Arizona republican., 1918-07-24
GEORGE ], SLOVENIAN VISITS ST0NEMAN'S
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George J. Stoneman, always a boost | CT for Arizona in general and the Salt River valley in particular, was a re- cent visitor in Pasadena where his father, one of the notable figures in the early days of Arzona's pioneer his tory, once lived and where the Stone man ranch was one of the great estates. The following very interesting account of MT. Stonemans visit to the coast city is from the Pasadena Star News of recent date:
 George J. Stoneman. son of former Governor George Stoneman of Cali fornia, chairman of the Arizona Dem ocratic State Central committee and head of the four minute men of Ari- zona, is in Pasadena today. He and Mrs Stoneman are the guests of MT. and Mrs. Vincent Fortune, 26 Terrace place. His brief stay in Pasadena is the longest visit MT. Stoneman has paid the city since, with his father. he left their famous Los Robles ranch. previous to his fathers election in 1882. MT. Stoneman and his family are spending a vacation at Hermosa 1 Bea ch. though on August 1 he will go to San Francisco as a counsel for the Midwest Oil company in the famous suit of Fitzhugh versus the Midwest Oil company. involving s25,000,000. and practically all of the prosperous fields in the state of Wyoming.
 The cast was set for trial in the Ari- Zona courts since the oil company is incorporated under the laws of Arizona, but it was transferred to San Fran cisco to be tried by a judge from Spokane.
 The Los Robes ranch, owned by the former governor, extended from the southern end of Pasadena to Alham- bra, covering 800 acres. Mir. Stoneman has been over the site of the old ranch this week, seeking the location of the ranch house where he lived as a child. It was somewhere near the present Hotel Raymond property. but so changed are the features of the land in that neighborhood that MT Stoneman has been unable to determine just where the old homestead once stood During Governor Stoneman's term of office the house was set afire and was burned to the ground.
 MT. Stoneman, like most Arizona residents, is a hearty booster for the future of the state. He says there are 70,000 acres of clear strain Pima cotton in cultivation in the Salt River Valley of Arizona this year.
 Under government quarantine or ders,' said MT. Stoneman. mo short staple cotton can be planted there, and the fiber of the Pima cotton, grown ir the Arizona cotton country, is perhaps :he longest in the world.
 About 13,000 acres of cotton arc owned by the Southwest Cotton com pany an organization connected witt the Goodyear Rubber company. Int Salt River valley. which comprises tho territory about Phoenix, is watered b, the flow from the Roosevelt dam, anC by pumping from wells, the latte method being preferred by the South west Cotton company to irrigation b. long ditches from the dam.
 Phoenix is having a building boom according to Mir Stoneman, and per sons going to Phoenix now are findin, | it almost impossible to find a house Arizona, he says, leads in copper pro | duction, and is ahead in percentage furnished by the government in tn
 production of high grade cotton. Thi
 cotton brought "A cents a pound las year, and prices this year, it is ex f pected, will be fixed by the govern : ment.