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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-28
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
PROMISE AVERAGE
CROP, SAYS REPORT

Crops i'm foreign countries promise TO he
up To the average, according to the cur
rent report of the United States depart
ment of agriculture.
Argentina, Chile and Australia have
just reaped crops OF wheat OF eNcep-
els in excess of last years in quantity
\ not drought probably has cut the
corn Yield in Argentina by 100 GOO coo
bushels from last year
Drought DANA gel the Indian wheat
crop. which usually is harvested in March.
and the United Provinces are expected
To get three-fODrths Of an average crop,
while Berar viii get a half crop.
Wet weather cut the European acre
age in winter cereals. Lack Of snow and
TOO much rain has damaged such crops
as We're planted.
The Canadian wheat yield was cut about
5000, 600 bushels as compared with 1911
The oats, barley and haNseed crops
showed Increases. and corn 1000 600
bushels decrease. Potatoes and alfalfa
showed considerable increases
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-28
STOCKSF|RMER
ON NEWS ABROAD
BuIgarS' Victory Strengthens
Prices InduStriaIS, Reading
and U. P. Bought Freely.
BY c. w. STORM. .

NEW YORK March 2S.-Despite re-
ports of enormous damage to industrial
plants. railroad and public service power
houses by floods in middle Western states,
the stock market opened steady today and
some of the leaders made substantial
gains.
Most OF the speculative interest center
ed in Mon Pacific, which rose = TO
l49@s, and Reading, which advanced 3 to
l5Sls. Canadian Pacific. which was strong
IN London, was bought here for gam
of pa ar the opening. This carried the
quotation to I34.
Among the other advances We're Anal
gamated Copper 4, American Smelter
Is, American Telephone and Telegraph
. Il. Anaconda Copper g. Westinghouse ,.
United States Steel common Is, Northern
Pacific - and Erie -.
The declines included Pennsylvania a,
Chino Copper Il and American Can IS.
The curb was dun and easy.
Americans in London we're nervous.
Trading was quiet in the last hour. The
gains Were continued in several stocks.
Amalgamated Copper, Reading and Union
Pacific We're fraCtiOnally above their mid
day level.
The market closed steady.
Government bonds closed unchanged;
other bonds steady
stock quotations.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-28
NEWS AND GOSSIP
OF THE FLEECY STAPLE


NEW YORK, March -S-N. l.. Carpon-
ter X Co. j. NJ. Anderson says. Al
though cables we're better thar dine. first
-. .,..,.l.I1 - 49,,
Pi'SS9 were "p"ut uIl'hdA-eu' "NllH 20
( improved weather conditions throughout
the entire country
..yyslI -rraat NJ. f,,y.,f,,,1 %, soil r1,f
-, Va '-,.''-'' ~ -.
Liverpool TOOK an offerings al me WlHeF
discount With continued good weather
conditions the market is likely TO sag
under professional selling hut unless
Sunts show vreai.raes a JarliDe nf amy
Nonseuuence is nor likely al present. SEN
timent confines hcarisL
The market rallied easily with a little
huyinC Buving was from good sources
The Selling was rather concentrated from
the Suscuiative guerators
The feeling around the floor is that the
buyfng is of better character than the
selling | believe the selling is speCula-
tive purely while the buyinE is coming
largely from The Spot people ''
TiyerpooI cables .'Aemrican forward
SO. 405 bales. total 90 Sg2: decrease 43.4l0
bales"
TODAY
Riardan and SChiU were good sellers
on and after the opening After the
call. Mitchell Hubbard and McFadden
were good BUYERS The ring crowd was
inclined To sell on all hard spots
kilograms were sent out this morning
TO almost every section Of The cotton
belt asking for rep0rts ON condition of
and urepaTation for the new crop.
Following are II a. m bids: March
1888, May 1917. July l1Sg, October Ills
EF,yy ORI,EANS March 2S-The
weather man is much better than ex-
pected The government forecast Of cold
er with frost in south Texas was en-
tireIv wrong Temperatures were 10 to
20 degrees higher and no frost 1t is fair
over the entire belt with no rain. except
a IittIe over the Atlantic coast towns
Liverpool cables: American middling
fair r SOD good midaling 7I6d middling
& Odd low. niddliug 76d good ordinary
642d "
Washington saws severe frost tonight
in east Tennessee North Carolina. South
Carolina, Georgia. Alabama and interior
If north Florida
Memoirs wires. Special telegraph re-
ports from Texas in all counties south
of Waco denote that very slight damage
was done to cotton bv cold. except in the
BrowusyiUe district Generally less than
20 per cent of acreage was planted and
but little Of that is up in many districts
Planting has lust begun Extensive plant
inc VIII he done in The neXf ten DAYS
ana ali rannrts intricate Increase in acre
age
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-28
QUESTIONS YOUNGER
VETERANS RIGHT TO
PARADE UNDER ARMS

