Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1912-02-19
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CHANDLER CO.
Dick Hall Tells of It's Sue
cessful Colonization Work
and How it May Be Dup
Heated by Others if They
Will Cooperate

Dick Wick Hail assistant manager
of the Mesa improvement company ar
| rived here Yesterday from the Los An
geles office. accompanied 10y W. B.
Harrison a real estate man of that ci.y
who has associated himself with the
Mesa Improvement co. Nj Harrison
will be affiliated with the Mesa City
office which is under the direction OF
= W. Hanna. DR.. \. J. Chandler who
is the genius behind this big town
building enterprise and who has been
in Los Angeles several weeks. is ex-
pectel here goda1-
DR. Chandler is doing some big plan
ming in town building. p Mr.. Hall.
He Is not taking an old town and
working it over but is going To build
new town where nov, there * none.
adopting all the rules he chooses to
for the city beautiful and planning in
stitutions around the civic center
There VIII be city plaza with bust
ness houses around H. just where thu
management wants them. until it sells
off the lots To private owners and then
the plot of things viii be too far
along for anybody to spoil. Arthur
Benton. Los Angeles architect has
been employed and he is planning the
townsite and furnishing the plans for
the erection Of two story hoseI build
ing of brick and concrete. with six
storerooms on the ground floor. the
plan To- be somewhat similar to tho
well known Chandler court in Mesa
cry.
Among the public pleasures To be
provided viii be q big open plunge
bath. supplied with pure wa,er. So res
identS Of the now town can have Il
swim without having to go to the sea
coast. Thus far no city lot, nave been
sold nor viii they be until the manage
ment gets ready, but in .he meantime
the hotel viii be erected ana conduct
ed by the Improvement company. and
there is already need Of it for the pros
pective land buyers are flockng to
Chandler in numbers sufficient to
furnish a patronage for the institution
Mr. Hall saws the Los Angeles office
IS sending i'm about 200 prospective
buyers each month. The most of them
of course are attracted to other invest
ments for there are others in the val
icy who have good land to sell: but the
company il proceeding on the theory
that whatever helps Chandler helps the
valley and vice versa. There is only
50 much land anywhere in this valley
and at tho prices it is held as compared
with similar lands elsewhere it will
be no distant date when il will all be
gone or the price will be materially
raised. Nr. Hall SAYS that in the last
few months the company has sold over
1000 acres or about a half million dol
lars worth of land ana in his opinion
very nearly that much more hase been
sold by others to prospects that were
sent here by the company. The land
is sold in tracts of from ten to 100
acres. the average being about forty
acres To each buyer.
Most of the buyers are California
people Eastern people are flocking To
California and buying land but the
California people who know the condi-
tions. on learning of the good thing
here. sell out and come to Arizona. Mr.
Hall says that California lands can
not compare with Salt River valley
lands for general farming purposes anl !
are held at much higher prices. Then
too the water question here is snap
compared to that i'm California. He
says it il almost laughable 20 hear
people prating about their inability to
pay the prospective reservoir charge of
four or five dollars "A wear in This val
ley. after seeing the thousands i'm Cali |
fOrnia- who farm higher priced land
and pays an average Of $l2.5 per acre |
for water annually. still making very
good living on their lands. The reason |
is that the Salt River valley as rule |
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