El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1921-01-05
LOW.
FARMERS TO
CHANGE CROPS
By G. A. MARTIN.
CONTINUED from page l.

lney thoughts IS cents a pound
and often above a dollar, with a bale
Welgfs5E 500 pounds.
But this year the yield viii not
average over 215 pounds to the acre,
they say, and the price is down be-
tween 30 and 30 cents a pound, with
no market at that price-at present.
Cotton men here say conditions are
as bad in the Mesilla and FL Paso
valleys, where the farmers failed 70
get as much as they expected for their
short staple crop. Besides. the worm
Il Ouble has developed around Fl Paso,
too. The outlook for King Cotton in
the west IS not as good as IL was
ear aEo-nowhere hereabOuts-
Even Sell Their Cattle.
Many farmers in the salt river val
ley disposed Of their dairy cattle when
they put their land into cotton and
now they viii have to buy them back
II they return to alfalfa growing
They had a thriving creamery here,
and a good market for their milk and
butter, but they sold out their cattle
Just as they ploughed up their or
chards. to put the land into cotton
They placed all their bets on the one
cron. Luck has gone against them
In the turn Of the wheel Of fortune IN
these reconstruction days following
the war They are not altogether
cownhearted although rather blue,
over the situation. and they are going
TO see what they can do raising other
crops next year and the next ana
In face OF all this the Arizonans
are no uikers. and the Marlcopa
county taxpayers have just voted
$4,000, 0oG worth Of bonds for good
roads The election carried By
Building Goes Forward.
Incidentally. the Elks Of Phoenix. Z
have just broken ground for the con-
struction Of a home to cost SA50,000
and the Shrlners are finishing
handsome auditorium on Washington I
street 10 cost $50. 900. to say nothing
of a new five-stOry hotel just being Z
built by J. W. Walker the new I
Heard block. seven stories tail. just /
completed. as a home for the ArizO- I
ma Republican, and offices Tor /
Dwight B. Heard. and other people I
who wish 20 rent them The OFFICES /
have all been leased for three-year I
terms. Much building is going on all /
over the city. both residences and /
business houses. and in the farming /
districts surrounding Phoenix re-
mains rather active as cattle cen I
ter and J. H Nations, Of Fl Paso, I
was here this week looking over the
field with a view TO buying some
Phoenix wants 20 repair the
Apache trail-the road from Globe TO 4
Southern Pacific can resume routing
passenEe that way, through Globe
and Phoenix and. although state en-
gineer Tom Maddox estimates the
cost at 100000, the Phoenicians are
willing TO bear their share OF the
expense They want the state to do
the work, Of course, since the Trail
Is a state highway and the Tran and
the dam are assets Of Arizona in
which the whole state shares
They are a bit sore" here toward
Tucson for its part in boosting the
Ajo automobile road, by which mo-
.orists going west from FL Paso TO
Tucson are sent westward from Tue
son to Yuma by way Of Ajo instead
lf down through Florence and PhOe-
nix. The recent Phoenix road bond
ssue viii be spent 10 put the roads
IN this county in good shape. in
eludlng. il Is said, Improvement OF
he Borderland automobile route west
81 here 10 the Yuma county line The
present dirt roads in Maricopa coun-
y get pretty bad when it rains and
lavement IS needed Already sub
itantial progress has been made IN
he county in concrete highway con
'tructiOn.
There is great interest here in the
ight Of Frank Soldering in his ef-
orts to save the Goodyear company
rom financial trouble. for he is vel
-noWn here as a result Of frequent
.isits to his cotton plantations in the
ALT river valley, and Phoenix likes
vim In this. the Phoenicians are In
inc with Wall street sentiment, as
eported by the telegraph.
Wall street 'Iinanciers express the
'elief that Seiberling. at the age OF
D. IS fighting tn battle Of his life,
he has always been a fight
e and has only won his successes IN
hard fight always This is by no
means his first battle
Soldering quickened Wall streets
ulse the other day when he arrived
ut OF the west to borrow $4,000. 900
and got It This just about tops o.
he individual borrowings for -
Soldering accomplished this iu the
ace Of a suit filed by a minority
tockholder to place his concern, the
Goodyear Tire and Rubber company
n the hands OF a receiver. The Good
ear, a s200.000.000 Institution, got
ause Of the six months slump in the
ubber industry.
On Friday Of this week, Soldering
Ipects 70 present a plan OF reor-
anization TO his stockholders at
-kron for a reorganization Of the
ompany- The company's financial
tatement shows assets totaling
l55,o76.62o- The company has bills
ayahle SETTLES. including esti-
lated taxes. Rubber and fabric ac-
aptances are listed ct S4.3ss6g0. Re
arTe for contingencies IS s1.716.5T5-
To EAEnE heeelFerAnlp-
SeiberlinE is to use the $4,000. 900
e has just borrowed I'm Wan street
) do his refinancing with. and he
lans to fight the receivership suit
) a finish.
Past three score years. Seiberling
as lost none OF the pep and force
nat has characterized his career
-0m farm boy 70 wealthy manufac-
Irer to failure and finally up the
.dder again, TO rubber king.
They say he looks like Lloyd
Gorge. Hes short and stout, speaks
18th short quick sentences. dresses
irefully; his only jewelry a scarf
in, has quit smoking cigaretss puffs
gars and drives his own car
Rough he employs a half dozen
lauffeurs.
His Home His Castle.
Seiberling's home in Akron IS his
lstle-literally.
Its real name Is Stan Hyatt hut
zron calls e "Seiberling's castle"
g said Seiberling tore down an an
ent castle in England to set wains-
lting. beamed ceilings, stafrcases
I'd other parts for this mansion D.,
sefberIinE's start.
It's said Soldering years ago was !.
train his nav Chico On { a