Arizona republican., 1922-06-13
HOW To GET FARMERS
AND WHERE IS TOLD
To VALLEY BOOSTERS

sThe larger growth and prosperity
of Phoenix is Immediately dependent
upon the general development of the
stat. The watered tracts of the val
lev are acres of diamonds right at
your door. The present a brilliant
opportunity" said John J. Cuddy in
conference Monday with the Phoenix
Ad club for whom he will speak
Wednesday noon.
"But irrigation canals in them
selves do not create irrigated agri-
culture he said continuing. And
neither do they produce without pop
ulation. The development of the ir-
rigation projects only prepares the
way. Turning thousand acre tracts
into 20 and 40 acre fields and fruit
farms is the bigger part of the trans
formation. And it is the part that
calls for people and more people.
And as people settle on the irrigated
land it will call for more and more
people II Phoenix. Experience has
proved that for every person that
goes on the farms another goes into
an adjacent city or town Not only
will more people on the land the
valley increase the demand for Phoe-
nix sold goods. but their needs will
increase the population of Phoenix,
the assessed valuation of the city,
and contribute wealth to the commu-
nifty in the true economic sense.
I'VE have in Durham, Calf, an in
teresting example of land colonial
tion and development and their rela-
ton to community prosperity Six
years ago the tract on which the col
ony stands was a 10000 acre wheat
field. 1t was occupied by two tenant
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land was relatively meager, and its
purchasing capacity, from the stand
point of the city man, looking for
business consisted of two families.
Today. six years later. this 10000
acre wheat field is intensively farmed
by 200 families. These 200 families
have 200 school children. new mar
ket for shoes, hats. clothes. farming
equipment, and hundreds of other ar
ticles of commerce.
El Centre, in the Imperial valley
is another example. A few years ago
the townsite was a barley field To-
day it is a bustling community with
banks, good hotels. fine stores and
population that exists solely because
of the development of farm lands.
But to get back to Phoenix and
the Salt River valley. How are farm
ers of the right, kind to be brought
to the irrigated lands? How are the
economic possibilities Of the commu-
nifty to be developed? TO this there
can be but one answer. if progress
is to be made at a reasonable rate,
and that is to determine where the
most likely prospective farmers are
and TO go to them with the story of
Salt River valley properly presented
through advertising.
THE farmers who come to the Salt
River valley must have money
enough to purchase either developed
lands or to go on undeveloped lands
and improve them. This means that
She farmers who come here must
have money.
The latest income tax figures dis
close that more than 100000 farmers
in the United States pay taxes on
incomes from 81 600 to $4,000 a year.
Further study discloses that these
farmers are located in the states
where farming is most diversified
Thus. New York. Ohio, Michigan,
Illinois. Pennsylvania middle west
ern states-are the places from which
you may expect the greatest number
of farmer prospects for the Salt River
valley, | believe it would quite sur
prise you to see the definite west
ward trend from these sections.
Twenty nine definitely located states
provide probably what is the most
fertile field for colonists to settle
western farm lands"