Arizona republican., 1918-03-05
CALIFORNIAN |S
 ASTON|SHED BY VALLEY CHANGES

He had heard great deal of the Salt River valley and is a man of i'm agination as every successful man must be but he was not prepared for what he found here in the course of a visit three days. Reference is here made to Hon. J. W. Guiberson, of Cor coran, Calf, member of the legisla- ture from the Fifty second assembly district, president of the First Ma tional bank of Corcoran and president of the J. W. Guiberson company which owns 5000 acres of land in the San Joaquin valley and makes specialties of butter, beef and pork. It raises of course, hay and grain but the dairy business and the feeding of livestock constitute it's chief business.
 Mir. Guiberson came here on varied mission, including an investigation of the cotton industry, the feeding of cat tle and to look after high grade cac- tie of the shorthorn breed. He said yesterday that he was surprised to find such excellent cattle of this breed that he expects to take home a carload of bulls from the herds of the Bartlett Heard Land and Cattle company. Tt will be a revelation said Mir. Guiber- son. 10 California as it was to me. I never thought that California would come 10 Arizona after blooded cattle.'
 Cattle Surprise Him
 Mir. GuiberSon said that he had known that Arizona was great cattle country but he did not expect to find such advanced methods of handling cattle and especially, of feeding them. He visited the Cavaness ranch where the equipment was the most advanced he had ever seen. q imagine" he said that there are not many people in Phoenix who are aware of the exist ence of such an equipment of silos, grinding and cutting machines, feeding sheds and other appliances of a mod crn stock farm"
 MT. Guiberson had heard much of the Roosevelt dam and though he has not seen it, he has seen the result of it in the largest body of fertile land with less area of poor land in it than any stretch of farming land he had ever before seen. T do not think" said MT. Guiberson, that you people fully realize what that dam means to you. It has easily added $100 an acre 10 the value of every acre of land under the dam. This has impressed me the more because I have passed through the period of California's development. remember when the whole country or the San Joaquin valley was a sheep and cattle country. We thought that it would never be anything more than that. Land was worth from $15 to $25 an acre. Then came the touch of water and much of that land now is worth $500 an acre. l am sure that it is no better land than that you have here.
 Only Beginning of Progress
 T think that this is only the be- ginning and that the progress you will make in the next ten years will sur pass that you have made in the last twenty years, when the most is made of your land, when it is intensely tarmed for producing feed and when it is dotted with silos.
 Since dairying is one of the chief in- dus%ies of the big company of which Mir. Guiberson is the head his remarks on that industry at this time were of special interest," He said that the dairy interest in California is in much the same situation as in this valley That is, it is at low ebb. Nobody engaged in dairying has made any money for year. His company has run behind and he thinks that is the experience of all California dairymen The causes are the high price of feed which is about the same there as here and the low price of dairy products.
 But this situation, said Mir. Guiber- son, will not always last and he thinks It would be a mistake to retire from the business on account of a lean year One year with another it will be profit able, and means are being taken in the san Joaquin valley to make it profit. able. The thing needed is organization There has been a state dairy associa- ton there of which Mir. Guiberson was the head. The association is now m. dergoing reorganization for the hand. ling and marketing of dairy products. Tor the elimination of the profits of the middleman.
 Need of Organization
 Every great industry in the state has been organized in this manner. tht citrus. the deciduous fruit the bean the walnut and the raisin industries Illustrating the results of organization MT. Gulberson cited the raisin industry Before the organization growers re. ceiVed 212 cents a pound for raisin, Whlch a little later were sold at retai TOT l5 cents. The growers were heln. less Tor the buyers were combined.
 An association was then formed anf the crop was handled by it. A nric, or Az cents was fixed by the associa ton and once it rose to cents A result was that the grower couIe make money and another result wa, mat consumers paid less for raisin, ulaii peIore Retail merchants wer,