El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-05-24
HAY AND COTTON
ENRICH ARIZONA
Many Miles Of Good Roads
Are Built and State Is
Flush With Money.

/ now MoAl4 you ike 10 nave ~ acres
at that rate, making $4,000 gross in
a single season. or 30 acres of al
falfa and sell $500 worth of hay as
the result Of a summers work. Hay
( sold up 10 SIS ton in Phoenix last
/ fall and winter
/ I mention these crops particularly
! because they are most important. But
. in these times anything one raises to
I eat commands good price, and farm
I ers about Phoenix are raising a lot OF
! nearly everything
los Cars a Day shipped.
C. II. Scott. general manager OF the
Arizona Eastern lines at Phoenix.
told me he is moving los cars a day
Of various commodities. mostly prod
uce, out Of Phoenix That is highly
indicative Of the great productiveness
Of that valley and % serves TO explain.
in a way. why 7 have given first at
tentiOQ TO the valley and what it pro-
duces before making more detailed
reference TO Phoenix For Phoenix
lives by and on what the valley grows.
The city has big jObbing business
in the Arizona towns. but without its
! farms and farmers il would have lit
] tie TO sell. its banks would have little
! TO bank. and its lawyers and doctors
I and real estate men and merchants
J would have to move elsewhere or
! starve-
They are well rooted where they
I are and they are not starving. on
]
Z happy. Iney have money A city
may have all the patriotism in the
+ world. but IL can't nearly double its
Liberty loan quota without money.
{ Nor can its people pave their streets. I
put I'D new business buildings. /
/ schools and homes and keep every
/ thing looking new and clean without
money
Buildings New or RemOdeled.
Phoenix looks that way. In the f.
naas 81 lHM oil lev
marks have disappeared There are I
new buildings all over town and the I
older ones have been remodeled or I
otherwise freshened up until they look /
new and. for ordinary purposes, are I
new Practically all the business sec ]
tiOns has been paved and roads run \
ming out north and east have been I
paved for miles so that one may. after I
dinner Of an evening. motor easily and I
DELIGHTFULLY."- out TO the Country club,
eight miles north. or east to Tempe or,
by experimenting the pavement with I
good dirt roads, go to Ingleside,
where there IS charming clubhouse
OF to Chandler where the beautiful
san Marcos hotel provides entertain
ment and a good cuisine.
Everybody Motors Now.
Automobiles Everybody in Arizona
seems to have one and they are par
ticularly numerous about Phoenix
The streets are unusually wide and
the middle Of the streets During the
busy hours Of the day one sees five or
six blocks OF parked automobiles on
every business street except the two
main ones. washington street and Cen
trail avenue. The farmers used to fill
up the hitching racks on three sides
of the court house and city hall blocks
daily with their teams and wagons.
The hitching racks are gone now and .
the farmers fiji I'D blocks Of the park
ing spaces with their motor cars
Everywhere on the country roads :
where one used 20 see teams {
one now sees automobiles A couple !
Of farmers patching Il near my place
work in the field until noon and then
hop in the car and run into town, six :
miles, for lunch and are back on the
job at 4 o'clock. Change-its all /
changed A few years ago. without !
that car. they would have had to wres- I
tie with the old beans and bacon in =
their own shack .
Car to ~ People.
c. H Akers publisher OF the Ca 3
zette, gave me his guess that there are 2
30. 900 automobiles in use In Arizona 4
with over half Of them in the salt .
River valley. Secretary Of state Sid
ney P. Osborne. who issues the IL "a
censes. cut the figures quite a bit both
ways. He told me he has licensed %
boo cars, Of which third or more are
IN use in the valley. If there are 5000
ears in and about Phoenix. there is <
lne for every AZ Of the population 2.
,hildren included.
I am not going to mention the new y
buildings in Phoenix for there are too .
many OF them or refer except thus =
usually TO the hundreds Of new, pref =
~ homes erected-PhOeniL is still =
building TO some extent in spite OF
nigh prices Of materials. These devel-
lpments are apparent to every visitor p
am trying TO hit the high spots 10 =
lrinE out the unusual things and one =
If them viii interest people all =
through the southwest. y
The self Serving Grocery. -
It is the self serving. cash and carry =
sr0cery- 1t has grown TO be as much :,
IN institution as the creameries' mo- =,
or trucks which 80 up and down n
very country road twice day, gath 81
ring in the cans or milk at the farm Il
rs gates There are many OF these N
vait-On-yOurself groceries in Phoenix ~
nd they have about revolutiOniZed a,
he business It IS only necessary to N,
mention that one OF the oldest. largest ~
nd strongest Of the old style groceries
n Phoenix has announced it is going
ut OF business and is selling out its
took The new style groceries are Is
hrOnged daily with people taking adj Ii
cred as an inducement to them 10 IS
ait on themselves, pay cash and car v
Y the stuff home They have cut the p,
ost Of living in no small degree and 3,
re gaming IN size mum DerS and q
atrOnage every day. n
Labor Is Badly Needed. Z
There is only one thing ailing Phoe- =
Tx and the valley; shortage Of labor. ~
The best farm hands and the young hi
men who held down the store and Of
ice jobs in town have gone to war or A
re going. Class one of the draft viii r
Don be exhausted. The farmers are -
ffected most There are plenty OF =,
ums in town who won't take a job a.,
D the field or orchard unless the leg IA
stature passes a compulsory labor act ..-
nd Gov. Hunt should bring his in -
iuence TO bear to see that such a ~
leasure is enacted What labor is IN
comes high. Farm hands are -
emanding SO a day and board. A ~
arm hand and his wife were engaged I
t 500 a month with little expense
kept for food. A ten year old boy
smanded $3.50 for helping drive three
)Ws to town.
Meanwhile. the crops are approach talll
lg harvest time, cotton particularly. ~
he only relief lies in importing hun ~,
reds Of Mexicans and the poems are -
oor help It would be a good idea for -
ie chamber Of commerce to line up co
he farmers on the proposition Of i'm DO