The Coolidge examiner., 1946-08-30
194b Cotton Crop
One of Best
In Recent Years
Opportune rains. good manage
meni. available labor. and fair
prices give growers profit.


Cotton fields In Pinal county
this week are alive with pickers
gathering the fluffy fiber crop
Cotton camps are springing up
like magic on farms and ranches.
Although drouth has cut yields
on lands of the San Carlos Project,
total yields within the county will
be greater than in 1945. it Is esti
mated by reliable sources. This is
due to the fact that new pump
land has been developed and has
produced its first crop this year.
Some dissension has arisen in
scattered areas due TO misunder-
standings as to the price TO be
paid for picking, but $3.50 per hum
dred pounds seems To be well es-
tabllshed now. This price is ac-
'ceptable TO growers In view of the
higher cost of living being encoun-
tered by pickeTs this year A tenn
porary stoppage of labor at Eloy
occurred Friday. August %, but a
settlement was reached the follow
ing day, so that only one days la
Dor was lost.
Vensel Brothers, from north of
Eleven-Mile Corner, appear to
have been first TO get out a load
of cotton in ,the Coolidge area, as
they delivered their first product
TO j. G. Boswell Company on Au-
gust 13. Earl Nabors, manager for
the Boswell gin, says that the
company is receiving about 20
bales per day now, and expects
the volume TO increase TO about so
bales per day after September l.
The Farmers Mutual Manufac-
turing e. Ginning Company expect
to gin about 5000 bales this year,
and are running 80 to 40 bales per
day now. OF course. the rain Mon
day night stopped picking for day
and half or two days, but full
scale picking Is expected to start
around the first OF next month. w.
II. Simmons, from south of Cool
idge, was first grower to bring
cotton TO this gin, the date being
20.
Western Cotton Oil Company,
OF Eloy. who operate two gins. one
in and one near Eloy, estimate
they will handle some $500 bales
this season. During the week of
August 1924, IT'S bales were run.
Norman Murphy, manager, says
that quality is very good and the
yield will be better than average
in that area, thanks TO rains which
came during power shortage in
July, and TO the good dusting
practices followed in that COM
munity. Among the early birds
were A. B. Waddle, c. c. Burns,
Ben Scott and Louis Holmes. A.
b. Waddle led the field, getting
Plenty of pickers have been avail
able.
Western Cotton Products Com
pany, Coolidge, does not anticipate
very heavy picking among its GUS
toners until about September l.,
so they are busy repairing machin-
cry and getting ready for the rush.
Some cotton has been received,
but Is being stored in bins.
The manager of Pinal Ginning
Company, George Dell, stole a
march on his customers, and deliv-
cred the first cotton to that gin
himself from his farm two miles
west of Coolidge.
1t is generally agreed through
out the region that 1916 has been
a good cotton year. Insect loss has
been held TO a minimum by liberal
busting, and opportune rains car
ried the crop through a critical
period of water and power short
age. Labor seems to be assured
for picking, and price will be high
enough TO enable operators make
"a profit All in all, 1916 will be
remembered in the valley as bet
ter than average year.