Arizona republican., 1917-09-03
APPRECIATE ARIZONA
 PLEADS DOCTOR HOME
 FROM MOUNTAINS

If the people of this valley only had a proper appreciation of the attractions of the adjacent mountain country, the custom of going to California for thelr vacations would become obsolete in single season. This goes both ways from the dual standpoint of economy and pleasure" said Dr. J. NJ. Swetnam who returned yesterday from his twen tv-two day vacation at the home ranch of Criswell and Boody, forty-five miles a little east of north of Roosevelt, and the last fifteen miles of which have to be covered by travellers on horseback.
 The Criswell- Boody ranch is not a public summer resort though 1t chanced that Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Con ger Miss Lena Mehan, Mrs. Snodgrass and Miss Hattie Snodgrass, were also guests during the doctors stay and togetehr with a half dozen forming the camp hosts, it was a merry party. The moral to be drawn from the story. however. is that there are dozens Of places in the same region where trav- elers for consideration less than trav- cling expenses in California, can secure entertainment and if rightly consti- tuted a lot more health and happiness. A brief description of the Criswell- Boody environment may prove inter- esting as typical of many ranches in that section.
 Approximate Sxtytwo Sections
 The firm holdings through titled ownership and leases, approximate sixty-two sections, considerable part of which is fenced. Here cattle liter ally graze on a thousand hills, in for ests of pine, black jack and scrub un- nf ho homo ranch is $500 feet and the hills around it tower 500 feet higher, so that while there is plenty of sunshine for tanning purposes. the air is cool and the nights are a delight There is game in abun- dance, in season, though like anywhere else one has to hunt for it, but mem bers of the party during the last three weeks saw bear tracks in plenty, few dear, rabbits and quail that looked suspiciously like they might bite, but the didn't Turkey creek, four miles from the camp house, though not widely known as a trout stream, fur nished the doctor with the limit catch every time he sought it's ripping fourtain, and at that he had no hlfal- Utin tackle but just an old fashined hook and line and a pocket full of grassohppers.
 A particular fact that imbedded 1t self in the doctors mind and stomach is the superior quality of the garden truck and fruit in that altitude. Farm ing land is scarce, only few acres being available in one place, but the settler who makes good use of what ground and water he has, can put be- fore the wayfarer, even though he be an expert scientific agriculturist, things that will stimulate his salivary glands more successfully than medicine, and make his instinctively reach for the pocket in which he keeps the blue rib bonS.
 Twelve Acres Cultivated
 About twelve acres are in cultivation at the home place on the ranh watere6 by irrigation from Turkey creek, SUD- plementing whatever rain may fall There are some twenty apple trees perhaps ten years old, laden now with luscious fruit. Also pears, plums quinceS, crabapples, blackberries gooseberries and-sweet sweet corr without any worms in it, corn that put!