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In Arizona, in tho early days,
a town always started with a
saloon. This furnished the in
habitants with the necessaries of
life; afterwards as the town grew,
a combined grocery and dry
goods store was opened to supply
the luxuries.
It is a long road from that an
tiquity to the present Arizona
city, Phoenix, with its motor
cars and orange groves, concrete
oflice buildings and mahogany
furnished banks. For years the
great mineral and agricultural
resources of Arizona have been
bringing in the miner, the me
chanic and the horticulturist.
Now, the superb winter climate
of the Salt River Vailey is also
attracting people whose means
permit them to make their home
where the plumbing freezes not
and the garden supplies green
vegetables at Christmas. Phoe
nix today has miles and miles of
shady streets, well kept at all
times and a pleasure to the
motorist as is evidenced by the
fact that there are over three
hundred automobiles in the city.
One of the most beautiful
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WHEN THE PRICE WOULD APPEAR ATTRACTIVE THE QUALITY,
PERHAPS, HAS BEEN SACRIFICED
There is no risk taken 'when you buy a CHIGKERING SON (Boston), IVERS & POND, PACKARD, KURTZMANN, STERLING, KOHLER
& CAMPBELL, HARVARD, HUNTING ION, besides a number of less expensive Pianos that may be seen on our floors and are regarded as leaders
in their respective grades. . YEARS FROM NOW you would regard the price of the Piano you purchased now as small if then you FOUND that you
had in your home a Piano that had proven satisfactory. Time alone will demonstrate the musical value of a good Piano and the honor of the house that sells
Our aim has always been to sell the class of Pianos that would secure for us the confidence and esteem of the public. No Piano concern can produce a better asset
than a satisfied community of buyers, and we are in Alliance to stay. Call and see us in our new quarters, Brennan's old drug store, opposite postoffice
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SUNSHINE AND FLOWERS
By Lloyd C. Thomas.
drives in the Salt River Valley
is along Central Avenue from
Phoenix north to the mountains.
This is a well kept, well graded
boulevard, lined on both sides
with costly mansions. As soon
as tho new two hundred thousand
dollar bridge is completed across
the Salt river, south of Phoenix,
this summer the boulevard will
be extended from the mountains
on the north through Phoenix to
the mountains on the south mak
ing a beautiful sixteen mile drive
way from mountain to mountain.
On these beautiful moonlight
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$1,000,000 BEET-SUGAH FACTORY, NEAR
evenings no headlights are need
ed on the auto and many even
ings are spent in ch'ives out
through the valley and along the
beautiful canals.
The writer and wife were re
cently favored with a short visit
by Mr. and Mi's. W. W. Norton
of Alliance. They had been
spending part of the winter in
California but wanted to see the
famous Salt River Valley this
time. Mr. Norton was well
pleased with the country and ex
pressed a desire to exchange
some of his Box Butte county
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AN OLIVE IURIGVTION SCENE IN THE SALT 1U
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land for land hero.
Tho Salt River Valley is fam
ous for its climate and opportun
ties in farming. Every day we
receive calls from people who
come from California, Washing
ton, Oregon, Idaho, Colorado,
and other western states. These
are people who have located in
other places first but who come
to the valley because it excels
them all. Tho Dick Erdmans
Real Estate & Investment Com
pany
recently sold a farm for
b-'J por acre
from Scotland
to a gontlomau
He had been
PHOENIX.
all over the world but was suited
nowhere else like ho was here.
He has made good money on his
investment and is continually
buying more. Last week we
sold 120 feet on one of the main
streets for 5,000. The purchaser
immediately raised the price to
$10,000 and at the present rate
of increase in prices it will not
be more than two years before
this property brings that. The
city of Phoenix is continually
branching out and mile after
mile of water mains, gas mains,
and cement sidewalks are being
EH ALLEY.
PIANOS SOLD ON EASY PAYMENTS IF DESIRED
THE BENNETT CO.
W. C. ENGLISH, Mgr.
Several G-ood Second-Hand Organs from $10 up
laid.
An excursion of 125 business
men of Los Angeles recently
made a trip to Phoenix. Tho
writer had tho privilege of
taking an auto load out over the
valley. There wore over forty
autos in use and tho visitors wore
astonished at the rapid progress
of tho valley and city. Phoenix
at tho present time is on liranch
lines of tho Southern Pacific and
tho Santa Fo railroads. Within
a year it will be on tho main
lines of both roads. This will
give tho city a groat big boost.
