Arizona republican., 1914-11-03
KANSAS MAN HAS 1. BELIEF IN SALT VALLEY FUTURE
Makes Suggestions of Value in Letter to J. $. Griffen of Phoenix; California
 Cannot Compare With Our Most Fertile Valley.

1 A Kansas man who has spent some time in the state of California as well as in Arizona, wrote recently to J. S Griffin of this city his lm- rressions of the future of the Salt River valley, in a letter which is published below as it contains a great many things that are of in . terest to the farmers of this section. One of the remarkable things about the letter is the comparison made between the Salt River valley and California in which Arizona comes
 off far from second best. The fact about intensive agriculture and it's ability to increase land values cannot be gainsaid.
 Alr. Jas. S. Griffin,
 4 West Adams St,
 |, Phoenix Arizona.
 My dear Jim:
 Well, am this far on my way
 home after a very pleasant and m
 teresting visit on the coast. I found
 California all you said it would be.
 and to my mind even more beauti-
 ful than l expected. but oh. the op-
 portunity you have in your own Salt
 River valey-thc chances in Califor
 uia are not to be compared with it.
 for there they have developed and
 developed and found a market for
 their products until their land has become too valuable to hope for any
 very great increases in the future The wise ones tell me their suc-
 cess is due to boosting and co-opera
 tion, and I must say l heard sc much boosting that I wanted to stick my fingers in my ears: but I didn't hoping that the monotony might b, | relieved by a knock of some kind l but never knock did l hear. | Only few years ago they raise, | grain, alfalfa and other field crop | in California and the land was no
 over hundred dollars per acre. bu
 when they awakened to the possibili
 ties of truck farming their Ian, | went up in value until now or' | thousand to twenty-five hundred dol lars is the rule rather than the eN- rception. for land is worth what i Will show an income on.
 Californians claim to feed them
 selves, Arizona, New Mexico and Nc tada, besides what they ship east a q time when prices are high. Now
 Jim. your valley can feed your stat
 and have lot to ship east, too,
 you people will only wake up an do it.
 When you told me you had n
 market. but that some eastern peO pie were talking of starting one, } Twas surprised that you seemed { 5 know so little about it, and to talk so little interest in the matter.
 guess I must have shown my sur prise, for I found some copies of th Arizona Republican and the Arizon : Magazine in my mail which reache me here and made the matter Yer clear.
 These people are alive to the pos
 abilities, and your real estate me will make the mistake of your live if you ever let that project die fo . lack of boosting and encouragement That man who wrote the 192 story is no idle dreamer. but ma . who can see into the future with 9 clear vision. You ought to make hii 9 president of your board of trade $ take him into partnership, he wi make peach of real estate mal . Well, this is enough on this sui iect. I heard in California, tn; i there was some doubt about Arizon t making exhibits at the two expos
 tions: all I can say is don't mab : that mistake.
 5 It looks very much as though bot = eXpositions will be actually con Q pleted before they are opened. whiC has been very unusual thing l the past.
 f I don't know which one I woul . like best, though l think the Ol Q World air of the san Diego fair wi Q be the greatest novelty to us east , erners.
 t Well, I am still going to see thei s both and may come overland, and Q I do will certainly see you in Phoo Q nix. The western germ has gotte into my system and the west ma 9 get me vet. Now, write soon, as am always interested in you an Q your success.
 n Yours very truly
 HARRISON c. BURD1Ck.