The Arizona copper camp., 1919-05-31

poor year. Two tons of ensilage are
equal to one ton of hay. Cattlemen
of the northeast part of the state last
Winter paid fifty and seventy-five dol
lars a ton for alfalfa hay to keep their
stock alive, and some of them did not
succeed because they could not trans
| port the hay to the range on account
of the snow and the conditions of the
roads. Some, whose business have
been wiped out and whose life's saw
ings are gone, and whose entire life
course and that of their families have
been changed because of disastrous
losses last winter, would have given
a hundred dollars toL for ensiIage if
they could have had it right where
| they wanted it-on the range The
me is not far distant when dry farm
| ing will double the carrying capacity
of the stock ranges of this state.
GuayuIe and Yucca
"And this is not ALL We will come
farthe" down the mountain slopes to
the desert and hear that it is worth
less from an agricultural point of
view. 1t may be so, yet in Kingman
there are some one hundred people
working for factory that is making
fiber out OF yucca. Another plant is
about to start at Tucson. At Cont
| mental several hundred thousand dol
iars has. been invested in the growing
OF glasyule for rubber. Guayule grows
all over the State of Arizona at GER
oain attitudes. So does The yucca
plant. The cultivation of guayule at
continental has developed wonder
fully improved plant over the wild
plant and undoubtedly cultivation will
develop a far superior yucca plant to
the wild plant. A certain kind of yuc-
ca plant has been developed into an
emergency feed for starving cattle.
Inc last two winters large numbers
OF stockmen have gathered this plant
ana chopped it and fed It to their
stock which otherwise would have
oled on the range. 1t is a fair feed
alone, but supplemented with a little
on cake, cattle will do splendidly on
| /. So. the desert is not altogether
hopeless. It may yet possess one of
Arlzonas greatest agricultural assets.
i nave eaten the English walnut
grown upon tree which had been
grated upon the native Arizona black
walnut. In Ramsey canyon IN Cocbise
and at Oak creek in Coconino these
mats We of an exceptionally delic ate
liaVor. have seen cherries, plums,
dprlcots, apples and peaches grow
ing on trees that had not received
any irrigation water and not more
than hfteen inches of rainfall. When
Arlzona's population reaches a million.
nuts and fruit grown without irriga.
tlon will receive more attention.
Plenty of Timber
III agriculture in Arizona will not
produce million population, Arizona's
TIMBER resources will help along. At
Cooley's, 73 miles south of Holbrook.
an immense three band sawmilI is
nearing completion This one mill
will nearly double the output of Ari-
zona. The Apache railroad has been
finished into Cooley's and trains are
now running over it. The lumber that
is sawed is not the only product of
the forests that is possible. Annually
there is a tremendous waste of mater.
lals in the form of limbs and tops and
sawdust and bark. Efforts have been
made to utilize this waste in some
way heretofore, but without success.
Anyone hoping to be a benefactor of
the state has splendid opportunity
with this problem 1t will be solved
just as certain as other efforts have
converted waste into by-products in
other industries in the past. If Ari-
zona conserves its forests properly, it
will have sawmills always.
Coal Enouqh~for u. S.
IF these are not enough to support
million populationfi then there is the
coal. Many people do not know that
Arizona has large coal deposits. Yet
is has been stated by one coal mine
owner that Arizona had coal enough
to supply the United States for the
next five years. I have seen two coal
measures and have samples from one
of them.
''While standing on bed of coal
on top of the Mogollon mountains, I
saw things again. For instance, q
producer gas plant located right at
the coal bed, generating from thirty
thousand to two hundred thou
sand electric horse power and
within reach, by transmission lines, Of
every consumer of power in the state.
In this state there are unlimited de-