Arizona republican., 1903-05-29
CAVE CREEK AND VICINITY
An Important Business Center and
 Notable Health Resort.

correspondence of The Republican.)-l
 We may surprise you when we inform you that Cave Creek has this last win ter, from December 1st to May 1st. | sent In more money to the trade of Phoenix than any other point in the county. be it town or camp. l am not stating this as a boast, but as fact which the merchants of Phoenix ought to know, and as a matter of justice to the region which until the last two years has been considered as passe on account of the slow dragging on of it's mining affairs and on account of the drought killing off our cattle grazing. Anyhow if a community or individual do not blow its own horn, verify it will not be blowed. This increase in cur trade comes largely through Houck's operations. and the accounts of your wholesale dealers with him will prob- ably bear me out in the above state ment. You will also see that it is prob ably true from the fact that twice as many transient herds of sheep were winter grazed here as ever before. If any of you had taken note of the trains of burros coming in from the sheep camps and going out laden from hold to bridge with sheep camp SUD- plies; If note had also been taken of wagon loads of such supplies and of hay and grain every day of the week on the road from Phoenix, he would have to conclude that Houck was doing a better business than most retail es- tablishments in the city. But Houck did not supply this region with all of It's needs; there was every day a stream of all sorts and conditions of people going into town to deal with your retail stores. Add also the cook house and needs of thirty or forty sheep shearers for two months: also Houcks hotel business; reckon further such re- sorts as Fields ranch. whose expenses are $500 to s75O per month for necessi- ties, saying nothing of luxuries; add yet the expenditures of invalids camped in tent houses all over this region every one of them able to stand a necessarily expensive sOjourn: add also the ex- penses of largely increased force of prospectors-and here we are. Board of trade and merchants of Phoenix. put the foregoing into your pipes of con- templation; smoke it. and enjoy the same satisfaction we enjoy.
 It seems now that times may be dull here this summer. but the unexpected is just as liable to happen this year as heretofore. while our mines are shut down. except the Maricopa and Copper Top (Marlar himself is here now with quite a force of mem, the men in charge of the other places are charged to keep things in shape to resume de- Velopment work at any time. The Reed brothers are yet quietly developing the great contact veins they discovered last fall on the Black mountain. They have sunk down on all these big ore bodies from twenty-five to sixty-flve feet and find as yet no sign of peter-out or pinch-out. The values remain the same, though, as was expected, free gold is giving place in some of them to sulphurets. the same standard of value is maintained on the Ben Hur, Copper Top and on the claims of Mckay None of us are pressed are worried and we are not giving cuss for the old croakers who yet cucumber your shady galleries and talk about this regions Lack eye.
 We regret the departure of many of the ''invalids" who have spent the win ter with us. for they were all nice, agreeable people, and We are glad that they depart with no unhappy recollec- tions of us natives; that they can state. that we did not shun them as though they had the smallpox. Reviewing the ten years past I can recall just as many departing apparently restored to health as of those who went back home to die. This Is saying a great deal when We remember that nearly all of them come here as a last resort and after having wasted their small vitality in shifting about from one advertised tO is l,,a
 fortunate class of people now in and close around Phoenix to make an ex- tended statement. and I will mention two cases as types of the many who have come and gone from here to take. new hold on their private affairs.
 young Chicago man came here last October looking like corpse; the sea of death was conspicuous in his face and shape. He had also that hunted, shrinking air about him which is com mon to those people who know that they are summed and unwelcome. But he settled down here in q tent house and save himself up to the regime prescribed by his medical man. He took just so much eXercise-never SC much as to exhaust him-ate just SC much of the sort of food prescribed for him, and provided himself with litera- ture-books and papers-as kept his mind agreeably employed and off his own case. Last week he went back tc his place In his fathers counting room because he felt like work; looking as husky as a cowboy and feeling as if he could stand an idle life no longer MT. Groesween, a Philadelphia manu- facturer. came here last fall, with his wite. and they found far more comfort in the little two-room cottage Houck put up for them than they had year previous in the palation mansion at Palm Beach. Florida. It has been a ten-year fight for life with MT. G Every year he has had to let go his business. leave it to his partners. and seek another chance in some place whose temperature was advertised as balmy and equable; but he never found such a tempera ture until he came to
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