The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-04-17
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crs for these irrigated lands will be
brought from Porto Rico, q few thou
sand Of them at least. They are
citizens" and can come and 60, even
as contract labor. And they can be
shipped from Porto Rico to Calves
ton for $40 q head, less than the
freight on COW. The human takes
less room, loads and unloads himself,
and no cruelty to animals society"
prevents packing him in. Would it
be not be better to admit Europeans
brought here by the ambition and
courage that brought our ancestors,
rather than bring in, by shiploads,
Porto Ricans that may not like the
climate?
To talk about the productive power
of the soil, desert land, some of it
washed down from the mountains,
when water is added, seems like a
fairy story and more unbelievable
than Jack and the bcanstalk. One acre
Of desert land flying by will produce
as much as carload of lettuce,
melons or other produce.
Guesswork? No; so to CALIFORNIA;
Imperial Valley and see. You could
buy worthless" arid desert land
there recently for little or nothing.
You cannot buy it at all now. There,
: $4,000 acres planted with canteloupcs
ship out more than 10000 carloads a
out $4,000 carloads from what once
was called worthless desert land"
This is hosptablc country, and
at each station, Tucson especially,
they ask you to stay, because they
have "the finest climate in the world"
1t is literally true in each case, for
the climate is perfect. No climate
can be better than that.
At Wcllton, Mr.. Winsor. president
of the Arizona senate, and champion
booster for his state, comes aboard
to tell you that at Yuma. an hour
away. the chamber Of commerce and
the Indian band will be at the station
to welcome you.
You remember in your illustrated
Bible, the gentlemen that went to spy
out the promised land and came back
staggering under the weight Of one
bunch Of grapes. Senator Winsor
could beat them. Compared with the
Yuma mesa. that promised land was
just thin soil, hardly worthy Of irri-
cation. And look how that promised
land had run out. You could not
weaken the soil Of the Yuma mesa
with 5000 years Of cultivation. 1t is
more than 100 feet deep, to fertilize
it would be to insult it,/Slikc giving
ten cents to Rockefeller. And so il
is, pretty much. all over the state
The Yuma mesa, by the way. according
to government reports, is most free
from frost Of any place in the United
States.
W.. X. Hearst has one Of his five
sons at school in Tucson. and thai
young man. in his teens, reports that
Arizona is "the cats" All American
youth will know what that means
1t is the highest praise. You reall!
ought to see Arizona. and all the res
of this country. 1t is one big wonder
one big opportunity.
p. S.--They like President Coolidg,
all through this countary. On TIT
crowded observation platform ONT
man. in blue, says to another il
speckled gray, "We need man lik'
Coolidge in these times. They can
). control him. no." says the spcck
led gray man. land they can
stampede him. either" The platform
discusses the next campaign and turn
out to be unanimous for Coolidge il
1928. and certain that he will hav
to run again. for his second election
whethe he wants to or not.