Williams news., 1904-07-23
DOINGS AT WlNSLOW
As Seen and Related by One of
 Williams Citizens

LACK Of space last week prevented our publishing the following letter regarding Winslow, written by J. w. Boulden:
 Thinking few lines descriptive of this town and vicinity might be of interest to at least a portion of your readers, I will give it briefly as see it. The town has greatly improved in every respect since my former visit some seven years ago, being built mostly of stone and brick, the latter material being plentiful near at hand; also good clay for brickmaking.
 The Santa Fe Co. has a large, commodious passenger depot, two stories high, built of home made brick, with hotel and all necessary offices; also public reading room and comfortable quarters for em- ployes. The mechanics, however. who have taken the places of the strikers, or lock-outs, as the case may be, are temporarily quartered in tents adjacent to the shops, where they are guarded day and night by deputy sheriffs, they being prohibited from leaving their tent quarters, and no one without per mission from those in authority are allowed to approach them. Your humble servant was rudely inter- cepted by two of those burly off, cials while on my rounds of obser- vation, but was allowed to return in peace after promise that I would not again intrude or at any future time attempt to kidnap any of the new employees. The company has a good brick thirty-stall round house and other modern improve ments, including a high, tight board fence on the south to prevent the frequent sand storms from burying the town alive in sand. Water is furnished to the town by the Santa Fe company from stand pipe. to which the water is pumped from Clear creek, some six miles to the south. The water is of poor quail ity for domestic purposes, contain ing alkali and other mineral salts.
 The town is some larger than Williams, but is very dull, owing. principally, to the Santa Fe strike; but broad smile crept over the countenances of all this morning when they learned that all the machinery had arrived from Los Angeles for the beginning of boring for oil some six miles to the north, and that the same would be moved at once to the site and work begun by a wealthy Los Angeles com pany. The indications for oil there are said to be good. ard with the undertaking in the hands of a | wealthy and experienced company good results are expected.
 The country adjacent to the town is comparatively level desert, with no vegetation except few bushes of white sage and dwarf grease wood. On the Little Colorado river, however, from two to four miles distant, there are several good ranches, where vegetables and al- falfa are grown with good success.
 We have been told that no rain to speak of has fallen here for eigh- teen months
 The Fourth was very quiet here. many having gone to higher alti- tudes to cool off, after having en- dured temperature of hundred or more degrees for some time. Only for the remnants of the old Williams fife and drum corp there would have been nothing out of common here on the national holi- day; but the old vets were at their former selves on that day and made the town as lively as possible under the circumstances.
 We have had the pleasure of meeting several ex-Williamsites here, among whom we will mem tion John Donahue, Chas. Rawlin and Mike Welsh. All seem pretty we'll pleased with their job and look forward with fair prospects for the future of Winslow.
 am told there is newspaper published here-the Mail-but hay ing left my glasses in Williams, have failed to discover the sheet.