Arizona republican., 1921-11-20

side you will recognize the Scotch for 'firesfde'' These avenues of trees were laid out thirty-o odd years ago with this idea in view.
 This purpose and this idea is not original with me. I have inherited it from one of my ancestors. About 40 years ago my paternal ancestor drove a team of mules, hitched to a blackboard, from Prescott to Phoenix to look over the line of the Arizona canal with a view of taking a con- tract for its construction; which con- tract he did take, and later complet- ed When he came down out of the mountains and the hills, and this valley, with its level floor-like plain spread out before him, he began to dream. He saw a vision. He saw beautiful garden rising out of the plain-a garden like unto the Gar~en of Eden-a garden where oranges grew: where the olive and the palm tree grew-where roses bloomed all winter, and the almond tree bloomed
 just between winter and spring; where the vine and the fig tree flourished and where the contented COW chewed her cud in the depths of alfalfa; and as he rode up the val lev from Phoenix to the head of the canal, he paused on this slight ridge, and right here drumming from the mountain on the north to the hills on the south) he realized that here should be the site of the suburban residence town that would be needed
 when Phoenix became the great city that it was surely destined to become. No spot he had ever seen lent itself
 so admirably to homehkeness and
 hospitality as this, overlooking the
 valley as it does to the east as well as to the west, 200 feet higher than Phoenix, and nestling here between
 stately old Comeback mountain and
 the rugged rocks of Papago Park. So he decided to plant here little bit of the garden of his dream.
 Drouth Causes Delay
 l These avenues were laid out. and these trees were planted. It was then expected that the development of the valley and Ingleside would be rapid; but after the trees were
 planted evil days fell upon us. The worst drought the southwest has ever known hit us. I can remember
 when for six months 'the sky was as brass.' No rain fell from the clouds, nor water ran in the canal; and was about to say that we watered these trees with our tears; but the boss had a better idea than that. He 1 said, Son, stop your crying, and take l that bucket and go to the well, and 1 you will be able to water more | trees.' We hitched four mules to a l wagon tank, and hauled water to the 1 trees, and some of them lived, al- l though a large grove to the south oi us here perished completely. The l drought was not the only obstacle however. that lay across the path. The greatest obstacle to develop
 ment was perhaps the matter oi l transportation. The first attempt te
 solve this problem was a entativs l agreemen that gave much promise ol l fulfillmen, wherein the Santa Fe wa: l to build a line through Tempe ant Mesa by the way of Ingleside; ther
 the Mineral Belt Road (which was tt | open up the rich White Mountain country. with it's gold, silver, copper I and coal) was the next. This roa( l was to have come down the Verde l river and in to Phoenix past Ingle- l side. But the road has not yet beer
 built, though believe it will b. l some day.
 | Next we tried for an electric rail i way, and I have now in my desl right-of-way deeds for the right-of.
 way of an electric road from Ingle
 side to Phoenix.
 But, finally, the automobile an,
 the paved road that is to be built tt
 Ingleside this winter (if the. high way commission does not grow wear,
 in well doing) will have solved ou