Weekly journal-miner., 1920-05-12
ARIZONA RICHES CATCH EYES
 OF ELLIS

The wonders of Arizona arc now duly appreciated by T. Earl Ellis who has just returned from a trip to Phoenix, Mesa, Peoria, Glendale, Tempe, Wickenburg, Mayer, Hum boldt, Clarkdale. Jerome and Verde.
 While in the valley he also went o'' to the northern border of the Pap ago country, taking in Chandler lie says he was particularly interested iu that trip because his father was years ago the government medical man in charge of the Maricopa, Papago and Pima Indian reservations. But, this being his first trip to see what kind of place Arizona really is. his eyes were opened wider than if he had known something of the state before. He said, in an interview:
 At Phoenix I met my old college chum, J. Hubbard Moore. who is with the Hildreth. Moore Land company, and he took me over the whole coun- try. Sometimes we went for pleasure and sometimes for business, in look ing over the various cotton planta- tions of Mir. Moore. The average stranger to Arizona pictures 1t as q desert land covered only with cactus and other things counted disagree able and useless. But, as we drove for miles among fine farms, with every evidence Of prosperity on every hand, one could see that no more fertile tract of country could be found on earth.
 What the magic touch of water can do was well illustrated by th5 great cactus groves on one side of the road when we finally reached the edge of the cultivated and improved areas. and on the other side the vast acres of alfalfa, cotton, or orange groves. The tremendous agricultural development and the wealth held for the future in still further possibilities were hard to realize. But, to a stranger the scene was like magic. The great power of united effort along any line is the keynote" ." <
 He continued, When l got back to Yavapai l had more good luck ill get ting introduced into the resources of Arizona. This baby state surely IS full of throbbing possibilities, as il- lustrated by the achievements. A friend offered to take me in his car to Clarkdaic. Jerome, Humboldt, Mayer and other places along the road"
 II thought I would not see any more farms. but, imagine my surprise when 1 saw here and there what would truly be an oasis in the desert, little ranch tucked away safe ill the canyons on level spot with an orchard, gardtn and field of alfalfa, and fat cattle running all around. The little places were the result of the single handled labor, in some cases of an individual, but illustrated bear tifully what can be done by energy and foresight"
 At the great shelter towns 1 cN- Dcctcd to see something doing. But my expectations were thrown over the housctops My imagination had not pictured anything so full of ac- tive power as these big companies in the making of copper. Millions the improvements must have cost, and the development of that district is yet in its infancy. But, greater still, arc the millions that are being pro duced."
 The Jerome-Prescott highway happily planned and under construc- ton will be the link in the chain that will bind the two halves of Yavapai together. The time IS present when the public must get down to hard knocks to build roads and open up the possibilities of the state to those who want to nave homes and not be isolated for want of roads. The mines as we'll as the ranches will turn road utility into taxable wealth which will return the investment called for in their cost. Tell everybody to boo5: for good roads. all the time"
 NATIONAL FOREST
 FIRE DANCER FIGHTING