Whether the Spanish War Veterans Of
Georgia NAV parade under arms on Me-
mortal Day, at funerals and on similar
occasions was the question put up to Ad-
jutant General Nash today i'm COM
muncation from T.. W Hawkins, pro-
visional commander Of the veterans for
this state
The adiutant general submitted the
opinion that the Spanish War veterans
would come under the same provisions
as any other organization and would
have to obtain license from the gov
eruor for this privilege.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-28
Futures opened quiet.
HAYWARD G. cLARKs
DAILY COTTON LETTER

NEW ORLEANS, March 2s.-Liverpool
was about points better than due on flu
lures, hut spot sales are points lower.
Sales, 5000 bales
4 cable said that the market was sus-
tanned by spinners calling at the end of
the month
The fact that spinners DELAYED calling
until the very end of the month and that
spot sales are so small, does not speak
well for the urgency Of needs
our market opened few points better
and rallied TO 1926 for May on buying,
based on the strength of Liverpool and "A
government forecast Of unsettled weather
for the Western states.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-28
THE WEATHER
Conditions.


WASHINGTON, March 2S.-Fair wealth
er is indicated tonight and Saturday for
all sections east of the Rockies, except
north Lake region westward to the noun
yaius
Freezing temperatures or heavy frost
viii occur tonight i'm the Atlantic states
north Of Florida and frost VIII also OC-
cur i'm Alabama and the eastern portion
of Tennessee, but warmer weather Will
gradually OverSpreaG the western and
central portions of the country tonight
and extend over eastern and southern por-
tiOuS saturday
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-28

NEW YORK. March @S-M Money on
call #ulla. Time money unchanged
sixty Gays Sig, ninety days 5L six
months pe" cent.
Posted ralts. Sterling exchange Asa
lsS. with actual business in bankers ILLS
.ut lS7no"a.S7'0 for demand ana 50 far
~iNtA-uaE bills
Prime mercantile paper unchanged.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-28
IN NEW ORLEANS FUTURES
PORT RECEIPTS

The following table shows receipts at
the ports to-day, compared with the same
naN last wear.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-28

ZACH Want AID is am
Opportunity r e q d
EN- i'm The Georgian.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-28
LIVERPOOL GRAIN MARKET
CHICAGO CAR LOTS.

Following are the receipts for Friday
and estimated for Saturday:
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-28

suppose. instead Of further threaten
~ me heads of our government proceed
. 81 the business world know Just what
10 ekpect-not beautiful qeneralftIes, but
hcaly-perhaps those $4,000 600 ana
;, eW hundred millions more VIII be pun
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-28

son, 81 05.
ANLES-s7 OOaS 90 per dozen. base.
SHOT-s2 % per sack
SHOES Horse. $450u4.75 per key
LEAD-3aT. Tiar per pound
MAI S-Wre B. So base
IRON-Per pound, Sc. base. Swede &c
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-28

-7ey are needed MIR. Marshall very
Icy needed, Indeed
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-28
MONEY AND EXCHANGE.

Total sales, $50 200 shares N-EX-
deud, - per cent
The Parker post. (Parker, Ariz.) 1910-1918, 1913-08-09
EIGHTY ACRES APIECE.

Unofficial information in regards to
tie proposed restoration to private
entry of about 10000 acres of pub
lie land n imperial county indicates
that Congressional legislation will be
necessary before it will be possible
homes in that part of the Imperial
Valley.
Under the present homestead laws
it is possible for a homesteader to
secure as much as 100 acres OF land,
1T it is believed that the report Of
j. w. Whitten, chief law clerk in the
General Land Office at Washington,
will recon mend that the amount
available t. each settler be reduced
10 eighty acres. Two reasons are ad-
anced for this change in the law,
to relate to this project alone One
is that the land is very valuable,
much more so than ordinary govern
ment land, and it is the policy of
the land department to have as many
sattlers as possible take possession
Cf the unoccopied territory.
1t is not believed that there will
be any Oklahoma rush for locat-
ions, with the firing of a pistol to
mark the beginning of wild chase
iJr a farm. The lottery system will
probably be employed by the govern
ment, and all will be served alike.
Some time will be set apart within
which time entries may be made
and when all the land is taken up
names written ON cards will be drawn
from hat and the lucky ones will
get the choice locations This is a
detail. however. that must yet be
worked Out.-Los Angeles Times
The Parker post. (Parker, Ariz.) 1910-1918, 1913-08-09
REDUCTION IN EXPRESS RATES.

