Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-03
SULPHUR SPRINGS VALLEY OFFERS
DOUGLAS GREATEST OPPORTUNITY
FOR INCREASING The CITYS WEALTH

words Douglas is indicted on a charge
of Misrepresentation of $1,OOO,OOO every
year.
Bisbee is in like predicament.
Suppose that this city and the city
| Of Bisbee should decide that it would
be better to keep that $2,0oO,O0O at
home. Suppose the men of Bisbee
and Douglas should suddenly become
seriously interested in seeing that
$2,000,00O saved for Cochise county
and expended in these two Cities.
That sum would build all the power
! lines, all the irrigation canals, all
the pumping plants and all the fine
farm homes needed.
This is just considering the supply
and demand business for this one
little district. Go on and presume
that after the valley has been or
ganized and made to produce THIS
comparatively small amount of eggs,
butter chicken feed and alfalfa the
producers should export few mill
lions more in produce and bring into
this city and to Bsbee five or ten
millions annually
The situation is a remarkable one.
- mere are ITO TdHCH0TS HOC DuSlISSS
men in Douglas, Bisbee nor the Sui
phur Springs valley who have more
money than they want, nor more
luXuries than they want, and yet
here we sit and import $1,000,000
worth of simple, easily produced feeds
every year and give to the OUTSIDE
world $1,O00,OOO that we cannot afford
to give to anyone. 1t is just that
much money in unsolicited charity.
In Douglas markets we pay PROB
ably on an average about 35 cents
a pound for a little chicken to fry.
The chicken should be worth his
Weight in gold for he was hatched
in Texas, imported in a mail coach
and fed on grain and mash that was
| imported in a freight car. All things
being equal, the same chicken, hatched
! in McNeal and fed on better grain
and better mash raised in the Double
Adobe district, should sell on the local
market for about 20 cents pound
and still bring the farmer about SO
| per cent more profit than under the
present system.
! Going further into the business,
but with no figures available, the
Douglas, Bisbee districts probably i'm
! port somewhere in the neighborhoou
of 100000 baby chicks every year.
They are all brought here from
climates not half as well fitted for
their propagation and not half as well
situated for raising the feed for them.
| The figures above mentioned were
compiled by J. P. Sexton, general
manager of the Arizona Edison COM
pany for this district, and they do
not take into consideration anything
except the eggs, butter and dairy and
poultry feeds. Further study of the
subject would startle all and figures
could probably be produced to show
that the actual sum sent away from
Douglas needlessly IS somewhere
around $s,Oo0,OOO.
In vegetables and fruit aIcne an.
other million could probably be added
to the Indictment. Then there 10
poultry, meat, various by-products OF
the COW and pig and a thousand ami
cne other things that could be raised
here SO per cent cheaper than they
are imported. Instead of importing
our produce houses should be ex-
porting.
And so the time to evolve has come.
The revolt is in order. Not political
revolution, but an economic revolution:
One hundred and fifty years ago
gorup of men got together ana
pledged their lives, their fortunest ana
their sacred honor to a little proposl-
ton, the consummation of which made
it possible for the people of Douglas
to do anything which the people OF
Douglas want to do.
What shame it would be if this
generation should prove to lack the