Arizona republican., 1919-01-01
CAN1kLOUPES
 IN NHO[E. WORLD HERE ARE BEST
From Small Start Industry
 In Salt River Valley Has
 Grown Until It Now Is One of Most Substantial

Cantaloupes grown in the Salt River alley are the best in the world.
 Within the past few years the canta loupo growing industry has sprung up i'll this valley, and is fast Incoming one of the main agricultural activities. Two kinds of the SuCCulCnt melons are grown ill this vicinity, the Rocky Ford and the Pink Meat The meat of the former is ot a yellow color. The meat of the latter is Of a red color from which it derives it's name, Pink Meat Both varieties are highly nriZed at the breakfast table. and nowhere are they grown more delicious than in this valley.
 Probably the greatest growing center is in the vicinity of Glendale, where many hundreds of acres are planted to cantaloupes each year. At Six Points, in the outlying farming lands near the state fairgrounds, is another great cen ter, where hundreds of carloads of can taloupes are grown each season. An other center is around Mesa where great quantities of the melons are raised annually
 B. Thin Here
 The cantaloupe industry is a big thing for the Salt River valley. It re- Quires a vast amount of planning anG planting in advance.
 In autumn, local railroad officials make arrangements for the storing up of ice to be used when the melons are shipped out in the hot weather. To this end the local ice plants store away a certain amount of ice each day dur ing the fall and winter, and when the harvest comes, have plenty of the re- frigerating material on hand for i'm mediate use in refrigerator cars, in which the cantalOupes are shipped.
 At the same time the representative . from the big eastern concerns contract ! for the crops of the farmers in the val ley. The farmers must begin at once tC prepare the land, and in many cases are financed by the contractors. When their melons are delivered at the load ing point, they often receive pert of the money due them upon delivery at the final destination
 In the end, the melon crop is har- vested in time for the planting of q crop of milo maize.
 U. s. Issues Bulletin
 The federal government, being vitaIly 1 interested in the cantaloupe industry aids the big contractors and farmers by issuing daily bulletin, telling where when, and in what quantities canta- ! loupeS are needed.
 The entire crop moves out in July and much outside labor is imported tC handle the hauling harvesting and ! shipping. The Arizona cantaloupes arc
 better than those "rown in the Imper- ! ial valley, which is another great can ! taloupe producing country, but are not l grown so extensively as yet. There are three big contracting com | panies who operate in the Salt River 1 valley, W. Goldsworthy, of the Ioca railroads, has prepared an outline oi ! the number of acres that will De ] planted this year and the number oi | cars shipped out of the valley last year 1 by these contractors.
 Some Large Shippers 1 Crutchfield and Wolfolk last veal l shipped 400 cars of cantaloupes iron Six Points and 800 from Glendale. Thej have contracted with valley farmers fol 1 700 acres at Six Points and 600 acres al 1 Glendale this season.
 l Weaver and company last veal
 shipped from Mesa, where they oper.
 ated at the time 400 cars of canta. l loupes. This season they have con tracted for 500 acres near Phoenix Amican Brothers and company whicl has never before operated in this vicin
 ity. has contracted for 300 acres of Ian,
 this season near Phoenix.