Arizona republican., 1910-12-01
WATER CARNIVAL FOR
 CASTLE HOT SPRINGS
A Novel Feature Event for Christmas
 in the Mountain Resort.

Guests are arriving daily now at ! Castle Hot Springs. Among the most
 recent arrivals are MT George w. Skinner and nurse of Denver and Mir. John P. Carey of Colorado Springs. Thanksgiving was very pleasantly spent by the guests, and in the even ing a beautifully appointed dinner was served en famiIle, after which the evening was spent at cards. Mrs. J. C. Adams and Mir. and Mrs. Rogers motored up from Phoenix on Sunday, staying over until Monday.
 A water" carnival is being planned for Christmas, and as quite a number of people are expecting to spend the holidays at this popular resort, very gay and pleasant time is anticipated. The suggestion of a water" carnival in the heart of a mountain fastness. where the map shows nothing damper than dry washes and granite crags, may fill the minds of some readers with curiosity, as it would to read of a cowboy tournament in Venice. It is not at all unlikely that some enter prising person could give a wild west show in Venice if he tried, for there are some places where the city touches dry land, and because it is given over in the main to canals, is no reason why the people should live in and on the water all the time.
 Whether this is so or not, it is known that Castle Hot Springs is well provided with water, even if it does rn hn ffc af comes out of the ground at the top of the hill, so it can be run to wher- ever it is desired. That's the reason that the Castle Hot Springs company can hold d water carnival better than anybody else in Arizona where there is anybody interested in carnivals. It can get 100 per cent of use out of all the water furnished by the big, gIIsh- ing hot springs.
 The water rolls down the little pro- tected mountain gulch, which is one of a thousand that run into the Gas tie Creek canyon, filling in its course a series of artificial basins, eXcavated and walled up and kept as neat and clean as a fountain. The lower basin has been constructed for the specific purpose of aquatic sports and is deep enough for the pleasure of the best swimmers, and shallow enough in places for the timid. It is also large enough for a limited boat ride and for all the amusements with boxes and barrels and floats and whatever paraphernalia is employed in water carnival.
 Perhaps the most unique feature of the place is that the water is of a most delightful temperature for bath ing on the coldest days of all the year. The upper basins are too warm for the comfort of many. but the big pond at the lower end is just the right temperature for delightful bath and the little gulch is so proteced from the winds. when there are any, that the bathers experience no danger of colds in going from the pool to the we'll appointed bathhouse.
 The further novelty of the event is that it will occur on Christmas day, a date that most people associate with snow and ice, fireplaces and back logs. and when the last sport thought of is aquatic. But things are differ ent in Arizona, and especially at Cas- tie Hot Springs, where almost every thing is just a little different" from anywhere else, and wherefore, it's growing popularity.