Arizona sentinel., 1917-08-02
DOES COTTON SOLVE THE MESA PROBLEM


 One half the world does not know how the other half lives"
 That is an old saying old the hills themselves and yet few of everstop long enough to see what actually taking place right under our eyes.
 For instance how many of you know that experi- men is being made the determine as to whether not those lands be poaby utilized for the growing of cotton? And yet the experiment is being made along scientific lines News to me? Of course it s for one half the world does not care tnkers dam how the other hat lives.
 This however is not true with the merchant prince, E. Sanguinett Hehas his eyes open all the me looking first in this direction and then in that how he can leg timatey increase the business of his multitude of business institutions He knows perhaps better than any man in fu ma county that his depends entirely upon the sue of his patrons and whenever he demonstrate that this or that thing can be successfully done just that many more customers will he have at his different stores.
 That's why MT. Sangunet is now experimenting with cotton on "our beloved Yuma mesa. How many ot you know of this experiment.? dare say that not one in hun dred therefore you will read this item of news with unusual interest if any of you so debound that you won agree to anything Sanguinetti does.
 When it was an absolute certainty that the government Intended to begin the actual physical survey of the mesa Hands, with the intention of furnishing those arid lands with water Mr. Sangunetti determined to illustrate what could be grown Wn pTOI1I DelWeeH tHe loWo "h0 io orange trees growing maturity He rented acre ground from the big He Hghbinder otherwise known as
 R. M Moore president of the local utility concerns and not content with this he rented another from o the owners of the land under the irrigation system of the mesa-the company that rrgang upwards ot 5OO acres of citrus fruit on the mesa For the orange grove just outside the grove itself he paid price, and paid about oneenth for the other-one anxious to have dem onstrated whether or cotton could be grown with profit on the mesa, the other caring only for the profit
 made personal inspection few days ago of the acre planted to cotton adjacent the orange grove found three varieties the short staple Mabene) the Durango and the Egyptian long staple Not ounce o tertll- zer had been used all planted in the native soil at that There wasn't weed blade of grass in the entire acre one third of which devoted each staple Some of the stalks four feet in height some were only twelve inches but all of them had their proper propor tion of bos squares blossoms indicating that cotton solves the mesa problem It can be grown between the rows and only pay for its cultivation, but FAKE OFF the cost of cultivation of the young citrus fruit
 That of couerse rather broad statement to make and must be understood that it is made only the hypo thesis that the Sangunett experiment pans out good as it now promises Many of the "shot staple bos open and ready pick the very earliest in this entire section It requires 60 days for short staple boil to ma ure after blossom whereas it requires O7 days for the Il Egyptian the opening stage Therefore, MT Sangunett demonstrate by ACTUAL TEST that any kind of cotton be successfully raised between the rows the he will have done something for which unborn generations will call his name blessed It will make Yuma | mesa lands worth fortune.
 IYUMAS SAEUBRIOUS, SPRINGLIKE WEATHER 2 HAS FAIRLY ECLIPSED ALL RECORDS.