Arizona republican., 1907-09-06

baseball and other athletic sports which prove interesting to all alike. This resort is well improvised with flowers. trees and gardens singing birds and rushing streams of water through fresh and green plats of grass and under rustic bridges and on with a maddening torrent to the historic and fabled Hassayampa.
 Again. the visitor. as well as the city folk, may. as hundreds do. prefer to spend a day at Fort Whipple, three miles out, and reached by a hand somely equipped electric railroad with a twenty minute service. Here can be heard the beat of the drum and music of the fife as the soldiers in long lines march to and fro on the spacious drill and parade grounds. Then the military band comes out and discours- es sweet strains of martial music the day out. These band concerts last until pm. and then comes taps and the soldiers must to bed and the crowds that have witnessed the days scenes depart for their homes. bearing the scenes of the days pleasures in darkness and the utmost of quietude.
 Many. again. of the health-seekers and visitors, pay their respects and a' climb to the summit of old Thumb Butte. four miles west of the city linn its. and watch the clouds roll by at their feet and watch the maneuvers of electrical storms as they flash through the angry and madden.ng clouds in the far away plains and valleys. The mountain. standing in the form of a great and hieh obelisk which nature has not as vet polished to a high artistic degree. pierces the sky hundreds of feet above its mean bend and those of the surrounding mountains and valleys The climb is an exhilirating one and full of exciting interest after the jour ney is done. From the valley below the mountain presents a medley of inter esting and pretty colorings. there be- ing gray green in the great rifts. and seams down the sides from chapparal. flamers and vines silhOuted against rocks and porphyry of varigated color tones. Those who visit this gigantic wonder must go prepared with lunch and a canteen of water swung across the shoulders. and with the intention of making the trip both ways on foot. There is no horse track or burro siding and Mothers colts must bear the bur den of the day
 Iron Springs is another summer and health resort which is just now be- ginning to reach the Zenith of it's glo- " and ultimate uses. The improve ments this year are much greater than ever before. as well as the number of visitors reveling in it's healthfuI wat CTS. Tent-houses. and those of the most substantial character for campers are in great abundance. The drives and walks about the place have also re- ceived more attention than formerly and the springs and waters are taking on considerable metropolitan import ance. These improvements and other propositions for the receiving and car ing for visitors in a comfortable man. ner is to be followed up. as each re- curing season sees a larger number of visitors and health seekers than the preceding one.
 Another little pleasure grounds and resort right here in the edge of town is "Murphy's Drive" This is a pretty and hard boulevard road and closing around a mountain settlement or the southern limits of the city. and here much exhilirating excitement and pleasure is derived from spin around the road in autos, motorcycles and teams of buggies. The diameter of the mountain from the road is over a mile, it having been dug and cut away with the level of the approach. and the distance around is more than two miles. It was a magnanimous spirit and notable impulse in the mind and heart of MT. Murphy in going to this expense for the public good.
 But this is not all in the way of fas- cinations and pastimes for the local and public good. There are the old workings of mines abounding in all directions from town. Lynch and Gran ite creeks above and south of the city probably being the most ancient of any. Gold was discovered in these two creeks more than fifty years ago and have received predatory attention ever since. The gold was coarse and in the early days and developments mug gets weighing more than S100 were washed out. This was by the simple method of pan and rakes. such a thing as lumber for making sluice boxes be- ing unheard of at the time. Later on. however. when the fame of the rich gold diggings spread through the land. and thousands of miners and others Hooked to it's rich precincts. saw mills were erected and then the real first mining began. No correct estimate can ever be had as to the amount of gold bullion the two creeks turned out. only it can be guessed at as millions. Then the country was wild and eat ables from the outside world were