The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1921-08-05

SAT- RIVER irrigation scheme OF htclh
nation, all before we get TO these
Irrigated districts we find farmers
trying TO start a project little farth-
er cut, for remember all OF this
country is desert wnen the land is
not irrigated. At Mesa the people are
raising cotton. maize, alfalfa, wheat,
barley and oats. Also melons. The
cotton / saw was all too thick. IL
was two feet high 3 or boles 10
the stalk. The Roosevelt Lake has
been nearly dry and the crops all
late. No gardens Is the rule but eX-
ceptions appear occasionally and they
show they could be raised, but the
farmers are canned goods crazy. They
do not raise gardens, but depend
on the japanese around Phoenix and
Los Angeles.
We next pass Tempe, this is about
90 miles west of Mesa, there is the
great dairying district, here Is put
up veribest and Lilly brand OF milk.
3 II Is Just few miles into Phoenix.
the Capital This entire city is very
beautiful and the capital grounds are
the prettiest have ever seen. There
are many very fine houses OF multi
lmillionaires from the mines.
The farmers here are hard hit.
They planted To cotton last year.
many of them blowing up their alfal-
IA 70 do so and cotton fell below the
cost then Of picking and they had no
feed and they necessarily suffered
just like they do in Texas who put
all their energies in cotton alone
The surest road to success here is
carrying and IL is no sinecure. The
canning plant controls the price OF
milk and let me jolt YOU a little they
get 1919 cents for fresh sweet milk
per gallon. Many readers may think
this too low. but they seem 10 pros
per under it and let me tell you
further they do this on land that they
pay $40 per acre rent and let me
further tell you this is on Bermuda
pasture. In this locality Bermuda
Sc ds and it dominates all the valley.
Ia i. 20 l.
wind and on the water and through
the ground.
The cotton grower has to eternally
noe ana plow; it is the same with
any other crop except alfalfa and
johnson grass, which is grown also.
alfalfa being the leading crop OF the
valley But Bermuda grass does not
materially bother wheat. oats and
barley and they grow sufficient wheat
10 supply local needs The wheat Is
plump and fine looking and looks
like the May wheat We used to grow
in Texas. Through certain loc@ ities
they grow cantelopes and watermel-
ons. Cantelopes at tn patch sell for
. To I cents q piece. by the crate OF
y. and many carloads go east, some
TO Texas. which raisesi much better
favored fruit The waterm-lons do
not class with West Teas. They are
as rule smaller and not so crisp
and sweet Fruits of all varieties from
s.w'-frupical mp grow and occasional
iy won see som fine orchards, but
very few gardens. ! cannot for the
l'e of me- ssr why they negl"ct this
most Important part o. any farm. ]
imaaius the farmers tables arr poor
ly supplied The baue of the valley
thoa.H is the absent owner When
owners ,F. at the place yoU most
beautiful homes but wh.r. the rent
er lives &c is often not only nsllacted
hut abused Land is valued from $50
tu $500 per gcr generally ranges
around TWO hundred. The land owner
pays about 50 TO - for wat .r When
DE- let's IT,
This district is under the Recia-
nation scheme Of the Roosevelt dam
auo s. about ~ miles wide and some
thm- over 700 Ions This great en-
einseriLs fat has mad Arizona
The dam makes available
an the water OF the river down e.
this point Tor the thirsty land by
gravity aad adds thousands of acr-s
Of land TO the farm on the higher
lands through cheap electric power,
the water is pumped TO the
surface.
wish every Texan could see this
.rn th.n CtuIu N aunlv 10 ~ bic