Arizona republican., 1910-10-23

I to the extent that her people need not send into other states for the bare ne- cessities of life; until she can be
 turned to by other states and drawn
 upon to supply their needs, it can be said that she is still virgin country.
 The crying need is menl
 One poultryman in nine months of last year matched 26,OO0 chickens. and yet there was never day that chick
 ems were not at a premium in this val
 ley Another raised 34,000 chickens in
 a twelvemonth and yet the supply neV- CT came anywhere near meeting the demand. Scores of farmers within a ten-mile radius of this city the past
 summer raised from 500 to 1000 chick
 ems and yet today the local merchants are turning their eyes to distant points
 to meet the constantly increasing de- mand. After the holidays it will be
 the same as last year. Chickens will be selling at anywhere from 25 cents
 to 35 cents pound live weight and not obtainable even at that price.
 Restauranteurs, hotelmen and bakers, unable to depend upon the local cream cries for the butter needed for their tables or in the producing of bread and cakes, ship in great quantities of that needful article. And the creameries are ever crying that they cannot secure the milk to manufacture butter. The supply of milk is contracted long be- fore the cows are fresh and the farmer declines to sell his coming fresh heif- CTS as he refuses to sell lis work team.
 10 fA l@1 hot farmers are prone to endeavor to work too large tracts of land to the detri- ment of his own producing capacity. In other words he tills too great an area and does not begin to get the same results as he would if he were to ham, de q smaller tract and give it closer personal attention.
 The farmer with the smaller tract, say, twenty to forty acres. has his busi- ness at all times under his control The plea then is for men to come to the Salt river valley. buy a moderate sized ranch and with intelligent laboring take from that soil dollars and many of them, in the form of rich crops, plump poultry or fat cattle.
 The crying need is men!
 The Phoenix board of trade is do- ing an excellent work in this respect Secretary Harry Welch seems to have grasped the situation from the incipi- ency of his incumbency of his office and thanks to his efforts many home seekers, the to-be producers, are being brought here
 The Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe railroads are doing much to adver- tise the Salt river valley and it is be- coming quite the common thing to hear of the arrival here of parties of one or two dozen who have been induced to come out here and cast their for tunes with other customers transplant ed in this growing section.
 The real estate men, despite the as- sertion that theirs is but a selfish motive, have been instrumental in bringing in for months and months the 1 very class of citizens considered desir- ] able, those with small sums and great l to invest. The Phoenix of | en years ago is not the Phoenix of to- l Jay, nor will the Phoenix of today be l that of ten years hence
 When the great Roosevelt dam is | ,ully completed and bestOwing it's wa CTS upon the thousands of acres below, when those thousands of acres shall ,e found teeming with animal and | 'lant life. when homes of honest, toil- ng rachmen shall be founded where agebrush and jackrabits now abound, hen will be realized in a measure, the lream of generation. But today
 The crying need is meni