Graham guardian., 1914-07-10
RECORD is ANSWERED


We are little surprised at the mar
rowness of the Arizona Record and its
informants and still more amused at its
effort to sustain their position as in
favor Of the advantages TO themselves
as against the producer within our
State, and in order to do so impune the
motives and question the information
of man who is as well informed upon
farm products as is President Kimball,
the head of the Department of Agri-
culture in Arizona.
While we are sure Mr.. Kimball would
prefer to be left out of this important
matter personally, yet it is of too great
Importance to our young State to rest
here. We hope every newspaper in the
State will take up this matter and dis
cuss it and encourage the people to get
into it, for we consider knowledge of
the resources of our State essential,
and encouragement for the development
of agriculture as foundational indus
try within the State Indispensable.
That Mr.. Kimbal obtained his in
formation from railroad experts is not
borne out by facts; that he is in any
way dependent upon any such source of
information is ridiculous in the extreme.
He is quite capable of taking care of
himself.
President Kimball thanks the Tucson
Citizen for its able defense and respect
full mention of him and his various
church and educational positions; he is
not dependent upon any such in this the
vital question of the hour, for all who
know this gentleman, are familiar with
the fact that he is whOle-souled inter-
ested in agriculture and horticulture
and knows as anyone else ought to know
that to strike down the agricultural in
terests within our State would be to
aim a blow at the foundation of the su-
perstructure.
Here are few facts handed US by
Mr.. Kimball, which are borne out by
the truth of the situation:
When Mr.. Kimball urged that 40 per
cent of the wheat that goes into the
-four is produced within the State, his
statement was borne out by facts, for
his information is up to date while the
trainers of the effort to discount it
have shown that they are still living in
the ancient days of the Sonora wheat.
We have passed by that condition. 1t
might be well for these gentlemen to
sit up and take notice before they make
an attack upon man as well informed
as the gentleman whose motives they
impune.
AS yet there are but three industries
within the State: Agriculture and
horticulture, stock raising and mining.
Chief of which and the foundation of
all, of course, is agriculture, but from
the position taken by those whose in
terests in the building of State are as
transitory as they themselves, Tor IN
most instances, when they are out of a
job they would be out of the State, ag-
riculture does not count. We are look
ing further beyond, we hope, as sug-
gested in the interview referred to, as
stated by Mr., Kimball, than to just
get cheap commodities irrespective of
how they come or the effect upon a
large portion of Arizona's population.
During the year 1918, the Gila Valley
Milling Co., located in Stafford, paid to
the farmers of the ella valley for
wheat s6S, 234. SO, and for barley, $lOS,-
COS. .03; total of wealth to this valley
alone of s166, 1897. AZ; and, in answer to
the 40 per cent proposition this mill has
manufactured into -four 54 per cent of
valley grown wheat, long way from