Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-04-30
SEATTLE Times RUNS BIG STORY
OF new TURKEY CREEK RESORT;
NORTHWEST LEARNS OF DOUGLAS

Purchase of the Doe Randall ranch
on Turkey creek by Mrs f.. f. Aims
worth of Seattle, who is now building
a resort hotel on the property has
gained Turkey creek and Douglas
considerable attention in the Puget
Sound city. In a lengthy and some
what highly colored feature" story,
the Seattle Times describes the his
toric background of the future home
of the former Seattle woman.
The story gives the Turkey creek
and Douglas region credit for being
the first place Mrs. Ainsworth found
during extended searching through
out the western country where she
could keep her feet dry the entire
year and still be in an agreeable
Douglas and Turkey creek viii be
able to determine to what extent the
Seattle feature writer drew on his
or her Imagination. The Seattle
Times story follows:
Two outlaws in the front yard,
buried as they fell; three cowpunch-
ers riding range in one side yard
and Turkey creek, famed in story,
coursing through the other side yard,
while in the backyard the celebrated
Apache Indian caves, where this
treacherous tribe hid out between
raids on wagon trains and settle
ments.
Truly a dainty setting for lady
who has enjoyed for years the COM
forts and luxuries which unlimited
wealth could bring. In her town
house in Seattle's oldest and most
exclusive residential section, The
First Hill; in the country house, on
the east shore of Lake Washington,
and in winter home on Monterey
Bay, Calf.
life rich in enjoyment of all that
wealth and social position here and
along the coast could bring, and
now:
Society Woman Owns 1t
Owner of. an outlaws graveyard
boss of cattle outfit and custodian
of an Indian hideout, amid which
scenes she will make her home, Mrs.
Heller Ainsworth widow of e. f.
Ainsworth, and successor to her hus-
band in the pioneer Seattle firm of
Ainsworth and Dunn, is spending
short time in Seattle
Mrs. Ainsworth is now making out
a list of furniture, stocks of goods
etc, she will buy for her resort when
she returns to Arizona. She also plans
employment Of a first class chef and
purchase of a motor truck Her es-
innate is that it will cost about $25,-
600 to furnish and stock the place.
All of this looking toward the
building, equipment and conduct of
Rancho Manzanita, or THE Ranch of
the Little Apples in Cochise county,
Arizona; UP in the Chiricahua noun
tains, mile above sea level where
the trees and grass are green the
year round, while at the nearest city
settlement, Douglas, As miles to the
south, and at other Arizona towns.
like Phoenix Tucson and Yuma it
gets almost as hot and dry in the
summer as any of those spots of
which Dante wrote.
Real Resort Planned
Rancho Man@anfta is to be the
home of Mrs. Ainsworth = her best
furniture and household furnishings
are being packed now aboard a
freight car here for shipment--and
Rancho Manzanita is going to be also
resort, mostly for easterners, who
alternately go to the mountains of
Arizona to escape the summer heat.
of home, or to the Arizona plains to
elude winters chills.
I've lived on the place, off and
on the last four months,' said Mrs.
Ainsworth at the Olympic hotel yes
terday, land I'm just crazy about it,;
but what would lone woman want
with 500 acres and a big stone house
just for herself? 1 would be crazy
to spend more than 100000, which
this investment represents, merely
for my personal pleasure.
Il left Los Angeles during the
holidays to find some place where I
could keep my feet dry, and I finally
dreds of miles, at Douglas. The
longer I remained and the dryer my
feet got, the more I liked it.
"Then, these Arizonans took me
into their homes, hearts and clubs,
and when they showed me a spot
where an a1-year-round resort would
sbe paying venture, I said, We'll,
I1et's build it, and now it's being
built
Native stone out of the mountains
on my property was being quarried
when I left Arizona two weeks ago
The hotel will be we'll on its way
when I get back next week I am
taking along one of the foremost in
terror decorators of Seattle and / am
also taking one of the best chefs this
town has ever possessed. The hotel
; rates will not be modest. 1t will
open September l..
I'VE are booked up solidly for the
! first month--we can take only about
so guests-residents of Arizona towns
having shown their interest AMI
pride in ,smy venture by reservina
everything in sight for September.
'The Douglas Chamber of Commerce
! and Mines has taken Rancho Man
zanita under it's wing and is adver,
tising it throughout the east as {
year-round resort, the only one Of
it's kind in Arizona" 4
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