The Arizona copper camp., 1920-05-01
"We're All Gamblers"

oOA4O SOiloCl fdIlNS, OlllSlS 4Ol 81 COI-
servative. We all want to take a
| chance. To take a chance on the farm
means need of soil and water; in
the mining game we need soil and
water; true, the SOL must be of min
eral formation, which, with the water,
in time forms the ore strata.
while Ray is second in point of
known ore in existence, in many ways
it is the first mine of the United
States because of it's efficiency, the
type of it's employees, living conditions
and amusements which add to the
permanance of the camp" Mr.. Boyd
then closed His remarks with an in
vitation to the people of Casa Grande
to visit Ray.
Education Leads
Mr. Eusey, the chairman, from Ray,
called upon Mr. Cakes, superintend-
ent of Ray schools, who quite elo-
quently portrayed the efficiency Of
the Ray teachers and the good work
they are doing in preparing the
younger generation for the duties of
country for tomorrow
He set forth, among other remarks,
that Ray has one of the largest and
best schools in the United States,
specially equipped for both American
and foreign population.
school then outlined the good work
done and called attention to the i'm
portance of sufficient efficient train
ing for the young peoples. and they
have many of them, two hundred
school children marched past our ho-
tel. He cited the instance when Wee
President Fairbanks remarked, THAT
there is nothing more wonderful than
this nations Industrial wealth, but
trains of our people" He further
dwelt upon the unity of thought, unity
of action, unity of purpose, that would
place our wonderful industrial life
upon the map.
Concluding Mr.. Templeton's re-
marks, Miss Brown, daughter of Mr..
Ed. Brown of the Hall Brown Realty
company of Casa .Grande, rendered
most entertainingly two beautiful vo-
cal solos. She was accompanied on
the piano by Mrs. Jack Grossman.
These were thoroughly enjoyed by
all and carried our thoughts to realms
of higher culture than that of mere
land and water.
Mr.. Eusey then, in a most enthusi-
astic and convincing talk about Rays
baseball nine, introduced Mr.. James
A. Hutton C'Doc"), manager of the
team, and stated that while we called
him DOC" it did not mean that he
was an NJ D., but that M. D. stood
for mighty dry. Doc proved other
wise and proceeded to hurl direct
challenge to the Casa Grande team
to come to Ray, after which Ray
would play return game at Casa
Grande. The challenge, Mr.. Barnhill
said, would be accepted, and the de-
tails were later worked out whereby
Casa Grande comes to Ray on May 9.
The auto drive was then taken amid
the fertile valley of the Florence
Casa Grande district, which brought
the party to Florence at p. m. on
scheduled time. An account of the
Florence meeting appears in another
column
A Splendid Trip
The remainder of the trip was con-
cluded without incident, the party ar
irving in Ray about 1870 p. M, vir-
tually on schedule time. That the ex
cursion, the first affair of it's kind to
tie staged by the Ray chamber of
commerce, was an unqualified success
was the unanimous opinion of the Ray
party Everybody had splendid
time, and in addition to the pleasure
of the trip, it is the consensus of opin-
ion that a spirit of cooperation was
born which. will prove the nucleus of
a mighty factor IN the future develop
ment of Pinal county and the state
of Arizona. Not only were the Ray
ties who made the trip made acquaint
ed with the resources of the great
Florence-Casa Grande valley, but they
also came in close touch with the as
pirations of the valley communities,
potential ~metropoli, strain-ng every
effort toward the accomplishment of
that great dream which is daily ap-
preaching realization, the construction
Of the great San Carlos reservoir, a
project which will make an Eden of
the desert and add untold millions to
the wealth OF Pinal county and the
state of Arizona.
Mineral Wealth Advertised
The Ray chamber of commerce took