Arizona republican., 1909-02-02

activity of the real estate agents, but | for the most part to the work the gov ernment is doing which will make pro- ductive, land which is now covered with sage brush. But there Is a limit to all things and there is q limit to the values at which valley realty can be
 sold We should see that prices are not inflated
 "A man told me the other day that
 his land was worth $250 an acre I asked him on what he based this price.
 He said that his neighbor held his land at that figure and he knew that his
 own was worth just as much. When l asked this mans neighbor why he valued his land at that figure he said that he had no wish to sell, so he put that price on it to keep people from trying to buy it. l think it is the in clination of the owner to base the value
 of his property, not on what 1t pro
 duces, but on the desire of the owners
 to place too high a valuation on their property. Two or three hundred dol lars an acre will not appeal to the
 farmer coming here from the east or
 middle west He will go elsewhere"
 Secretary Cowgirl of the board of
 trade gave a talk on "Advertising." He
 said that the best kind of advertise
 ment was in the form of a letter from farmer perhaps from the middle west, who had been here a year and made a success of it. Copies of this letter should be sent to 100 friends of that farmer back in his old home, the
 names being furnished by the man himself He then announced that ar engagements had just been made with the chamber of Commerce of Los An geles by which the local board of trade would be given space for exhibition in
 their building. and that the use of their lecture room for stereopticon talks on the valley, had been accorded the board of trade. The chamber of commerce in Los Angeles" said MT. Cowgirl, will do all in its power to assist us and will treat us in exactly the same manner as they would any board of trade in California" He sug- gested that. in distributing literature on the trains going to California, tick cts to-these lectures on Salt River val ley should be given away also. He announced that the railroads would cooperate and give accommodation wherever the business warranted it. Pullmans will be run from Los An geles to Phoenix without the change at Maricopa if the business warrants.
 Dwight B. Heard spoke on the "Val- uc of Organization" He said in part:
 The real estate man can and should be a tremendous factor in the develop ment of this valley, but we must have unity. There IS a spirit of friendly CO., operation among the real estate men of Southern California and that is just what we need here. We should have no friction. Let us get together and oil the hinges of prosperity.
 "A man coming here from another state gets a certain line of talk from one real estate man which may not agree with what another man tells him. We should unite on certain facts, as on the subject of irrigation, if necessary we should get the facts from the en- gineer of the reclamation service. There must be unity on these lines" He spoke of the immense good done to the city of Chicago by the board of trade which numbers over 5000 mem bers He said that organization had promoted boulevards and parks and raised the real estate business to the dignified position where it belonged. He concluded his argument by asking the real estate men to unite for a city beautiful
 F. A Spaulding, F. H. Greene and H NJ. Lewis discussed the prevalence of Johnson grass in the valley and all advocated legislative action to rid the farms O. this nuisance.
 In discussing prices, L. J. Rice said, T like to ave a man go to California and live there a year. Then when he comes back he thinks land in the val ley is pretty cheap after all"