Arizona republican., 1916-11-17

The highest local authority on lons staple cotton is F.. w. Hudson, who was for several years cotton specialist for the department of agriculture in charge of the experimental work at Sacaton and who contributed more largely than any other man to the development of the so-cGlled Pima cotton as distinguished from the so- called Yuma cotton of the Egyptian variety. That development will be known in the market as Pima cotton" end the Salt River valley is so far the only place in the world where it is produced.
 Mir. Hudson is now the cotton eX- pert for the Goodyear Tire company and will have charge of whatever cot ion producing enterprise that company may engage in in this valley Regard ing the plans of the company. Mir. Hudson said on Wednesday no an nouncement had been made.
 Of the general cotton situation, he said that there were 7400 acres planted 10 long staple and that in his opinion next year the acreage would be be- tween 25,000 and 30000 He believed that there would be seed enough of the Pima variety to plant 6.000 acres. The principal growers of Pima cotton this year are south side farmers: Max Cottrell, thirty six acres; C. A. Corhell, twenty-one acres: Andrais Jepson, forty acres; John Dobson, fifty five acres and D. J. Frankenburg. twenty seven acres.
 The average of these growers said Mir. Hudson. would be a bale and a half to the acre. Said he: They have all followed the best methods known m ha of flaf the planting and in the cultivation of the cotton. The success they have at tained this year and the realization of what the cotton business means. should make the people interested in that enterprise get together and work for a common cause. They should regard this high grade of cotton as an Arizona specially and should not be satisfied until the whole acreage of the valley, that is. the acreage planted to cotton, should be put into Pima cotton. I be- lieve that by 1918 there will be seed enough for the planting of the whole valley. This new grade Of cotton is not only of longer fiber. stronger and finer. but it possesses the advantage of maturing earlier than the Yuma variety"
 On being asked as to the probability or d IQTtncT development or I'lfnu cot ton into a still better variety. Mir Hudson said; There is really no limit to the development We have taken only the first step and though we now have the best cotton in the world. l believe the world will see a still better cotton produced here"
 The price of Pima cotton may now be said to be fifty cents a pound MT. Hudson said that while no offer of fifty cents had been made so far as he knew. the price of Yuma cotton was 4612. Pima cotton is at q premium which he believed was easily 3l2 cents so that the growers of Pima this year might reasonably expect to receive fifty cents.
 Here MT. Hudson sounded note of warning. The remarkable price brought by valley cotton this year should not be accepted as the price that it would bring every year. Ii would probably be considerably lower under normal conditions but it would always be sufficiently high to make il the most profitable crop that can be raised in the valley or in any othe' country where 1t is possible to produce