Arizona republican., 1920-11-26
ARIZONA SURE ID BE
 DENSELY POPULATED
 DECLARES DR. MUNK

Dr. A. J. Munk of Los Angeles has seen Arizona both before and after, from the bottom and the top, from the inside and the outside, and the more he sees of it the more attractive 1t becomes to him. Though he has not claimed a residence here for near ly thirty years, he makes no fewer than four visits to the state every year. not so much for the purpose of look ing after his extensive interests which he and his brother. Judge D. R. Monk, still retain, as to get another view of the beauties and the varied won ders of Arizona.
 pr. Munk Git will be observed that his brother persits in. spelling it "Monk"). arrived at Willcox in 1884 to engage in the cattle business which was then in the hands of a compara- tive few large cattle companies. There were then in that part of the territory the Chiricahua Cattle company, the Hooker company, the Eureka, the San Simon and the McKittrick interests.
 Dr. Munk and two of his brothers settled on the south side of Railroad Pass in Cochise county. They judged from the apeparance of the country, that is, from the verdure, that there must be water at no considerable depth, though there was none in sight. There were many dry springs, but at last they developed one at a depth of three feet and found a sufficient flow | of water to be piped to the various parts of the range they then took up. | Their holdings were later increased until now they have seven square miles, partly owned and partly leased. under fence. They have enough feed to sustain 1000 cattle and their in crease. In those days the whole re- zion was open country.
 In 1901 Dr. Munk became interested in northern Arizona. He was attract ed there, not so much by the money making opportunities offered by the wonders of that region. By that time he was we'll under way of becoming the collector of the greatest volume of lit- erature on the subject of Arizona He had begun in small way few weeks after he came to the territory, to gath CT information from various sources | for personal information. He con- | tinued, spured by his ever-incerasing 1 interest in Arizona, and he has kept ii up since until the collection now em- braces 15,000 volumes which he some time ago presented to the Southwest ern museum at Los Angeles. In 1915 he prepared a bibliography of Arizona l that had been written about it. But since then he has doubled the volume he then had included.
 Among the latter acquisitions i: | Reid's Tramp" describing the. jour ney by the author in 1850 from Selma Ala to San Francisco. There are only four known copies of this work fol which Dr. Munk paid $125. The author was a first lieutenant in the force or. ganized for the relief of the Crabl Ifilibustering expedition into Sonora, an, he was one of the few who escaped
 the massacre at Magdalena, by tn
 forces under the command of Governo
 Pesquiera-
 More has been written about the
 southwest, Said Dr Munk, than abou
 any other part of the country Tha
 has been because it was visited b
 white men earlier and because. also, 0
 it's greater interest than that of an
 other part of the country. It was we
 known to travellers and scholars lon
 before the Pilgrim Fathers landed a
 Plymouth There were marks of civ
 ilization here, if not of culture. Ther | had been an organized community sue