Arizona republican., 1911-03-27

turbance. for all these things are of interest at Washington.
 Mir. Kitch will probably remain in the Salt River Valley at least six months longer before completing his work here. He has been in the gov ernment service during the last ten years, and knows his business. Just before taking up the cooperative re- port for the two departmnts men
 tioned he prepared a complete re- port on mines and mining for the de- partment od commerce and labor. i This business is not as simple as it may appear. MT. Kitch is growing l thin at it.
 1 Some secrets are dangerous, and others valuable Many a person has encountered death in a terrible form
 because he would not divulge a sec
 ret known to him, and quite a few others have made comfortable for tunes by keeping mum. Sad to re- late. or happily. as the case may be, secrets will out. Take the case of Mr Lorimers election, for example. Also Nat Goodwins eighth engage ment In the case of the J. M. Bren-
 nan Tannery and Shoe company at Upland. California, a little secret concerning their process of tanning leather nets the firm about S35,OOO a year-a sum for which all men and
 most women would be willing to keep quiet forever.
 The special representative of the
 firm arrived in Phoenix last night.
 and left this morning, which gave him a small allowance of time to work the city, but his house employs rust lers. and he doubtless understands the
 art of doing in twelve hours the bus
 mess which some other salesmen do in twenty-four. by hurrying. The saIesman's name is R. c. Caldwell. who registered at the Hotel Ford and gave out a little information on the rise of his house from nothingness to it's present flourishing condition. Three and one-half years ago the firm was manufacturing one pair of shoes a day. Today. in their new factories at Upland they have facilities for manufacturing 800 pairs per day, and are working up to their full capacity
 all the time. The success of the firm is due to a secret tanning process held by it's members, which makes IL possible to take green hide ana convert it into shoe leather in six days time If it isn't that it must be something else. for there has to be a reason for such phenomenal growth and increase in production.
 "A Coming Empire" Such was the language. slightly bombastic, and per haps more euphonious than appropri- ate, which a guest of the Adams An nex used to describe the Sulphur Spring Valley in the southeast corner of the territory Not to depreciate the fertility or progress of the valley, but empires are not made these days from Sulphur Spring, or any other kind or variety of valley. What is an em- pire2 Somebody else may know the definition Ask them. We can only state that it brings before our minds great maps of conquered countries such as Ceasar and Napoleon and Alexander bagged in their long trips of martial buccaneering, vast stretches of mountain, plain, and valley. inhab- tied by peculiar peoples. and with. many tongues spoken therein. The German empire is not one of this variety. But compared with the em- pire of Alexander the German empire would furnish material for sunny l afternoon, ha, ha To go down the l scale by regular graduauons, the 1 Sulphur Spring Valley, compared with | the German Empire would be less than a joke It would be a witticism. | a facetious nothing. But If deprived | of the glory of empire the valley still | as fertile and as promising a valley as is to be found in the south | east corner of Arizona. The land is | rapidly being subdivided into quarter sections. fences are being put up 1 wells sunk, and before long 1t Will become a section of which any empire. l no matter how glorious. would he | proud.