Arizona republican., 1920-05-03

board of education.
 Henry C. Niemann of H. C. Niemann 6 Go.
 Samuel C. Osborn of the Samuel c, Osborn Manufacturing company
 w. c. F.. Peirce of the Chicago Tele- phone company.
 Percival B. Palmer. Jr., of Percival B. Palmer & Co.
 W. s. Powers of Wilson Brothers.
 David A. Moves of Moves & Jackson,
 W. w. Reid, leather manufacturer.
 Allen Ross of D. B. Fisk & Co.
 Prof. John 4. Scott of Northwestern university.
 II. M. smith of Underwood & Un- derwood.
 Wallace C. Smith of the Chicago American.
 NJ. SchoenthaI of the Morris Woolf Silk company.
 L. Nj. Stone of George c. Marshall, Inc.
 J. H. Walden of the Walden Type setting company.
 Horace Wells of the Travellers 1n- surance company.
 And, from the Chicago Association of Commerce headquarters, George M- Spangler, tour director; H. H. Carver, foreign trades commissioner; Spear man Lewis, press representative, and Fred Nickla, stenographer.
 Chicago Visited Phoenix in 1914 Wednesdays visit will not be the first time Chicago has called on Phoe- nix, however. Six years ago Chicago visited Phoenix, and at that time Phoe- nix was doing big things and took pride in showing them to Chicago. Chicago went away pleased with what it had seen and several of the far seeing Chicagoans predicted develop ments for Phoenix and the Salt River valley the proportions of which ap peared visionary to many who listened. Phoenix, however, in six years has made more than good. The Chicago people were thinking in decades in stead of years. Next Wednesday 90 capitalists are coming in special train to see if it is all true, and Phoenix is going to show them.
 Phoenix, which thinks in days rather than years of decades. has moved along so rapidly that it has barely been able to keep a record of it's progress. The chamber of commerce, however, has managed somehow to collect the facts and records of growth, while it kept both ears to the ground in an eff fort to get advance information on what was going to happen next. The Saturday looked back in it's records to 1914 to see how the town stood and found figures which will astonish perhaps some of the most seeing Chicagoans. Here are some of the things the chamber found:
 Number of farmers in 1914 was 3O34 md 65SS now, or more than double.
 In 1914 there were about 163,0OO acres in the Salt River project under irrigation and cultivation. Today the project comprises 205.O00 acres. Other projects and desert reclamation has -aised the total irrigated area to more han 300, 900 acres.
 In 1914 the assessed valuation of Maricopa county was S66,962.77O. In 919, the last year of record, the as- ;essed valuation was 100,650,667.
 In 1914 building permits of Phoe- liX amounted to s767,521, and to 3D. 'S0,00S for the year ending January l, 920
 The postal business of Phoenix mounted to s105,S25 in 1914 and s225,- 100 for the year ending January l, 920
 Phoenix bank deposits March 4, s14, were s7.o6s.551. The last call howed bank deposits for Phoenix to ,e ,026.
 All banks in the county had on Iarch 4, 1914, deposits amounting to S, S,422457. The last call of record howed these banks to have s2s, ,e43,991
 The assessed valuation of Phoenix n 1914 was s24,111,600. For the fiscal ear 1919-1920 this valuation is $33,- 46.695. Per capita of bonded debt of Phoe- ix has decreased in six years from B to S5O.90, due to growth Tn 1914 his debt was $1,223,00o and in 1919-20 is s2.593,000. In 1914 the population -a e % 600 Tho r,op1r1ati0p at precc,,f