Arizona republican., 1920-04-25
REPUBLICANS SCOUT GAR FINDS
 SPLEND|D OPPORTUNITY IN TRIP
 n THE OLD CASA CYANIDE RUINS
SOUND SO
 VERY INTERESTING
 BUT II SURE WAS

A trip to Casa Grande ruins via Florence doesn't sound very interest ing does it? Especially not in these days of gasoline shortage and the high price of tires But, and now listen to this closely and read it with both eyes, it is some trip.
 Talk about interesting. It doesn't make one little particle of difference whether the party is made up Of plumbers, printers or just plain per sons. they are going to enjoy that small sized days tour which will take them to the Casa Grande ruins It is there, that's all there is to it, and there like million dollars.
 If you don't believe it. ask Charley Pottberg, Doc Sitkin. L. B. Gill or R. s. Sullivan. If you have plenty of time and want to know a whole lot about it call around to The Republican some afternoon when you want to have an arm talked off and you'll get more in- side information about what to do and what not to do than you ever dreamed of.
 And that's the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. If you have religious scruples about travelling on Sunday, don't go on that day, go on Saturday if necessary and if the trip can't be made that day, take any of the other five, but by all means go and go quickly, because just as soon as the pOpuIace OI these confines discovers what wonderful expedition it is there is going to De a mad rush out through Mesa, Gilbert, Higley. Queen Creek, Magma. Florence and thence to the ruins.
 Of course you want to know some thing about it. A description of tht road taken and the conditions dfscoy- cred is given in an adjoining column For fear it won't be clear it is given in two different ways. One a running story of the road and the other a ios as kept and jotted down by this Gil person who by the way was the onl, one of the party who did not acquir. a luscious coat of tan. The reason: Those pink and white comp1exions never do burn you know.
 Although 1t was not a trip of ad venture, nor one of discovery, nor still worse one of endurance. it proved tu be all three. In the first place we dis covered a good road to Florence. Per haps that is not discovery, but just a re-iteration, but anyhow we were so tickled at finding such a magniff- cent boulevard, that like a bunch of kids out of school we simply rompea over that stretch of desert from Higley to where we struck the highway this side of Florence.
 We discovered several other thineS too. We found a deep. damp, dark mystery in the shape of nine (and We counted them too) large smooth ducK eggs, parked in a straight line across the road. Now how and why those d1ck eggs were placed there is stih n mystery.
 The first theory advanced was that come one was anxious to get rid oi those eggs by placing them in the road where they would be properly smashed by machines coming along. The nex, theory was that the duck had been having a Sunday morning inspection. all the same as the army and that during the inspection, nine of those in the front ranks had tired of waiting to get back to quarters and had de- cided to lay an egg right on the spot.
 The last theory seemed the more acceptable until some irquisitive cuss decided to smash one. He did, too and we all climbed into tho car and a hurry to beat the stench across the desert.
 The town of Florence knew we were coming too The wind was in the, direction and they got a whiff of tha, egg and turned out en masse. Al least one hundred people were finger. ing about the streets in idle curiosity when we rolled in-just waiting to SC. what sort of people it was who would stop on the desert and break one of nine duck eggs. Oh. yes. there is an. other mystery. How did nine ducs> eggs get so far from T puddle of water
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