davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Arizona republican., 1919-02-20
ADVENT IF COTTON ADDS PROSPERITY
 ID BANKS IF MESA

There is no better business barome- ter than the banks of town or city, and particularly does this statement apply to the small town where all the business and agricultural develop ments cluster around the banking in stitutions. The banks of Mesa show by the increased volume of their busi- ness for the past two years, the bene- flcial results of the valley turning so large a portion of it's acreage to the production of cotton.
 In January, 1917, the Mesa City hank, (since then changed to the First National Bank of Mesa) showed total deposits to the amount of s4S0.000 and total resources S610000 In January, 1919, a space of two years, the banks business had grown 10 total deposits of SS90,O00 and total resources of SI.- 0l5,000,
 The Salt River Valley bank. Mesa s younger institution, showed for Janu- ary 1917, deposits, S262.57407. and re- sources. $304,17012. For January, 1919. deposits, S644,239.30; resources. $729.- = 59427
 Such remarkable doubling up of business within SO short a space Of ! NNh'f 0tAAtAdl l4N ilultdleS boom town Of some sort, but the plain truth of the matter Is that the increase of business 1 has come from the soil of Mesas con l tguous territory. Old King Cotton l has touched with his hand of power. ] the acreage the stores. the property values, the banks and every kindred iu- i dustry of the valley, and the roseate ! blossoms of substantial prosperity bear proof Of the magic of his might.
 Cashier Walters Of the First Nation al Bank, said in talking over the situa ton: While our banks have shown such splendid increase in deposits and | resources. yet the volume at first sight does not seem to be commensurate, with the amount of ~oney received in this section through the sale of cotton but to one who knows the past condi- ton of the farmers the matter is plain Y Five years ago, l had occasion 10 eo into the question of the mortgages covering the farms surrounding Mesa and found that very few of the farmers
 were reducing their mortgages Nov
 the owners of these lands have beer
 paying off these mortgages, and tn,
 proportion of incumbered ranches i,
 the steadily decreasing One of thu
 hardest things to place now is a loai
Arizona republican., 1919-02-20
MUCH DEVELOPMENT
 OF PIMA WAS MADE
 AT SACATON STATION

American Long Staple cotton was developed and brought to its present stage of perfection at the Co-opera- tive Testing Garden. of the United States department of agriculture. To- cated on the Indian reservation at Sac aton, Ariz. This was formerly under the supervision of Mr. E. w. Hudson. and now is supervised by MT. $. H.
 Hastings, who contributes the follow ! ing valuable information:
 The experimental station at Sacaton is closely associated with the success ot. the American Egyptian cotton in- | dustry. While the growing of this cot
 ton was first started at the experimen-
 tai station then located at Yuma, Ariz. since transferred to Bard. Calif., yet the more important problems have been l solved at Sacaton.
 The breeding work under the direct l charge of MT. T. H. Kearney. who in- ! troduced the Pima variety. now the ! standard. was largely done at Sacaton. l Mr. F. W. Hudson, who was superin- l tendent of the station up to 1916. solved many of the cultural problems and later helped the farmers of the Salt | River valley in getting started with this new crop.
 Since the adoption of the Pima va
 riety throughout the southwest and the
 placing of the industry on firm foot
 ing the work at Sacaton has not by
 any means been arrested. While it is
 generally recognized that the Pima
 variety is equal to if not sunerior to
 any variety now grown in Egypt yet
 there is still possibilities for improve
 ment and breeding and selection is still being continued. In addition roguing of one field to maintain a pure seed sup ply is being done in cooperation with the Tempe cotton exchange
 Much interesting and valuable in- formation is being obtained regarding the time of planting and spacing ex- periments of this crop. It has beer found in experiments conducted the
 last two years that good yields of cot ton can be obtained by planting as lat,
 as the latter part of April. A bale tC
 acre has been harvested from planting, made the latter part of April. Reas- enable early planting, however, is rec commended, but good yields can be oh taIned from much later plantings if thu | crop is properly handled.
 Extensive experiments during tn
 past season have been conducted in thu spacing of the plants both in the rov | and between the row. In the row tn, spacings varied from to 24 inche Il and between the rows from two an, one-half feet to six and one-half feet At Sacaton it was found that tn ; highest yieid-waS obtained frnrns--th
Arizona republican., 1919-02-20
GILBERT T0 HAVE
 TWO COTTON GINS
 FUR NEXT SEASON

