Arizona republican., 1915-09-15
Why Agricultural Commu- mites of California Less Advantageously Situated Have Market for All Products at Better Prices TT IS A RESULT
 OF COOPERATION
Here It Should Enlist the Attention of All Organi- cations and Citizens Who Are Desirous of the Val
 lev's Greatest Prosperity

Dwight B. Heard, who returned Monday from a two months automo- bile trip through California, during which he made an investigation of comparative conditions between the agricultural communities of that state and the Salt River valley, made the following statement yesterday:
 Tt has been very interesting to make an investigation on the ground of the comparative conditions in the largest California producing valleys with those maintaining in the Salt River valley During our trip We visited first the Imperial valley and later on inspected most of the great producing sections of California, in cluding the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys, the Santa Clara val ley, the PorterviHe district, the Sa- Iinas valley. the Riverside, Redlands and San Bernardino districts. and the San Fernando valley; in fact We rave pretty thoroughly covered the state from Sacramento to its south ern boundary.
 Tt is a good thing for us to know just what other sections are doing, what results they are getting and
 
 ours.
 In our thirty-three hundred mile trip through California I have not yet visited a small city which offers better advantages for home and busi- ness combined than does the city of Phoenix. and despite the greater size and wealth of many of the cities in spected, no city where the school
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 From a producing agricultural standpoint there is certainly no com munity in California which produces greater range of products in larger quantities or better quality than does this section, and I think there is no section in California, when we con- slider the area involved, that has so complete and certain a water supply or so thorough a system of water distribution. There is one great feature, however. in which the Cali fornia agricultural communities are very greatly ahead of the Salt River valley, and that is in their co-oper- ative methods of securing desirable markets for the crops raised. If We can satisfactorily work out this mar keting problem on a businesslike and scientific basis, so that the farmers of the valley get materially better net returns for their products than they do today. as I believe we can, this community should experience a prosperity unexcelled by any other section of the west.
 This marketing question is a tremendously big one and to work 1t out satisfactorily means a lot of constructive hard work including an expert, thorough and intelligent in Iestigation, and a tremendous amount of team play on the part of this community. The subject. however, is one in which the merchants and bankers of Phoenix. the property own CTS of the city and every laborer or professional man here. should be fully as much interested as the far mer, for the practical reason that the prosperity of the producer means the prosperity of us all. The farmer in this favored locality, is in a posi- tion to make a living even under ad- verse conditions, but the best inter