Tho Roosevelt dam is nearly
linished. When completed this
will mean another boost. And
settlers continue to come in by
tho hundreds. Farms are con
tinually being divided and sub
divided and there is still room
for hundreds more.
To tho practical farmer as well
as the business man grown weary
of the everlasting struggle for
existence in tho larger cities,
this valley affords not only a
home, a real home, but it offers
to any intelligent man or woman
a good income.
However, it is not sufficient
that we consider only the product
of intelligent effort on rich soil
with abundant water in terms of
dollai'S and cents. There is
another phase in the answer of
the question, "what can he done
on twenty acres in the Salt River
Valley?" We are not waiting for
prosperity to show up in the dim
future, but we want a larger
growth, a larger prosperity, as
all communities should, hence
this effort to place before the
people, in less favored sections,
the natural advantages found
hero. These natural advantages
are climate, soil, water and level
land; and to this man has added
electrical power. With power
for our suburban trolley lines,
for lighting and for manufactur
ing, transforming our wool, our
cotton and other raw materials
into finished products, it is not
hard to see what the future holds
in store. Please bear in mind
that we are dealing with the
present, but we have a right to
regard the future optimistically.
John Forney and his family of
eight, living on a twenty-acro
farm, took in during one year,
$1592.20, lived a comfortable life
at an expense of $850.00 and had
at the end of the year a net pro
tit of $741.00. Last year J. W.
Black cleared over $8,000 on his
forty acre farm. On three acres
of strawberry plants, one and
two years old, he received 29,-
000 boxes, at ten and twenty
cents per box, and paid two and
one-half cents per box for pick
ing. Mr. Black sold $1,800 worth
of melons from a five acre piece;
one acre of tomatoes brought
$700; one and one-half acres of
watermelons returned $038.60;
400 hens brought $000 in eggs
and all of the feed was grown on
the farm. There is a reason why
the Salt River Valley lands sell
for from $100 to $400 per acre
according to improvements and
location.
I am sending a photo of the
new beet-sugar factory near
Phoenix. This plant is capable
of slicing BOO tons per day. It is
thoroughly modern and up-to-
date and cost $1,000,000. I am
also sending a photo of an olive
irrigation scene, this being one
of the prominent industries of
the valley. Tho writer was re
cently in a small orchard in
which the owner was growing
almonds, apricots, dates, figs,
grapes, olives, oranges, peaches
and pears. Every kind of fruit
grows in this modern "Garden of
Eden," and it is a fact that some
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trees, like Cottonwood, have to
bo CUt short every tWO or throo
years to keep them from growing
too luxuriantly. Cottonwood
fenco posts after boltlg SOt in tho
ground begin to grow and it Is
not and uncommon sight to see
a long row of trees which were
originally set out as fence posts.
Loyd C. Thomas,
Phoenix, Arizona, April 5, 1010.
Important Census
Information
As announced in tho Hcrnld Inst
week Hon. Joseph Pieman of Broken
How, supervisor of census for this
district, was in Alllnncc last Saturday.
Hft made our office a vory pleasant
call and gave us sumo additional in
formation in regard to tho census.
Ono thing in particular ho wished us to
bring before our readers is tho fact
that all information given to census
enumerators is required by tho govern
ment to bo strictly confidential. Such
information can not even bo given by
tho ccusus department to another do
partment of the government.
It is probable that in this, country
somo homesteaders will hesitato to bo
perfectly frank in giving the enum
erators information for fear that it
will cause them troublo in makiug
filial proof. No matter what informa
tion is secured by the census enumerat
ors, it can never bo used to tho
detriment of homesteaders or any ono
elso in auy way.
Wo wish also to call special attention
to the facta contained in tho following
bulletin, issued by the census depart
ment:
On April 15, in the present year, '910,
the census of tho United States begins.
It occurs every ten years.
It is the basis of the distribution
among the states of representation in the
National House of Representatives.
It is also the' means by which the
United States Government ascertains the
increase in tho population, agriculture,
industries, and resources of the nation.
It is required by tho Constitution and
by act of Congress.
Tho information sought will be used
solely for general statistical purposes. It
will neither be published nor used in any
other way to disclose facts regarding any
Individual or enterprise.
The census is not. never has been, and
can not be employed to obtain information
that can be used in any way in the assess
ment of property for purposes of taxation
or the collection of taxes, national, state,
or local; for deportation proceedings; ox
tradition measures; Army or Navy con
scription; compulsory school attendance;
child-labor law prosecutions; quarantine
regulations; or in any way to affect the
life, liberty, or property of any person.
