Arizona republican., 1910-07-30
Glendale
 Department
GATHER RETURNS FROM
 tLKS GRAND LODGE
Says He Had Good Time, But Is
 Glad to Be at Home.

Cater Is Home" was the word passed from mouth to mouth of the
 stay-in- Phoenix Elks yesterday and
 the local office of the Southern Pa | cific was the scene of about three million impromptu receptions through l out the day. with Agent A. R. Cater as the receptee and individual rep resentatives of the Best People or i Earth as receptOrs, or words tC | that effect. For be it known that i MT. Cater was one of the shining | lights upont he recent statehood spe- | cial of the Arizona Elks which went ! to Detroit upon the occasion of the 1 grand lodge session held in the Mich | igan city.
 And to say that I had a good time and that all who went upon the triI
 had a good time is putting it very mildly" said MT. Cater. as he bit off the end of a cigar which had gone | out dozen times and turned to an swer an inquiry over the telephone relative to commodity rates to Buck eye But a good part of that good | time we AriZonians made for our selves I've no grOuch on. but the reception committee in Detroit had no more idea of what we longhorns might consider hospitality and real downright entertainment than they have of the vast resources of Arizona generally and the Salt River Valley particularly The way we were en- tertained in Los Angeles was kingly in comparison with what was in store for us in Detroit.
 Those people up there think of Arizona as a vast expanse of desert lands. over which roaming Indians and cowboys and outlaws, with a liberal sprinkling of copper mines and faro banks. But the Arizona statehood special personnel put a new light upon matters for them, and now they know that. while they are huddling around the gaseous coal stove and nearly freezing to death. We Arizon- ians are going around without our coats while the cattle wade knee deep through alfalfa. And all because of our educational efforts along that line.
 Why. everywhere we turned we ran into some one who had a few hundred thousand shares of some famous or infamous copper mine, and the way Joe CaSsOu handed out ad- vice to these would-Oe plutocrats was a wonder.
 "eWhat do you think of stock in the Red Top Copper mine? Jos was asked one day. Buy all you can of it It's the greatest thing on earth Joe replied. and then he confessed he had never heard of the Red Top or of any other mine with a name. that sounded like it.
 We started out for a little trip LID toward the St. Clair Flats. in tending to get back in time for the theater Well. we smoked upon the deck until along into the afternoon without noticing anything that looked particularly flat. and finally decided to ask the purSer when we would get back to Detroit.
 Why. the next stop is Port Hu- ron was the reply, and there we landed at o'clock that night. We couldn't get out until the next day at noon.
 Joe and I went on down to New York and Atlantic City, with side trips to Coney Island in between Joe passed the time in buying up the visi- ble supply of picture postals and Tn mailing them to Phoenix. There must be thousands of these cards in Phoe- nix I've seen a few of them since I got home.
 aIt was a great trip and it will mean incaIculable value to Phoenix because of the publicity. but I'm mighty glad to be back and I'm going to stay at home now for a while