Arizona republican., 1908-02-10
DEVELOPING
 ENTHUSIASM
Seeing is Believing and
 Thayer Showed Them
But the Game Was too Strenuous for Some of
 Them, Who Dropped Out.

Yesterday was a great day for lot of Phoenix business men of one line and another, and it was also a great day for the Relief gold mine. for that big. sinuous yellow lined hole in the ground now has a hundred friends and personal acquaintances among the business men of Phoenix. who can vouch for its character where twenty four hours ago it only had a half a dozen. This is not due to any change or added virtues the mine has acquir- ed, but it is due solely to the fact that the Phoenix gentlemen had never be- fore been introduced. and being mod est lot they had never before sought acquaintance with it.
 Ezra w. Thayer, however, Vouched for the good character of the mine recommended the acceptance of its ac- quaintance and friendship and arrang- ed the meeting yesterday when the formal courtesies Were exchanged. By reason of the ensuing fclicities and the mutual admiration that was immedi ately brought into being MT. Thayer
 
 hundred men on the Phoenix side have extended to him their personal thanks for a day that gave them a bit of pieasurablc excitement and also removed a few scales from their pusi- ness eyes so their vision is clearer in respect of the mineral possibilities of this immediate section.
 As previously announced yesterday was the occasion of Mir. Thayers ov- erland, business mems excursion to the Relief mine. 23- miles northwest of Phoenix, at the expense of Mir Thayer except for such guests as furnished their own conveyance. and the man agement of the Relief which furnished the mIne for the people to look at and tho finest kind of a camp dinner for the people to eat. The excursion was a glittering success. judged as the jury is instructed to decide every case namely. by the preponderence of the evidence. IL was not entirely one-sid- ed. for while over fifty visitors saw what they went to See. and more too. another twenty-five like Moses. got no further than Nebo and could only peep over into the promised land. This bunch wheeled back when the future looked too fcrbidding and swore the environs of the Relief mine were peO- pied with a horde of reckless giants of whom Mir. Thayer was the big cap-i-tan.
 All of which means that MT. Thayer had so much on hand in getting the procession started yesterday morning, that the vanguard got a few laps in the lead he lost control of his forces and the caravan wheeled out on the desert like a rudderless ship in mid ocean. was scattered like the four winds Of heaven and the fotsam and jetsam drifted about through the sage brush until about one-third of the party got turned back in the direction whence 1t came. and kept on going
 But in the main the influence Of mind over matter prevailed. as it all ways should. The Relief mine was in full view up on the distant hillside and it's telepathic welcome was in- stinctively responded to by the half hundred heretofore mentioned Re gardless of cacti. sage brush and sand dunes they steered for the welcome port and driftcd in between II and r o'clock, eleventeen different kinds of conveyances. from single seaters to a thorOughbrace stage. with "a big Ram bier automobile well toward the head of the procession, Chauffeur Hanson on the bridge. Each came by a diff ferent road. or made one for itself, but the main point is that they got there.
 After the Arizona canal is crossed the Frog Tanks road bears almost due north in the general direction of the mine. but a little to the east and the big New river wash with quite pre-