Arizona republican., 1917-02-15
TE [, VALE 1T
 POE TS, KNOWN AS SCHOOL CENTER

Tempe, eight miles southeast of Phoenix, and founded about he same time as the city of Phoenix, has become essentially d city .of education and is known throughout the southwest as the city Of "schcois and churches.
 The location in the city of the Tempe normal school, one of the two state normal institutions, and the location of a large and prosperous grade and high school are the basis for the educational atmosphere. Nearly every denomination is represented in the churches of the city with building or in rented quarters.
 However. the little city on the far
 side of the Salt river is not famous for these advantages alone. In it's boundaries or near the limits are one of the largest cotton gins in the val ley and one or the largest creameries
 in the entire southwest. In addition.
 it possesses several other industries of some proportions and is a prosperous. growing and stable community rep resentatiVe of the Salt river valley in every sense of the word.
 The foundation of the city dates back to 1871, when Jack Swilling, one of the founders of this city, turned from his canal construction on this side of the river to join with other pioneers in the building of the Tempe canal. One of the first of the set tiers of the town and the first busi- ness man of the new village was Charles Trumbull Hayden, a Tucson merchant, who in 1871 established a
 store iE house ot willow wattles near the river. across which he placed a ferry. A short distance beyond was a community of Mexicans which had been names San Pablo Between the 1 two towns the Johnsons and other Mormons settled and with their com ing, about 1879, the name of Tempe was generally used.
 Tempe is assumed to have been
 named after the romatic vale of | Tempe, in Greece. where poets rus ticated and evolved songs of pastoral content There is also theory that il came from Jack Swilling's discovery l of a tape pea" vine on the river bank. but this is not so plausible. At ! any event the name is not Spanish
 and should not De so pronounced. l Among the pioneers who aided in the digging of the first canal and who l farmed lands beneath it were Win chester Miller, Robert Carley, who had the uppermost ranch, Niels Peter son, who later became the commun- | ity's richest settler. and William H. Kirkland, a famous pioneer after 1 whom the city of Kirkland Yavapat county, was named.
 The water system for the city of | Tempe was secured in 1902 at a cost of BPS 0b0. The water is electrically pumped from wells within the town site to a reservoir eXcavated on the ] side of the Tempe Butte. a high hill ! which overshadows the village. Other 1 equally important and modern munic- | ipal improvements made the city one | of comfort and beauty and one de- ! stinctive of the character of it's set ] tiers.
 | Among the buildings in Tempe is | one of the historic sites of the valley.
 the ancient Hay>len flour mill and the | Hayden residence near it In the latter the present Arizona representa- 1 tive in Congress was born and reared and the former was operated by the i senior Hayden for many years It | is now used chiefly as a store house
 Tempe Normal School
 l The Tempe normal school is situa- l ted in the extreme southeastern Tart ! of the small city and is surrounded on ali sides by residence and church i structures. The grounds are spaci-
 ous and beautifully maintained, dec-
 orated with various tropical and i semi tropical plants and trees, anG i laid out in wide and spacious lawns. l Some dozen buildings for the hous- l ing of the students and for the 1 classes are arranged about the grounds. including general assem- l bly, building. science building. sev-
 eral dormitories and 9 mess or din- | ing hall. The dormitories. especially l the two recently constructed for the 1 use of the girls, are models of beauty Fand efficiency in school structure and
 are among the finest in the south west. The attendance at the normal l sct.ool is large and teachers from the 1 school are to be found in all of the i schools of this state.
 The creamery at Tempe is operated 1 by large manufacturer of con l densed milk It is located at the ex- | treme edge of the city limits and east | of the city or the state highway to Mesa. In recent years the creamery 1 has been added to and rebuilt until 1 it now presents one of the neatest and cleanest institutions in the dis i trict. Heavy automobile trucks daily
 radiate from tte establishment out !, through the farming and dairying districts of the valley, collecting cream for the use of the plant. Tine plant has become one of the firmly established enterprises of the dis l tflctS ana IS last ODSOrDlng the en-
 tire output of the dairy farms of the
 south side of the Salt river valley. Plans now on foot by the creamery company are for large additions to the present structure and for greater improvements for efficiency and
 cleanliness than have been made in the past. When these improvements
 have been completed the creamery will
 b one of the most modern and up tu
 date in the entire coFhtry
 Progressive Spirit
 In all lines of activity in which the
 remainder of the valley is interested
 Tempe takes her share and is alway.
 one of the leaders for improvements .l.s 1l, fhT xr@al1 ~l.rlo