Arizona republican., 1912-09-13
WANTS ID BUY MORE TURKEYS
Fred Harvey System Hav- ing Eaten a Thousand Valley Fowls Passes Its Plate Back for a Larger Helping.

One never knows where a market
 will be developed until he begins look
 ing around and the best way to devel-
 Op a market is to get something to sell
 This valley has a much bigger market
 than it ever had before and when if
 produces ten times as much it will have ten times as big a market. that
 is to say, conditions will be created
 that will develop the market that is not
 here now. Those concerned will see
 that this is done in self defense. just
 as the producers of this valley are now
 doing.
 All this is suggested by the fact that
 the Harvey eating house system would
 like to contract in this valley for tur-
 keys for it's entire line of western eat
 ing houses, and that means some tur-
 keys in the course of a year. For a
 long time Phoenix has been trying to
 convince the Harvey folks and the rest
 of the world that Salt River valley or
 anges were better than others and it
 has been accomplished so that their
 fame is known from coast to coast.
 Then came the cantaloupes and wa
 termelons, the fame of which was more
 easily established And now comes the
 Harvey house people who operate on
 railroads running through thousands
 of miles of farming and poultry rais-
 ing country, demanding that this val
 ley supply the system with turkeys
 and promising that if it will do so they
 will buy the cranberry sauce necessary
 to fill out the bill of fare somewhere
 else, until Arizona gets to raising cram berries And that's about the only
 thing that isn't grown to some extent, somewhere in Arizona.
 Seriously a Harvey representative dropped into Phoenix last season and in the course of his look around he stumbled onto a fine bunch of turkeys and contracted for a thousand head to be delivered in broken lots. The ord CTS were filled and the valley fowl seemed to please the Santa Fe travel CTS who patroniZed the Harvey system That is all that was necessary and now the caterers want to buy their entire supply here if they can get it. w. s. Goldsworthy of the Santa Fe offices says that any turkey raiser who is interested may call on him and he will answer all questions of detail that he can and if there is anything too hard for him he will pass it along to a real Harvey man who can tell him everything.
 Hitherto the turkey business here | has been merely that of catering to | the local family and restaurant trade, except for some shipments of surplus at holiday seasons. The general GUS l tom of the small turkey raisers has been to save their birds until the holi- | day demand when everybody tried to l sell at once. In some years when there
 has been a short supply the prices have i been very high but in other years the rush to market for holiday trade has ] suddenly dropped the price to l a figure very disappointing to the | grower The advantage Of finding a valley market with the Harvey system 1 is that that company wants just few l turkeys about three times a week reg 1 ularly the year round, more perhaps at 1 one season than another. depending on 1 the tide of travel, but always goodly l number How many turkeys the Har- | Vev system would contract for nobody | here now knows, not even MT. Colds | worthy, but it would probably be more l than the local growers can supply this | year or any other year without pre- | pairing for such a market, for it will | take a deal of white meat, to say noth- ing of drumsticks and wish bones, to
 supply all the Harvey house patrons | three times a week for year.