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ings as are marketed at the same time with the Arizona product. This 

 premium averages from 50 cents to $1.00 per box. 



The citrus marketing problem at present is not to find a market 

 for the fruit, but to insure the growers a price which will reflect 

 accurately the true commercial value of the citrus crop in this district. 

 It would appear desirable for the Arizona Orange Association to estab- 

 lish a permanent marketing policy instead of changing general plans 

 season by season. Affiliation with the California citrus growers for 

 marketing the entire citrus crop of the Southwest is a matter which 

 should be given serious and earnest attention by the orange and grape- 

 fruit growers in the Salt River Valley. It is possible that a satisfactory 

 plan of co-operation could be worked out between California and Ari- 

 zona growers which would be mutually beneficial. It might also be 

 well for the Arizona Orange Association to consider whether or not 

 the organization would be strengthened by giving each member of 

 the association one vote, instead of voting according to stock holdings. 

 As matters stand at present, two or three growers can control the 

 policy of the association completely and even the possibilities of such 

 action on their part will always have a tendency to make smaller stock- 

 holders suspicious of the larger growers. 



The principal limitation to the citrus industry in this Valley is a 

 climatic one. The area which is sufficiently free from frost to offer 

 chances of success is very limited and even groves most advantageously 

 situated are sometimes visited by frost. In the past this has acted to 

 influence greatly citrus shipments from year to year. Most of the 

 growers are converted to the principle of orchard heating, but even 

 with this safeguard, there is a certain risk attached to the industry. 

 The relatively high prices received for fruit, however, and the ready 

 market which is always available, has caused the citrus industry to 

 assume a healthy growth which would easily become an outright boom 

 if frost limitations did not interfere. 



Livestock Fattening livestock for market is an important indus- 

 try in the Valley. Because of the large quantities of alfalfa and grain 

 which have been produced, the livestock industry always hai been a 

 very important one in this section of the country. Each year finds a 

 large number of cattle and sheep from the outlying range districts 

 brought into the Valley for fattening. In 1916 about 920 carloads of 

 livestock were shipped from Valley points to outside markets. Ship- 

 ments in 191 7 approximated 1,000 cars. Most of this stock moved to 



