El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-05-24

wafer away 70 the northeast, up py
And east Of the old Crosscut canal
is what was another desert which
seemed destined to remain desert for
years A new crOSscut canal has
been laid out still farther east in the
last few years and the intervening
section brought under the pillow.
Some More Big Farming.
But perhaps the most extensive de-
7 Eelopment has taken place i'm the
Chandler district far southeast Of
] Phoenix. BY extending the irrfca-
/ ton system and by developing pump
2 ing plants many thousands of acres
I Of desert have been turned INFO
4 nlgnly productive farms. The Good
, rich Rubber company has one Of the
] largest farm projects in the west
I there, with several thousand acres in
/ cotton-long staple cotton for use in
I "a bricatinE automobile tires The
I goodrich people are going into Il on
a big scale. with their own army Of
employees living In their own town.
I Out in that locality you see miles and
miles Of green fields where once you
saw nothing but cactus, sagebrush
and gopher holes.
What has occurred in the Inrleside-
Scottsdale and the Chandler districts
has also occurred to the northwest
around Peoria and to the southwest,
in the Arlington and Buckeye dis
tricts- Farms everywhere and every
Iarm means prosperity for its owner
and the neighhcrho07 directly and for
all the people Of Phoenix indirectly.
Better Farming Methods.
The Arizonans may not have noticed
the change. but I was strongly i'm
pressed by the Improvement in meth
obs Of farming over those Of q few
years ago There was too much half
farming then-too many fields with
Bermuda and Johnson grass and fox
tail and very little else Much Of the
land mad been paSrured too long
Dairying is great industry and the
salt River valley has three condensed /
milk factories and several cream Q
cries making butter and cheese. but ]
after land has been pastured for sew
eral years one finds IL growing very I
little alfalfa and much of the pests I
above mentioned
For the most part that has been
done away with The land is kept M I
better It is made 10 grow something ]
worth while-alfalfa for hay or pas /
turage- grain. orchard or cotton A .
little thing illustrates the change. Ii
can remember when the Brill addi- Z
ton grew little but johnson grass
and weeds on those portions OF il I
where houses had not been built IT
IS now given over TO lawns. gardens
and a very fine small field Of wheat
Similarly, in the Evergreen addition.
there is small cotton field where I 1
very we'll remember brush patch.
Better Houses, Better Roads.
All through the valley there Is evi-
dence Of betterment-better crops.
better fences. better houses and
b. rms. better roads and better kept
roadsides, everything more neat.
trim and prosperous looking and less
waste space It used TO be that even
the little farms had a lot Of unused
ground around the hOuse-biE. bare
spaces which often looked most IN
rgr -nnal- n.n
that now. and what the land can pro-
luce is too much needed TO help feed ,
The world
I can speak OF this because I was
1ne Of the MASTERS on my own ranch; ]
but when I went there this time !
-ound what had been a big bare space
"a the rear Of the house was growing :
,orn, melons and cotton. and what had }
been too extensive lawn in the front :
was growing as fine beans, peas, let :
uce, cabbage, straw berries and pota-
.oes as you ever saw And new pO-
atOes binging 1914 cents q pound in .
'hOeniL-thinlz Of that :
Big Prices For Crops
Seventy-cent cotton and $50 hay !
rave made that valley a regular mint :
# money in the past two years. They =
'aise Egyptian long staple cotton and !
Q sold recently as high as so cents a =
POUND You see fields Of il every +
where II is up about ten inches now. r
nd as one motors through the coun- =
~ he sees men and boys and even y
women out hOeinE cotton or else rid
ne one Of those disc-cultivators made b
specially to cut up the ground be- :
ween the cotton rows So high has =
he price Of cotton been that many ] :
ortunes have been made in these last p
Wo years by just ordinary good farm :
rs.
Consider what even the mediocre
ield Of 500 pounds 10 the acre means 4