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Of way and he asked that their protest be given serious consideration. Commissioner Addams, stating he felt the construction of the underpass on 17th Avenue as well as the re-routing of Highway 80 on 17th Avenue would wipe out the property owners on 19th Avenue, many of whom had invested their life's savings in their property, made a motion that the Commission reconsider their action of the morning session designating that certain road or highway along Greenhaw Street or the Buckeye Road extending from 19th Avenue Easterly to 17th Avenue and thence Northerly along 17th Avenue to Jefferson Street as a State Highway of the State of Arizona. The motion was lost for lack of a second. Mr. Akers asked the Commission to consider the matter of making Highway 80 on 19th and 17th Avenues as an alternate route. State Engineer O'Connell pointed out that the Bureau of Public Roads insists upon the proper maintenance of roads where Federal money is involved and that Federal funds are involved on 19th Avenue in the construction of pavement. Commissioner Angle, stating it is not his intention in any way to harm the people in any community or injure their values or detract from them, pointed out that in this particular instance there would be a saving of one-quarter of a million dollars and with all the requests the Commission had received for roads, he felt this money, a large percentage of which would be spent in Maricopa County, would make possible the construction or completion of 20 or 25 miles of highway.

Commissioner Addams asked the Commission to consider requesting the Bureau of Public Roads to help the people who have investments in property on 19th Avenue by constructing an underpass on 19th Avenue instead of 17th Avenue with funds that are especially appropriated by Congress for Grade Separations. He contended that by doing this the funds set up in the present budget for the 17th Avenue Project could be transferred and used in the construction of highways. Chairman Dowell advised that the matter of 19th Avenue would be taken up again at the next meeting of the Commission.

It was regularly moved by Commissioner Addams seconded by Commis-

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sioners Barth and Seale that a resolution be adopted in relation to the routing of U. S. Route 93 from its present western terminal in Nevada South hrough Las Vegas to enter Arizona at Boulder City Nevada, thence south on present Arizona State Route No. 69, and terminating with U. S. 66 at King man, Arizona.

It was regularly moved by Commissioner Barth, seconded by Commissoner Addams, and unanimously carried, that a resolu ion designating as a State Route the highway from Witchwell, Arizona, to Saunders, Arizona, be adopted.

It was regularly moved by Commissioner Angle that the road from Benson to 91 at Cochise, Arizona, over the highway known as the Seins Pass Highway, be designated as a State Route, inasmuch as there will be new development out of Graham County, at Safford, and this road will serve to bring people over a good road to Southern Arizona, and further because, at the present time, there is a great deal of traffic going both East and West over this highway. Commissioner Angle's motion was lost for lack of a second.

It was regularly moved, seconded and carried, that the Commission adjourn at 6:20 p. m., May 16, 1935, to meet again at 8:00 a. m., May 27, 1935.

May 27 and 28, 1935 The Arizona State Highway Commission met regular session May 27, 1935, at 8:00 a. m., in their offices in the Highway Building. Those present were Chairman Dowell, Vice-Chairman Angle, Commissioners Addams, Barth and Seale, also, the state engineer, the secretary and Assistant Attorney General J. W. Murphy.

It was regularly moved by Commissioner Angle, seconded by Commissioner Barth, and carried, Commissioner Addams voting "No", and Commissioner Seale "Not Voting", that a resolution rerouting that portion of U. S. Highway 80 in the immediate vicinity of Phoenix, from 17th Avenue and Jefferson Street southerly along 17th Avenue to the Buckeye Road or Greenhaw street; thence westerly along the Buckeye Road or Greenhaw Street to 19th Avenue, where it intersects the present U. S. Highway 80, be adopted. It was regularly moved by CommisCommissioner Barth, seconded by Commissioner Angle, and carried, Commissioner Addams voting "No", and Commission

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The Seale "Not Voting", the a resolution designating as an Alternate Route that portion of U. S. Highway 80 in the immediate vicinity of Phoenix from 17th Avenue and Van Buren Street westerly along Van Buren Street to 19th Avenue; thence southerly along 19th Avenue to the Buckeye Road or Greenhaw Street, where it intersects the present U. S. Highway 80, be adopted.

The Commission went into executive session to consider budget items and met again in open session, at which time, Attorney Murphy advised that the injunction issued restraining the construction of an underpass or overpass on 17th Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona, had been dissolved and the complaint dismissed and the Commission were free to proceed with the opening of bids received on this project.

May 28, 1935 The Cammission, after executive session, met in open session and it was regularly moved by Commissioner Addams, seconded by Commissioner Seale, and unanimously carried, that the Secretary be instructed to draw up a resolution designating as a State Route that one of State Highwav 81, existing in Apache Coun'y, extending from the Apache-Greenlee County line via Alpine, Nutrioso, and Eagar to Springerville.

The Commission again went into executive session, and at 9:30 a. m., they met in open session.

It was regularly moved by Commissioner Angle, seconded by Commissioner Addams, and unanimously carried, that an item of $3,000 be included in the 1935-1936 budget for the correction of truck weights and to cover the costs of contracting, re-weighing and collection of fees due the state for 1934 and 1935 registrations.

It was regularly moved by Commissioner Angle that an item for $7,000 be set up in the 1935-1936 budget to cover the cancellation of all outstanding operator's licenses and the required reregistration of drivers. Commissioner Addams stated he thought it a bad time to add additional taxes on the people and with so many people on relief at this time, he was not in favor of chargGiving those who had lost their operator's licenses a re-registration fee. Commissioner Seale seconded Commissioner Angle's motion and it was carried with Commissioner Addams voting "No"

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Mr. Joe Condrey, representative for Pearson and Dickerson, the second low bidders on N.R.H. 30-D, informed the Commission that Pearson and Dickerson waived the technicality of the low bidder failing to submit plans on the type of pump they proposed using on this project.

