Arizona republican., 1911-02-24

raw and undeveloped Pennsylvania
boy. in fact. exceedingly undevcloped.
since at the time he was barely seven
years of age, but who rapidly devel-
oped into a leading and prominent
citizen of Tucson, holding i'm 1871
the position of court Interpreter to
the court there. When interviewed
yesterday afternoon at the CONNER
cial he spoke Apache as fluently
as an ordinary man speaks his ma
tive tongue. and got off few In
dian phrases that may have been CO.
herent enough but certainly had 4
fearful and avcsome sound. Nobody
knows what he said. meant or had
reference to at the time. Mr.. Specr
was the owner OF the Phoenix Wood
and Coal company until two years
| ago and has since been living at
| Long Beach. California.
A Med. Brooks. manager of the
! O'Rourkc Construction company.
I came down from Roosevelt yester-
! day afternoon and registered at the
| Ford. His sole object i'm coming was
to attend the grand hop of the
| Shriners. and after the tremendous
work his company has finished at
| Roosevelt a little diversion is GER
tainly coming to him. When asked
| about the work there he replied I'VE
are all through" simple little SEN
tcnce which means that the great
dam of the Reclamation Project has
been completed. Mr.. Brooks himself
says this. The work was carried on
under great difficulty. which may he
appreciated when it is learned that
during the months of February.
March and April. 1909. when cOndi-
tiOns were most favorable for the
contractors. an average Of 1850 Gu
bic yards Of masonry was made for
each month There are 100000 cubic
yards i'm the completed structure and
had the contractors been able to
carry on the entire project at this
rate the building of the dam would
have required about 10 months In
stead of the four years and five
months which was the time actually.
taken to complete the contract.
Messrs ORourlIc and SteinmitZ are
still at Roosevelt experimenting.
with Mr.. Brooks. the removal of all
the company's machinery which will
be shipped from Mesa.
+. II. Mansfield. representing the
PittsburG Crushed Steel company.
was coming West the other day en-
route TO Los Angeles over the South
ern Pacific. The train was making
speed over the plains of New Mexico.
when a wordy gentleman. who de-
clared his destination to be Phoenix.
sat down beside him and began to
talk. He proved to be an Arizona
Booster. the very king of Arizona
Boosters. and his descriptions of the
Territory in general and of Phoenix
in particular. we're So glowing that
Mr.. Mansfield had to stop off to
find ont what the country really
looked like He came to the Annex
last Wednesday morning and left
last evening for Los Angeles, car
ryins with him an impression which
viii enable him To out-talk the talk
ative one should thcy ever meet
again. for Mr.. Mansfield is numbered
among our new converts. not one of
whom was ever known to backslide
Chss. Il. Sigh q brother of DIR. |
Sigh. arrived Monday from Grand |
Rapids. Michigan. to visit his broth |
er and look over some orange lands |
which they hold together MIR Sigh |
stops at the Adams Annex. and said |
last evening that Canaan was moth |
ing compared To- the Salt River VAL |
Icy. They are not raising oranges |
at Grand Rapids this time of year. |
and Phoenix must seem very attrac-
tive to a poor Fastener.
T.. Carrillo Of the engineering de-
partmcnt OF the Southern Pacific ar
rived here Wednesday evening and /
gave an interesting account Of the
work being carried on between
Vinkleman and Kelvin. where the
railroad company is substituting
heavy steel for the old track. which
was too light for the heavy ore
trains which run from the Ray Con-
solidated TO the smelter He speaks
with great enthusiasm Of all the ap-
pointments Of the new smelter. and
says its machinery is the largest he
has ever seen. The new smelter will
have a daily capacity of 10000 tons.
Mr.. Garlic is stopping at the Hotel