Arizona republican., 1920-06-18
CANT TALOUPE GROWERS IF SOUTHS|DE LOOk
 FUR BANNER SEASON

MESA, June 1S.-With market con ultlons the best in some years and the crop here good, though in some in- stances a little late, growers ot canta- aoupeS in the Mesa and Gilbert dis lrlct can look for banner year, accord ms to K. l.. Mumford, field mana ger Tor the s. A. Gerard comrany, who returned Wednesday from the Imperial valley. where he superintended the shipping of the bulk of the crop there.
 In speaking of the shipping in Im- perial, MT. Mumford stated that the crop there was unusually light due to the heavy winds and cold of late spring but that the higher prices being paid for cantaloupes this season well coun- terbalanced the loss otherwise. The peak of the shipping season in Cali fornia was over a week or more ago end by the. time the local melons go On the market shipping from Imperial will be practically completed, 1t IS thought
 Cantaloupes have commanded top notch pices so far this season, and the prediction is freely made that grow CTS with an average crop here will clear as much as S2.5O or s a crate. Having rnuch 10 do with the increased market price is the fact that the cantaloupe acreage in Arizona has given way from 1000 acres last season to but 5000 this year. making the produce that will go On the market much more in demand
 Of the 5000 acres in cantaloupeS in Arizona, the Gerard company has con- tracted for about 500 acres in Mesa and 200 acres in Gilbert. Shipping points have already been established at both places and everything will be in readiness 10 handle the shipments when the first melons are picked. The first melons will be on the market by the first of July, and shipping will be well under way within three or four Gays after it is thought.
 Mud Hole Is Fixed
 Tn their detour from the end Of the highway four miles west of Mesa around the section south to Tempe, autoists have this week encountered one of the meanest of mud holes, one that for its last 24 hours was veritabie sstalling point for practicafiy everything that tried to get through. Unable to drain off water remained since Sunday over a small stretch of the south road, and Wednesday the hole reached a point where nothing could get through it. Traffic continued to stall there un- til yesterday forenoon, when loads Of rock were dumped in and the hole finally filled.
 Majestic Movies
 White Washed Walls" featuring William Desmond, will be seen at the Majestic today together with the last chapter of 'sThe Adventures of Ruth, , the serial picture featuring Ruth Ro- land. A Pathe News film is also on the program.
 Mesa Shriners Off
 As members of the patrol of Fl Zari- bah Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Guy F. Rice A. B. Reed and George D. Gates left yesterday afternoon and will ne absent fir the next ten days in att tendance at the Shriners convention in Portland. Oregon Dr. R. F. Palmer, who left last week for the coast, will ioin the party there and continue on with IT to the scene of the festivities Discuss Cotton Marketing
 The question of how to get the high est prices for cotton is to be subject of discussion when cotton growers oi this district gather at the city hall Sat- urday evenin. Tine meeting is to be held under the auspices of the Ameri- can Cotton association and an effort