Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-10-14
PAPACOEST TURN FROM
WHEAT TO BEANS
IN AJO DISTRICT.
(Gpecial to The Republican,

Especial to ne Republican)
AJU, Aliz., Oct. E..-More beans
have 1cen raised III tbs spl> mildly IL.
Tile ann country o. III. Papago IN
ulans, stretching 20 tfle cast from IN.
r.S copper u.sti let q nlies, dui
ing The present season Sh..i IL all tn
past years uI .Lu.-,n -. Mig Gem
bined. Wheat formerly was the staple
piOG lct ., chest IlIDI,.Iis-. lilcy D.,4
tered it for bears and cticr needs
ms Year thcJ Mtle .hdattd 90 ny
double clcp. wheat inst and beans
Later. The wheat crop was Il failure.
because OF delayed rams. I he beans
came along flne IN Il particularly ia
FJlable season. me success has es-
tabhsheds WIN the Indians that beans
are even .Jetter Inan wheat, Tor they
nave received d ptlce more than max
mp mp for wheat loss. Meantime the
opportunity has not been neglected to
POM out &c TIE rldlaLs INA. II tne3
had secured both good wheat and bear
crops, they Wouid have Deen vast.
more ahead and that inasmuch as
they have the land and the opportu
nit! the future should lind them
growing the double ctcp each year.
This idea, Foreign to the general trend
OF Indian agrcultist thought, which
left OF its own development does not
get beyond a single crop, and only
enough of that for actual needs, has
JfOa s.tneu lne pOSSioli. lies II u
from the Papago lands very greatly.
ran ana winter planning OF wheat al
This area Will be double that of previ
Gus big planting years, and after the
wheat harvest there will be more
beans go in than were planted fol
this year
To be credited with this change OF
attitude on the part of the Papago
farmers is a lal ge amount of mission
airy work furthered by the Cornelia
Copper company in the first half OF
the year. when il joined with othel
copper producers in the state in the
movement to increase the Arizona
output of agricultural products The
Cornelia Copper had number of
Papago laDuIels working about its
mechanical plants where it mas sue
cessfully pursued the policy of edu-
eating these Indians to a more useful
and Iemunerativc form of work than
previously followed. From the In
dams employed about its plants the
company selected number who had
special adaptability for farming and
" no had acquired new light on the
white brothers ways and meaning.
They were in consequence aole to
take to their brothers in Papago val
leys a clear idea of what it was be-
ing striven 10 do in increasing the
la ms land output and also to assure
them that arrangements have been
made to see that they got a square
deal when it came time for marketing
the crops. In addition they took the
q,a,antce Of all the free seed that the
Indians could use. the COMPANY pro
yidinp the seed The crop sale ar
,ai,p, ncnts we've carefully nrotecteo
uith res;IIt thar tho Indians .,t tbc
nIghe 81 market figures something
,hey had never had from the Indian
4.sGefs Who gathered up their crops.
H., lteluy1n OF il All Is that tn,
.,.ti,Aaos Of thc great Alo firm lands
n afc enthusiastically IN The farm
ng ii, sieu tbs va. ard , III ;ta,
aVe.:u thousand acres "a \, leat Lind
= HI. states noilaa. &c. cAsp. folio -
tirC The wheat Up with bean p.u..,.iit
Il su.y neAt On q scale that w..l 0Ilrt
.n4u area int important cvns..ie.;.-
n,n as a bean tc.rilaly.
is.Ic New CoiieIId cntcrpsise If
-uaincing inc PdpaGos into .lnpolt.inl
x. iI!L,.lar e,Fd sawui ranks 81 III
~ Il. ii new acreage g.lned to cul-
Var.cn III the stat" diuInC this yedrs
....e t,l ineltascd Catsdt u! hoInt
,4cdIets. he achic voinom is =.
,inian IN syine NAYS than that o.
The great Nvdl glrec.5 Idllh~4e,. iy
As1,lation C0puei cUI.li,any at Mimi
hcie hli.tiieIs o. families were D. o.
Id a with email plols Of. ground
,,Dn viii, Il they could iaisc all Of the
g.rdcn + uck es,-fred for most OF the
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