Weekly journal-miner., 1919-08-06

trained man who knows how to find the ready market. This has come successfully in many sections; we are still a little too remote for it nere but until it comes we can help things along by preparing our things for market as carefully as possible and trying to work in harmony with our local dealers.
 IA fair tr,al will prove that there is no prejudice or discrimination against home grown produce if that produce is as good quality as that which can be gotten elsewhere and packed as well for market. We must not expect fancy prices for poorer stuff put up badly-we would not pay it ourselves. Fortunately, as l have said, Yavapai has large outside market that does not call for fancy articles and packing, but at least our goods should always be clean, in good condition, and good of its kind. And it will pay us to watch the best methods and be ready to follow them at need. For tnis outside market where sales are mostly made in small quantities by the pound fancy pack ing is a waste of time and even the size of the boxes is of no concern, but city dealers want the standard size boxes and as closely as possible the standard methods of packing. This is perfectly reasonable for the number of pounds in well-packed standard containers varies little and the uniform appearance is very at tractive to customers, to say nothing of the fact that such packs ship bet ter with less loss.
 I saw in one store a box of home grown tomatoes; they were uneven in size and. color and of very ordinary quality, and were dumped loosely in common box. They would not sell readily at any price. In another store l saw boxes of California to- matoes that were going fast at l5c a pound They were graded as to size and color, were packed Ill standard boxes, and each tomato was wrapped in a square of soft paper. Near them were white onions and sweet potatoes packed evenly in boxes of the same size. They, too, were out-selling the things offered in less attractive shape
 That is why California stuff gets the cream of the market; milder climate helps tncm to produce things earlier
 than we can here and they have been
 obliged to develop packing to a fine
 art in order to get wide market We can take some lessons from them
 and be sure we will find our home dealers read to cooperate with us
 for stable prosperity to all comes
 when we can grow at home most ot
 the foodstuffs We nse.
 A Little Story of Man Who
 Didn't Believe Tn Banks.
 1 l heard it not long ago and it's toe
 good to keep. The little old lady
 told me right along with the story O
 now she came into Yavapai a brld' lin q white-topped wagon. Railroad:
 were not fashionable then, only ont
 reached the Pacific coast and tha
 didn't come near Arizona. WlheI | Prescott people took vacation the!
 went inside" by mail stage, or some
 times in an army ambulance with ; . guard of troops as far as Ehrenbur9
 or La Paz. Inside meant California and in that day 1t was said that al
 good Arizonans hoped to go to Lo
 Angeles when they died
 This young bride climbed out of tn, big wagon when it reached its jour ney's end and became a Yavapa rancnwoman. She made garden an' nilked her pet COW who had come Il behind the wagon and sold butter fo dollar a pound and eggs for dol lar a dozen, though her hens were al odd lot bought from a Mexican Wom an in Santa Fe.
 And she had saving mini,' tn kind that country women general
 have. She tucked away two bits . (which was the smallest coin currcn in Yavapai tnen), in small brow , Chinese ginger jar which they gay her once at the old-time B.-B. store where she sold her butter and eggs. The two bits was pretty lonesom at first because it was pretty har sledding on a dry ranch in those day but washing for the placer miner added a coin now and then. Sh 5 begged her husband to contribute a . least as mucn each month as hi chewing tobacco. cost; but that locke too small to be worth while and | truth he had mighty little to put i ! at best. She tried to argue with hn l for just two bits a month saved regu . larly but he always laughed and said n 'Whats the use-they aint nothln' t . save"
 r He didn't believe in banks anyway
 he mad grown tip hundreds of mile - from bank in a frontier settlemer 5 where nobody had any money excer e "dobe dollar" or "shinplaster, NT no