Arizona republican., 1921-04-17

the table. Help yourself. At Canon there are some camp grounds too, right on the river bank among the big trees. We noticed several auto parties camped here for lunch Went up to the k copper mine where Parker Woodmarl, general superin- tendent showed Us the mine and by the way do you know that we have one of the big copper mines of the | state right at our door?
 After dinner we started up the 1 canyon and over the summit to Bum- ble Bee. We found good store with | plenty of gas ard oil We continued l climbing the easy grade over another summit to Cordaz and into Mayer. Thence over the fine sraveled road to Prescott. We found several good hotels but we wanted to camp out among the pines so we drove on out of Prescott on the "Old Senator road. Say, talk abont camping grounds. Springs of pure mountain water and everything that makes up an ideal camping ground. While the old man put up the tent and rustled the wood, mother cooked the supper. Boy! Boy! Those potatoes and that bacon and eat, I'll say we did eat. We ate all we had, then we all pitched in and washed the dishes. Then mother put | the kids to bed while dad smoked | his good old pipe. Some pipe, too. | Sitting by the old camp fire. Thus | ended our first day.
 | ''In the morning the first thing we went down ro Prescott. Sure some view of some fine little town. We l just had to stop the car and look. IL | was one of the grandest sights we l have ever seen. Of course, wes want ed to see Whipple Barracks so mother | parked the kids and we went to the 1 barracks which the government has | turned in to an immense hospital for 1 returned soldiers. This was very in teresting to us and we were shown 1 through by courteous attendants. Man, we almost envied those soldier 1 boys.
 "We then drove to Iron Springs | where we met many Phoenix folks. Say, this is some place. Nice and cool, located way up there among the pines. Believe me those cottages made us want to stay right there. Think of it. Spring water piped right 1 into houses and all modern convent ences. This is great. We were only sorry tht we had to hurry away on our trip. We drove back to Prescott and out to the Dells. Some place l this. It just seemed to us that all the real big rocks in the world had been rolled here and just scattered | around We had lunch among these rocks and took great many wonder full pictures of the kiddies in the water swimming and splashine around. We drove out on the new Jerome highway to the state expert mental farm. Here we saw things wC | could hardly believe. These state ex l perts are constantly experimenting
 with new crops for us here in AriZo
 n1. This was great. These men ever
 though it was Sunday took pains t l show us around the farm.
 We drove back to Prescott am
 then out on the Copper Basin roa'
 and found some more wonderful
 places to camp. Honestly the coun
 try is full of them. We followed
 beautiful little creek up to fin
 spring. Made camp and some cam
 it was and best of all we were d | alone Not a human soul in the worl
 but us. Just think of it. And hun
 gry. Ohi man. Mother sure got som
 supper, too, while dad put up tn
 tent and the kiddies were chasin
 squirrels and wading in the creel
 It was worth the whole trip to SC
 those kids play.
 We had planned out trip so tha
 we could be on the summit of Coppe
 Creek hill early in the morning. w
 had often heard of this inspiring vie
 and we wanted to see it. It is som
 view Just imagine coming out (
 the dense forest right on top of tn - world and looking down, master of a