Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-04
PHELPS DODGE
PURCHASES ARE
STRONG PROOF
Corporation Purchases Sup
port Doctrine of Buying
ARIZONA Products"

Convincing proof that it is possible
for all of Arizona to BUY at Home"
on a straightforward basis of business
efficiency as well as state loyalty is
furnished in a compilation of the
purchases of Arizona products by the
Phelps Dodge corporation last year
prepared for the Arizona industrial
congress in the interests OF the
seventh annual TRADE at Home
Use Arizona Products" week which
will be observed throughout the state
March 10 to "a
For years one of the best arguments
in favor OF keeping Arizona business
''at home" has been the fact that
Arizonas big mining companies and
other large corporations have Deeh
able to constantly increase their pur-
chaSes within the state, for if big
companies can buy in Arizona just
as satisfactorily as elsewhere every
Arizona citizen can do the same.
The logic of the argument is con-
firrned by the Phelps Dodge state.
ment, for that company, operating
several big mining divisions and also
the Phelps Dodge Mercantile COM
pany with stores in several Arizona
sections, has shown consistent in.
crease in its use of Arizona products.
Last year the Phelps Dodge cor
poration expended $885,S'75 for AriS-
ona products, exclusive of a large
volume of business placed through
Arizona jobbers handling lines not
made in the state. OF the total
$616,OOO was for supplies for Its
various mining divisions, such as lime
and limerick, timber, explosives, hay
and grain, Stationery, foundry prod
uctS, oxygen and similar articles pro.
Cuced in Arizona, while $270,000 rep
resented agricultural and manufac
tUred products for household use
purchased by the Phelps Dodge NGer.
camille company.
Perhaps the outstanding feature of
the compilation is its Illustration OF
the steady upward curve in the pur-
chase of Arizona farm products,
typical of mercantile establishments
in all mining sections of the state,
for the greater diversity and better
Standardization of agricultural and
manufactured products apparent in
the last few years-and largely due
to efforts of the farm bureau and
industrial congreSs-haS made it pos
Sible for Arizona'S large buyers to
fill more and more of their require
mentS within the state.
The Phelps Dodge Mercantile COM
pany's statement is particularly ef-
fective in showing how producers in
all parts of Arizona have benefited
from the TRADE at Home" and "Use
Arizona Products" principles. The
state products purchased by the
mercantile company last year in
volved large expenditures in the Salt
River valley, Sulphur Springs valley,
Duncan valley, San Pedro valley and
ella valley, as well as in the cities
of Bisbee, Clifton, Douglas, Morenci
Stafford, Springerville, Phoenix and
Tucson affecting five large agri,
cultural districts and eight distribut-
ing centerS directly. The number of
producers affected by these purchases
over such a wide territory may be
guessed from the fact that Arizona
products purchased included meats
to the amount of $4,000; fruits and
vegetables to the extent of $52,50O;
poultry and eggs for which $4,000
was paid; dairy products in the sum
of $4,000, and miscellaneous items,