Arizona republican., 1917-02-15
PIMA UT TON, INDIVIDUAL T0 SALT RIVER VALLEY DISTRICT,
 BEST LONC STAPLE IN WORLD

The highest local authority on long staple cotton is l.. w.. Hudson, who was. for several years cotton special lSt for the department of agriculture in charge of the experimental work at Sacaton and who contributed more largely than any other man to the developmenh of the so-called Pima cotton as distinguished from the so- called Yuma cotton of the Egyptian variety. That development will be known in the market as Pima cot ton," and the Salt River valley is so far the only place in the world where it is produced
 MT. Hudson is now the cotton ex- pert for the Goodyear Tire company and will have charge of whatever cot ton producing enterprise that com pany may engage in in this valley.
 Of the general cotton situation. he said that there were 7400 acres plant ed to long staple and that in his opin- ion next year the acreage would be Hetween 25,000 and 3G,000. He be- lieved that there would be seed enough of the Pima variety to plant 5000 acres The principal growers or Pima cotton this year are south side farmers: Max Cottrell, thirty-si.. acres: c. A. Corbell, twenty y-one acres; Andrias Jepson, forty acres: John Dobson, fifty five acres, ana D. J. Frankenburg, twenty seven acres.
 The average of these growers. said Nil. Hudson, would be a bale and half 10 the acre Said he: They have all followed the best methods known m the preparation of their lands for the planting and in the cultivation Of the cotton. The success they have at tai1ed this-ycar and tiie realization of what the cotton business means should make the people interested in that enterprise. get together and work for common cause. They should regard this high grade Of cotton as an Arizona speciality and should not be satisfied until the whole acreage of the valley, that is, the acreage Pima cotton. I believe 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 1t possesses the advantage of matur- ing earlier than the Yuma variety.
 Better Variety Possible
 On being asked as to the probabil- ity of a further development of Pima cotton into 9 still better variety, MT, Hudson said: There is really no
 
 taken only the first step and though we now have the best cotton in the world, l believe the world will see q still better cotton produced here"
 The price of Pima cotton may now be said to be fifty cents a pound. Mir Hudson said that while no offer of fifty cents had been made so far as he knew, the price of Yuma cotton was 461a. Pima cotton is at pre- af~l- '1a cents. so that the growers of Pima this year might reasonably expect to receive fifty cents.
 Here Mir. Hudson sounded . note of warning. The irena dble price brought by valley cotton this year should not be accepted as the price that it would bring every year. It would probably be considerably lowe. under normal conditions, but it would always be sufficiently high 10 make it the most profitable crop that can be raised in the valley or in any other country where it is possible to pro- duce cotton Of this grade. Some of the growers this year will clear above all expenses as much as s250 an acre: some more even than that. It cannot be expected. MT. Hudson said, that such phenomenal profits could be reaped year after year.
 With this fact in mind, growers, he said should not engage in .extrava- 2 Sant expenditures. The cost of pro- duction should be kept down.. At the same time growers should not hesi- tate to make such expenditures as are necessar,s to. the systematic and scientific cultivation of the crop. Whatever the price of the cotton may be it will always repay every ligiti- mate expenditure
 As to the growth of cotton tho sa- lection of the lana and it's early prepa-