Arizona republican., 1910-11-28
They Will Some Day Make
 That Country Famous
FAIR OAKS ORCHARD co.
Its Display at Territorial Fair Was a Revelation Even to Visitors From Nearby Sections Model Fruit Farm.

Frank R. Stewart of this city, on,
 of the men interested in the Fail
 Oaks Orchard company, appeared al
 The Republican office the other
 day and ordered the paper sent foI
 a year to s. II. Motley. manager oi
 the company's business at Simmons Iavapai county, instructing the cir | culation mahager to mark it com l plimentary and charge the expense
 to profit and loss. Mir Stewart was 1 licensed to do this in view of the
 fact that The Republican had auth
 orized the territorial fair commission
 to announce in its premium list that | it would give a years subscription
 to the exhibitor of the best box of | apples at the fair, and the Fair | Oaks Orchard company picked the plum.
 But that was not all the Fair | Oaks company did It captured thir- tytwo first prizes and two second premiums and then by the aid of its
 fine display enabled Yavapai county
 to claim for the second successive year the best county exhibit in the agricultural and horticultural depart.
 ment. There were a lot of other
 things from Yavapai worth while
 but this was the one big show that gave the county the big lead in the running. Better even than the prizes taken. for Yavapai and its interests
 was the impression made by the big Fair Oaks exhibit on the thousands of fair visitors. who neither knew nor cared who won the premiums. They saw the general effect of the display and many of them for the first time in their lives had a proper appreciation of the real value of the mountain valleys in northern Arizona. The display was a revelation and many visitors of the travelled sort said it was as good a showing of ap- ples as they had ever seen at any of the big fruit shows. There were 100 boxes on exhibition, representing thirty three varieties, thirty-one of which took first premiums. the coun- ty in its entire display capturing 152 premiums.
 These facts make a little story of the Fair Oaks Orchard cOmpany's project very timely, entertaining and profitable. It will show the magni- tude of an enterprise that compara- lively few people in Arizona ever heard about because of its remote To- cation. Better still it will show what can be duplicated in a thousand different places in Yavapai county. to say nothing of other thousands in other counties, when people realize that Arizona can leave three-fourths of its area to the immense mining and grazing interests and still have the richest agricultural state in the union. even If not the largest, and even in point of acres and products it will eventually be wiped up to- ward the top liners.
 The Fair Oaks Orchard company owns 160 acres of land near Sim mons at an altitude of $500 feet. on the other side of the mountain from the famous Verde valley with which the location has often been con founded. The Verde valley is a we'll known fruit section and produces some most excellent apples, good enough for anybody to eat, but its all titude is only 5000 feet. The Fair Oaks people claim their higher alti- tude gives their fruit a more beauti- full coloring, which helps a whole lot on the show tables.
 Of this 16O acres only forty is now planted to orchard. there being 1000 bearing trees It is the pur- pose of the company to plant another 1000 trees the present season. From this forty acres the company has this year harvested over 5000 boxes of first-class fruit and manufactured 1000 gallons of cider. This is eXclu- 1 sive of the crop of summer apples, | peaches, pears and small fruit. A shipment of the apples has just been | made to the Doris Grocery company | in this city and they can be pro- cured either from that firm or of | the Wakelin Grocer company.
 One fact that not only orchardists | but all agriculturists and horticultu- rists should make a note of. and the reason for it. is the absolute freedom of the orchard from worms | or coddling moths. Dr. Morrill, the territorial entomologist, who is also connected with the agricultural eX pertinent station of Arizona, a gov ernment institution, visited the orch ard last summer and subsequently, made a special report to the agri- cultural department in which he said it was the only orchard he had ever seen that was entirely free from worms, moths, or disease of any kind.
 That this is not mere talk. is in dicated by the standing offer made by the orchard company, to give a box of apples free to any person who will find a worm or a moth in one of their apples.
 The company is justly proud of that sort of a reputation which is getting pretty close to a worlds rec Drd, but its pride is not of half as much importance as the business | fact is avluable. It is freely admit