Arizona republican., 1917-05-22
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The board of army officers appointed to examine sites for cantonmehtS hds made tour of the valley looking over the possibilities of this section ana the opportunities for locating one ot the new army posts. The part consisted of Brigadier General H. A. Greene, Major s. V Ham, Col. Walker of the en- .sineers: Col. Kennedy of the medical corps. Col. Bertsch of the quartermast- CTS department. Brigadier General Green and Major Ham are regular line officers of the infantry Col. Walker, Col. Kennedy and Col. .Bertsch are from the Fl Paso headquarters. The party arrived at Tempe at S:30 yesterday morning. They were met at Maricopa and escorted tc Tempe by q committee from the Phoenix chamber of com merce and the commercial club Of Mesa The trip from MaricUpa to Tempe was made by special train.
 At Tempe five Packard cars were on hand to take the officers and the com mittee to view the Mesa site. about four miles north and east of the city Of Mesa. From this site the party came to Phoenix to pay an official call on the governor. After visiting the state house the party, with the governor, were en- tertained at luncheon at the Arizona club and then site No. ?, the PapagO Park site, WIS visited. A trip was then made to the fair grounds and from there to q site at Marinette.
 One site on the southside was viewed from the train on tile trip from Mari copa to Tempe. A stop of fifteen min utes was made for this examination.
 The party left Marinette at o'clock for the north and were entertained by q delegation from Prescott which ar rived at Phoenix yesterday morning. The trip north was made in the private car of W. A Drake Col. Randolph loaned his private car for the entertain ment and escorting of the visitors from Tucson to Tempe.
 The members of the party were fav- orably impressed with the valley and in his talk at the luncheon, General Greene stated that he considered it particularly commendable that throughout his Ari- Zona tour no unfaVorable comment has been made Tn any city concerning other localities but that there seemed to be q strong cooperative spirit and a con- fidence that anything which helped one community certainly was a state wide asset. While every community ap preriated the commercial advantage which would accrue to it in the event il secured the cantonment. yet the needs of the nation and the patriotic desire of each locality to have the camp located at that spot most advantageous was evident in each city.
 General Greene tod the committee nothing to indicate th"t thie 'nc9'i'v sites which were in total greater than those offered by other localities, were favored but expressed himself as strongly impressed by the splendid az ricultural and other development, ob- vious in every direction.
 Report Is Wonder
 To supplement the work of the recep- tion and entertainment committee and to aid in presenting the advantages and resources of the Salt River valley as a site for an army traini~ camp of the size contemplated by the war depart ment there was prepared by a com mittee from the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce and placed in the hands of Brigadier General Greene q beautifully bound volume in seal containing de- scriptive matter, data and photo graphs of the four principal sites and their supplements offered by the com mittee as suitable in all respects for the purpose required
 The appearance of the volume and the vast amount of information it con tains coupled with the careful manner in which it is arranged gives no hint of the short time in which it was prepared a feat that easily may be held up as a record for work of that kind. Should the Salt River valley be recommended as a site for one of the training camps
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