The Coolidge examiner., 1930-10-10
GROW YOUR
OWN ICE
PLANTS
ARIZONA DREAMS
(Ted Healy)

feet day when the Old Timer made
"a visit after his trip to the coast.
He seemed in the best of spirits and
extended a hearty greeting, but his
reply to our request for good story
was at first bit discouraging. He
seemed somewhat stirred up about
the Boulder dam and the Colorado
river.
Anytime anyone tells you that
the southern California folks have
no imagination just count that idea
as a sad error, and someone is RAM
bling. Why, I'm just telling you
two-thirds of those good folks have
been so deluded by their political
leaders that they want to include
their individual share in the Colo
RADIO river in their mortgages when
making a borrow. Lots of them are
so dazed they think the Grand Can
yon is part of the Yosemite valley.
Being as their imagination was in
good working order | think your
friend Jose Cuerva could sell them
some stock in his ice plant COM
pany."
We were somewhat surprised to
learn the Old Timer knew Jose, and
more surprised that Jose was inter
ested in ice plants.
"Well, | see that you did not know
l was acquainted with Sr. Cuerva
and his lively sister, the widow Mar
tinez. Sure, sure, as the fellow
says over the radio. | know them,
both are good mixers, any way you
take them. Jose is an interesting
fellow; he told me about the money
to be made in planting ice plants.
l should have told you about it last
summer, but seeing as he has been
giving you some of his yarns, will
have to beat him to it before he
sells you dollars worth of interest
in his plan to furnish the western
farmer with cheap ice.
According to Jose a friend of
his back east is the only one who
has some of this ice plant seed.
ice plant seed? Sure. You plant
the seed and harvest the ice. Don't
interrupt.
"Jose says his friend knew Stan
ley, the explorer of Africa, and
years ago when this traveller and
his caravan were in the jungles in
the heart of that country, thous-
ands of miles from civilization.
Stanley was stricken with a severe
and persistent jungle fever. He
became so weak that it was thought
he would die. The climate was hot
and sticky, even the water, which
was scarce, was warm. The sick
mans life wasn't worth a penny as
a betting proposition, when one
evening the party arrived at the
village of a powerful ruler, who con-
sidered it a great honor to be WIS.,
tied by a white man. He did not
know beings of such a color existed
and upon learning that his guest
was i'll of fever, all of which infor-
nation was given by signs, he gave
certain orders to his servants and
early the next morning large cakes
OF ice were brought to Stanley's
tent. Ice packs were made, the
fever was reduced and the explorer
was soon able to get about.
"You say they had ice? Say, the
time Stanley explored Africa they
had just started to make ice in this
country, and he was in the interior
,of Africa. How Gomez"
"Just keep your shirt on. Jose
told me this story that his friend
told him, and l am going on with it.
STANLEY was just as curious as
YOU are about the ice, as he indi-
Gated by sign language to the king
that he was interested about it.
zone night the king took him to
a clea ring in the jungle where there
was a large patch of beautiful flow
ers growing. His servants were
busy filling the inside of these bell
Shape flowers with water. They
started at one side of the patch
with their water aud moved toward
the other side, and Stanley was
warned not to go near where the
blooms were filled, and he noticed
that the men did not retrace their
steps. A pungent odor seemed to
fill the air and it, the odor, ggrew
stronger and the air just seemed to
move away from the clearing. The
king, his men and Stanley were
forced to withdraw to certain
distance to get a chance to breathe
The odor was some kind of a gas