El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-05-14
TUCSON CAN LEARN SOMETHING
FROM Ell PASO'S CITY MARKET

TUCSON has been investigating FL Pasos market house
1 with q view to establishing market in that city
FL Paso has market house that is credit TO the city
but Tucson can improve upon It.
market house IS need in any city but 1t should be
clearing house for the producers Of vegetables and
fruits than gathering place Tor shop keepers
If there Is disadvantage about the market house. It
the tendency TO break up the direct bargaining between
the producer and the consumer replacing the former with a
small stOekeeper Some Of the tradesmen in the market
house stoIkeeper and nothing else buying sometimes
ION farmer ana sometimes from commission and thus
acting mddlemen between the farmer and the consumer
This has had its effect prices Some things buy
little i cheaper in the city market uptown
stores Others are quite perceptibly cheaper but
much as IN the days when the wagons clustered around the
court house.
If Tucson cares to do So It Is possible to have market
house much simpler scale and efficient than the
city market IN FL Pasos proud Of the institution L
is possible to put up building consisting Of little
Ihan 1oot and cement floor, with open sides so that
farmers drive with then wagons their allotted
stall place around into position and horses
out The wagon itself then forms the little stores and the
aImer-perhaps properly he should be called the
-uc gaIdener-becoes the storekeeper He sell very
much under store prices uptown and still receive more than
i he sold 10 mddemen retailers. They have market
Of that kind IN Washington D. c. the best known public
market IN the country, where members CT congress
basket In building Of that kind in dis
agreeable weather removable secries of the wall can be
lifted into place and the entire market thus enclosed
There two drawbacks market Of that kind. One
that the farmer gardener is forced to give Of his
day the selling when he feels he ought to be farming
unless his family numerous enough to take care Of farm
ing while he his time selling The other
when the growing for fruits and vegetables IS past
such market Of the running, for the farmers have
nothing 10 sell
In the southwest however It would be possible to keep
market running almost ali the year. for late fall and early
spring vegetables raised here, when in the east and
north any plant which shoots above the ground would
be Inssmuch many, If most Of the sellers
the Fl PssO market really small shopkeepers rather
than farmers they keep business going the whole year, buy
ing often from commission who receive shipments from
various outside producing oenters
There isn't any doubt that Tucson ought to have pub
JIG market ANY city needs one and around Tucson there IS
enough gardening and fruit raising IN the Santa Cruz and
RilO valleys TO supply market. It long has been the
complaint Of farmers about Tucson that they could not
market their crops the stoTekeepers being unwilling buy
them The merchants reply 10 that is that they
unable TO depend the local products TO amount and
regularity Of delivery and therefore forced make
contracts for specified deliveries Of supplies shipped from
Phoenix and the coast
The public market affords the local growers their best
chance to sell good profit to themselves and saving
70 the consumers BY eliminating the middleman.