The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-08-10
ENJOYS LIFE
ON BORDER
Member of Utah Regiment Tells of
Conditions at Nogales-

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Roy Williams. a son Of Mr.. ano
Mrs. w. F. Williams of this city
writes an interesting letter to his
mother, in which he states he is en-
joying life on the border. He is a
lieutenant Of the Second Utah caval-
ny. The letter. in part, is as follows:
GAS 10 our comforts and discom-
forts here, outside OF being away
from home. friends and relatives it
is rather pleasant ! have just
enough exercise TO give me good
appetite for three good meals day.
We are now camped on the hills
northeast of Nogales, from which
point we can overlook the surround
ing country for miles and miles. To
the east Of us is quite large valley,
while to the north are the rolling
hills of Arizona. | might say here
that this country here as far as you
can see is rolling hills and on account
OF the rains that we have here al
most every afternoon at this season
of the year, the hills are green
and look very beautiful and make a
picture we'll worth seeing. To the
west and southwest are most Of the
military camps, stretched across the
rolling hills, and TO see the camps
and here and there column of in
fantry, then perhaps a battery of ar
tillery, then a long column of cav
airy, an ambulance corps, wagon train
or an automobile train winding their |
way over hills and wales it makes a
wonderful picture indeed with the
green hills for a background. To
the southwest of us lies Nogales,
nestled in the hills, and from where
we are now camped it looks a very
city, indeed. 1t has a
of about three TO four
thousand inhabitants ! would judge,
mostly Mexican, | would say at least
DO per cent, and most of them are
sorry looking lot, and the whites that
you meet sure look good The boun-
larry line runs through about the
center of the town. There are a great
many more soldiers here than there
IRE people in the city.
"As TO flies: Yes, there are great
many Of them here, but we do not {
iufrer particularly from them All
,ook houses are made of screen so y
hat eatables are kept from the flies, ,
which is the most important thing. !
)ur camp and surroundings are kept 1
perfectly clean; in fact, not the small
st particle is allowed TO be thrown c
m the ground, all scraps from the kit
hen and mess tables is burned with
ut the least delay, making our camp
erfectly sanitary and as fer as
now there is not sick person in
ur organization. Our camp is
ure a model one, and the fact that I
ie are located as we are on hill q
iakes il almost perfect one. We !
ave water piped TO all parts of it,
18th good shower baths on each cor y
er.
"Rain: Yes, it rains. To be frank
18th you ! never saw real rain "A
.orm before | came down here | a
link deluge would be more proper. "
owever these rains are simply fine 8
nd everybody enjoys them immense -
e. They come nearly every afternoon y
. They are kind of msytery TO
me days heavy storms. while other O
mes just light showers. 1t will be 81
ear, without a cloud in the sky,
hen all at once the wind will start
blow and cloud will drift across
e sky and in very few minutes d
will be raining and the wind blow X
K a gale, accompanied with the M
ost beautiful and thrilling electri- Of
] storms you could imagine Every he
orm is accompanied with thunder
ID lightning, and one would have L
see one of these storms to realize
nat it really is, as never saw any
ing like them until | came here. n
lese storms go as quickly as they
me, and very rarely last more than
teen or twenty minutes Some
mes they do considerable damage.
bout the only damage they have
ne in military camps so far is to q,
oek down few tents and give some VI
the men good soaking, but as eN
e sunshine follows the rains they IN
on dry. But the rains make it so mi
lch nicer and the nights are simply tn
eat; the moist damp air gives you
ch pleasant languid feeling that