That Gilbert has arrived in So far as the cotton industry is concerned IS clearly demonstrated by the fact that two gins will be constructed this year in the district and will begin ginning operations next season. One Of these gins is the new cooperative gin to De erected by the Gilbert merchants, ana tthe other is the one to be erected by the Attaway- Phelps company which IS already operating q successful gin al Mesa.
 Machinery for the new AttaWay- Phelps gin has already been ordered. This new gin will be almost an exact duplicate of the one now operating in Mesa, and will be equipped with the most improved type of modern ginning machinery to be obtained. It will be housed in a substantial, modern build ing, made as thoroughly fireproof as possible. Information regardiSg the number of gin stands to be installed is not as yet available. but doubtless enough will be put in to adequately care for the cotton coming from the Gilbert district.
 That the Attaway- Phelps company does what it sets out to do, and that Gilbert can count upon an efficient new gin next season is evidenced by the fact that when this company decided Mesa needed a third gin, they ordered. l right in the middle of the ginning sea i son, a 10-stand gin directed that the i machinery be sent by express. paid out l $l,000 express charges and in an in | credibly short while were turning out | bale after bale of cotton.
 The installation of two gins in the ] Gilbert district indicated a great ] hn fl,t in
 section. Six years ago cotton first be- came of commercial interest in this district. when it was sold at six cents a pound At this time the most im- portant growers of the crop were Tom Schultz NIT. Freestone. MT. Wilbur and Mir. Lyons. Naturally the crop har-
 vested that year was not very large
 but it was sufficient to instill into the minds of the growers of that time the
 idea lat there were big possibilities in
 store for cotton. As d result more cot
 ton was planted the next year which
 met with still greater success. and SC
 it has been. year after year, until this
 season, when something over 1000
 bales were produced.
 This year there were no cotton mort
 gages up to the time of picking accord
 ing to Mir. Skinner the banker at Gil
 bert. Mr. Skinner furthermore saiC
 that there were about 200 acres imme
 diately adjoining the toWnsite which
 this season had been devoted to the
 growing of cotton, and that this yea
 there had been big money in the cot
 ton game for Gilbert.
 , In this district the average yield 0 cotton per acre was three fourths of ; } bale, although many growers obtaine, l more than a bale to the acre. Cottol
 was very successful in this district thi ! season and has added materially to tn business and wealth of Gilbert. bring
 ing as it did, eight new substantia
 business buildings to the town withi the last year and now bringing in tw fully equipped gins. with their attend | ant business.
Arizona republican., 1919-02-20
SOuthWeSt Cotton Co. Gins In Six TOWnS Gin More Than
 HaT Of The Valleys Cotton

conveniences which characterize d modern, up to date business house at this time. The rooms are spacious and airy and on the whole conveniently ar ranged Cool in summer and provided with adequate facilities to insure warmth in winter. the office building offers an ideal executive center for the Southwest Cotton company.
 Springing up as the need for them was felt, the Southwest Cotton com pany at Phoenix has a highly special ized machine shop for the repair of gfnuing machinery, a garage. looking after the upkeep of the employees cars and a large number Of shelter gar ages for the convenience of it's office men. as well as a completely equipped chasing department
 In Phoenix the Southwest Cotton company is operating a big 20-stand gin with a daily capacity of 36 bales Al first only a l0-stand gin was used but the demand for ginning facilities in this district proved so insistent that the present gin was installed Up to February 10 this gin handled 343S bales Of cotton. while 4.500 bales is tho figure expected to be reached before the close of the ginning season. As soon as the planters have bought then seed and an estimate can be made oi the probable acreage next year. tho Southwest Cotton company intends tC enlarge their gins sufficiently in pro portion to adequately care for gin ming needs
 At Tempe the company is operating 10-stand gin with a daily capacity O
 IS bales. Last season the amount O cotton ginned by this gin was 2,30i
 bales, while this season it is estimated l 5000 bales will be handled At Mesa . 20-stand gin is being operated with { | capacity of 36 bales. This is the frs year this gin has been operating bu up to February 10. 3,004 bales hay, been handled. At Glendale the South west Cotton company is now also oper ' ating n 2O-stand gin Al first q 10
Arizona republican., 1919-02-20