The reduction of express rates
throughout the country has been ap-
proved by the Interstate commerce
commission. In a decision which will
be made public shortly the com
mission will announce it's rejection
OF the pleas made by the express
companies that the proposed rates
were discriminatory and confiscatory.
The public will be given the bpm
eft of reductions averaging from 25
to SO per cent on packages of five
pounds and under, and from l to 80
Per cent on heavier parcels. The new
rates will go into effect as soon as
the decision is published.
The new rates will represent maxi
mum charges between points. In
practical operation many of the rates
acctually imposed by the companies
will be less than the maximum, teing
regulated by competition with the ex
panding government parcels post
The latter already has compelled
the express companies in numerous
localities to reduce their. rates on
mailable articles in order to compete
with the government.
The reduction of parcel post rates
in the first two zones and the in
crease of the weight limit to 20
pounds therein, as announced by
Postmaster General Burleson, will
tend to still further compel express
companies to charge less than the
maximum rates in such territory.
The Parker post. (Parker, Ariz.) 1910-1918, 1913-08-09
HALF BALE IN TEXAS.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug 4-''In
1912 Texas cultivated 1O,927 900 acr-
cs in cotton, secuding eleven twenty
Ifths of bale per acre, one of the
ing a total of 1850 900 bales said
Frank A. Briggs of Dallas who is
here on a visit
Had the Texas cotton growers made
The average per acre as did the indus
trial congress contestants the Texas
crop would have amounted to H.
364 900 bales. The total crop of the
United States for 1912 was 13,S20,-
900 bales. Texas could have cut it's
cotton average in half and produced
che same number of bales under in
dustrial congress methods The same
process of reasoning can be used
with reference to other crops, for
there is no reason why the farmers
Cf the state cannot average in the
acre yield what 5000 farmers have
| averaged under the same condition.
Last March more than 1000 far
mers representing nearly every county
in the state, had registered as con-
testants in model form work BY the
time the list is closed there will be
fully ten thousand These ten thos-
and men will increase their acre pro-
duction fully 100 per cent, if last
years records are equalled Each one
will have a benificial influence on
every farmer in his neighborhood.
Benefits coming to the state, its
business interests, and to the citi-
zens cannot be estimated. Results
have proved that the average Texas
farm is mined not cultivated ,and that
the present total production of cotton
corn, wheat, osts and other farm COM
mOdities should be secured from one
half the acreage used.
The Parker post. (Parker, Ariz.) 1910-1918, 1913-08-09
PROTECTION IN DESERT.

The United States has finally
taken up the work of life-saving on
the desert Senator Works has sent
word to the chamber of commerce
that his bill providing for the plac-
ing of sign posts pointing the way
to water holes on the desert and for
the protection of springs has been
passed by the senate. The same bill
introduced by Congressman Stephens,
is pending in the house and Con-
gressman Stephens sent word that he
expects it to be adopted soon.-Los
Angeles Examiner.
The Parker post. (Parker, Ariz.) 1910-1918, 1913-08-09
PARKER MAY
HAVE JAIL
YUMA COUNTY SUPERVISORS IN
CLUDE APPROPRIATION FoRLO-
CAL BASTlLE IN BUDGET TC.
COMING YEAR.

Parker is no longer to be known
as a paradise for hoboes, petty van
dals and other undesirables. The
days of the hungry knight of the
road" who, in the past has pillaged
and plundered the town at his own
free will, are about to end so far
as Parker is concerned
Yuma county supervisors have de-
creed that there shall be a jail here
and, unless, after thinking the matter
over. they become appalled, at the
reckless extent of their own gener-
osity, and have a change of heart be-
fore next Monday when the years
budget is to be formally adopted, this
city will become the object of a $400
appropriation for that purpose.
The budget tentatively passed on
by the supervisors on July Is in
SluuCu PfUU LOT q jail DllllullS ana
SEC for the Jail maintenance for the
next year. 1t is understood that the
county already has building lots and
a cell so the entire appropriation will
go into a building.
This action on the part of the SUI
pervisnrs is news of unusual interest
to residents Of Parker as the citizens
of the town, after years of efforts
to secure a few dollars from the
board for this purpose, had prac-
tlcally given up hope.
Members of the board made pre-
election promises Of a jail for the
town two years ago but since the
election have deferred action on the
grounds of shortage in the county
funds. During that time Parker's
residents have suffered a loss of
hundreds of dollars in stolen prop
erty due largely to the lack of facil-
tiles for the storage of undesirables
The Parker post. (Parker, Ariz.) 1910-1918, 1913-08-09
FEDERAL BUILDING AT YUMA.

