Arizona republican., 1916-11-23
THE b0OMINGEST PLACE IN ARIZONA .a. ...s,ta
 |SSUPER|OR THE CENTER OF ACTIVITY

The town of Superior is a real little town. There are several reasons for this. One is that it has a real honest to goodness payroll from the Magma mine behind it which insures plenty of steady prosperity for the size of the town. Another is the bunch Of real honest to goodness fellows who are in the town. behind it, and all around 1t. They are a real bunch of men in that little town. Good fellows, all of them, and good boosters.
 They are for Superior now, then, and all the time, and they show it all the time Any time you run into town that has a live bunch of live men who are always on the lookout to give their own little city a boost, you find 9. real little city, and that is what Superior is in the embryo.
 YOU WANT TO COME BACK
 When a stranger comes into that town. the first thing he notices is the genuinely How do you do. glad to meet you spirit that is manifested by every one you meet. Merchant business man. miner. mine owner and everyone else, young old and mid Hing. And they are glad to see you. Not only that but they would like to have you stay. if you cant stay for
 
 visit them some time anyway, and if there is a possible chance you will do so, for you ike the place. and you like the men and you like the country with its great towering battlements in front Of you. guarding the mineral treasure which nature had held in bond for ages and ages. and which are being torn from her bowels to give life and wealth and health to the inhabitants of the little town below, nestling at the foot of these great peaks. while on the other side the towering heights of old Picket Post guards the entrance 10 this great treasure trove.
 4 BUSY TOWN
 As You drive up the main street which but few short years ago was a l barren mesa covered with cactus mesquite and other desert vegetation a busy scene presents itself to the ! eye. A scene of activity, building | automobiles crowding the thorough 1 fare. men. miners. investors business men and the little brown and black dogs. yes. Superior has them also, of ! many colOrs and varieties, but then | what town has not.
 That Superior and the district about | it are on the verge of a regular life sized mining and business boom, is | evident to the most casual observer l who will take the trouble to make g | little trip over the hills to the scene | of this little tale.
 | When the boom comes. and som' | think that t has already arrived, ther, | vii be mighty things stirring in tn, ! hills and on the streets of this little | city. Already the talk Is in the ali and the signs are evident on ever. aide Hotels and rooming houses arr full of visitors. mining men. promoters
 capitalists. brokers from the east miners and prospectors who 'hae' claims here and there any ever, where. to sell. option. trade or eX
 change Almost everyone You mee either has mine to sell or wants L ouy one
 MINES GALORE
 1 Everybody in town or in the coun try about. has claim or d group 0 claims or an interest in some. whicl Ire either immediately adjoining tn
 Magma mine. or else are in the clos vicinity. Also all those who hav not these fortunate holdings are jus as well content for they own most 0 he country about the old Silver King
 md have a mine that will far excee' in richness and values the famous oil bonanza And so the talk goes. THE REAL WORTH BACK OF r
 But-with all this fact and fancy there remains the real feature o present conditions. There is no doub that behind it all there is the mak ing of q great mining district abou Superior, which many predict will b the greatest in all of this great min eral state Already the district ha produced two great mines. in the pas