Arizona republican., 1914-04-26
OLIVE GROWTH
 AT MAR|NETTE
An Industry Near Phoenix of Which Little Has Been Heard But Which is Attaining Great Pro portions

One hundred and sixty acres of Marinettc land belonging to the Mar
 inette Olive company are now all
 planted to growing young olive trees.
 There has been little said in this vi
 cinity regarding this part of the ! Marinette crop, yet a visit to the 1 land vii surprise anyone, it showing
 Il development that has every pros pect of meeting with unlimited sue
 cess
 1 The Marinette Olive company is made up of several exceptionally well
 known California capitalists and ex- perierccd olive growers, men who have studied the olive business in q
 scientific and practical manner on |, the coast. It has often been said that the California olive growers are astounded when learning the truth
 about the olive industry and it's sue cess in the Salt River valley
 The Marinete Olive company start ! ed operations less than two years i ago. 4 year ago last January this big company planted an entire hun dred and sixty acre tract. lying one i and three quarters of mile north of the Marinette townsite. to peaches and apricots, the trees being planted
 twenty feet apart Work has now 1 just been completed in planting olive 1 trees forty feet apart on the entire 1 hundred and sky acre tract. It is q | well established fact that olive rees
 are slow of growth and that it will
 be ten or twelve years before the, | bear heavy and before the trees get | large but when they do get that l large it is necessary that they be | farther apart than ordinary fruit | trees. This is the reason that the | Marinette people started year in
 advance with the deciduous fruits l Ih this manner the tract will be a l three years. Then when the olive trees get older and larger the de-
 ciduous trees will be removed. | A few of the trees last year were 1 destroyed by rabbits eating the bark The entire tract has now been fenceG
 with rabbit tight fencing.
 It is T well known fact that olive l trees require less water than the or l dinary fruit tree: yet it is true that to insure heavy crops. there are cer- ltain times during the blooming anC fruitage that a very great abundance
 of water is essential. This land has flow ditch and water raised iron the Agua Fria river for gravity irri
 gation Then an auxiliary pumpine plant is in operation to insure suf-
 ficient water at the proper time This water has a temperature of Y degrees. Being thus warm it is O
 great value during the cool season Of the year. There are many i'm Iprotements on this fruit ranch ir the way of bunk houses and pump ing plant. This company has securet two cares of land in the Marinette
 townsite on which at the proper time it is intended to construct olive can ming and pickling facories. The l60. lacre tract when in complete bearin'
 will operate quite a factory in itself
 and it is intended to take care fol
 Ioutside acreage products as well.
 Among the many endorsements O Arizona olives by California olv' brokers. is one recently written tt the Marinette people by the Charles r. Grogan Company, as follows: Los Angeles, Cal. March :. 1914. "Marinette Olive Co.,.
 los Angeles. Calf.
 "Gentlemen-
 Replying to your inquiry of a few Ifl.. n handling olives grown in ant
 around Phoenix, Arizona: I am yer, glad 10 say to you in this connection that the olives. which I have hand led and pickled grown in this partic- blar district were especially fine They made Number One pickles ant we had no more difficulty in pick ling and processing them at Phoenix Arizona. than We have had in To. Angeles. The grade of olives wer. exceptionally fine, especially tn. Manzanillo variety.
 As to the soil, the grade of oi
 made from the olives was q brighte and more brilliant color than oi made from olives grown in Califor nia; pr it so appeared that way |, the writer. can distinctly an, truthfully say that the flavor of th oil appeals to me as being the best have ever made
 T, consider that this terrtor, around Phoenix. Arizona. and possi ply other portions of Arizona. ap pear to me to be peculiarly adapte, to the raising of olives.
 Wishing you success in your tIn | dertaking in this line in that terri itoryt and with kindest regards. I am