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Show ARIZONA COTTON INDUSTRY PROSPERS The raising of cotton in the Salt River valley of Arizona Is making the- farmers farm-ers around Mesa wealthy, states J. P. Wallace of Mesa, who. In company with M. C. Phelps, is stopping over in Salt Lake on his way by automobile to Yellowstone Yel-lowstone park. Mr. Wallace says land which a year ago sold for $150 an acre there has raided to between $300 and S-100 an acre. The market for cotton is also Incraeslng and at resent cotton Is being contracted for at SO cents, but he thinks it will Inn-eacs to SI. He says if it does, land will also Increase in price. All of this prosperity, he stales. Is due to the Roosevelt dam. I |