The Arizona copper camp., 1919-03-01

FdThS, MISS jessie M ySIo, MOOICS DuI-
Ter, Don Waggoner and Jesse E. White.
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CASA GRANDE NOTES
The school entertainment held
Monday was a surprise to even the
old residents of Casa Grande. 1t
brought out people who had not paid
much attention to the growth in
school attendance and when they OBJ
served hundreds of pupils marching
in line marshalled by their instruc-
tors who in the point of numbers
equal the scholars attending school
few years past, considerable ia
vorable comment was INDUCED in.
Arizona has a public educational .sys-
tenn which equals any state in the
union if it does not excel and Casa
Grande is providing training equal to
any in the state. The program was
excellent and Judge Jayne, in his
speech in honor of the memory OF
Washington, held the earnest atten-
ton of visitors and pupils. Casa
Grande is proud of the school memor-
ial entertainment given to perpetrate
the name of the greatest American,
and proud of the showing made by
the school.
During the past two weeks the fair
commissioner, Ted Healy, has re-
ceived numerous inquiries from the
mining camps, most from Ray, re-
garding land, and small acreage for
chicken and hog ranches. Hayden and
Ray have many people who in the
past took advantage of the cheap price
for lands in the Florence-Casa Grande
valleys and have improved farms.
Many farms have been leased during
the last two months and leases are in
demand all the time. By the energetic
working of the soil practical farmers
are making money. o7a
q al
Since the event of municipality,
owned water and electric lights In
the metropolis of the Casa Grande
new residences and business houses
have been, and are being, constructed,
while other structures have been al
tered and repaired The rooming privi-
leges are at premium. For month
the lodging houses have turned away
people, perusal of the registers
showing visitors from all parts of the
world. Several propositions are on for
the construction of a hotel for the
triple interests, agricultural, mining
and cattle, to provide for an ever in
creasing crowd of visitors who would
gladly welcome a nice hotel with a
spacious lobby. If somebody with suf-
ficient capital to handle the building
of a suitable hotel to accommodate
the business fails to take advantage
of the opportunity for investment in
short time, the people of the COM
munity will organize a stock company
and go ahead.
Commendabie reports are coming
in frcrn everywhere in t.: nation con
cerning the publicity given the Casa
Grande Ruins by High Zacatecas
Frank Pinkly, the custodian. Before
long Frank will have a string of tour
lists from all over the world visiting
the remarkable historic edifice erect
ed in the heart of the Casa Grande
valley, and some times, maybe; ii his
mind should take up the idea, he may
revive the great fraternal order
known a thousand years ago as The
Ancient and Honorable Order of the
Cacti. In case he does it is only fit
ting that the highest office that OF
Morning Green, be conferred upon
him. With a membership in every
community the donations applied to
further exploration of the pre-his-
toric city would soon aggregate a
great sum ana FRANK "ouio see "
modern hotel and headquarters spring
up near the Ruins. Smoke up, it costs
nothing to dream.
Folks living in the shallow water
district between Florence and Casa
Grande have rural telephone conenc-
tion with the county seat, wires be-
ing strung along the roads and wire
fences utilized. An abandoned tele-
phone system, used years ago between
Florence and Casa Grande, the poles
| of which are still in line from the
main line city, are likely to be used