Arizona republican., 1913-04-07
SCR|bES SEE
 SUMMER CAMP
Visit of Phoenix NeWSpa- pclmen to Mountain Springs Brings That Pleasant Spot to Notice of Public.

Pronounced the best "scribes' lun- rheon' of the series so far, although lot partaken of by the whole club. was inc mountain camp grubstake given by George Hageman yesterday at the camp of Francis Frazier at Mountain Springs in the McDOwells. Frazier and Hageman have a place out there. and George decided the best way to let people know about il is to let some .eyes of the people" see it. So he in Nited representatives of the three most prominent Phoenix papers and Secre tary Harry Welch of the board of trade 10 take motor ride with him yesterday to the camp. Honest the scribblers couldn't tell which went bet ter. the cool mountain air or the hot mountain grub. But about Mountain Springs.
 The Springs is summer resort. In the embryo. perhaps. but still sum luer resort. It is to be developed into a campers and cottagers paradise Which is very appropriate as the sit" js high on the north wall of the noun tain ringed Paradise valley The alti 1ude is about $500 feet. very import ant asset. as it assures cool. clean mountain air all the time. Yesterday at the best o'1 Sol could do. he failed io make it uncomfortable.
 The camp has been occupied by Fra Zier for a number of years He has devoted a great deal of time to work ing out q water system. and to that end has sunk tunnels and drifted through solid granite in search of the proper place to tap the immense water supply the mountain holds. on the discovery of a permanent supply of the pure soft water, depends the possi- bility of developing Mountain Springs as a camping resort. In addition to work on the tunnels Frazier and his two men have built about five miles of good road down into the bed of the val lev. This road is a wonder in construc- ion and angles up through q steep canyon with mathematical complica- lions fit to turn the head. It is safe however. for all the way it fs founded on the rock of the mountain and built strongly against wa shing. It lacks only Surfacing to make it one of the fin est bits of mountain road in the state. It is not advisable vet for any and all sorts of machines to try the ascent. but once the road is fixed anybody can drive it with most any kind of car.
 The camp is located on the steep side of a headland jutting out from the main range of the McDoWells and hid den mp two or three miles on rocky canyon. There is just room at the camp site for some tents, the spring. a big cottonwood tree and small garden. of that garden, more anon Above the camp is the site of proposed hotel or clubhouse, where the COnfigurations of some huge peaks make it possible to look clear across the Paradise valley to the White Tanks and eastward across the Verde valley with Fort Mcdowell by the riverside and the FOur Peaks and Superstition making high back ground. At this point. where there is fl high saddle between two mountains the wind blows the year round and it is always cool, except in winter, when it is cold.
 The proposition of building and sur facing the road from Phoenix twenty five miles to Mountain Spring, and that of getting a large supply of the soft mountain water will be small mat = ters beside the business of making the people of Phoenix and Arizona recog niZe the value of such d place as the summer vacation spot. But this is not to feature this particular spring alone According to Hageman there are dog ens of places just as good all around Phoenix and accessible for we ek end and over night visits. But this is the first place that has been actually worked upon and the first place tO which the public interest and attention has been called. As a part of the Stav-in- Arizona campaingn. the eX- plotting of such places as Mountain Springs is directly in line with the agi- tation recently started by the board ol trade and the Phoenix papers to keer