Arizona republican., 1912-07-06
TEMPE
WHAT HARD WORK
 CAN ACCOMPL PL|SH
The Story of a Successful Salt River
 Valley Farmer.

ArizOnan, a weekly paper published in the interests of the new Chandler dis trict, is q splendid example of what a man with the right sort of spirit and the proper amount of grit can accOmp- fish in Arizona. While the article may be a little exaggerated in places, in the main it is a true story as the many friends of Jahn Anderson, the subject of the article can testify:
 This Is the story of John Anderson,
 today worth in the neighborhood of
 $10OO0O.
 Fourteen years ago Anderson landed in Tempe from Norway. an ignorant
 lad, unable to speak the English lang
 uage.
 Today Anderson owns 500 acres ad-
 joining the great Chandler Ranch on
 the northwest. He bought 32O acres
 of this land four years ago for fifty
 dollars an acre. Every acre of the land
 is worth today from $175 to $20O an
 acre. It is. splendidly improved with a
 large, modern residence heated and
 lighted by acetelyne gas manufactured
 on the Tlace
 Today al 34 John Anderson is one of
 the progressive American citizens of
 the the salt River Valley His land is
 identical with the 1S.OO0 of the Chand-
 Ter Ranch on the average. Thousands
 of the Chandler Ranch are probably
 better
 John Anderson did not move onto
 his 32G-acre farm one mile from
 Chandler Ranch townsite until two
 years ago. He did not seed any of the
 land until the spring of 1911, one year ago. He put 100 acres into barley and
 alfalfa
 AndersOn's barley yielded on an av-
 craze 2,29c pounds to the acre, or 22O.-
 900 pounds in all. He sold at for 1.25
 in the field. r. grss, s2.750. It cost him
 fifteen cents to thresh and sack; s an acre to head it, $3 an acre to seed it, and 90 cents an acre to water. The
 gross cOs- of the crop was $SS0. The crop. therefore, netted Anderson $1.S70. Then Anderson cut two crops of alfalfa hay which netted him $50
 tons, which he sold for $14 a ton It
 cost him $225 for baling and 75 cents to cut and put it in the warehouse and 50 cents an acre for his water. or $6O for wate, and all The gross price for his hay was S4900; expense of seeding, harvesting, etc, $11601O, leaving a net profit to Anderson on the two crops of alfalfa of $3.73990
 Then Anderson was offered $25O a month per head for field for pasture. 1 but turned in 120 head of his own and l let them fatten four months. The pas 1 ture is figured in as bringing Anderson $1200, m9king his profits on the 100 1 acres for the year 1911 as follows: aBrley, s1S7O; alfalfa, $373990; pas | tureage, 1900; total, S6S09 On a field of 15O acres Anderson got two crops of alfalfa which he stacked
 in the field, turning 15O head of cattle 1 in for four months The pasturage was worth 8 50 an acre a month or $500 | in all.
 On the balance of 70 acres Anderson | pasture1 380 head of cattle for a period of one month. The ground was soweJ 1 to young alfalfa in March and the hay | therefrom was stacked in the field and 1 the cattle allowed to run to it. The | only way of computing the value of the 1 70 acres IS pasturage at the rate of $250 a head or $95O.
 To summarize-Anderso 320 acres yielded net the first year he farmed it l $9259
 This year. 1912, Anderson has already cut two crops of alfalfa from the en- tire 320 acres, which yielded an average | over the whole ranch of one ton and a | quarter; that is, to date Anderson has harvested 800 tons of alfalfa hay, which is worth now S10 a ton f. 0. b. How | ever, Anderson has stored his hay in i the warehouse for a price at least fifty | per cent higher. His third crop is well l under way. It will average with the 1 first two crops. Then will come a seed | crop, one more crop of hay, and then 1 pasturage for at least 50 head of cat 1 tie for two months, which will be clear profit to Anderson of at least $1250 The seed crop, allowing for ill luck, expenses of harvesting, etc, should | yield $50 an acre net, or $500. The element of chance in the Salt River | Valley is very small, for the water supply is as safe as the Valley bank | and the climatic conditions are grow 1 ing every month in the year.