Arizona state miner., 1924-02-09

center when Keen sighted transpor-
tation companies realize it's proXim-
ity and accessibility to tidewater at
Rocky Point on the Gulf of CaIifor-
MIA It is only 54 miles from Wicken-
burg, south, over a level desert, with
no streams to cross to the junction Of
the Southern Pacific railroad, with
the branch road to Ajo, whence it is
only 80 miles to the gulf, and 100
miles nearer than Los Angeles har-
Dor.
When the immense irrigation sys-
tens projected from the Colorado
river provide water for the millions
of acres now being hOmesteaded to
the south and west, Wickenburg will
be transformed into a metropolitan
distributing railroad center with an
outlet at the gulf for Southern Utah.
Colorado and New Mexico, that will
help industry of every description in
Western Arizona.
Churches, Schools and Transportation
Foothills climate with an elevation
of over 1000 feet-where it is just a
ioy to live in winter and summers
not unusually hot.
Population about 500 in summer
and nearly twice that number in win
| ter, Of which many are Santa Fe rail-
| way employees and trainmen.
Transportation facilities are three
passenger trains day from Wicken-
burg 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 and Needles to Central and
Northern California points. The only
safe and acknowledged highway from
the southern states via Bankhead
route from Phoenix to Wickenburg,
Grand Canyon, Nevada and Utah.
New public school building, cost
over $4,000; enrolment of scholars
is over 200, and on the increase, with
promising high school district now in
it's second year, and a faculty of
eight teachers.
Two churches, regular services and
pastors; new $2500 church edifice and
parsonage in course of construction
by Presbyterian Board of Missions.
! Cowboys and Western Sports
Health in her climate, Wealth in
her Mines" only partially expresses
Wickenburg advantages. There are
hundreds of thousands of cattle and
sheep, and goats annually roaming
the adjacent gulches, hills, and bot
tom lands along tributaries of the
Hassayampa river, which in winter
becomes the habitat of pluchy cow
boys and stockmen. In spring their
herds are driven north, and the mar
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markets, the rest coming back to
breed and winter.
During their stay in winter the
range men put up some real fascin-
ating exhibitions of range sports at
Wickenhurg which attracts sight
ceers and cattlemen from al over
the Southwest. These exhibitions of
the Wild and Woody West are pulled
Off on March II of each year. just
previous to the roundup and drive
north.
Business Growth Increasing
The town comprises two hotels,
three general merchandise stores,
three restaurants, two rooming
houses. several public apartments,
tenements, and small houses for rent,
three barber shops, bakery, three
pool halls, drug store, two meat mar
kets, two garages with blacksmith and
machine shops, dairy, wood and coal
yards, three transfer delivery men,
two oil distributing stations, public
utility electric light and water serv-
ice, 5-ton daily capacity ice plant,
telephone exchange, money order
pos office, Traders bank, and express
office.
Ideal Spo. for Sanitarium
Every winter Wickenburg is over
flowed with health seekers who make
their annual health pilgrimages here,
and for whom provision should be
made by the erection of huge sani-
tarium a branch of Prescott gov
ernment hospital might be established
here where patients could be trans
ferred in winter and vice versa in
summer. No place in the United
States offers greater advantages for
recuperative health and climatic ad-
vantages.
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