Arizona republican., 1913-05-21
VALLEY OLIVE
CROP DEMANDED
Reports Of Shortages All
Over World Lead to Be
lief Arizona Crop VIII
Bring Extremely High
Prices This Year.

Reports Of bad luck in the olive in
dustry on every hand, coming in con- Il
sular reports from all parts of the
earth. The Salt River valley, being
without consuls, there are no notices
of disaster to the crop, though perhaps
this is not the reason for the immun-
ity of the local industry. With prices
necessarily very high due to the Nigh
tily decreased stock, the supplies Of
olive oil olives packed and olives pick
led from the valley here will be in i'm
mense demand, and the result will be |
a year of great activity and progress.
SO far as can be learned at this time, |
the prospects for bumper crop of the |
famous Salt River valley olives are eX- |
tremelv good. Not only is the climate |
and weather this spring favorable, but |
there is a wider knowledge of how to /
cultivate and irrigate olive orchards |
among the farmers who are holding
plots In addition the olive industry
around Phoenix has greatly increased
this last year, due to the fact that
many new farmers are putting in young
stock of course this new croppage
win not be productive for several sea
sons but it all goes to show that the
| industry is on the road to becoming a
| highly important one.
Referring to consular reports for
this week it is found that at Seville
and Malaga in spain, at Rome IN Italy
and at Nagasaki. Japan there are great
( troubles among the owners Of olive
orchards. troubles that come from diff
| ferent sources in each case. but which
| win ali initiate against large returns
| The rnisfortunes of the rest of the olive
producing world viii necessarily work
| to the good of this state, where the
! culture Of the sucCulent fruit is just
beginning to assume the proportions Of
! \ state wide pursuit. Abundant re-
search has increased the percentage Of
! fruitful trees and the amount Of bear
| ing. so that in a few years Of growth,
the orchards of this valley viii be
| reckoned on for heavy share Of the
crop Of the world
Briefly the difficulties Of the other
communities in regard to olives are as
| follows The immense crops Of 1911
| olives at Seville were packed very
| hastily and therefore very imperfectly
AS a result large quantities of the
stock on hand has been found ''zapa-
terra or poorly preserved. In shipping
| these badly picked olives spoil very
easily and importation is difficult The
1912 crop at Seville. of which there is
a large supply on hand was worm
eaten The 1913 crop is promising, but
cannot supply all the demand, which
now appears to be larger than ever be
fore.
Malaga olives are all used for MAX
ing oil The packing of olives was tried
at this point, but the bushes was dis
continued owing to the fact the in
dustry had gotten too good start at
Seville to be shared by Malaga pro-
duet.
The maritime districts Of italy have
| been infested with an olive fly, when
has depleted the supply to a tragic eX-
tent The 1913 olive crop in this part
| Of the world will he greatly inferior TO
that Of any preceding year, anu much
less in quantity. Syria win have an
excellent olive crop this year, but the
product has little chance of reaching
fine American market. for the strong
demand in Europe must be sauslleo
first There is great danger that hail
win l1T1I off a large part Of the Syrian
crop. for with present weather indi-
cations there may be storms which Will
syyean the whole country Hail has
been known to destroy an entire crop
in the syrian uplands. where the only
: Asia Minor orchards are situated now
Japan is in much the same stage in
the olive industry as the Salt River
I valley. The government is offering
cash prizes to producers of olives oil
4 and meal. so that the industry is GER
tain Of being greatly stimulated in the
q coming season. Still the crop there
4 is not going to be large, and none OF II
Il will get into the United States, as II
4 will all be used UP at nome Inc Sied'
nroeress Of the sardine industry among
b Tho Tananese has created a demand
Z for oil that will consume practically
B every hit of the crop of the islands anc
u NAV necessitate importation to fill,