Arizona republican., 1915-05-23
FANCY PRICES FOR THE WINTER
 GARDEN TRUCK
With Abundance of Water Always Available and Climate Eminently Suit ed, Rancher Forces Crop Maturity When Market Is Best.
(W. s. Humbert)

Salt River Valley, with it's abund-
 ant water supply ready to use just
 when needed it's climate eminently
 suited to the growing of truck crops
 and it's soil of such wonderful fer
 tility, has already come forward as
 a big producer of truck crop. It is
 one thing to produce these crops,
 but quite a different matter to pro
 duce them at a time when the mar
 kets are at their highest, and this the truck grower of the Salt River | Valley Is enabled to do with d cer- tainty, owing to an unsurpassed win ter climate.
 The quality of the truck crops grown in the Salt River Valley arc superior to the average that when once introduced in the markets of the middle west their merit alone i gives them tremendous advantage Just as soon as the acreage given over to truck crops is increased to many times it's present area, we shall i see a correpondingly enlarged demand for our product and properity among the grower little dreamed of at the preent time.
 This valley seems to be particularly suited to the raising of the higher priced truck crops such as cauli- flower, Bermuda onions. head let l tuce, egg plant, early potatoes, sweet potatoes, cantalOupes, and water mel ons. The cheaper early vegetables may well be added with profit. Just as soon as regular supplies are as- sured to dealers in Chicago Kansas City. St Louis and Denver most adVanta geous contracts are ready for the growers and mixed carloads of lettuce, cauliflower bects, onions. po- tatoes, tUrnips and spinach can go forward daily during the winter and spring months. for which the high est of fancy prices will be paid It is welI-known fact that this condition exists today and some
 shipments made this year attest the soundness of the situation The Chamber of Commerce and a num- Der of individuals are now at work to assist in systematic marketing of the truck growers crops, and as soon as a sufficient regular supply is assured there will be no trouble | 10 secure the market.
 Canning factories are being talked If and one factory is now in course of erection at Chandler to take care of the surplus of the tomato crop, and it is said that before another season q factory will be in operation in Phoenix. Tomatoes are now raised in large quantities, and the early crop marketed locally and in nearby towns at a good price to the grower.
 but after the early market demand is over the question is what to do with
 the surplus as the demand passes lere is danger of loss of many
 bushels of fine fruit which could be
 we'll handled by the canning factories. With the advent of the canning fac tory this situation is entirely changed
 and what was formerly a total loss will be 9 very considerable source of
 additional profit to the grower. This
 is equally true of the crops of peas
 and string beans for the canning fac
 tory is a logical market for the sur
 plus of these crops also. The time
 is not far distant when truck grow
 ing will be the principal occupation
 of a large percentage of our farming
 population, and when that time
 comes the prosperity of the Salt
 River Valley will be greatly increased and continue to increase year after
 year.