Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-01-19
KANSAS BOOSTER FOR
SALT RIVER VALLEY
A Man Who Has Watched Its Devel-
opment For Twenty Years.


The following letter is from one of
! the many On-resident friends of this
| valley whose number is legion and to
| whose encouragement is due in large
| part the patience OF the older set
! tiers who have waited long years for
! the prosperity that only i'm recent
years began Ia be in evidence and
which now bids fair to be perpetual
Hiawatha. Kansas. Jan. T., 1911
Progressive Farmer,
Phoenix, Arizona.
BY noticing my letterhead you viii
find my name in the line of those
who have been active i'm the settle
ment Of the Salt River valley | Wis
tied the valley several times In 1890
and became active in the work and
brought the first COLONY of Kansans
Ia Glendale. But the loss of the Ari-
IONA canal dam repeatedly left them
without sufficient water for irriga-
ton consequently about the whole
colony one by one, left for fields of
better pasture.
notice i'm The Republican that
there win be new paper started.
Please put my name on your list and
send me the first number. More
later Yours truly.
+. L. ROSENBERGER.
The letterhead on which Mr. Rosen-
berger writes and 10 which he calls
attention bespeaks him as an i'm
migration agent. at one time If not
now. as the STATIONERY bears date of
the nineties and AT the head of il are
found such legends as the following:
For Sale-10.00O acres of choice fruit
lands. twenty acre tracts at from $25
10 SIS per acre. Lots i'm Glendale"
For any information about Glendale.
Arizona. the rising star Of the Salt
River valley. just started. nine miles
northwest of Phoenix. on the new
Santa Fe Railway address. etc"
Mr.. Rosenberger is now a sub
scriber to The Republican and through
all the intervening years he has been
keeping touch with this section
through its columns He writes to
the new agricultural paper shortly To
make its appearance. and even at
that far away distance viii probably
have the honor Of being one of its
first subscribers.
Mr.. Rosenberger is on of the far
sighted men who when he first Wis
tied the valley twenty years ago. ap-
preciated its possibilities. Believing
as So many others did then that the
water problem was practically settled
by the old time private ownership
canals. he set about peopling the val
ley and il Is to be regretted that un-
forseen disasters worked such hard
ships for the settlers 1t is useless
to dwell on the dark page now for it
is too well known that many who
came here then and had full APP
probation Of the future of the val
ley. had to move To save themselves.
being unable to stand the financial
strain of waiting for better condi-
tons.
Mr.. Rosenberger though like great
many others. may be congratulated
that he has lived to see the day
when the water question has been
finally and certainly settled and it is
sincerely hoped that he still owns a
few of the rich Arizona acres and
may at an early day. come To view
the blossoming prosperity that he
once sdw across the vista Of the flu
ture never dreaming il was so far
away. His letter also encloses some
of his old time literature. one poster
Of an excursion to Phoenix i'm 1896
and another. a folder on the fertility
of the valley lands and setting forth
the merits Of Hiawatha tract south
of Tempe. the lands of which were
offered at S35 per acre But there is
nothing doing now on a $35 basis for
the valley has come into it's own