Arizona republican., 1910-03-18
IDAHO VISITORS 0F s;1
 DISCERNING MINDS
They May Already Be Regarded as
 Salt River Valley Boosters.

MT and Mrs A NJ. Strode of Sho-
 shone county. Idaho. who have been in the city since Monday and expect
 to leave this evening for California; on
 their way home. are about the most
 pleased visitors Phoenix has enter
 tained for a long time Mir. -Strode
 was encountered al the Commercial
 hotel, where they have been stopping,
 and it is almost -a certain prediction
 that it is only matter of a short time
 when they will be numbered among
 the residents of this valley. They are
 in easy circumstances. have done well
 in Idaho apd love the northern state.
 but they Have reached that time in
 life when the cold winters nos longer
 attract them and last November they
 left home on d trip of inspection. de
 termined to find q better place for a
 future home in a milder climate. if
 there was place to be found where other things were satisfactory as well as climate.
 Since that time they have travelled through KentuN1y. Tennessee. Florida. Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. and are now giving Arizona q look-over They said yesterday that the Salt river valley is the first place they have found in all these states which boasts of q mild climate, that they feek like coming back to- .Mr. Strode says he has under considera- ton already the purchase of two prop critics here and will probably he back here in due time to become a perman- ent resident. MT. Strode has not mere ly considered climate in his investiga tions. g, He is an experienced business man and has learned to look into all phases of country's resources. He has spent thirty years in Colorado. Utah. Wyoming. Idaho and Montana. has not only seen a lot of irrigation but has been actively concerned in ir- administration. He is familiar with maps and figures and can read them when he sees them. Arriving here he visited the weather bureau of flee and verified the climate tales he heard, then looked thoroughly into the irrigation project. examined the lands and their products and got authorita tive information as to the latter. both in variety and quality. all of which facts he added to what he could see with his own eyes He said it was un- necessary for him tO go to Roosevelt. He knows what the government work is, and the maps and pictures tell him the rest. He has seen enough tO sat jsfy him that he never saw | better country than this is today nor one with brighter prospects for the future. The variety of crops. both agricultural
 A.. Ia ,f.sraI lsa cation and general conditions, together with the incomparable climate, are all anybody could ask for.
 Mir Strode says moreover that in his opinion right now is a better time to invest in this valley than ever before, or probably better than there will be again. The experimental work fs over. The water supply is assured. The crops have all been tried out, or at least enough of them; the soil has been tested, the country is rapidly develop ing. Investments can never be made for less money than now and if they had been made earlier they would have been accompanied by doubt and experi- ment. or long waits for water or some other condition. And values are cheap tT TOT tHe Liicit cAiStS ''it of future returns.
 These things are the more apprect- atod since it has been learned that MT Strode has been successful in his en- terprises elsewhere, Is now the own CT of a waterworks plant in he north. is president and manager of two pros porous mining companies and has oth- CT large and varied interests. Asked what his business is. he said he didn't know. he was concerned in so many things he no longer claimed to have snpcii ltN