Arizona republican., 1911-12-25

world.
 Where? The book tells very brio Fly
 where to find this little garden spot located ten miles north of Phoenix on
 the Santa Fe and the Arizona & Cali fornia railroads. and on trolley reached from Phoenix. and is the heart of the famous valley
 Why? For many reasons Its soil.
 proclaimed by experts to he as rich in
 plant food as any in all America
 where a river for countless centuries
 ran. mixed with silt and volcanic ash
 which it deposited on it's banks by
 winter and summer floods. If I had a patch of that land back east said a recent immigrant. 'T wouldn't price
 it by the acre; I'd sell it to my neigh
 bors by the ton for fertilizer"
 Its irrigation water comes from the
 impounded waters of the great Roose- welt reservoir. lake twenty-five miles long and from one to three wide, the largest artificial body of water in the world. The reservoir has already been proven. and there has been more available water since its completion than the farmers could use"
 Concerning the we'll water. it is suf ficient to remark that upon the purity of the well water the beet sugar com pany erected a million dollar factory. upon the Universitys analysis pro- nouncing Glendale water the purest in the valley. And. of course. superior soil for beet raising must have been assured to the capitalists before such an amount was expended.
 As to climate; tastes" the book says, differ. To him who loves snow storms, zero weather. slush. sleet and blizzards. Glendale has nothing to of fer, our advice to such a one is for him to stay back east and enjoy him. self: but if there is pleasure. profit and health for you in blue skies, in sunshine, in air so clear that moun- tains sixty miles away seem within walking distance-if you really enjoy winter days when the thermometer fingers at 70 and the nights are just cool enough for light blankets and good sleeping. come out and learn how genial a winter climate may be if it tries. There are hundreds of days of sunshine. and sunstrokes are unknown.
 And it is this continuous sunshine that puts sugar into raisin grapes. sugar beets and cantaloupes. It also grows alfalfa in thirty days"
 The crops. the fruits and vegetables, grains and forage plants have made the Salt River valley famous. A net profit of s419.21 per acre from canta- loupes is not considered unusual re- Hn in, ha Glendale district
 All the deciduous fruits. and citrus fruits, and sugar beets, pink beans and Bermuda onions respond especially to the Glendale soil as we'll as oranges and grapefruit. Pigs are exceedingly profitable. Chickens and turkeys run out of doors the year round. Markets in the mining districts near. and the numbering. sheep and cattle communi- ties demand the local products at good prices.
 And. what is one of the best things in the whole story. the town of Glen dale is growing faster than any other small city in Arizona. A million-dOl- lar sugar factory is one Of the import ant aids in the rapid upbuildinS of the country and has a capacity of 500 tons of beets daily throughout the sugar. making season.
 Glendale boasts of all these things. However. her main boast is in the class of men which founded it. who high ideals of citizenship that have always been first in inn portance in the community. Their slogan was: Churches and school houses but no saloons. The town has lived up to it; there never has been saloon in the place.
 And for the homeseekers who are the cry of back to the farm who want a home which will pro- 1uce bounteous returns in d delightful that has all the year to ma ture them, who want neighbors who are congenial. good schools for the children. churches to aid in the up- building of the community.-whereh he is embarrassed by city cares, and where he can be assured competence In his old aGe.-he need go no farther than Glendale.