Operating % Of the goo gin stands .n the valley and ginning something over half Of the entire production Of cotton for the Salt River Valley the Southwest Cotton company is the bis % syst and hest-established ginning con- ceru in the southwest. Al present this concern has gins in Phoenix. Mesa, Glendale, Tempe. Chandler and Tolle- son. and added gins and increase in equipment Is promised each cotton growing district as the increased acre age warrants.
 Each gin of the compan is electri- l1lly operated and equipped with the latest improved type of machines. Each unit consists or gin building proper. seed house. seed cotton storage houses, an office and bale yard The plants re CentN erected have been made as near lv fire proof as possible. The seed cot D ion storage houses are octagonal in shape and consist of fifteen bins, each bin having practical capacity of 5000 pounds or seed cotton or about fouI bales Of lint The storage houses con structed this summer have been built uf hollow He plastered inside and out. as safeguard against fire. The wood - cu store house erected last summer have been painted with fire retardent paint offering the best Of protection under the circumstance
 The main office of the Southwest cotton company is at Phoenix at Sew enth and Grant streets, where @ large two-story brick building offers desl, room to the employees. Many features make this office building especially de- sirable for the needs Of the Southwest COtton company. First of all 1t is To- cated right beside the big gO-staud gin which the company operates here and secondly it is set in the midst oi spacioals grounds which allow enlarge monts to be made Co the present build ing. or new buildings to be erected as the needs of the company may dictate. while in itself the office building i. equipped with all the most improved
Arizona republican., 1919-02-20

on real estate, because the farmers do not need to cucumber their lands. 1.-The mortgage money" continued MT. Walt CTS, went back east to pay off loans made by eastern men, but TOW they are in the main paid off and while the farmer may not be carrying a heavy bank balance, he is -utting his money back into improvements on his farm. 7
 The banks of Mesa, conseryaucelyr yet sufficiently, have aided the farm CTS in carrying their crops to maturity. Last year they financed large num- Der of growers, thus enabling them to go through the long growing season, which after all is the one drawback to the raising of cotton, but which, in the history of the industry in the val ley, has amply recompensed the wait ing
Arizona republican., 1919-02-20

plant spaced four inches in the row and inc rows two and one-half feet apart. over 5000 pounds of seed cotton to the acre was harvested from this planting. However, it is doubtful If this close spacing, especially between the rows. can be recommended owing to cultural difficulties, This eXperi- ment was repeated in three other places located in the valley and the
Arizona republican., 1919-02-20

observed that many farmers through the valley seriously reduce their yields by over irrgating.
 The results of the experiments that have been conducted at Sacaton are being prepared for publication and this publication which will appear shortly will take up phases of the more prac- tical side of Egyptian cotton growing in this section.
Arizona republican., 1919-02-20

results indicated the distances between the rows should be between three and one half and four and one-half feet; and the distance between the plants in the row should be between and IA inches. Very low yields were obtained from the plats where the plants were thinned to 20 and A inches apart,
 Much attention is also being given to the irrigation of cotton. It has been
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20
THE PRODUCE DEAL ERS.
ROB THE CONSUMER )
Gary Merchant Is Surprised at
Much Lower Prices in
st. Paul.

