Graham guardian., 1914-07-10

5 per cent, as insinuated by those who
informed the editor of the Arizona Rec
ord. AS for the State at large, Mr..
Kimball offers the following figures;
There is $4,000, 600 pounds of flour
consumed within the State; of this
amount, the ten or more regular flour
mills in Arizona manufacture one-third
of the flour consumed. 1t is estimated
that we produce over 500, 10000 worth
of wheat, and that 80 per cent of the
wheat grown within the State is milled
into -four by our Arizona mills.
We buy scrub wheat from California
for our chicken feed, as our new Early
Bar wheat is too valuable to be used
for that purpose. There is also more
than $500, O00.00 paid to our farmers
annually for barley, and there are sew
eral barley rolling mills within our
State besides the regular Touring mills,
and we can safely estimate that the
WHedJ anu udiiSy hluuouy aiiouhSc W
an annual revenue of not less than
So, 900, 000.00. 1t is safe to say that
there are more than 100 employees in
the milling industry, and estimating a
family of five persons to each employee,
we may safely say that there are at
least 500 souls supported directly from
this employment, and in addition there
must be at least so, 600 Arizona citizens
engaged in farming and raising these
cereals.
The estimated wage of the mill hands
may safely be placed at $1,000 per
month, which makes a revenue to be
passed among the other lines of mer-
chandising and industry of at least
$84, 0O0 90 per year. This wage kept
within our State and paid for labor, to-
gether with the amount paid out for
grain, makes rather handsome addi-
tion to the present wealth of our new
State.
OF the three industries of the State,
agriculture ranks second, and the -four
ing industry is no small portion of it.
Arizona millers pay more to the far
mers of this State for wheat than do
the Kansas millers for their hard wheat,
as shown by the present comparative
prices. The Gila valley mills today are
paying 43 cents per 100 pounds more
than the Kansas wheat is quoted.
The wheat raised in Arizona today is
not fodder, but is a high grade, semi
hard wheat of exceptional quality, and
when properly milled, produces very
superior family -four, and this should
be accepted as conclusive evidence that
Arizona can and is producing wheat for
better purposes than for fodder, and
again it shows the fairness of the
millers in their treatment to the pro-
ducers. ''Live and Let Live" is their
principle.
well trained men are employed to
induce men, like President Kimball, to
blind certain producers and manufact-
urers into belief that reduction on
a rate on certain commodity will af-
feet the country at large" so says the
Arizona Record.
From just what source Mr.. Kimball
obtained his information, we know not,
but from our personal acquaintance
with this friend of Arizona, we are
quite sure he did not need TO borrow his
light upon this subject from well trained
men, for his information reaches out
beyond the borders of mining camp.
The Arizona Record urges that some
thing like fifteen cars of the Kansas
product comes into the State as COM
pared to one raised here. If this is
true, we ought to be ashamed of our
selves, especially in the face of the fact
that we can manufacture all the -four
we consume within the State. But as
shown by the stuff put into the head of
the editor of the Arizona Record by
those, who, like the average citizen,
cannot see beyond the threshold of his
own door for temporary self-aggran-