It has nothing whatever to do with the
detection, arrest, prosecution, or punish
ment of any person, for any suspected, or
actual, violation of a law, whether of a
city or state, or the National Government,
or of a foreign nation,
The census inquiries are defined by net
of Congress. The questions on the
schedules are framed by the Director of
the Census in conformity with that act.
They applv to all persons living in the
United States on April 15, next, the
"Census Day." The same questions are
asked about each person. All persons
must answer all the questions.
The census law, with reference to
population, requires that the enumerator's
quesitons shall, for each inhabitant, call
for: "The name, relationship to head of
family, color, sex. age, coujugal condition,
place of birth, place of birth of parents,
number of years in the United States,
citizenship, occupation, whether or not
employer or employee, and, if employee, j
whether or not employed at the date of j
enumeration (April 15, J910), and the
number of months unemployed during the
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,' proceeding calendar year (1909), whether
or not eoRaged In agriculture, school
attendance, literacy, and tenure of home,
,and whether or not a survivor ot the
Union or Confederate Army or Navy; and
the name and address ot each blind or
deaf and dumb person,"
Tho same law, with reference to agri
culture, requires that the enumerator's
questions shall call for: "The name,
color, and country of birth of occupant of
each farm, tenure, acreage ot farm, acre
ngo of woodland and character of timber
thereon, value ot farm and improvements,
vatuo of farm implements, number and
value of domestic animals not on farms
and ranges, and tho adreago of crops
planted and to be planted during tho year
of enumeration (1910), and tho acreage of
crops and tho quantity and value of crops
and other farm products for the year
ending December thirty-first (lgog) next
preceding tho enumeration."
Census enumerators wearing badges
with "U. S. Census I9I0" stamped on
them, will go from house to house, and
farm to farm, beginning April 15, They
aro not to be regarded as spies, detectives,
policemen, constables, tax assessors, or
officers of any city, county, or state.
They are employed by tho U, S. Dureaw
of tho Census. They do not represent
any other department of the United
States Government, or any foreign nation.
No person ( should hesitate, neglect, or
refuse to answer all tho enumerator's
questions. Ho only asks thoso necessary
to fill the schedules which aro required by
law. Nothing that is told him can in any
way bo used to tho detrimont or damage
of any person, or his family, or his
property.
Replies to enumerators aro, and must
be, held by tho Census Bureau in strict
and absolute confidence.
All the U. S, Census officials, super
visors' clerks, enumerators, and inter
preters, before entering upon their duties,
are obliged to take a solomn oath not to
disclose any information thoy may obtain,
except to the Census Bureau, and a
violation of the United States law in
.regard to this oath means a SI, 000 fine, or
imprisonment for two years, or both, in
the discretion of tha Court.
It any adult person refuses or willfully
neglects to answer an enumerator's
questions, or, if any person willfully gives
answers that are false, he or she can be
arrested, carried to court and fined up to
8I00. Keepers of hotels, appartment
houses, boarding or lodging houses,
tenements or other bnildiugs in which
persons make their homes, must help the
enumerator when asked, or they will be
liable to arrest and punishment by a fine
up to S500.
E. DANA DURAND, Director.
Ai'PROVBD. CHARLES NAGEL,
Secretary Department of Commerce
and Labor,
Our Lincoln Letter
Lincoln. Nebraska. April 11. -(Special
Correspbndence.) Considerable interest
is manifested in Mr. Bryan's return from
South America. He is expected about
May t, and there are those who are
anxious to have him say something that
will clear up the senatorial situation.
Until he does a lot of democratic and in
dependent voters will be ''all at sea."
That Peru Normal troublo is not yet
settled. It is reported that Secretary
Ludden blames Prof. Crabtree for the In
troduction of the bill creating the board
afterwards declared unconstitutional, and
that tho ministerial-politician is getting
revenge. The fact of the matter is that
Crabtree had nothlog to do with the draft
ing of the bill, nor was he consulted. The
bill was drafted by three prominent
educators of the state, two of them rti
publicans and one of them a democrat
They were more interested in the cause of
education than they were of party.
The Bureau of Labor and Industrial
Statistics has been pursuing some original
investigation as to the "cost of liviog."
One of the interesting features brought
out is that rents cost the average wage
earner in the cities just one-fifth of hii
total income Another is that increases
in wages have fallen fr behind the in
creahe in the cost of living. The fu 11
percentages have not yet been worked ou t,
but the difference is startling.
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