Arizona republican., 1910-03-20
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What They Saw of the Val ley Brought Forth Ex- pressions of Satisfaction and a Desire to See More of it

Cater and Elliott Evans, who went to Maricopa the night before, and by General A. J. Sampson. c. M. Scott and J. Fred Cleaveland. who picked them up at Mesa City. the Los An geles excursion party arrived in Phoenix yesterday at about the sched- ule hour. and as quickly as possible the members were transferred to automobiles for a thirty mile ride through the heart of the Salt River valley. The visitors made the trip, were pleased with 1t, and said they were sorry they could not stay here a week and left between l and o'clock for the north. That is about all the news there is in the visit. The rest is mere incident and some comments may be repeated as indi- cative of a whole lot that was said.
 There were about forty machines in the big procession that followed the general course outlined as fol- lows: North to and through the. h. dian school grounds; further north to Orangewood; west mile or two, north d mile, thence west to a point due north of the beet sugar factory. south to the factory: west around 1t and south to the Christy road. east short distance, south again to the Yuma road. thence back to the city via the capitol building. There were few stops made anywhere. few entered the capitol building and practically all of the visiting was done on the fly
 Among the excursionists were quite number who are well known here. in fact so intimate are the relations between Los Angeles and Arizona that almost every one of the eX- cursionists have some intimate friends in one or another of the towns vis- ited. C. G. Johnson, a Los Angeles real estate dealer. assisted Secretary Wiggins of tho Chamber of Com merce as lieutenant and was one of the most enthusiastic of the vis- itors It was his first visit and he says he expects to come back again, possibly with an eye to business. Mir. Johnson is a good judge of real estate values and he was delighted with the character of the lands and the relatively cheap prices. being es pecially impressed with the alfalfa ranches During the whole ride the party passed only one tract of un- irrigated land in it's raw or native state On learning that. these lands are held at $l56 per acre, Mir. John son said that the same character of land in the region south and east of Los Angeles is valued at $500 per acre.
 Another visitor was John s. Me Groarty. representing the Los Angeles Times. Mir McGroarty is widely known as a journalist and poet, and is also editor of the we'll known West Coast Magazine. He was once a resident of Phoenix for q short time, but had not been here for seven years. He said he was agree ably surprised at the development since then and especially. the new buildings in the city He is the au- thor of the poem dedicated to the Rough Riders and first given to the world on the occasion of the un- yelling of the O'Neill monument in Prescott. One of the incidents plan ned for the Prescott visit was the assembling of the excursionists around the monument and the reading of the poem.
 Another we'll known visitor was J. J. Byrne. western traffic manager of the Santa Fe, who is to be in charge of the excursion in a railroad way" from this point on. He comes here frequently. is well known and always welcomed.
 Will w. Jones was also in the party, but it not worth while to refer to him at length. In a sense he is home man, and though he has been gone three years, he is not weaned yet.
 Two others of the party. particular friends of General A. J. Sampson. and who rode with him on the auto trip. are Dr. Lindley of the Farmers and Merchants bank, and c. c. Stanton, a real estate dealer. Both gentle men, were amazed at what they saw. They said the truth had been told to them, but they could not ap- preciate the greatness of it until they beheld with their own eyes. They had supposed there was some good soil down here, but thought it was only little patch of a few thousand acres. and had no idea the valley was of such magnitude; and all good.
 Another visitor was Will Llewellyn. of the Llewellyn Iron Works. an in ctt that haap callinu