El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06

only the beginning other agricultural
Z development. Several wealthy con-
/ Germs are spending money to develop
| the underground flow Of the Santa
I Cruz valley.
Development in Yuma Valley.
In the Yuma valley the government
! spent S250,0OO on the canal ard lateral
! system, and $3.50 on levees to hold
! back the waters of the Colorado river.
In order TO aid conjunction, a short
! railroad was built from Yuma down
! the east bank of the Colorado This
: was the first railroad ever built by
/ the United States government
/ Thousands Of acres of raw land IN
/ the Yuma district were placed under
: cultivation and many new orange
/ groves were planted. Yuma and Salt
river valley oranges bring the highest
] prices paid for citrus fruits in the
/ eastern markets.
! Six miles north Of Prescott a syndi-
4 cate of eastern capitalists is building
! a concrete dam to impOund the waters
I of Willow and Granite creeks and re-
I claim 10000 acres. Apples will be
{ one of the principal crops grown
/ thereon.
Everything Grows in Arizona.
Anything that grows in the United
States can be grown somewhere in
/ Arizona, and many crops that are
profitable only in the sunshiny south
west are big money makers in the
newest state. Arizona's farmers are
ever finding new crops to attract the
dollars to their pockets. The Salt
river valley farmers grew $4,000 bales
of long staple Egyptian cotton IN 1914
and although the European war cut
down the demand they were able to
sell it at prices averaging above 10
cents a pound. Short staple growers
( in the south found no market at all
for their product and are still hold
ing it. Cotton is also grown with
profit in the Yuma valley.
over 300 acres Of sugar were grown
in the salt river valley in 1914 and
the acreage devoted to that crop in
1915 will be well above 5000 acres
More rapid planting is prevented only
by the difficulty of securing seed
Arizona's cane carries a higher per-
centage of sugar than that grown
anywhere else in the world. The cane
is to be treated at the Glendale sugar
factory, which made 4 successful test
spent in rehabilitating the mill and
fitting it to handle both cane and
beets
In the southern part Of the state
it has been discovered that English
walnuts cana be grown by grating
upon the common black walnut trees
that grow so vigorously in Arizona's
mountains. Six or eight 20 acre
tracts in the Santa Cruz valley are to
be set out to walnuts this spring.
UNA valley Id AAAEAo dAE I@ABIAA-
menting with the wild hemp that
grows profusely along the Colorado
bottoms. Fiber from this hemp is IN
demand from rope manufacturers and
there seems to be no reason why II
cannot grow under fence at hand
Cattle Bring in s15,OOO.OOO.
Something like 400, 900 head of cat
tie were shipped out of Arizona last
year and $4,000 more were slaughtered
for local consumption. The returns 70
the cattlemen was in the neighbOrhood
of $4,000 600. Sheepmen realized half
that much from the sale of wool and
lambs.
Stockmen in the northern counties
suddenly learned that the European
war had opened up a market for the
thousands of wild horses that roamed
the ranges. A number Of carloads OF
horses have already been shipped from
Arizona to the war swept lands across
the sea
In December there was an unprece-
dented winter rainfall and the ranges
are in better condition than they have
been for many years. Stockmen are
sure to realize much greater profits
in 1915 than in 1914 Incidentally,
the heavy rainfall increased the stored
water in the Roosevelt reservoir to
more than 400, 600 acre feet.
Railroads Add TO MiIeage.
A fair amount of railroad cOnstruc-
ton was accomplished in Arizona last
year. The Santa Fe finished double
tracking its main line across the
northern tier of counties. The govern
ment built the road from Yuma south,
which has been mentioned The Mag
ma Copper company began the con-
struction of a 80 mile line from Web
ster, on the Phoenix & Eastern, to the
famous Magma mine at Superior
Pinal county. This road will be COM
pleted by next summer
Big shops and Stations Built.
The Arizona Eastern completed new
concrete shops and an office building
in Phoenix, and pumping station
several miles out in the country, all at
a cost approaching 100000. At Tucson
the Ell Paso & Southwestern built
passenger station which is a worthy
companion to the beautiful Southern
Pacific station at that point. The
Santa Fe built a reservoir and water
system at Flagstaff
Railroad possibilities OF the imme-
date future are an FL PasO & South
western extension from Tucson to
Phoenix, and a line from Tucson into
the AjO mining district, where one Of
the worlds largest bodies of copper
ore awaits development.
ArizOna's cities have been highly
prosperous in 1914 Tucson and PhOe-
nix adopted the managerial form of
government in the course of the year.
Both of these cities issued bonds for
extensive municipal improvements.
Phoenix Has Building Era.
Phoenix built two new fire stations
and purchased motor fire engines, as
well as much other modern equipment.
A new fire alarm system was installed.
The ornamental street lighting system
was extended and some 20 blocks Of
pavement were laid. Parks were pur-
chased in the outskirts Of the city
and have already been transformed
into beautiful rest spots Two big
buildings were completed One was
the Catholic cathedral, which cost
100000. and the other was the Korrick
building the largest structure be-
tween Ell Paso and Los Angeles hous-
Ing a single store. With its fixtures
this building also cost 100000. An
eight story office building, the tallest
in Arizona, was well along toward
completion when 1915 began. and an
other office building had been started.
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