Arizona republican., 1909-06-30

Paffrath, who does not propose to let Jim Hill, Theodore Roosevelt, or even the conservation congress, outstrip him in his enthusiasm over the future of the west and the possibilities of her natural resources when fully ap- preciated and properly conserved. He breaches a sort of gospel that means turn everything into money, whether desert, rocks, barren wastes, or more enticing conditions. To one of his op- timism there is no such thing as a limit of possibilities. In the Texas Stockman Journal of June 26 there are two interviews with MT. Paffrath, who had recently toured the Panhandle and
 Amarillo country in Texas. The follow ing excerpts are made for the ideas
 they may suggest to Arizona people who live in a country where cOndi
 tions are much better than in much of l that described by MT. Paffrath. Many of his ideas, however may be advan- tageously followed:
 T am glad to see the various con- ventiOns and congresses, including the congress on conservation of our nat
 ural resources, getting down to busi
 ness and demanding constructive statesmanship of our legislative bodies in the interest of the people. It would
 look like the masses were coming Into their own and that a new day has dawned for them throughout the civ iliZed and semi civilized world. and especially in the United States, and particularly in the state of Texas; the put into effect for the various states, through their governments to cooper ate with each other and with the na- tiOnal government in the internal i'm provements of our country through the various departments of agriculture, A. and M. colleges and sanitary boards, and by retaining our lands from over flows by canalizing our country, by cheap water transportation and by passing and enforcing proper sanitary laws and familiariZing our people with how best to protect their health and the health of their domestic animals against disease and waste, which will brighten our homes with health, com fort. joy and happiness and make our country one. of beautiful homes, in fact as well as In name In this way we will preserve our state rights without. retarding our national progress.
 Yes, have been over a great deal of the Panhandle and plains country of Texas. I was a number of days at Amarillo, the beautiful queen city of the new southwest. Wonderful de- velopments are going on there. as was published in the Daily Panhandle of the 10th instant. showing that s66O,- 000 worth of buildings were now un- der construction in the city of Anna rillo and that $2SS,000 worth are con- templated to be contracted for in the very near future, making a grand total of s92S.000. This does not include the numberless residences that are under construction in the city of Amarillo that will cost from s1.00O to s6O,OOO each. No man can believe the wonder full development that is taking place in the beautiful city of Amarillo, the Amarillo country and the plains coun- try, including Plainview and Lubbock. the Amarillo of the south plains The people of Lubbock, like the people of Amarillo, are awake and doers of things. who believe in doing things, and doing now, with pay-car move on them. On this they are a unit, standing as one man.
 After speaking of the wonderful successes and a few failures of the Campbell system of dry farming, Mir. Paffrath said:
 Yes, I believe in practical. scien- tific. diversified farming. stock rais- ing and dairying There should be experiment stations and demonstration farms and feeding stations and dairy fr,ar ls all over Texas by the national gov ernment. the state government and the county governments, the boards of trade and the railroads, also estab- lished by the Farmers Unions and farmers congresses and every organ ization in existence, or that can be created, including all the aforesaid forces and all commercial agencies and financial agencies and educational institutions. including all kinds of school teachers organizations should be used to carry to the masses of the people a practical education so as to increase the earning capacity of each individual engaged in the tilling of the soil and to the growing of stock and to increase the earning capacity of every acre of land by  teaching our people how to conserve the moisture and the soil. how best to select the seed. how best to pre- pare the ground, the best time to plant their crops and the best way to cultivate the crops. the best way to harvest the crops and the best way to market the crops"
 MT. Paffrath devOtes some thought to tank irrigation also. as follows:
 'I would advise. since # is a well known fact that the cowmen watered from 200 to 500 head of cattle from each windmill on the plains that ev cry farmer in the plains country pro vide himself with one of those large windmills and build him some surface tanks and store the water and irrigate ten acres of land by flooding it over night. The water so accumulated ev- cry twenty-four hours would water