtain the nee
rSsary assistance at that place for the
construction OF an air balloon on a
very large scale. He proposes that 1t
shall be I'D feet in diameter. which he
calculates will carry up thirty-seven
tons and which he supposes, therefore,
will easily support fifty people and all
necessary accommodation for them. 1t
Is to have attached to it vessel fur
nished with masts. sails and every
other article required for navigating
the sea in case of accidents and pro-
vided with cabin for the aeronauts,
properly fitted up. gallery for cook
ing. proper stores for slowing provi-
sions and several other convenienceS.
To render the as ent more safe. 1t is
to take up another smaller balloon
within it and n parachute, which will
render the descent perfectly gentle IL
the outer balloon bursts. From its
construction it will he calculated TO re-
main in the air several weekS.-From
Hudson (N. " Balance and Column
bian Repository of July 10, 1906.
Bryan morning eagle and pilot. (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1909, 1909-02-26
An Easy Grade.

Patronage. political. religious and so
cial, has seen Its best days in Eng
land. and it is becoming more and
more difficult, st. James Budget
opines, to find material for such a
story as follows:
At the end Of political campaign
many years ago young man who had
worked valiantly for the successful
candidate claimed a reward. Th
prize promised was sergeantcy in the
artillery. But the candidate found that
he was unable to carry out his prom
Use. inasmuch as 1t required six years
service to qualify man for the rank.
He became thoughtful, but finally saw
light
Does it require six years to qualify
man for lieutenancy" he asked
one who knew.
Certainly not" was the reply.
well make young Blank a lieuten-
ant, then" said the candidate. with a
sigh Of relief.
Blank was thus made a lieutenant
FOR no other reason than that he was
not fit to be sergeant
Bryan morning eagle and pilot. (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1909, 1909-02-26
HICCOUGHS.
A Simple Treatment by Which They
May Be Cured.

A Simple Treatment BY Which They
May Be Cured.
Did YOU ever take nine swallows Of
water to cure the hiccOughs? Do you
remember the time some one scared
the hiccoughs away by telling you OF
a whipping due for some meanness?
Well science has been studying hic-
coughs and caught the hiccoughs by
the 'nape OF the neck" The nine
swallows of water had little science
in it, and so did the scare cure. The
scientific hiccough cure consists in
pressing down to numbness the nerve
that connects the stomach, heart, lungs
and brain, the pneumogastric nerve
The pressure partially and locally
paralyzes this nerve and Of necessity
the hiccoughing must cease.
Have the hiccoughing patient sit
down and be at ease, with the muscles
Of the neck relaxed as much rs posi-
BILE Grasp both sides of the neck
somewhat toward the back part ana
press down steadily and as hard as the
subject may permit for about one min
ute, having the patient work the head
from side to side. Within about one
minute the nerve will be numbed and
rested. and the spasmodic motion VIII
cease 1t may require longer pressure
In some cases, but the result is sure III
patience is maintained. Ohio State
Journal.
Bryan morning eagle and pilot. (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1909, 1909-02-26
Ancient Egyptian Stones.

Stones were formed into the shapes
of beetles by the ancient Egyptians.
They regarded the beetle as an en-
blem Of Immortality. and hence 1t was
the most popular of all forms of or
nament. Counterfeit beetles of COM
mon stones were commonly buried
with dead persons, and it was custom
airy to engrave upon them the express
sion of wishes for future repose and
happiness. dedications of the soul to
God and various hieroglyphs One Of
the latter was a hawk with a human
head, symbolizing resurrection. An
other the vulture, meant maternity. A
goose was the son of Il king.
Bryan morning eagle and pilot. (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1909, 1909-02-26
THE SHlPWREckER.
His Life Mad, Up Of Hsrdships, Ad'
ventures and Accidents.

ventures and Accidents.
The career Of the shipwreckcr con-
sists OF series of hardships aud ad-
ventures and accidents and narrow es'
capes from the first day he enlists
with a big wrecking company up to
the time he Is brought ashore from
the grim ship he calls ''home" crippled
or fatally injured. or all the profes-
sions that demand heavy toll Of hui.
man life none, not even mining or
powder making, is as dangerous as
the one of these wreckers. Every year
these daring men, who brave storm and
wave and tempest to save the stranded
liner. to raise the sunken ocean grey
hound. to rescue the ship impaled upon
rocks and. II nothing else. to salve
what valuable cargo may he removed
from helpless wrecks. meet death by
the score Many Of them, exposed Of
ten for days and nights to the Icy
blasts of winter seas, to driving biz
yards and to drenchlng storms that
bite to the marrow. succumb TO pneu
monia. Others at work on the pitch
ing, tossing barges have legs or arms
shattered during the risky operations
Of removing masts or OF Singing
wrecking pumps or other castings that
weigh tons. Others have hands or
feet so dreadfully frozen that these
must be amputated and still others
are wiped out of existence after suf.
fering hours Of untold agony and ex.
posture before the eyes " their helpless
neutrality-suspicious. Magazine.
Bryan morning eagle and pilot. (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1909, 1909-02-26
An Awful Rebuke.

Once upon time a certain commu-
nifty planned to give dinner to a
Judge there When the judge came to
scan the list of those invited he raised
vigorous protest against one name.
that of a man who had been the most
brilliant lawyer in town, but who was
now the town drunkard. They finally
overcame his opposition, but the town
drunkard had heard of 1t. He was the
last speaker called upon. He arose
and said: MIR. Toastmaster-Fifteen
years ago had practice In this town
that amounted to $4,000 year. l
had a wife and family whom | sup
ported in comfort. | had my own
horse and carriage. At that time the
guest of the evening was on his way
west in an emigrant wagon. He land
ed in this town and started in to MAKE
his living. Since then, Mr.. Toastmas'
ter" he cried. with a pathetic break In
his voice-''since that time I have been
going steadily down, down, down, and
our guest has been going up, up. up
until now we are just, about on
level"
Bryan morning eagle and pilot. (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1909, 1909-02-26
Not Sure of IL.

She-They say that there is fool in
every family DO you believe that?
He Er-we!l ! hardly like to say.
I'm the only member of my family
Chicago News.