Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-19
HASSAYAMPERS READY
FOR GRAND REUNION
BARRELS OF WATER FISHED
OUT OF CANYON
Phoenix Attorney Gives Veraclcus
History of Legend and Incident
ally Pays Eloquent Tribute to
Arizona's Resources

A big time and a glorious reunion is
anticipated by the members of the
Hassayampa club, whose annual festiV-
tiles will begin tomorrow night with
banquet at the Hollenbeck hotel. There
will be a luncheon at the Spanish gar
dens at the Hotel Redondo next Fri
day, and a picnic there the following
day. Saturday night the club will at
tend the performance at the Orpheum
theater.
John S. Mitchell, secretary of the
club, announced that the two barrels
of water from the Hassayampa river,
which were lost in an Arizona canyon,
have been recovered, will arrive in Los
Angeles today, and will be escorted to
the banquet hall by a body guard. A
large attendance Is already assured,
and all former residents of the terri
tory, as we'll as the annual summer WIS.,
itors from Arizona, are invited to sign
the register and become members of
| the club.
The Hassayampa is celebrated the
country over on account of the Indian
legend associated with the stream.
many different interpretations of the
| legend have been given and there seems
to be some confusion on the subject,
even among old residents of the ter
ritory. James w. Mccormick, a prom
inent attorney of Phoenix and true
Hassayamper, was asked his views of
the subject.
1.-THE prevailing idea is that whose
drinks of the water of this stream i'm
bibes Herewith an uncomfortable ten
dency to prevaricate," he replied, with
a smile. "Now I will give you a true
Interpretation of it,
"The first fact which tends to pro-
duce this wrong impression is that the
most temperate statements of the facts
about Arizona seem to be utterly in
credible to the uninitiated. When, for
instance, It Is stated that the alfalfa
grows an inch and half day, or for
ty inches a month, or that the alfalfa
roots are ten feet long and six feet
thick, or that hotels advertise they
make no charge for days when the sun
does not shine, or that Arizona or
anges are ready for market three weeks
before the California product and bring
almost double the price of any other
oranges, or that single copper mines
| in the territory pay profit of million
dollars a month, or that Arizona has
the most fertile soil and the greatest
mining resources and the finest climate
in the world and that 1t embraces all
the other climates of the earth-these
statements provoke a smile of in
credulity and the remark that the per-
son who makes them must have drunk
of the Hassayampa and, therefore,
cannot be expected to tell the truth.
But they are all true, just the same.
Arizona is the land of wonders. From
it's Grand Canyon and United Verde
mine, it's immense pine forests and its
numberless mines of gold and silver
on the north. to the greatest irrigation
dam and reservoir in the world. and its
Incompatible Salt River valley, whose
productiveness is unequaled, and on to
the southern border which is fringed
with mines of gold and silver it is a
land of illimitable resources and
beauty
ARIZONA is no longer a joke. and
the Hassayamper must be believed.
"The Hassayamper is a dreamer like
Columbus and Edison, and he has faith.
He is not satisfied, however, with mere
ly dreaming about moving mountains,
but does it with pick and shovel and
drill. Yet when he tells his dreams to
other people they will not believe him"