Arizona republican., 1911-07-31
IMMIGRANTS
 FROM RUSSIA Buy Large Tract of Land
 Near Glendale WILL MAKE HOME HERE
Beet Growers Suffer $75, ,000 Loss from Heavy Rains Contract Will be Let for Power Line to Marinette.
 Sugar Industry Excellent.

Coming to Phoenix in the interests of the Southwestern Sugar and Land company. of which he is president. R. P. Davies arrived in this city last night from Los Angeles. MT Davies was accompanied by E. F. Brysselbout. superintendent of the sugar factory of the United States Sugar and Land pany of Garden City, Kas.
 Bringing word of a sale of one thou sand and four hundred acres of land to forty Russian families, closed last Saturday in Los Angeles through Mir. Peters, the coast representative of Green X Griffin, Mir. Davies was enthu- siastic in speaking of the character of the Russians. and their many recom- mendations as substantial farmers and good citizens.
 The Russians who have bought the land from the Southwestern Sugar and Land company are not newly ar rived in the United States, Jut have been in the country some time seek ing suitable location for their families They had established a settlement near Los Angeles when they were ap- preached by MT. Peters, and persuaded to consider the Salt River valley for their future home.
 They are people of large and strong physique. who came originally from a country lying between the Caspian and Black seas. Very religious in charac- ter, they have already made arrange ments to set aside forty acres of the one thousand four hundred, to be used for their church. cemetery and priests house and garden. Members of the Greek Catholic church, they will estab- fish a church of their own delomina- l tion, and may reasonably be expected said MT Davies. to gain recognition as creditable additions to the farming population of the valley.
 There are forty families averaging eight members to the family, and ther, will be approximately 320 of them inths party when they reach Phoenix next week Their financial responsibility was evidenced when they proved theil ability to be parties in a transfer o1 land involving the expenditure of $200,- GOO, the approximate value of the lanC sold in Los Angeles.
 Speaking of the character of tn, | Russian buyers of his company's land MT. Davies said last night to repre- sentative of The Republican: "Thes' people we are bringing in here are ( good, substantial type. the kind of peO ! pie who will make the valley a better | place to live in. They are highly in telligent and are positively not mem bers of the peasant class whose igno rance has been so graphically describe, by Count Tolstoi. They were Ian, owners in their own country, and dis ! posed of their possessions there |, come to America. They did this be | cause they were in search of bette conditions, and not because they wer, forced to leave their own country.
 believe their introduction here will b, worth S1OO,OOO in cash to the valley for they are hard workers and inten, to make tbeir homes here"
 Report of the damage suffered b. the beet growers in the recent heav. rains are largely responsible for MI Davies visit to the valley at this time He has been taking a vacation in Colo radO. and went to Los Angeles to as sist in closing the sale for the com pany land at Glendale. It was his in tentiOn to return to Colorado as 500 as the deal had been closed. Hearing however that loss close to S75,000 i
 the sugar contents of the beets ha
 been sustained in this section of tn country, he decided to spend a few day looking over his company's holdings an
 sizing up the situation for the comin
 year.
 "We have lost close to s75.OOO in tn
 sugar contents of the beets,'' he sai
 last night. but the farmers have mad
 money from the beets. and we hay
 more contracts in sight for next yea
 than we can handle. I do net reca
 a time when the outlook was as en
 couraging as it is at this time, and
 believe the beet sugar industry
 scarcely on the threshold of it's devel
 opment in this valley
 Mir Davies expects to leay
 for Los Angeles Tuesday even
 ing. During his stay in this cit
 he will let the contracts for the con
 struction of a power line to Marinett
 The power will be used for the opera
 ton of a series of twenty or mor
 pumping stations to raise wate. for il
 riSation, and will cost from $40,OOO { $50.O00.
 Mir Breysellbout, who has accompa
 nied Mir. Davies on his trip from th