Arizona republican., 1913-01-24
NEW POLLING
 PLACE DESIRED
South Side Farmers Want W. U. A. Polling Place on Their Side of the River; Cotton Industry Problems Discussed

Action has been taken by the farm CTS of the rapidly growing section across the river to the south of Phoe- nix, locking to the establishment of a new and more centrally located polling place for the Water Users association district to which they be- long. Under the arrangement now in force all the land owners in the
 Heard and Broadway districts, and
 those sections lying still further to the south along the foot of the Salt l River mountains, are compelled to travel all the way to the Murphy school house, on the north side of the river and three miles southwest
 of the city. in order to vote on matters affecting the association. and
 the lands comprising their district are almost all south of the river, A committee consisting of K. s Townsend H. O. Winslow and L. Las sen was therefore named to appear before the board of governors at
 their next meeting, February 3rd. and petition to have the polling place changed to some more central point in the district, preferably at the new Union school house on South Seventh street
 DISCUSS COTTON CULTURE. This action was taken at he con clusion of a well attended meeting of the south side farmers Tuesday night at NeighbOrhoor House. where they gathered to hear a most instructive and interesting discussion of the cul- ture of Egyptian long fibre cotton, by Prof Hudson, the cotton expert of the state university, who is meeting with the farmers all over the valley
 for the purpose of instructing them in the culture of this highly promis- ing crop and to perfect a compact organization among te cotton grow CTS, looking to the proper handling of next years product.
 Dwight B Heard presided at the meeting, speaking briefly before in troducing Prof. Hudson, on general phases of the industry. Experiments during the past five or six years. and particularly last year, have establish ed beyond question. that cotton can be grown here to large profit and all that now remains to be done is ! to perfect an organization for the harvesting and marketing of the 1 product
 Prof. Hudson laid particular stress on the one disaster which threatens ] the possibility of an acreage so large l that it cannot be harvested. He | said that probably not more than one | thousand acres could be handled by
 the normal labor supply of the val | ley. wherea sat least two thousand acres are already assured for next ] year This vii mean the necessity i of importing cotton pickers for the 1 harvest season. and he is most anxious | to have the growers get together on 1 some plan whereby this labor can 1 be provided when the time arrives. IMPORTED LABOR NECESSARY. l He suggested as a possible solution, | the sending of some discriminatiVe | agent into sections of the south where 1 expert and desirable white pickers l could be secured. and who, after the i harvest was over. could be induced | to become permanent residents of the i valley on ten and twenty acre tracts which might be leased He said he l had already conferred with repre-
 sentatives of the railroads and was
 asured of a greatly reduced colonists | rate if a sufficient number were se- 1 cured to make the plan possible.
 trouble for the industry if next year can be weathered successfully. The
 ideal solution, he says, is in the
 planting of small units by a great
 many farmers-five and ten acre
 tracts. One man, he said, no matter
 how hard working could not expect to handle more than three acres of
 full stand of long fibre cotton alone The swiftest pickers will not pick more than 160 pounds day of
 this Egyptian cotton. as against 400
 or 800 pounds of the ordinary
 varieties grown in the southern | states
 Even at this however. last years experiments demonstrated that cotton
 would net the growers from $50 to
 SI0O an acre. and such profits as this
 are certain to attract large plant
 T ing Particularly is this true since it
 has been demonstrated that the best
 cotton land is in old alfalfa fields
 that have became overrun with Der
 muda and Johnson grass and are
 no longer profitable for hay and
 pasturage Two or three years of intensive cultivation, such as cotton
 demands. vii thoroughly renovate the most rundown fields. A proper rota- ] ton of cotton and alfalfa soil would be an ideal arrangement for the ] farmers of this valley.
 COOPERATION, THE THING. As a result of the meeting, the south siders are anxious to cooperate with the other growers of the valley in the solution of their problems, and a general convention of cotton growers at no distant date will no doubt be , called, and the proper organization 1 effected
 RECITAL POSTPONED. On account of the threatening weather the recital by Miss Work of Phoenix and Prof. J R. Wilson principal of the Union school. was postponed from Wednesday night tf