Arizona republican., 1913-01-10
Mr. J. A. Smith Surprised at the Success Which Has Been Attained by the Growers of Egyptian Cotton
ONE THING NEEDED
 MORE SMOKE STACKS
North Carolina Manufac- turer Talks Interestingly of Progressive Industrial Life and PrOgressivism in Politics

MT. J. A. Smith of Bessemer City. N. C.. is in the city for a brief visit with his sister Mrs. J. l.. Irwin. He will remain until tomorrow when he will leave for San Francisco where an- other sister resides.
 MT. Smith is the builder Of the town where he lives. He has been interested and yet is interested in the cotton man Gfacturlng industry in that section though he has retired from active par ticipation in it. He is the proprietor of
 newspaper, the Besemer City News and for several years he has taken 1 keen interSt in politics. He was the candidate for congress from the ninth North Carolina district on the progress sive ticket last fall.
 l MT. Smiths opinion of this valley was asked yesterday by q reporter for 1 The Republican, with special reference 1 to the cotton industry with all phases 1 of which ne is familiar. MT. Smith 1 said:
 ! T am most agreeably surprised with 1 the substantial structures in your town. and especially your commodious and ! tACtItHI SGIlOOl DulIulHSS, lIIe IOuHE l Mems Christian Association and other l public buildings.
 My brother-in-law Mir. Irwin, took 1 me over your valley yesterday to see ] your alfalfa farms and ostrich farms,
 and I can say without hesitation that
 I do not see anything to be desired for
 the building up of your magnificent
 and thriving city. The Roosevelt dam I Ay~aH,l l.s,, far 1 as it seems to me for all times.
 MT. Heard, the president of your
 company, very kindly took me out to !, your cotton farm. I expected to see 1 something like your buildings and your 1 alfalfa farms. but the cotton culture
 was complete revelation to me- as l well as a surprise. To my mind. the
 cultivation of the Egyptian cotton fig 1 the keynote to the future greatness of l Phoenix find the staple of your cot
 ton runs from 11a to 1& inches in
 length. on an average-is of good
 quality as to color and has excellent
 strength Mir Heard took me to MT.
 Athas farm of some 200 acres, all in
 Egyptian cotton, which will average
 l close to a bale to the acre, from ap-
 pearance.
 | l 1lnu. however, that MI. <Aliid SSiiS
 his seed locally for about $500 per ton. . With an oil mill he could easily make
 these seeds turn out from $36.00 to
 $40.O0 per ton net and with spinning
 mill here to convert this cotton into
 thread, he could easily get on an aver
 age of 90 to S1.OO per ID. for it instead
 ! Of the 23 cents MT. Atha and others 1 have gotten for their cotton; and to
 | nt1~in | would easily bring from $2.00 to s20.00 , per pound. owing to the fineness of the fabrics This of course could not well
 be done immediately, but start ought
 to be made on a small scale at once.
 With knitting mill and spinning
 mill. followed hy various weaving
 plants. and this I predict will follow s as the opportunity is too great to be e overlooked. will make Phoenix doub- @ lv thriving city within the next few 8 years.
 1t of course, as to your alfalfa. cattle IT hog and ostrich ranches, you know Il more about those than I do. but the! look good to me. and shall carry back
 with me a most pleasant recollection ot of your brand new city and your fertile l. valley. Your people appear to be mos  d home builders. It seems to me apou I'd every other building in Phoenix is t. real estate office but fail to see smoke ,- stacks. or hear the hum of machinery f. also fail to find any article of com te merce other than your own material pr in Phoenix I have looked in you 1t show windows for some article maoe II n Phoenix. to carry back with me as Id souvenir but find none.
 er q told my brOther-in- law that 1T th ,n real estate agents had all their lot of covered with residences to their heart of content. I would still say the same thine ,t that without machinery and varlou mt machines adapted to this community ne vou would never have big town O ee a great town. and while as l said, yo or neople appear to be progressive m lah
 | sales and home building, I think tha a. | vou will also progress into these man at ufacturing enterprises as natural as he duck takes to water.
 of This is my first trip to your sta'' he ana if I should come again within ng wear or so. I expect to see great ili dY movements, from what l can see nd vour cana, extensions and lrrlsatio IT, schemes. generally. And l expect e. GOO an oil mill and some cotton mahu re facturing industries in progress III ie. of than two years. This will all oe
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