ftrizona Conditions and Prospects Good

The free and unafraid state of Arizona is having a very good year, so far, and prospects in all lines are better than they have ever been before. All crops are good, some of them excellent. Cotton is a little ,later than usual, but conditions are all right. The biggest canteloupe crop they have ever made is now being shipped. It comes in about the time the Imperial Valley crop goes out, so that there is no clash in the market between the two. Arizona is harvesting 5,500. acres of canteloupes, the biggest acreage in her history.

The grape acreage in Arizona is small but growing. The cattle men, after several rather backward years, are jubiliant this year. Heavy rains have helped the grazing wonderfully, ard prices of beef are good.

Irrigated lands are developing fast. In the vicinity of Phoenix, where there are now 250,000 acres under irrigation, they estimate that within five years they will have water on twice that amount of land. Getting ,colonists on this land as fast as it develops is one of the big problems that Arizona has to solve.. They have the land, and they are putting the water to it, but they must get people to plant it as fast as it develops.

Mining is in good shape everywhere in Arizona. The labor situation is splendid, there being practically no unemploy.ment in the entire state.

The Arizona Industrial Congress is doing splendid work in promoting and directing and assisting the development work in the state. This organization, of which P. G. Spillsbury, of Phoenix, is President, has prepared a lot of splendid literature showing the value of Arizona to settlers and to investors, and a wise distribution of this literature is bringing in hundreds of inquiries weekly. That Arizona is the best bet in the country is the claim of this organizaton.

A Splendid Chance Lost

A prorpective builder in Loa Angeler sent a lumber bill to more than thirty of the leading Iumber yards of the city, asking f,or bids and pricee on tlre material, to come by mail. AU of them quotcd. Of the thi*y odd quotationr only trhree ured any sort of literature ar ar cDclorure, to advertise their businesa It was a Ioct chance for fine publicity. There could be no better opportunity for interesting a purcharer in buildins materialthan sending pulling literature of some terse kind with that price quotation. But only three did anything but quotc the lumber price.