Arizona republican., 1910-03-07

the writer, standing in about the cen ter of the ranch and viewing a sea Of barley and wheat in every direction; T have holdings in various places. in clusing riverside. Calif.. but ] consider ! this as mu favorite asset" Continuing, the gentleman said: Two years ago purchased this land last spring l planted eiEhty-five acres to barley and
 harvested three tons of hay to the
 acre Replanted the same to millet and harvested a like amount. l could. have grown a third or even fourth crop. but
 as have sold the barley hay St 500 per acre ana the millet at Sl5, l consider Sl05 per acre from virgin land as good enough for one season. | propose to pdddock this ranch into forty-acre tracts and grow stock By this method can utilize every acre. for l can drive stock cheaper than l can haul produce
 to market When the railroad arrives | may change things. but as the place Is today would not entertain S2Oe per acre for any portion ar the whole "f this section for a moment" Upon in Vestigation | found the gentleman to
 be correct. for while unimproved land could be purchased for dS low as Si'. improved land ran as high as Sc0O per lacre. while much like Mir Lovehin and the Palo Verde Development company was not for sale.
 The clearing. leveling and planting ot these many hundred acres has been un- der the direction ar r. n. Mcintyre, vice president of the PIlo Verde De Vcl1pment company. a man who cer- tlinly understands the science ot farm ing
 Isllo Verde valley k geneell!v termed Blythe. but as to the name, it makes little difference The settlement mum hcrs Ihout s60 people and the favorable conditions offered hOmeScckerS It pres ent. it would he nothing hut guess
 work to attempt tp place the popula- tion at the end or two years hence. Another important industry to Blythe or the whole, desert country is the corporation known as the Big Five Nursery comTnny. The members ot the company are; N. n. lngham. R- n ward. $ S Rogers. Prof. R. =. Smith and ThoS. r. Hunt. The gentlemen are all experts in plant culture and have
 established this business in Blythe, be { lievinS that the Colorado river valley will In the near future he a valuable country for those trees, vines and plants guaranteed to be the best that can only be obtained under eXperi- mental research. MT. Ward is person ally in charge of the station. and with
 the hundreds of thousands of plants now Sprouting-the one of 400. 900 eu calypuuS trees is no small item. In the culture of this tree. or which they are many varieties. Nir. Ward is eXperi- mentng with a craetion of his own. IL is intended to stand the overflow of the low lands of the Colorado. The plant did well last year. standing prac- . tically seventy days in four feet Of . flood water with only a foot or so of their tops exposed for a great portion
 of the time without any serious results. If they stand it this summer" said MT. Wand. we will have a valuable tree to replace the obnoxious and vir- tually useless cottonwood" to which the writer answered, and a fortune to the Big Five Nursery company" Hope so.'' replied MT. Ward.
 1 As stated before, Blythe is handi ; capped for a market Now she receives : her supplies from Glamis. on the Southern Pacific, distant seventy-five { miles. On the completion or the A. X ! C.. Blythe will be within thirty-fiVe miles across the desert without water ar fifty miles up the river to Calzona.
 In both cases wagon roads are yet to I he buiIt. In the meantime the Colo r:Ido River Navigation company is af , ter the Blythe business tooth and toe |. nail The lola. with a fair river. makes the run to Blythe landing in seven ! hours. fhe round trip in twenty hours daylight run. Capt. Williams has {. established the fact that the old Colo : I,Ido river, with all her tricks. can still
 be navigated, which goes to prove that
 water transportation will have to he { considered in the future.
 [ The party who visited Blyth re turned tp Parker 8 bunch of boosters" ! for that section. They all liked every thing they saw, everybody with whom { they became acquainted, and voted the l trip a pleasant and instructive diver l