YUMA, Aug. GA letter from Carl
Hayden, ArizOna's dilligent congress-
man at Washington, brings the cheer
full intelligence that Yuma county is
now entitled to a postoffice building.
The letter as sent to DR.. Ketcherside
and by him placed in the hands of
the Commercial club at the last meet
ing on Monday night, is as follows:
| am informed by the first assist
ant postmaster general that the re-
ccipts Of Yuma postoffice for the
four quarters ending March 81, 1913,
were $11,S3O3S. Under the rule es-
tablished by the committee on public
building and grounds, any city or
town having postal receipts exceed
ing $4,000 is eligible for an ap-
preparation for the purchase of a site
for a federal building.
Il will be greatly obliged if you
will tell me whether there are any
other departments of the government
represented in Yuma except the post
office. | desire to ascertain how much
rent is paid by the United States
for all the various branches of the
government service located at Yuma
Any information you can give me in
regard to this matter will be greatly
appreciated.
Il understand that the town of
Yuma owns some centrally located
property. Would the town authorities
be willing to donate a lot to the Uni
ted States as site for a federal
building?
Yours very respectfully,
CARL HAYDEN"
The Parker post. (Parker, Ariz.) 1910-1918, 1913-08-09
LOAN MONEY TO FARMERS.

w WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-Twenty
five to fifty million dollars of govern,
ment funds will be deposited in the
National banks of the south and west
at once by Secretary McAdoo to- fac
ilitate the movement of crops. FEEDER
al, State and municipal bonds and
prime commercial paper will be ac-
cepted as security for the money,
on which the banks will pay 2 per
cent interest
The motive of Secretary McAdoo in
accepting this policy to anticipate the
money stringency in the late sum
mer and fall which invariably ac-
companies the marketing and move
ment of crops, especially when they
are unusually large, as the harvest
now beginning forecasts.
Government bonds will be accepted
at par as security for the new depos-
it's and the additional money will be
placed only with banks which have
taken at least 40 per cent of their
authorized circulation.
For the first time in history the
Government will accept prime com
mercial paper as security for depos-
its.
Approved commercial paper will
be accepted as security for the de
pOsits at 65 per cent of its face val
lie and high-class State, municipal and
other bonds, exclusive of Government
bonds, at rs per cent of their market
value.
The Parker post. (Parker, Ariz.) 1910-1918, 1913-08-09

ally in river regulation and control
and the same system of regulation
that would protect them from disas
trOus inundation would, when applied
to the Missouri, the Colorado and
the Sacramento, make possible a
vast extentiOn of the irrigated area
Of the west.
During the freshet season of the
Colorado, more water runs to waste
into the gulf in three days than is
now used for irrigation of land along
that river in an entire year. The
Newlands bill proposes that fifty
million dollars shall be spent in .the
construction of storage reservoirs
on the source tributaries of the Col
OradG and to control the river AL
confine it to defined channe
Such regulation of the Colorado
would make possible the irrigation oi
all the arid land that could
reached by canals from the river, it,
suring an adequate flow of water at
all seasons. The Colorado carries
100000 second feet in it's greatest
flood and as little as 5000 second
feet at it's lowest stage. The irrigation
system already in operation on the
lower Colorado use all the water of
the minimum discharge, and no in
crease of reclaimed area can be pro-
jected safely until provision shall
be made for storage of flood waters
and regulation of discharge.
One second foot of discharge suf-
fices for the irrigation of 100 acres
In Imperial valley about 100000 acres
are now irrigated, and as much
more land could be reclaimed if the
water were available. There are
about 100000 acres-possible 300,-
000-of irrigable land on the Mexican
side, and there are 10000 acres un-
der the Yuma project and 1875, 900 in
Palo Verde and Cibola valleys, above
Laguna dam. These lands alone, dis
regarding other large tracts above
Palo Verde, aggregation more than
a million acres, require for safe and
certain irrigation a minimum flow
of 10000 second feet in the Colorado
Having the water, the land is cap
able of producing crops to the value
Of $780, 100000 annually, and that l.
not taking into account the possib-
ilities of intensive cultivation. Sure
ly an expenditure of 50,000,000, dis
tributed over period of ten or a
dozen years, is small investment
to insure such an increase Of the
national wealth. Indeed, the total ex-
penditure proposed by the Newlands
900, ,O00-is no more than
the property lost in one great flood
of the Ohio and Mississippi.
The Parker post. (Parker, Ariz.) 1910-1918, 1913-08-09

