Bisbee daily review., 1922-05-26

n DiCd TUT lnOI6 CO-ODGldLlOh DC- tween cities and rural communities to continue the "trade-at-home" campaign being carried on throughout the state this week, was voiced to members of the Luncheon Club yesterday noon by a farmer, a merchant and banker of the San Pedro Valley.
 Each speaker brought a message that both interested and educated his hearers. Every member of the club left the Copper Queen hotel dining room, after the meeting was adjourned with a better idea of the agricultural eommunities in the San Pedro valley.
 J. A. Gumm, more general known as the Benson onion man" was the first speaker. Gumm has taken several acres of land near Benson during the last few years, specialized in onions and produced some of the finest crops lof the favorite fragant vegetable placed on the market anywhere in the country.
 Shows Extent of Project
 "San Pedro Valley farmers, at pres ent, have comparatively little produce ito put on the market" said Gumm. f"But with the completion of the Char llestown Dam 30,O00 acres will be placed under irrigation. In five years after the dam is built, we are confi- dent that at least 6,000 acres in the valley will be producing crops, mainly of vegetables. And from these 5000 acres at least 25O0 carloads of produce should be shipped from the valley each year. Probably 24,O00 acres would be devoted to cattle, grain and dairy farming, and these would furnish thousands of other carloads.
 Tn addition, thousands of carloads | of foodstuffs, clothing, farming imple- nents and other commodities would be shipped into the valley. Between 1900 and 1900 new families would undoubt- edly settle in the valley with the con- struction of the dam.
 ' "If these figures seem exaggerated | just give your attention for a few mo ments to the Rio Grande valley and ! see what the Elephant Butte dam did 1 for that country. The desert has been turned into a productive area. Cowboys used to say of the Rio Grande valley that you couldn't even raise hell there with two barrels of whiskey and a siX-shooter.
 Urges More Factories See what the Roosevelt Dam ae- complished for the Salt River. valley. The only mistake made there was that many of the farmers planted their land in cotton. Then the bottom fell out of the cotton market. But of the Salt River Valley leaves cotton alone and devotes it's efforts toward general i farming, it will pull out in fine shape !
 Gumm also urged the establishment of manufacture in Arizona, and pointed f1n.a .n | in the Warren District for the manu- ifacture of copper wire and other cop per products.
 Lo Wright St. David merchant and | lrancher, declared that the "Buy-Ari- ! zona-Products" campaign. if continued would be one of the greatest things that ever happened for Arizona He called attention to the fact that in- tense cooperation was needed among Arizonans
 There are still some who would | tear down our institutions and indus { tries,' he said. "We must always bear that in mind. But by getting togeth- ! CT, as individuals and communities, we can do great deal of construct | tive work; we can promote harmony and we can all work together for bet | ter Arizona
 1 Wright called attention to the hugeI amount of money that was sent from the state each year to mail order houses.
 Condemns M. o. Houses
 'Too many people have been edu-i ,cated in buying by mail order cata- | logues," he continued "They are at- tracted by a pretty picture and. per | lIaps, a ten cent difference in price. i But they overlook the fact that in patronizing outside firms they are ne-l | glecting the men and stores in Arizo- ma who pay the taxes, who always are called upon to contribute funds for any movement that is started for the | good of the community-the men and ] institutions upon which the very life of the state depends. It required lit tie but gaudy catalogues to swing many Arizonans behind the mail order movement. It ought to be as simple ] a matter to show them the logic of trading at home and helping to build up industries in this state.
 "I believe that the recent hard times would not have been so acute if everyone in Arizona had kept his or her money at home-spent it with Arizona merchants and industries and kept it in circulation in this state, in- st@ad of sending it away to middle west and eastern firms"
 Wright urged the organization of an association in every county to work for the good of the county as whole
 In the past, he believed, there had been too much petty jealousy between communities. With q county organi. ,gation, he predicted. each community could take up it's individual prob lens, talk them over with other com munities. and put an end to squab- bling between different sections of tho county.
 Says Supervisors Needed
 The third speaker, A. Y. Smith, Ben son and Tombstone banker, admitted,
 when called upon, that he had some