Arizona republican., 1901-12-01
MEMORIES OF ARIZONA
What One Winter Visitor Thinks Of
 This Great Country.

The following interesting letter has been received by R. II. Greene from his reice. Mrs George A Teller of Peoria. H.. who recently visited Phoenix en route to the Philippine islands. there to join her husband. surgeon in the army:
 Pullman Winchester, Nov. 24, 1901.
 Dear Uncla-Beforc I am too far away from you all I must write you. So far my trip has been smooth and pleasant and I feel quite as much at home as ever TOW that ] am back on the main line: life aboard a Pullman and on a through train seems to have d sort of fascination for me. Unfor- tunateIv I scercely slept a wink last night. To lay there so near and yet so far away from you all: to look down the street and see Anna Perley's home and remember the close association of that family with our own and its many changes: above all. to see that won Cerful moonlight and those stars which have never before been seen through such clear atmosphere. was enough to keep anyone from sleeping, and it was not until the train carried me away frclu you all that the motion quietei rae. So this morning and all day I have
  T:ut it seemed the scenery was in teasely interesting and beautiful. From Phoenix to Prescott it certainly is by far the finest yet seen outside Of the Grand canyon. Those great bouiders, those valleys and eulches charmed me. | saw the Iron Springs and went out on the platform to have a good lCcll where you camped. I regret l did not take snnDshct of
 
 a long distance beyond engraved in stone Greene, the natter. Mail or Gers promptly filed That certainly shows enterprise. [ should not be sur prised to see your name on the seal rocks as ! sail ouc from the Golden Cate, or upon the pyramids, should. l be fortunate enough to see then; in taking the Suez route. Anyway, I did not feel near so far away when I read the sign.
 Alongside my Grand Canyon visit is our driving party to the orange grove, it was all so unique and differ eut from any other trip ever taken. with the beautiful day, the soft color iugs on the nOuntEin-. the desert with caCti and carcass. Then for US all to be together in a pleasure which will never be forgotten. Phoenix certainly has charm all to itself and ! do not
 
 had gone back to it again. The name Of the town and territory are so un- usual that the KS and ys and DIS re- mind one of something out Of the us- ual order
 The weather is simply perfect there; and as those who visit Honolulu and Japan tell of the paradise, instead believe Phoenix winter could be put with them. So far, I have never seen such atmospheric effects. such noun tain colCrinss and such beautiful heavens at night. The moonlight is Something never to be forgotten. l believe some Of these things will always cling with me as Florence does in Italy, or Paris among cities. Tn all most any other place one looks down toward Mother Earth for some beauties to be found in vegetation, grass and flowers: but in Phoenix one must look off. up, or beyond, and if he has not an eye for beauties Of this kind, Phoe- ! nix will not be attractive to him. Those beds out in the open air. the fact that TO harm ever comes to one,