Arizona republican., 1919-06-25
UNTOLD BENEFIT
 TO THIS VALLEY FROM NEW MILLS
In Preparation Phoenix Cot ton Oil Go. Is Absorbed by Southwest Cotton Go. and Is Enlarged Many Times

What the big cotton mill and tire factory to be built at Los Angeles will mean to the Salt River valley was in part revealed last night in a state ment made to a Republican represen- tative by Edward F. Parker, vice presi dent and general manager of the Southwest Cotton company and it's al lied interests. all subsidiary to the big Goodyear Rubber company.
 What the building of the s20, ,00O 900 tire factory in Los Angeles may mean to the Salt River valley is too big a subject to be covered in a brief state ment," said MT. ParAer. Right now the Goodyear factories have a capacity for using long staple cotton in excess of the entire production of the Salt River valley and the establishment of the Los Angeles factories will largely increase this capacity as our business increases. The fabric factory will cost S6,000.000 alone, the tire factory S20,- 00G,00 and the very first year the tire factory alone will produce tires to the value of $15,000O00
 Planned for Five Years Cotton plants that are now bloom ing in this valley will yield cotton that will be incorporated in tires in the Los Angeles factory that will be traversing the roads of Arizona California, the west and the Orient before another crop is planted.
 "This plant in Los Angeles has been contemplated for the past five years, with the intention of building it as soon as the business warranted it, and that point has now been reached.
 "The cotton will be produced here, hn fg big Goodyear Rubber plantation on the island of Sumatra, which will be ship ped to Los Angeles across the Pacific and will meet and be worked up to- gether in Los Angeles It is possible that the rubber will come to Los An geles direct by means of the new line rom that port to the Orient.
 The Goodyear company has here in Arizona 26,000 acres of land, of which 5000 acres is already in cotton, and 5000 is in alfalfa, preparing to produce cotton. We came into the field to grow it for two reasons, to insure a supply and because we believe Salt River valley Pima cotton is the best long staple in the world.
 Erect Two More Gins
 "The company has purchased the Phoenix Cotton Oil company plant, with its present capacity of three presses, and will immediately double it by put ting in three more presses, making it's capacity 16,00O tons of cotton seed per season.
 '"The company will erect another To- stand gin at Goodyear, and one of the same size at Gilbert, making a total for the Southwest Cotton company of 120 stands with a capacity of 25,00O bales per year. Both the enlarged cot ton oil mill and the new gin stands will be ready for operation in September when the cotton picking season opens
 We will be able to care for a great many of our customers and clients be- sides caring for our own. We have 5000 acres in alfalfa. preparing the soil to grow cotton. The alfalfa produced will feed 4,O00 head of cattle and 10000 head of sheep this year. We are also starting to produce hogs at the Good year ranch. Narrowing houses and pens are already built and we have imported from the east the highest grade of red Duroc Jersey swine, and expect next year to have 5000 head of hogs.
 History of Industry
 ''The history of the rubber industry. that makes possible the enormous use
 
 quent prosperity of this section is a long story said Mir. Parker in a rerni- niscent vein, "and the history of the Goodyear company in itself is marvel ous.
 Twenty two years ago F. A. Sieber- ling. president of the Goodyear com pany, bought broken down paper box factory and turned it into a small fac tory for producing bicycle and carriage tires. The total investment was less than s40,000. Today the company is worth more than $10O, 0,0O0. It em- ploys 21,000 men at the Akron plant. has big cotton mill at Goodyear Con necticut; a 25,000-acre rubber planta,- ton in Sumatra; a factory at Toronto Canada; cotton plantations here, with gins and oil mills and a cotton pur- chasing department and now they are building this big plant at Los Angeles
 When the Spaniards came to Mexico with Cortez they found the natives making cotton cloth impervious to wa ter by the use of a sticky gum. Gen. turies later Scotchman took LID the