Arizona republican., 1909-12-17
THE CHANGE VISIT
 0F CHAs. W. H|BBARD
Sunset Magazine Manager Enthusiastic
 Over Prospects of This Valley.

Charles w. Hubbard. manager of the Southwestern department of the Sun set magazine. arrived here yesterday afternoon, coming on the same train with Phil Gordon of San Francisco. passenger agent of the Washington Sunset route, and James H. P. Mason of Los Angeles. travelling passenger agent of the same road Messrs. Cor don and Mason were in pursuance of routine official duties. MT. Hubbard came here more by chance than design. He started from his Los Angeles home to meet R .. Stubbs, assistant general freight and passenger agent of the Southern Pacific at Tucson. but that gentleman had been suddenly called away just before he arrived. Then he decided to come to Phoenix and shoot ducks with Superintendent c. NJ. Scott of the M. and P When he arrived here he found Mir Scott had left town also for a couple of days. At first he decided to go right back to Los An geles but he met Captain Crenshaw. who convinced him that if he did so the railroad officials at that end Of the line would probably hear of it and runaway. too. MT Hubbard decided then that the best way he could get into regular action again would be to stop somewhere until somebody he wanted to see happened to come along, and then he could make a new start, so he proposes to stay here until Su- perintendent Scott returns no matter how long it is.
 MT. Hubbard will be remembered by many who have met him on his form CT visits here. in connection with his work of advertising the territory con- tiguous to Southern Pacific lines and boosting the Sunset magazine. which is a high class periodical with an admitted mission of not only fur nishing good reading matter but help, ing along Southern Pacific enterprises No visitor comes to Phoenix who has a better appreciation of this valley and it's certain future, than MT. Hib- bard. and one cannot well be more en- thusiaStic. His methods of advertis- ing are also along broad lines. His mission is to encourage settlement in the great west. and his highest aim is to put new settlers in just the particu- lar locality they want. If person writes to him asking for information for a certain climate or a certain pur- pose. he sends him the literature that he believes most nearly meets his ne- cessities There is along the length of the $. P. lines almost every sort of country and climate in the world, and it is immateral to MT. Hubbard whether the new settler stops in Phoe- nix. Fl Paso. Yuma, Indio or the San Joaquin valley. If there is a better place in the territory of some other road he is not backward in sending them there, for it is only question of their acknowledging appreciation and making friends both for him and the interests he serves.
 It was this idea that impelled him to suggest to the Phoenix board of trade the making of citrus display in the Southern Pacific offices in Los Angeles during the holidays. By chance he got fine cluser of fruit and hung it in the offices It attracted so much attention the idea occurred to him that it would make d fine Christmas deco ration to ornament the offices with citrus fruit from the three early" sec tions along the s. P. lines. namely the Porterville. the Yuma and the Salt river valley sections. The idea was agreeable to his associates in the in formation bureau and railroad offices. all being in the same building. and the invitation was extended. There is no place in Los Angeles probably where more people of q desirable class will view the fruit in a given length of time. And there is no expense attached except sending the fruit
 Mir. Hubbard says that the work of his office, the information bureau, is