10 BULLETIN 654, U, S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
farther oast than El Paso, or farther than Los Angeles in the other 
direction. Other products are sold locally and in neighboring towns. 
High express and freight rates on fruits and vegetables make it dif- 
ficult for Arizona growers to compete with California in the sale of 
these products, even in towns within 100 miles of the farms upon 
which they are grown. Cotton, on the other hand, is shipped to 
eastern markets under extremely favorable freight rates, granted by 
the railroads for the purpose of assisting in the development of this 
enterprise. 
At the present time there is a strong sentiment among the farmers 
for cooperation, including cooperative marketing, and efforts in this 
direction may succeed in developing other enterprises that will prove 
Fig. 3.— A thrifty alfalfa field in Salt River Valley. 
profitable, or in strengthening some of the weaker enterprises now 
carried on ; but until such development takes place enterprises will be 
practically limited to the animal industries mentioned above and 
to the crops listed in Table III, in about the relative importance 
shown there, except that with a stable price of 20 cents or more a 
pound for lint the Egyptian cotton enterprises will undoubtedly gain 
rapidly in relative importance. This will be more fully discussed 
when a detailed consideration of farm enterprises is taken up. 
The valley is supplied with transportation by a branch of the Santa 
Fe Railroad which connects with the main line at Ash Fork, and by 
a branch of the Southern Pacific which connects with the main line 
;ii Maricopa. The country northwest of Phoenix is served by the 
