Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-10-17
LETTER FROM ARIZONA
Tucson, Arizona, Oct. 5; 1916
734 N. 9Th Ave.
My Dear Friends

My Dear Friends:-
The Pilot did not reach me this week
and, like all other friends, who on
leaving Wausau, take the Pilot" when
it does not come we miss it very
much. For the Pilot is like a good let
ter from a dear friend who writes
weekly and tells the news of all ones
intimate friends.
We are settled here in Tucson but I
want to say right now, Wisconsin is
good enough for us. The climate
may be all they claim it is and the
mountains are wonderful; but the ever
blowing alkali dust, and the lack of
sizable shade trees and a green sur
rounding country, is not made happily
endurable by climate alone.
Tucson is city of about $4,000, sit
uated on the desert and almost sur
rounded by mountains. The noun.
tains really are wonderful and never
tire of looking at them. Later, we are
told, they are snow-capped. The bust
ness section of Tucson is very well
built up. The stores are as good as
our best ones, and one or two much
better than our best. The business
section is we'll lighted with the same
system we have in Wausau, but there
it ends, unlike Wausau; as soon as
you leave the business section the
streets are very poorly lighted. The
city is well laid out; the avenues run
ming north and south and the streets,
east and west. But there are very
few street signs and it is hard to get
about I aclynA uTou of 10 DIV nt1A
morning and remarked that it was
hard to get about when the streets
were not marked. She told me that at
one time the streets had all been
marked; but, that at different times,
the boys had made raids on the signs
and changed them, and that last
Halloween they finally about finished
the signs of the city. But if you ask
your way the residents tell you the
streets by name.
The people here are most friendly
and hospitable and l am sure we will
like it here when wei was going to
say, begin to feel at home, but 1 don't
think we will ever feel at home any
place but in Wausau.
You will be interested to know that on
our way here we spent day with Mr..
and Mrs. Zahn in Ell Paso. Itcertainly did
seem good to see their familiar faces
again. They have a beautiful little
bungalow there and such pretty
yard. They took us for a long auto
ride about the city of Ell Paso and out
to Fort Bliss, where we saw $4,000
soldiers, more or less, encamped. We
drove down the Rio Grande and looked
over into Juarez. 1t seemed strange
to us to see soldiers patrolling all
public buildings in Ell Paso. From
the looks of the camps on the Mesa at
Fort Bliss, | think the soldiers will be
very glad when the order comes for
them to return to their own home
state. Mr.. Zahn was very busy work
ing on advertising for the irrigation
congress, which is to be held in Ell
Paso this month. Among other at
fractions they are to have regular
| Mexican village, with the natives
weaving, making baskets, feather
work, etc.
| This city has many MeXicans as
well as Indians and negroes. The ne
groes are not allowed to attend the
same school as the white children,
so have schools of their own.
| / have said nothing of the univer-
sity, which is located here; but this
is long letter for me and may write
again. AGNES B. MURRAY.