Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-14
Do1cIAs DAILY DISPATCH SUNDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER a.


paved road from Florida to San
Diego" This will be through El Paso.
probably. One-half of the route al
ready is paved or financed: FROM
Yuma il is reported that 5000 cars p
day now enter Southern California
through the Yuma gateway
The All-Southern highway boosters
are stressing as reasons for coming
this route that: j. 1t is the tastest
highway 2. 1t is the comfortable
winter route; 3. 1t traverses lana
of romance; 4. IT travels for long
distance along the Mexican border.
The Mexican border means the iure Of
a foreign country; also II means, beer
If you haven't met up with ii for so
long that you dont know what opti-
mism is, visit any town in Southern
Arizona.
How has the drop in price affected
your cotton crop? And how has 1t
affected the town. / asked in Phoe-
nix OF a chamber of commerce off,
cial and of the manager of daily
newspaper.
The answer from each was the same,
and in a few words was;
.
will get $5,000,O 900 less for their cotton
crop than they got last year. This
reduction is having no affect In re-
tarding retail buying. Though the
rrice is way down, all but the farmer
who has no business on farm viii
make a neat profit on cotton. The
farmer who can't make good money on
15-cent cotton should quit. Too, our
farmers laid aside a reserve in the
past few years when the price re-
turned them tremendous profits on
cotton"
Retail Trade Fine
The advertising manager of the
Arizona Republican added:
Retail trade is smashing sales
records in practically every line in
Phoenix"
In Tucson and Bisbee did not get
down to brass tacks, but the towns
look mighty fine. Tucson is all perK eti
Eup over getting the big governmental
hospital. The minimum expenditure az
this hospital win be 100000 every
month, I was told. Tucson Went
after It, and we gotsitt"I was told at
the office of the Tucson Citizen.
4 Should he In EI PaSO ~ -ttA
Without any reflection on Tucson
and its climate, it seems obvious thar
El Paso would be a better location
for that hospital.
Bisbee and Douglas are confident
that copper is coming back in a way
to make them great. Copper already
las come back enough to make both
towns Derk uD
The day I was in Douglas the DIS
trict manager for Phelps Dodge maze
the public announcement that a new
smelter and refinery will be built al
| Douglas at once at cost of more
than $4,000 900 This is similar
plant to the one discussed for locator
! in Ell Paso.
Banks OIi Bars
! Douglas also is banking heavily
on Aqua Prieta to drag enough tour.
lists away from the Apache trail tc
keep the counters creased with new
money. 5~cg. --.gs
There was war among Douglas
folks over the relative asset and liza
bility of Aqua Irieta. same as in E
Paso over Juarez But was Informed
that the anti-Agua. Prieta faction was
/ Pretty soundly beaten.
/ was given figures on a survey
made of money spent in Aqua Prielu
The survey was, carefully made. Tie
figures may be OF interest here, where
we argufy whether we. should put. uI
! with Juarez or have that town moved
to Yucatan.
/ According to the4 survey, the cafes
of Aqua Prieta do "a business, O.
iS12,5OO week on a pretty even aver
age. Of this, $1,000 is money spen
by DOUGLAS persons and $500 is from
! tourists. ~ g,rs <.f.ss
Comes Back
After allowing for the sums paiC
to breweries. and distiileries and roj
taxes and local rents, etc, it was esti
mated that $1,000 a week came bacl
to Douglas, or $4,000 more thar
Douglas residents spent in Agus
Prieta.
In addition, the various u. S. fec
eral officers and the multitude o
Mexican officers whose presence il
necessitated by the border town spent
| their money in Douglas.
In further addition, many thousand.
of dollars are spent directly in Doug
-aS by tourists VINO travel VIA DOugla!
because of the attractions of Agu,
Prieta.
Not Weeping
Douglas is laying especially heav!
on tourist possibilities because othe
things have not gone SO we'll sther,
as might. But Douglas is not weep
ing, and with the possibility of coppe
coming back, it looks toward ros!
future.
Retail merchants of Douglas sa.
buying from mail order houses ha
been reduced SS per cent in one year
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