El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-12-17
ARIZONA CROP
$4,000 BALES
Field Agent Estimates the
Value of Cotton Crop
at 100000.


Phoenix. Ariz.. Dec 1.-THE cot
ton crop OF Arizona has been esti-
mated by field agent 1. NJ Harrison
at 2S.00O bales, compared with 5000
bales in 1916. 1000 in 1915, 5000 IN
1914, 1000 in 1918, and go in 1912.
Less than so per cent has been
picked at the present date. The
Egyptian long-staple crop viii be
about 1880 bales. compared with
340o in 1915. 1850 in 1915, $500 in
1913. 200 in 1913 and 24O IN 1872.
AAbout 80 per cent this year IS pro-
duced In the salt river valley. The
short staple viii come mainly from
the Yuma valley, about 500 bales.
The total value OF the crop IN Ari-
zona viii be about s7o00.0O0. with
s5.O00.0o0 OF this from the Salt River
valley.
45e0 Pfekerz Imported.
Beside the local labor supply 1890
cotton pickers have had TO be brought
IN this season. Two thousand OF
these were MeIicans, mainly i'm
ported through NOEales. The local
association directly brought 400 men
from Texas, from which point at
{ least 1000 have come Indirectly. IN
dian pickers numbered about zoo.
mainly PaDaEo for the nearer Pimas
were too busy with their own crops:
including q considerable acreage or
cotton The association in this work
has spent $4,000. and next year eN-
poets to spend S150.00n 10 secure
workers 20 harvest the expected croD
Of 10000 acres. In both cases this
money is not 10 be considered sbso-
lutte expenditure, as considerable
part Of il VIII be returned by the
workers for fares advanced.
Very careful preparations are be
ing made TO secure the highest grade
81 seed. Fo-ty acres on the Fran
IkenburE ranch. south Of Tempe, have
been "rogued" and a separate gin
there has been installed TO secure
purity OF the high grade OF Pima
cotton grown upon this particular
piece Of land In addition there are
5000 acres Of comparatively pure
Pima seed IN the same locality. The
entire cotton acreage OF the valley
viii be planted to the Pima. with
only a small nart given to other To-
calfffes. 81 the seed from the Yuma
section viii be shipped 20 Phoenix
for oil and Yuma viii be given an
entirely new lot OF Yuma cOttonseed I
from Tewne. with the eCDectation Z
that the following season this agal0 I
viii be replaced BY Pins. also from I
This valley Thus the Pima variety I
duct with its uuarter-inch longer I
slsnIe. better fibe~ and he0vier Weld. /
Seen is being reserved on the basis Of I
g pounds pm gore
To Droa Wcrd ssEEyptia~."
Il is Drohahle that after this year I
the word ''Fgyp+ian- viii be dronped I
BY the local cotton growers and h. 4
renla ced nv eithe~ -A-izoua" or salt I
Pfver valley" % the product he's er- Z
rived ~ . uOiut when Its connection /
with the Eevp.ian IS rather remote. !
II is figu-ad that cntro1 locally /
costs the p-oducer about 1922 = bale
Including rental OF s2a eu scre- o. /
this s75 t~lya= the cotton to n7trr-
itv. ga Is n'clvin~ cost II three cents. ]
and s14 for Pfnniug.
The T-ioa fo- Fxrra No. Z pima nas :
dronoed from so cents 70 - cents. l
v-ith WINE. about four cents lower ]
Thee s. some consideration 81 the Z
possibility Of government fiEa-'o1 OF I
prica. hut II is felt tne~e would hove
TO be snecfo1 consideration o. the ni07
vaIl-a OF the h~'~0ua nro5uct and itr
higher cost TO The srowe~s.