Arizona republican., 1912-12-29
Purchaser of Large Tract Pleads for Greater Oppor- tunity for Small Rancher, to Permit More Rapid Improvement
TURNS DEAL FOR
 FORTY THOUSAND
Which Will Be Cut Up Into Small Tracts; Con- stant Water Supply Makes This System Ad- Visable

VlSable
 A sale was closed Saturday where by four hundred ana eighty acres of land lying in section 21. north. 1. east. was purchased by R R. Bailey, president Of the Roosevelt Irrigated Land company. The purchase price vas in the neigkborhood Of S40,0O0. co
 The deal was made by Bailey from Eastern people through the Phoenix Trust company and Neri Osborn. The terms of sale were one-fourtn cash and the balance in five years at ' per cent.
 This tract three quarters of section of brush land lies along the New river, one mile west of the center of Peoria. Mir Bafleys in tention is to improve and subdivide into 10 and 70 acre farms. all of the land being a river silt soil is especial ly adapted to the raising of potatoes, onions, beans and garden truck Be fore placing the land on the market he will clear it of brush, level it and blow it, taking off all the rough edges of the pioneer labor.
 MT. Bailey advises that the tract will be placed on the market on very reasonable terms and ample time will be given buyers to make good on their small tracts.
 Bailey had the following to say re- garding land conditions in the Salt river valley:
 The eyes of the farmers today are turned toward irrigated lands. Men are beginning to realize that the only sure and the most success ful financial returns come from the farming of irrigated lands. By that mean lands that have ample water the year around.
 On practically all irrigation pro- jects in the west, the water service comes generally every two weeks, with some only once d month. On many the farmers depend on the nor nal flow of water from the rivers and creeks that feed their canals, in such projects. even with the best of years. the summer months finds them with shortage of water. just at the time when it is needed the most. It is just sucn projects as this, that the farmers are getting away from; they are looking for the water; they want the land that can get this water on a twenty four hour notice. Here in the Salt river valley I consider that the rec clamation service and the govern ment have accompli- i-hed wonders. -s4l water shed. is more than ample se- curity against the fear of drouth. The large amount Of electrical horse power to be generated from it's lake, in itself places every acrr of land in this valley on a dividend paying basis in few years to come.
 Take for instance. the delivery of water to the different farm units a water service rated for every eight days: when one considers the dis tance from which this water is brought, the river and large canals through which it has to flow to the distributing laterals. and through those laterals for mile to three miles before reaching the land it irrigates, the work appears little short of remarkable When one takes into consideration the loss from evaporation an; seepage and the iii completion of the main canals. 1t Is doing nothing short of a miracle, for the reclamation service to promise delivery of water every eight days, especially when it is making good at l it 1 know it is the ambition of thIs service to be able to say to any and 1 all farmers-Y ou''l get water o1 | tWentv-four hours notice. When they ! accomplish that they will have placed | the Salt river valley and it's irriga- l ton system beyond future improve ment
 As it is few irrigated systems
 are the equal of this one i1 the dis | tribution of water and none Wher it comes to the absolute certainty ol everlasting water. The demand i' for small and better farms. Mer are learning that a small farm wei l taken care of. is better than thu | large farm poorly handled. Today il | California. inc dairy fram of ten '' | twenty acres is netting more none. than the farm of eighty to one hund
 red and sixty acres poorly kept
 Just as an example of the value
 Of the small farm and the demand fer them in the neighborhood of Bur bank California. uncultivated Ian is bringing $6O0OO an acre, to b devoted to dairyins. For improve alfalfa land in that district as hig as S1.OO0.00 to $1,200.00 an acre being offered for ranches of ten t twenty acres So it is true of othe well irrigated districts in Californi; My opinion is that all this valle .1yant< is thr atNertiSing When tn