Arizona republican., 1918-01-04

priate in solving the local situation.
 A. T. Esgate, speaking on the real estate business and it's relation to banking, held that the real estate business is closely allied with the busl- ness in which he is interested, and indicated the many ways in which the principal of cooperation may be ap- piled.
 He called attention to the former policy of selling the investor as much land as he could possibly stretch hls original capital to swing, with the re- suit that the buyer would be forced out through lack of working capital and lauded the present plan of real es tate men in advising the purchaser not to bite off more than he can mastl- cate"
 MT. Esgate recalled the custom of some eastern banks in allowing clerks to engage in insurance and real estate | business on the side, as it were, bring ing about a condition wherein the prospective land purchaser enters the bank for advice and is quickly victim | iZed by teh enterprisfng bank clerk or the banker himself.
 We do not practice that in this country, but endeavor to devote our 1 time and attention to the banking | business" said Mir. Esgate. MT. Esgate indicated Where this sort of competi- 1 tion was very detrimental to the pro- fessional real estate operator and de- clared that this is one indication of the banks desire to cooperate with the realty men.
 MT. Heard introduced MT. Schader, | formerly of California, as the man who built a prosperous town in the Im- perial valley in three years, and as q Tive one"
 MT. Schader more than lived up to his introduction and drove home the points in his argument with punch that impressed his listeners.
 He laid much stress upon the value of diversified farming, and warned the residents of Salt River valley against getting too enthusiastic over one product, advising them instead tc
 raise cattle and hogs and sheep and
 alfalfa and various kinds of crops | rather than one only.
 You've got the worst roads in Ma
 ricopa county I've ever seen in ths
 United States" said MT. Schader Good
 roads throughout this section, and {
 propaganda to obtain the cO-operatior
 of adjacent counties in striving to-
 wards the same object would save tht
 farmer 25 per cent of his transporta
 tion cost. Get behind a bond issue
 and go after itst rong. Do not figur
 on a little line running out to Glen
 dale and another out to Mesa and an other to some other point. Plan t have good roads through the entir , district"
 In support of his theory that prop erty values would be increased an general conditions bettered by goo roads, MT. Schader called attention t the remarkable value of Californi 7 lands which are not capable of produc < ing as much to the acre as those i l Arizona, due exclusively to the re } markable system of highways whic : form a network throughout the state. ? Advertising and publicity he declare
 to be essential to best results in plac r ing the country before the entire peo f pie in the most favorable light. g Following MT Schader's enthusiast l talk, MT. Heard declared that tn i movement for a good roads bond issu l is well under way, and that farmer :, who heretofore turned a deaf ear t a the project are now working earnestl
 in it's support.
 r. MT. Griffin then called for the busi
 ness session at which a number of i'm f portant business was transacted.