Arizona republican., 1912-01-26
PLACE HE
 KNOWS ABOUT
World Traveller Who Says This Valley Offers More Inducement to the In veStor and Homemaker Than Any Section He Ev- CT Visited.

If l had s1OO,OOO to invest l don't know where I could so with greater assurance of good returns than right here, and I believe that with good management I could double it in five years I have never been in a town where l believe the possibilities are so certain"
 The speaker was Lewie l.. Pope of the Lawrence Williams Co, of Cleve- land, O., who with Mrs. Pope has been spending d few days in Phoc- nix in the course of trip to the coast, which they resumed last night. The Williams Co. is the owner of the Ohio Farmer published in Ohio. the Michigan Farmer. published in Miclri- gan and the Pennsylvania Farmer. published in Philadelphia, three big farm journals, and such statement from such q man as Mir. Pope con- corning al western agricultural region. is the strongest recommendation this valley can have.
 The Williams Co. also owns the American and Canadian rights on d remedy much used by veterinarians and it was in advertising it that Mir. Pope learned of Phoenix through the Progressive Farmer here. with which he did business. After riding aobut the city and valley he and Mrs. Pope went tO Roosevelt via Granite Reef. thus seeing the upper part of the valley. Mir. Pope says that no person who can afford to come to Phoenix on visit. can af ford to go away again without see ing the big storage dam.
 Yesterday in company with k. II. Greene. Mr. Moore of Portland, oregon and Lyman Peters. Mir. Pope took an auto ride tu the ostrich farm and the west end of the valley. He did not come here for the purpose of investing. but merely for sight seeing Nevertheless that Home builders stock was too good to pass up and he took a thousand shares. Mir. Greene also tried to sell him q house for $7.J0O He didn't want any house, but was finally persuaded to go and look at it. IL seemed so good an investment he went back to take Mrs. Pope out tu see il before
  tions had passed that far. word came to him at the hotel that the house had been sold to some one else, and then he began to appreciate how things are moving hereabout.
 MT Pope has travelled over about as much of the world as the general tourist ever sees. He has been with in IS degrees of the north pole, which he says is just as far north as he ever wants to go. He spent one winter in Panama, made another trip of 37.2OO miles which included Australia and the Orient, and has planned d trip to South America. This country he is of course very familiar with. except some of the western sections, so when he says this is the best spot he has seen 1t is for him the choice Of all the world. He says that his business interest, friends and all are in the east ana he is too far along in life to start over again. but were he a younger man he would surely come here to grow up with the country. He said he had been simply amazed at the climate. soil, and the products there of
 Mir. Pope has sent back to his papers story descriptive of the dam and some incidental mention or the valley. He will probably write further of his visit in succeeding lS- sues.