Arizona republican., 1912-06-16

zona crosscut canal The ranch con-
 sists of fifteen acres in fine bearing
 trees of several varieties of oranges
 together with plots in grape fruit and
 lemons There are 27 acres unplant- , ed, which will be developed as soon
 as the work can be laid out. The
 consideration, s2O,OOO, will give some idea of the accepted value of the
 tract. If a less persistent man than
 MT. Stewart had charge of the nego-
 tiations at this end of the line the
 deal probably would not have been
 consummated After MT. Van Moss
 ervelde left here MT. Stewart tried
 to keep constantly in touch with him
 through the capitals of Europe. Sev-
 eral times he thought he had lost him and after the sinking of the Ti-
 tanic he thought the orange deal was all off for he believed for some time
 that Mir Van Mosservelde was among
 those who went down. But a little
 later he heard from him and learned
 that he had not gone out on the
 maiden and last voyage of that ill 1 fated steamer.
 MT. Van MosSerVelde can well be | proud of his acquisition, for it is one 1 of the best laid out fruit farms in | this section. It is understood several | of his relatives plan on coming to 1 Arizona soon to engage in the same business. The family is well known in Belgium where the Van Mosser- veldes have been noted for many 1 years as financierS.
 In conversation with Republican reported last night, the traveller spoke of his journeys into the wilds of South Africa. His wanderings were not confined to districts within reach of a telegraph and some of his ex- periences on trek have been far from the parlor kind.
 After leaving America last fall, Mir van Mosservelde sailed for his native land. There he met a party of hunt CTS who had an engagement to trail South African jungles with cinema tograph for the purpose of taking intimate views of big game in action. Mir Van Mosservelde with the idea of looking over fruit growing prospects l in the newly opened country and also the desire to partake of the excite | ment of a big game hunt joined the l troup.
 Leaving CapetoWn under the lead 1 ership of Lieut.. GretZ of the German army with an outfit for a stay of 1 several months in the veldt. the party l travelled by train to a point near the | rail end. There seventy native DOT | ters were secured to carry the dun rage ana the desert safari was or
 ganized. It would take a book to d"- | tail all ;he interesting things that | happened and the strange sights they | saw i'i the woods and GIOng saV:,2e . l tri hes ct negroes.
 1 In all the story several incidents stand oGt claiming more than or'lia- ary rotiCa At one of the caInl's
 where pictures of wood life were be- | ing taken an operator of the moving picture machine was attacked by a | buffalo. Before the rush of the ponderOus brute could be stopped, he | had reached the fleeing man. Run ming him down with his sharp horns, 1 the buffalo gored the poor fellow so | that he died from cruel wounds soon l afterWard. The accident cast a sOr | roWful shadow over the entire party | from his comrades to the most loWly l burden bearer who were very friend 1 ly toward the unlucky adventurer. l The unfortunate man was buried near | his death place in the heart of the l Congo jungle.
 After traversing the tropical forests of French Congo the hunters plunged | into the widest part of their trek. All the good game trails of the north
 ern Colony, Rhodesia and British East | A frin aynInra6 py9 To1aC n
 odd equatorial plants and animal life posed more or less unconsciOusly for the clicking camera. The naturalsts 1 secured bales of valuable specimens and books full of notes, while the pleasure seekers of the party absorb
 ed the strange lore of the only re- maining beyond the frontier"
 The bag when it was finally tallied,
 included many buffaloes, an elephant apiece for MT. Van MOsservelde and
 the lieutenant beside prize lions the l result of close shooting by several of the travellers. The list of smaller | game would sound like a naturalist journal. for numerous deer. antelope and other grass feeders found their way to the cooking pot as well as members of the monkey tribe, which
 strange to say, proved most sue culent eating.
 It was immediately upon leaving South Africa, that the Belgian set
 sail for the most hospitable shores of
 the United States. especially that sec tion of the sovereign states called Arizona.
 l Speaking of the latter county, MT Van Mosservelde said that he was surprised at the similarity of the great southwestern desert with Cape
 Colony. The climates are identical
 The needs of both countries for ir-
 rigation to insure crops is natura
 deduction Of the two he thinks this
 the better developed community botf
 as to work already done and that pre-
 dicted by the industry of the peo-
 pie. Natural products are practically the same in both regions, except foi
 the diamonds mined at Kimberly But
 the new grower says Phoenix is gooC
 enough as a jewel to set off the prosperous countryside around it.
 NO CHANGE TO TALK.
 Douglas Fairbanks. out in Chicago