hands of the treasurer to permit i'm
mediate progress of the survey.
The Cihola Development Company.
A stock company to be known as
the Cibola Development Company,
was organized with an initial sub
scription of one hundred and twen-
ty-one shares of stock The char
ter members, in meeting assembled,
elected A d. Nelson temporary chair
man, and Chas. F. Jackson tempOr-
ary secretary. A committee was ap-
pointed to draft a set of bylaws; and
ued to the next meeting. The first
meeting of the stockholders of the
Cibola Development company then
adjourned to meet at the call of
the chairman.
The record of the results accOmp-
lished in a gathering such as relat
ed above necessarily falls short of
conveying the earnestness, enthus-
iasm and public spirit displayed. The
people are agOg, so to speak, over
the outlook for the future. 1t looks
bright and rosy-nOt too rOsy-jus
nice pink rosiness delectable
enough to be appreciated. And be
ing rosy does not mean that, in vul-
sar parlance, the town is being
painted red-far from it. 1t means
that we are moving forward in a
perfectly sane and healthy manner
with prosperity looming large ahead.
A. d. N
The Parker post. (Parker, Ariz.) 1910-1918, 1913-08-09
MANY CROPS
YIELD WELL
SETTLER ON LAND AT PARKER
MAY PROFiTABLY PLANT COT
TON, ALFALFA, MELONS, FRUIT,
GRAIN OR TRUCK GARDEN,

The abundant sunshine, fertile sill
Soil and plenteous water from the
Colorado river this combination
which makes the Parker valley anG
the other valleys of the lower Colo
| RADIO the most productive agricultur
al land in the entire country-make
| it possible to raise such a great var
iety of crops that it is still very
| much a question as to which of the
products of this region is the best
money maker for the farmer.
In the Yuma valley, hundred
miles below the Parker country, a
rancher has just made the claim that
lie raised 1900 pounds of alfalfa
seed to the acre in a single cutting
That is equivalent to a gross return
CT about $3.50. A few such records
as that would easily put this land
On par with the thousand-dOllar
an-acre citrus land of Southern Cal
norma
Ranchers in the Imperial valley
are growing rich raising cantaloupes
In the Cibola valley the pee men
are getting the greatest returns In
| The Palo Verde valley cotton and
alfalfa are fighting it out for first
place with both crops yielding from
$35 to 500 an acre net returns.
The experience of farmers in all
of these places will be at the dis
losal Of the settler in the Parker
valley where the conditions for cul
tivating the land are the same.
Aside from the crops mentioned
there are numberless others which
are being raised with profit. Truck
gardening in all it's branches has
proved profitable. Hog raising here
Nhere seven and eight cuttings OF
alfalfa are yielded to the acre has
proved a mortgage-lifter for many
1anchers. Others are growing in
dependent from the product of their
orchards. Apricots, grapes, canta-
loupes and citrus fruits all yield
we'll and mature for the early mar
ket and high prices,
Sugar beets are being raised in
the Yuma valley and the success with
which they are cultivated has caus-
ed the prediction that this will ul-
timately be one of the greatest SUI
gar beet producing sections in the
west.
Wheat. barley and oats have be
come staple crops and when it is
remembered that a crop of grain
can be matured in time to plant the
same land to cotton or another cror
The prOductlveness of the soil and
climate will be apparent.
The success of the dairy industry
is evident in the fact that Impera
county has in five or six years come
to be the greatest butter-producine
county in California.
The rancher who is so fortunate
as to secure land in the valley at
Parker may take his choice in the
matter of crops to be raised and
have the assurance of profit in any
of them.
The Parker post. (Parker, Ariz.) 1910-1918, 1913-08-09

Even st. Peter is sometimes char
ged with trying to rub things in.
1t was the anniversary of Eyes
ten millionth birthday, and just to
jog her memory about that apple cpl
sode, she was permitted to look
down on Mother Earth and gaze at
the women folks promenading the
streets. my" said Eve, "They
haven't added much to my old fig
leaf style of dress, have they?"
The Parker post. (Parker, Ariz.) 1910-1918, 1913-08-09
INCREASE IN IMPERIAL.

The assessed valuation of Imperial
county for the present year is a
little over $17,OOO,OOO, a gain of q
per cent over last year. 1t is prob
aole that this is the highest per
ty in the state.
The acreage in the principal
crODS iS 90 fOll0wS.