Arizona republican., 1910-03-19
MESA READY FUR VISITORS Gates of the City Thrown
 Wide Open ARIZONA TOUR INCOMPLETE
Until Gem City Has Been Seen. Some of the Things Which Will Burst Upon the Vision of the Trade Excursionists.

If you don't see what you want ask samples. The stock is guaranteed to be as represented.
 One hour is not much time-only sixty minutes It is impossible for the Mesa committees to show their hun dreds of points of advantage in sixty minutes.
 more important features of the Mesa section may present themselves i'm pressively brief statement is made which is worth pasting in the hat.
 When the visitors get off their train this morning at Mesa they will be leaving the route which is soon to be made into d transcontinental railway and one which will place Mesa several miles nearer Los Angeles The trans continental line is a fact that the res idents do not wish to overlook for if is next in importance to the great Roosevelt reservoir which is to furnish the life giving waters to this section.
 As the visitors pass up Macdonald street and look east toward the hills they will see the location of mines in operation which are increasing both in numbers and in production. The sig niticance of this is that they furnish a near market for a considerable num- Der of the products of this valley.
 When Main street is reached the fact may be pointed out to them that that street continues east for sixty bo ntai in lrfn mobile road in America The road leads to Roosevelt the site of the Ton to dam the second largest reservoir in the world. where the water will be backed up Tonto creek for twenty five miles and the dam when once complet- ed and full of water will irrigate the entire Salt River valley for three years without another drop Of rainfall
 The first stop will be made at the Chandler court. This is the most beau tifuI one story building in Arizona. It is fitted with hot and cold air plant and is one of the show places of our town.
 The Toggerv in the west half of the building is Mesas first department store and the show windows contain more square feet of plate glass than any store in the territory.
 Across the street south of the Chan dler court is the Mesa City bank That institution passed through the flurry of 1907 without tremble and cash ier's check was thing unknown De- posits s275.00O.
 If the visitors had time to call at the Lesueur and company's store which is rated by Dun and Bradstreet at s125.- coo they would see concern doing quarter of a million dollars worth of business a year.
 In the event that the visitors arrive on schedule time they will have miss ed seeing the stage leave for Roose- welt on it's daily trip but it will be interesting to know that the Mesa Stage company. sth headuusrters at this place operates over 334 miles Of mountain, roads carrying mail and passengers and fast freight
 The excavation on Macdonald street directly east of the Mesa City bank may appear little unsightly perhaps but that is the foundation for the Mahoney block which will commence building immediately at a cost of s16.- GOO.
 Some of the visitors will in all prob ability be acquainted with members of the Shattuck- -Nimmo Warehouse com pany. one Of whose important branch eS is located at this place. This con cern has paid out approximately s95.- 200 for labor in this vicinity in tie handling of the freight. The handling