A recent number of Metcalfe IS Steel
Plant News contained very illum-
mating article on differences in gar
den truck prices in St. Paul as COM
pared with Duluth, viz:
Sound, ripe tomatoes, per bushel. soc
Cucumbers, per bushel .......... .45c
Cabbage, per bushel. $50
Onions, per 100-lb. sack. 1925
No, dear reader, this list was not
prepared by the Duluth federal I'M
fair food price committee, for in Du-
luth tomatoes sell this week at Is
cents for the smallest pony basket
manufactured; cents each is the price
for homegrown cucumbers, and the re-
tailers charge 10 cents per pound fol-
cabbage.
Mr.. Skoboloff, the local shoe re-
pairer, went to st. Paul this week to
make purchases of machinery and
leather stock. While there he said
that just for curiosity he visited the
public market and found produce priced
and sold as quoted at the head Of this
item. "And the tomatoes" he com.
mented, "were fit to grace the table
OI JIG preSluenC, IlHe, large, rlpo anu
perfectly sound. The cabbage baskets
contained eight heads each, every cab
bage sound and good, each weighing
about to 81 pounds. To say that !
was surprised is to put it mildly"
Mr.. Skoboloff said he also purchased
leather and supplies amounting to
about $1,000 for $3.50 less than he
would be compelled to pay to Duluth
wholesale dealers. For instance the
difference in the price Of rubber heels
is Is cents per dozen in favor Of st.
Paul. He said that as a result of this
visit his eyes were opened to the fact
that he had been paying altogether
too much to Duluth jobbers for his
goods and that in future he was going
to deal with the Twin City houses as
much as possible.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20
MADE HOWL
ABOUT TWO SOLDIERS
Two Duluth Vendors Undersell
Two HarbOrs Merchants
At Recent Blowout.

One Mentally and a chum, both for,
mer soldiers, went to Two Harbors on
Welcome Home day a week ago. They
had planned to sell confetti and other
articles incident to big celebration.
What was their surprise when one
Friedman, a big toad in a small puddle,
put up q big howl about the two men
who wore Uncle Sans uniform sell
ing without a license.
When the boys asked for a permit,
it was refused and heavy license fee
demanded of them, under penalty of
going to Jail if they persisted in sell
ing.
Icy Friedman waved his hands and
howled wildly, even calling on Supt.
Owen, the Big Noise in Two Harbors,
to protect the home merchants against
a couple of poor soldiers from Duluth.
You see, gentle reader, that the boys
were selling articles for ten cents that
Friedman sold for Is cents. Naturally,
he could not compete. He did not in
tend to compete, either, if the soldier
boys can be credited. Icy Friedman
wanted it all.
These same soldier boys declare that
returned soldiers were charged $1.00
to see the ball game, just the same as
civilians were charged. As to that,
the Rip-saw has no other evidence but,
if true, it was not in line with doings
in other cities on similar occasions.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20
THE CORNER eROCERS
RAP EARLY CLOSING
Organization Being Formed to
Knock Out the New
Ordinance.

Despite John E. Samuelson's spon-
sorship Of the new early closing ordi-
nance, the small merchants resent it
and will undertake to knock it out in
the courts,
Starting Tuesday evening, scores Of
"corner groceries," were open despite
the Samuelson ruling that they must
close at 6 O'Clock.
A call for an "association of cor
ner groceries," was spread to the far
corners Of Duluth last Tuesday to
make an organized effort to obtain
amendment or repeal Of the ordinance.
A meeting Of owners was set for Fri.
day night in Rowley hall, 112 West
First street.
The sponsors Of the new association
are F. A. Rich, POL West First street;
Samuel Simon, ZOE East Second street,
and J. Crystal, 6 West First street.
"There are between 200 and $50
corner groceries in Duluth" said
Mr.. Rich. "By organizing we can get
an amendment or repeal Of the ordi.
nance closing our stores at 6 o'clock.
"That ordinance will put us out of
business. It means the big fish eating
the little ones. It is important for us
to be able to sell at all hours. When
people have company Unexpectedly, if
they cant depend on the Corner gro
cery' the company often must 60 hun.
0fVO
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20

