Arizona republican., 1909-09-27
past, PRESENT. AND
| FUTURE OF GLENDALE
Its Recent Resurrection. and Changes
of a Year.

amount of development and growth
of the neighboring town of Glen
dale. Glendale's restoration started
last fall with the reconstruction, or
rather the re-equipping, of the beet
sugar factory by the Southwestern
Sugar and Land company. This COM
pany last July year ago bought the
sugar factory and several thousand
acres of land from the Eastern Sugar
company. which company went in
solvent about three years ago and
had to shut down the mill during its
first campaign. Last October the
repairs to the sugar mill were COM
menced. The repairing and recon-
struction was by no means small
undertaking, but it was rather the
extreme in the other direction. From
the middle of October until the
middle of June the names on the pay
roll averaged from one hundred to
one hundred and twenty-five, and
toward the latter part of the con-
struction campaign the number of
men employed went up as high as
one hundred and fifty.
Not only by the men employed in
the sugar mill was Glendale helped,
for that was but a small part of the
advantage gained. Besides the pre-
pairing of the mill for the summer
campaign were the farmers, or, using
the western term, ranchers, who We're
busy all winter preparing the beet
crop to be worked by the mill. There
was used in the fields in growing
beets great many more men than
were used in the repairing of the
mill, besides the number of horses
and mules, and the large amount of
farming machinery. Almost all of
the provisions, clothing and other
products consumed by the laborers
was purchased through the Glendale
stores and people who reside there
1t made no difference what a person
had to sell, he could find a buyer
for it. The only hotel was full to
its capacity. Every housewife who
could spare a room rented it at a
good price and many more rooms
could have been filled if they could
have been furnished. The writer
knows this from experience, having
had to purchase some bed clothes
and sleep for three weeks in the
Arizona bed ROOM which, however,
was not very pleasant on some of
those chilly, damp winter nights
This is somewhat, and not yet, a
fair sample of the hardships the
laboring man had to put up with;
while the Glendale people had more
business than they could take care
of. OF course the men working the
beet fields stayed at the camps all
of the time and only their food and
clothing were eStalseds at, the stores.
About the first OF January there
were imported about two. hundred
Japanese laborers to take care of the
young beets, which were by that time
of fair size and had to be thinned
and cultivated. Naturally enough the
Japanese had to have their natural
food and one of the Glendale stores
found it necessary to ship in a whole
car load of rice. This was the
largest shipment of rice that ever
entered the Salt River Galley. All of
the ranchers and beet growers ia
vored the Glendale stores with all
of the trade possible. The sugar
company bought all of its supplies,
both for the factory and the camps,
from Glendale. Besides the trade
from the sugar company's camps
were the reclamation service camps
every few miles along the various
canals and laterals, all of which
when they were in the district. OBJ
tanned supplies from the little town.
Immediately upon the increase of
business the business men made
preparations to accommodate the in
creasing trade, and outsiders saw the
new opportunities to enter into bust
ness of various kinds. The small
frame store buildings were moved
away and new brick buildings were
put up in their places. To supply
the transient needs a two-story ce-
ment block hotel was erected, and
so one might go. down the line and
mention all of the new buildings
built and the new store that opened
up.
Besides the business brought in
by the Introduction of the sugar in
dustry and by the government works,
should be mentioned the cantaloupe
industry, which both this year and
last proved very profitable to the
growers. A great many people
know, and it is a point worth con-
sidering, that the Glendale canta-
loupes. this year and last. brought
the highest prices in the New York
market of any cantaloupes shipped
there. And these cantaloupes were
well worthy of this praise. Any per-
son who is accustomed to eating a
cantaloupe for breakfast, and who
happens to go back east, and in
like manner orders up a cantaloupe,
will be somewhat disappointed. AL
though he may notice no difference
in the appearance of the melon set
before him, he will very readily no.
tice that it does not taste at all
like the melons he has been accus-
toned to, and will push il aside.
He will say that there is no COM
parison between the Arizona canta-
loupe and the highly praised Rocky
Ford, or southern melon.
Glendale has just commenced her
growth which. without doubt, will
continue for years to come. The
town has every advantage in the
world. 1t is surrounded by one of
the very best countries desirable. Any
thing that Drox-c IN, tha x-aI1ox.