Arizona republican., 1910-04-23
DICK HALL, FARMER
 AND HIS EXPERIENCE
HE DIDN'T WANT TO AT FIRST
 BUT CERES IUREO HIM ON.
An Object Lesson in Dry Farming In
 Grace Valley.

in the city recently. is not pretentiou> | of his skill as farmer. He is devoted ] primarily to the business of mining and
 k doing pretty well at it. nevertheless
 make a farmer out of him Anyway Dick is one of the sort who like to seize
 an opportunity whenever il gets in his way and. though farming is not his ! choice a project that comes under that head has been thrusting itself upon him 90 vigorously that he could not ! longer dodge it and he is now the hcav- jest grain grower in all that rich agri- cultural section shortly to become famous. and known as Grace Valley, and he can hardly be blamed for it
 either More than that it is dry farm
 ing and looks like success with a big
 < Mir Hall was not telling the story
 to feature his own exploits buy to show what kind of soil Grace Valleg' is made of and as he recited the facts F.. l.. Jones' a Salome merchant, stood at his elbow and verified every statement, pleading guilty to having squatted on d homestead of l6O acres himself. which he believes will make him as rich some day as homcstcader ever hopes to be.
 Everybody knows that the soil of Grace Valley is good and that all it needs is water. but Messrs. Hall and Jones say they are convinced that the soil is better and that il is not bad even without water. \ lot Of more people are convinced of the same thing and have taken up homesteads in that section. the fact having been mentioned from timy to time m these columns But none of the others tried to get crop in this year. preferring to go slow. get down a few wells first md have water for domestic purposes and per haps for irrigation. And that rrobably is the correct plan for dry farming is always experimental at first and the experimenter has to feel his way.
 But Messrs. Hall and Jones neither of them went out to SalOme to farm. having other business with which to Wrest chile con carne from the desert. MT Hall owns the biggest pat of the Salome townsite and has plenty of water there for domestic uses and To- cation notices on all the surrounding hills This dry farming business crept up on him stealthilY and he couldn't get away. There was So mach talk about the business he finally put in forty acres of wheat and barley just as an experiment. He should have pre- pared his soil and planted it last fall to take advantage Of the early winter rains but ne was busy and neglected to do SO It was therefore January before he got his planting done and as everybody knows this has been one of the driest years in the history of these parts. so when the long prayed for rain failed to come he merely put his eN- pertinent down as another fool play.
 However. he had titled the ground pretty thoroughly before planting and the more it didn't rain the more he kept running the harrow over it tln- ally he got it so dusty he coul1 hardly walk over it but the grain came up all right and grew splendidly. The burros and the cattle drifted in and pastured it off time after time, and when the winter rains failed entirely he threw up the sponge. But the grain kept coming along famously and he became curious to know just what could be done without any rain. so he fenced m five acres of it and turned the rest of it over to fate and the burros.
 Finally it did rain on April r. and things looked so green and nice he de- cided to take new courage. Getting out the harrow again he gave it an other such a raking as grain field never had before and when he got through. to use his own expression. "it looked like hell" But it didn't feel that way and shortly brightened up -reener than ever. Then he made up his mind to be a sport and see what hc could do. so he fenced the rest Of u in and turned the burros out on the desert. Now he says he believes he will make q pretty good crop on alt ol IL and if he does make success of this scasons effort he will bite off d big ger contract next year. for he says hc had no license to expect crop under this wears conditions. Heretofore he has raised perhaps half an acre of grain every season just for fun but this year has been the most fOrbiddlng of any. He knew what the soil was all the time but he never supposed that
 
 at all
 Mir. Jones. who has 1s0 acres, says he will certainly have a crop in next year. This season all that he planted was garden truck and he irrigated that from a well with a threc-inch hose. Though he hasn't a large garden he IS proud of it and says his truck is com ing along fincly.
 The gentlemen say there are about sevcnty-five people in that section now with the dry farming bee in their honnets. getting ready to plant crops this fall and they believe there is every reason to expect large measure of success if the ground is early and filled and there Is the year brings the normal nine inches "f rain fan.
 Every family and especially those who reside in the country sh"ulu bt provided at all times with bottle n! Chamberlain Eminent. There Is no