The farmer who received that
worthless stuff finally used q bale to
bed down the family pig. The poor
pig acquired some eye disease from the
hay and eventually went wholly blind.
One day some sort Of devil entered
the body Of that hog and it bolted
right through the side Of one Of those
blotting paper shacks issued by the.
Relief commission. The pig made and
left an opening in the insulite that
looks like a hole made in q Belgian
church by 17-inch German shell.
.Adolph Ylen adds some interesting
estimony as to forest fire experiences,
relief and doings of the hay depart.
ment Of Little Eva's armory head
quarters.
Mr.. Ylen put in the Saturday Of the
fires with Alex Ylinen. They worked
to their limit Of endurance in Sec. 81,
$3.50. The flames mounted high and
raced rapidly across the country.
There was all sorts Of trash and. had
those two brave men not stopped that
particular blaze it would have gone
many more miles and destroyed much
additional property. Incidentally, Mr..
Ylen was ruptured in his fight against
the flames.
That fire burned eight tons Of hay
for Mr.. Ylen and the Red Cross prom.
ised him hay to replace his loss. but
spared him only two tons and that was
so poor that his animals could not eat
1t. 1t is safe to say that Mr.. Ylen
would take great pleasure in making
the hay dealer eat that worthless stuff.
unloaded onto the Relief commission
at an ungodly price.
Mr.. Ylen, who lives near Wright.
Carlton Co., Mimi, is in very humble
circumstances and has a family of
nine little children. Instead Of rid.
ing around in $1,000 car and giving
some woody poodle the air, he is com.
PEELED to scratch hard to feed those
many mouths and to cover those many
little backs, to say nothing of finding
hay for the farm animals. As it was.
Mr.. Ylen was forced to mortgage his
land for 500 with which to buy hay
and keep his stock alive, one Of his
real assets.
Mr.. Ylen also worked night and day
for two weeks at fighting the fires
and his work must have saved much
valuable property. He never received
dollar for what he terms his "pay.
less work" and, during those two
weeks, his time and efforts were sad.
ly needed by his wife and nine chill
dren.
This little story shows what the
we'll dressed and well-fed Little Eva
and the state Relief commission did
and did not do for Adolph Ylen and
his nine children. who suffered so sad.
ly in the October forest fires.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-09-20
MOOSE LAKE MEETING
WAS VERY INTERESTING
Fire Sufferers Association
Makes Excellent Headway
in Carlton County.

Last Sunday, Sept. IA, the Northern
Minnesota Fire Sufferers Association
sponsored a meeting at Moose Lake
by the fire victims Of that region.
The opera house was comfortably
filled with farmers and residents Of
Moose Lake. Phil. Wagner spoke on
"The Fire Relief that Was a Fizzle. -
He hammered home facts within his
own experience as fire victim who
had business relations with the Relief
committee The speaker gave concrete
instances where many who were worthy
and entitled to relief got a minimum
Of consideration, while those who lost
little or nothing received most bounti-
fully.
John L. Morrison, editor of the Rip
saw, spoke briefly. He told the fire
victims that if they could show that
railroad corporations, lumber barons OF
even private individuals were respon-
sible for fires, then they had per-
feet legal right to bring damage suits.
He also showed what a powerful agen.
cy real cooperation is and what can
be, accomplished with It.
oooISe Ccnlecnt, preSluent OF the %.
ISOLATION, spoke on the objects and
purposes Of the association that has
been so generally Joined by the fire
victims.
Victor Gran, a prominent lawyer Of
Duluth, spoke in the Finnish language
to those Of that nativity who were not
fully familiar with English. He also
met q large number Of old acquaint-
ances who were present from different
neighborhoods.
A goodly number Of fire victims IN
that region Joined the association ct
a previous meeting. Some Of the most
prominent men who suffered loss IN
and around Moose Lake became w..a.
bers at the last meeting The rImbsr
will be greatly increased. -