Arizona state miner., 1923-01-06
Facts About Wickenburg and
Its Advantages.

Wickenburg stands at the head of
and is the natural gateway from the
north into the great Salt River valley,
sloping west and south towards Phoe-
nix, Arizona's greatest metropolis. 1t
sits picturesquely along the far famed
Hassavampa river, in restful harmony
and elegance, among verdant groves of
poplar, willow. giant mesquite and an
orderly addition of evergreen peppers,
and eucalyptus trees. It's gentle slop-
ing terraced hills on both sides of the
river give impressions of delightful
home town of charm and lovely rural
surroundings. Such it is. A type of
run down mining supply town just COM
ing to life again, and emerging under
impetus of natural environments that
have never been cultivated in trying to
bring back it's activity of former age.
Briefly reflected among its prominent
features, are the following:
Famous for mild, sunny winters and
where nature helps industry and invites
health. Occasional night frosts, but
flowers bloom all the year and bees are
gathering honey in February.
Unlimited purest percolated water
from the Hassayampa river and tribu-
tary mountain streams.
Foothills climate with an elevation OF
over 1000 feet-where it is just JOY
to live in winter: and summers not un-
usually hot.
Population about 600 in summer and
nearly twice that number in winter, of
which "a families are those of Santa Fe
railway employees and trainmen.
Transportation facilities are three
passenger trains a day each way from
Wickenburg to Phoenix; two each way
to Prescott and the East via Flagstaff; !;
and two Zone accommodation each day
to and From Los Angeles via the Parker
Cutoff, Barstow and San Bernardino.
On the Central Arizona Highway, via
Wickenburg and Blythe to Los Ange-
les, also via Parker and Needles to Cen
trail and northern California points. The
only safe and acknowledged highway
from the southern states via Bankhead
route from Phoenix, to Wickenburg and
Grand Canyon, Nevada and Utah.
New public school building. cost over
$23. 900. enrolment of scholars is over
200 and on the increase, with promising
high school section. upon which the con-
tractors are now at work and which
will be ready in few week.
Two churches, regular services and
pastors: new So, 500 church edifice and
parsonage in course of construction by
Presbyterian Board of Missions.
"Health in her Climate, Wealth in her
Mines, only partially expresses Wick
enburg's advantages. There are hund-
reds of thousands of cattle, sheep and
goats roaming the adjacent guIches,
hills and bottom lands along tributar-
les of the Hassayampa river, which IN
winter becomes the habitat of cowboys
and stockmen. In spring their herds
are driven north and the marketable
kline are shipped to eastern markets, the
rest coming back to breed and winter.
The town comprises hotel, three
restaurants, two rooming houses, sew
eral apartments. tenements, and small
houses for rent; two general merchan-
disc stores, bank, three barhershops,
bakery, three pool halls, drugstore, 2
meat markets, two garageswith black
smith and machine shops, dairy, wood
and coal yards, three transfer delivery
men, oil distributig station, second
hand -notion-racquet store, public util-
ity electric light and water service, s.
ton daily capacity ice plant, telephone
exchange, telegraph and money order
postoffice, new bank. express office.