Arizona republican., 1917-02-15

neishoor 2 proposition for sixty acres of Lewis fine farm.
 Lewis agreed to take s1S5 an acre, S1,000 to be paid down and the re mainder in installments of S2, GOO per year. Sloan accepted and paid the thousand. That left a balance of s10000
 At the end of the season Sloan approached Lewis and asked him if he couldn't accept 5000 as his first an . nual payment. He added that he eX pected to pay the remainder the next year.
 Sloan planted ten acres in truck garden and fifty acress in Egyptian cotton. The truck garden paid his living expense and also the cost of growing the cotton, leaving the cotton crop as clear profit This was a year or so ago, but chances today are as good as they ever were.
 Many Get Big Crops
 Here are a few more examples of the successes our farmers are making Read carefully: Perhaps the most distinguished success made in the growing of cotton in the valley this year. or for that matter. anywhere in the world. is that attained hv Max Cottrell on his ranch south of Tempe. MT. Cottrell had thirty six acres in cotton of the Pima Variety. When he was asked the other day what the Yield would be per acre. he replied that he did not know; it was not all picked yet, but he already had ft 'tv bales and he was sure of enor--1 more the total yield Of a bale ant = half
 said he: At the time the pick ing began. l was told by experts tha t 1 ought to get two bales to the acre. But great deal Of it vas broken down ny the pickers. hut didn't complain of whatever waste there was for the crop gave promise of be- ing such an uneXDectediy bountiful one. I nm satisfied.
 MT. Cottrell has good reason to he satisfied. He expects 70 cents ? pound for his cotton. which. at a bale and half per acre will bring him S375 an acre The usJal cost ot praduction that is, water. cultivation. n'0''irg and ginning. is about S79 an acre. But making the most liberal estimate of his expenses. including such items as interest and every item that could possibly he brought into account. his yield will net him s2S5 an acre.
 MT. Cottrell said that such prices could not he expected every year fiJt half that price and there is no possibility, with the growing demand for cotton of this grade, the com paratively limited known area where it can be produced. that it will ever he as low as half the present price, the profit would be sufficiently attrac- tive. He will plant no acres to Pima cotton next year.
 Testimony may he furnished by scores of farmers to their success One that should deserve attention is the case of !. M Chumley.. MT. Chumley rented a tract of seventy acres last spring and put little more than half of it into cotton.
 Tt was SO late when Nr Chumley secured possession of the. land that, in the opinion of many, he would be un- able to grow ctSp, but he went ahead anyhow. The young cotton was so promising later that Mir. Steele of the Tempe exchange advanced money on it for further expenses. and now cotton to the amount of sS.00f has been realized.
 Mr. Horton living near Mesa. the owner of some land rented land neal by for cotton. The figures he received from his crop are not available, but it is enough to know that lie has paid tha mortgage on his own lanr and still has money in the bank
 -'The experiences of these grower. are the xperiencs of many in the val ley. and. in fact. of all who useC judgment in the selection of cottoI land and employed those methods il planting and cultivation that experi
 Industry is Established ence has taucht to be the best. ..Tba Atizona Ecs-3tian cotto1, in dustrv is fnlly established Its sli- nerinI nnaIities have rnade a- renlfa