Arizona republican., 1913-10-12

1 der cultivation here so that there will be an active demand for more pro- ducts of all kinds that we can raise. There never can be much land irri- gated and cultivated in the entire State of Arizona, in proportion to it's
 area, and while the cultivated area is and always will be limited by l nature. the area and volume of de- i mand is and always will increase with the development of the natural l resources of the state. The wise
 rancher and land owner can easily figure out what this means in the | future
 1 "I visited by brothers ranch-the
 Blue Ribbon Fruit Ranch-the other
 day" Mr Hall stated. and I find ! him more than enthusiastic about the
 future of Egyptian cotton, and I do
 not blame him after looking over his
 cotton field. He stands something ! over six feet himself. and l lost the | whole family in the cotton field try ! ing to take some kodaks. Actually 1 it was necessary for them to get up 1 on boxes in order to see their hats in the field-and don't think for minute that the field was all stalks, either. I believe there is enough cotton in that field to make all the mercerized silk used in Arizona in a year. There are several places in the field where he had planted the rows
 seven feet apart in order to drive in to load the cotton, and it was only
 getting them to stand in these wide
 rows that I could get any pictures
 at all. A cotton picker from down
 south would be afraid to venture into
 such a jungle. which looks more like d tropical forest than a cotton field such as they are used to. Just for curiosity I asked to be allowed to cut one of the stalks. to count the bolls and also to bring in to Phoe- nix to show people what real ESyp- tian cotton looks like when it takes a notion to grow on some real soil. The stalk measured ten feet three inches in heighth, five and three quarter inches around the base and by actual count had on it's various branches AIS bolls of cotton-and still blooming For fear no one would believe it I loaded this young tree on an automobile and brought it to town for exhibition at the office
 When asked about the planting. irrigation and cultivation of his brothers cotton. MT. Hall stated that it was planted April 10th, in rows four feet apart and thinned to about two feet between the plants. The first irrigation was given June lst,
 following three thorough cultivatons between planting and the first irriga-
 ton. After the first irrigation it was cultivated twice and then irri- gated again on July 9th, cultivated
 once. irrigated the third time on August 18th and the last time on
 +l, 1, ,lx-l convinced that the great majority of people irrigate too much and cuIu- vate too little and that too much
 irrigation before the blooming period is detrimental to d good crop. That Soft. Ioamy soil. Arizona sunshine. cultivation and little water are all
 that is necessary to make a big cotton crop" as MT. Hall expressed it. He states that the field will probably average at least two bales To the acre, and cotton experts who have seen it express the same op- inion By careful planting and thu ming and intensive cultivation of that sandy loam soil he states that his brother confidently expects to make three bales to the acre next year and three bales of Egyptian cotton
 would be worth $500 per acre. Of course this is unusual and an aver age that can never be attained gen orally. but is the opinion of a man who has long been famous for fine fruits and intensive cultivation of the soil and whose first crop of EgTp- tian cotton demonstrates to anyone what proper care and attention will do in the Salt River Valley.
 MT. Hall states that business is very active in the Avondale section. where his company has some rive thousand acres of land, irrigated by the flood waters of the Agua Frla' augnented bv the largest pumping plants in the west. one pump there has a capacity of 1900 miners inches about 75.oOO000 gallons day, and furnishes a stream of water like q small river. being located at point where the normal water level is only IS feet and the amount unlimited, | hacked as Mir. Hall states, according 1 to government engineers. by an un- dergrOund reserve supply of over D. ooO OO0 acre feet within fifty feet Of inc surface. and supplied by an an nual underfloW of nearly quarter "l a million acre feet, much closer lo tba surface. The company is now istaIling another large plant, the new | pump being a Byron Jackson Nefu- ] cal centrifugal of the same type us cd bv the government at the Wei9 | pear Chandler and operated by the !, largest of the new type oil burning | Fairbanks- Morse engines yet shipped : into Arizona The plantwas ordered 1 last spring. but on account of US | size it was necessary to aSsemple
 and ship the engine direct from the | factory in Wisconsin. MT. Hall states | that the Arizona Hardware X Supply l Co. Arizona agents for the Falr- | banks Morse engines, are contracting | and installing a number of modern | pumping plants at various places, the | great activity being due to the re-
 cent improvement in engines burning
 low grade fuels and the consequent
 reduction in pumping costs, also be-
 cn,,cn of the number of CaIltOfnla 1