Arizona republican., 1916-02-20
A Hike to Roosevelt
 By Two Tenderfeet

Then and only then did l really agree with those deathless words of New ' ork's most famous humorist and at times anti-suffragist, that "woman's place is by the ovep.'
 Tired though we were, the dead would have risen to see that great white moon climb slowly over the hill and light the surface of those ruddy rocks so that all seemed the setting for some grand and lofty scene that should live in the minds of the behold CTS forever. We made our hunks in the cool shadow of the shed and we were just thinking of the possibilities of sleep when the youngest Thompson be- gan to vail Mr. Thompson. who had been digging q well all day aQd seemed tired enough to be glad to get all the sleep he could, came and took the wailing young one from his weary mothers arms and then the gentle man, rocking back and forth in the un- painted rockinSA chair, crooned some quaint lullaby that soon had the desir- el effect My brother leaned over to me just as l thought We were both asleep and said with a smile that l could feel 1 get your gOat?'' Next morning we were on our way. for what We had planned to be the sec l ond stage of our hike and it was not long before We were on that long de- captive road that leads to Mormon l Flats. Again we were sladdened by , the sight of water and in a few min utes we were eagerly hastening to- ard the bank for a most refreshing swim. There by the bank Of the river n one of the most beautiful places We ! found q solitary hunger who urged us
 @ take dinner with him. But haste 10 finish our journey made Us thought l less of another's loneliness and We de | cined and hurried on our way. On and
 on we climbed up the hill that leads to 1 Fish Creek and l was beginning to be
 faint from hunger. Just as l had made 1 up my mind tO stop the first auto and ! get .l bite to eat, who should come ill sight but old Cliff Hemperle who runs
 the big auto truck from Mesa to
 Roosevelt. He had been unable to give
 us lit the day before because he was overloaded by six hundred pounds i but We sisnaled him and at his nodded
 consent We swung aboard absolutely , happy. Much to our joy we learned
 that te was going clear through and
 would be glad 10 take us along. Then
 we struck the Mex store at Tortilla
 and right here 1 want to ask a Oues- hon, bid yoU ever when you were hot
 and tired and hungry. break into and
 consume the contents of a can of Rari- lett lears? If you haven't and are
 anything of an ericure you have got
 something coming. If you don't be-
 iic>e me. try il and see for yourself i Soon we began tO make our way to-
 ward Fish Creek and slowly and with
 foot on the brake we slid down that
 long hin. There lay the valley. far.
 far below with ihe tiny white hotel
 spread out oyer the warm. red sand.
 in another moment We were beside the | hote! porch and thousands of feet
 above rose the peak of that lnarveIo;.s
 hill. Soon around the curve oi the
 road swung that weird pile of rock.
 promptly chrstened the Acropolis by
 Us. That square shaped mass with it's
 pillar like markings made me think or
 that glorious building in that hot and distant land where thousands of years ago the workmen of Pericles raised the structure that was to be known to gen erations yet unborn as the perfect building. And here in the mountains i of Arizona the Great Architect with 1 the sand as his chisel and the glacier
 as his hammer had carved out Par thenon more wonderful and mysterious than that gem on the Grecian f,iU
 AWed as We were by the works of Nature we strained our eyes to cat,. ! q glimpse of the dam. The road took
 turn after turn and still it lay in the shadow of some mountain spur At
 'ast, quite unexpectedly, that huge wal; of stone and cement flashed out from
 behind a hill and we gazed and gazed
 to impress on our minds forever that glorious sight.
 [ could write a small volume about our six weeks stay in the Dam cl., how We worked as laborers and muclied