State Engineer O'Connell on the advice of Attorney Murphy, and subject to the approval of the Bureau of Public Roads, recommended that the contract on the Phoenix-Yuma Highway, N.R.M. 30-D (A.F.E. 534) N.R.H. 30-D (Α.Γ.Ε. 8028), Sch. 1 (1935) be warded to the low bidder, R. C. Tanner and W. E. Hall Company in the amount of $89,539.50. It was regularly moved by Commissioner Seale, seconded by Commissioner Angle, and carried Commissioners Barth and Addams voting "No", that the recommendation of the state engineer be accepted.

The Commission went into executive session at 10:40 a. m. and met in open session at 11:30 a. m.

It was regularly moved by Commissioner Addams, seconded by Commissioner Barth and unanimously carried, that a resolution transferring funds in the amount of $51,261.69 be adopted.

Afternoon Session

The Commission reconvened in open session at 5:15 p. m., all members present.

It was regularly moved by Commissioner Barth, seconded by Commissioner Seale and carried, that the state engineer by authorized to execute a QuitClaim Deed for right of way purposes by and between the State and J. R. Lawson and wife.

It was regularly moved by Commissioner Seale, seconded by Commissioner Angle and carried-Commissioner Addams being absent from the roomthat a resolution be re-enacted and adopted concerning the establishment, location and relocation and specific designation of that part of the Phoenix-Yuma Highway designated as National Recovery Highway Project 30-D, 1935.

It was regularly moved by Commissioner Barth, seconded by Commissioner Seale and carried, that a resolution designating as a State Route that portion of State Highway 81, existing from the Apache-Greenlee County line via Alpine, Nutrioso and Eagar to Springerville, be adopted.

It was regularly moved by Commissioner Addams, seconded by Commissioner Barth and carried, that a resolution authorizing the secretary to notify the Apache County Board of Supervisors of the intention of the State Highway Commission to designate that portion of State Highway 81, extending from the Apache-Greenlee County line via Alpine, Nutrioso and Eagar to Springerville as a State Highway, be adopted.

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It was regularly moved by Commissioner Addams, seconded by Commissioner Barth and carried-Commissioner Angle voting "No"-that the tentative budget for the Arizona Highway Department, Twenty-Fourth Fiscal year, (1925-1936) be adopted.

It was regularly moved by Commissioner Angle, seconded by Commissioner Seale and carried-Commissioner Addams voting "No" that the Equipment Superintendent be instructed to purchase a car for Mr. C. R. McDowell, Highway Patrol Superintendent, in the class of from $1500 to $1700, providing there is sufficient money in the budget; same to be charged to the Motor Patrol.

The secretary read a letter from Mr. E. H. Boyd, publisher of the Casa Grande Dispatch and Coolidge News, stating the Casa Grande Dispatch has a circulation of approximately 2100 and the Coolidge News a circulation of approximately 800, and also that he would publish the budget for 1935-1936 in Pinal County at the price of fifty cents per column inch. It was regularly moved by Commissioner Addams. seconded by Commissioner Barth and unanimously carried, that the printing of the 1935-1936 budget in Pinal County be given to the same paper that published it last year. namely, the ArizonaBlade Tribune, Florence, Arizona.

It was regularly moved by Commissioner Barth and carried without objection that the 1935-1936 budget be published in the same papers in which it was published last year, which are as follows: The St. Johns Observer, the Coconino Sun, the Graham County Guardian. the Mohave County Miner, the Winslow Mail, the Nogales International, the Yuma Arizona Sentinel, the Bisbee Daily Review, the Arizona Record, the Copper Era. Dunbar's Weekly, the Arizona Daily Star, the Prescott Evening Courier.

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back and wave the beasts away, for there was three of them now, two more ugly and savage lookin' than the first one he'd seen. One had been enough, but for some unknown reason they had suddenly multiplied. This worried Bill, especially when he saw that the more he yelled and gestulated the faster they came and the louder they brayed so he settled down to runnin!

Bill shucked his bindle as he ran, then his shirt and hat. He'd have been plum' naked if he had not suddenly hove in sight of the Mex's camp. The Mex heard the rumpus, but could not see the camels, they were still behind the point of a ridge that Bill had just rounded. All he saw was Bill runnin' and wavin' his arms and yellin' himself hoarse about somethin' that sounded like camels. Anyway, camels is dry and prohibition squads ought to be so he was takin' no chances. He lit a shuck outa there in nothin' flat.

Bill, seein' his friend beatin' it, scuttled up the hill and took refuge behind some big boulders above the tanks. The camels came on to the tanks, spit in the direction the Mex had taken then filled up with water and sad-eyed they scanned the scenery for their friend with the warblin' whistle. Failin' to see or scent him they lumbered over to the Mex's mash barrels, filled up on the potent mess, then staggered on out to the desert where they were soon lost to view behind the many little hills.

I expect that Foxtail Johnson will call me a liar when he reads this, but my hide is thick and it ain't the first time he has hinted that I am not a stickler for facts. Howsomever, we took Bill to town, and not knowin' just what he had experienced to run him loco we turned him over to the marshal who straightway locked him up for safe keepin'.

Next day about noon I stood in the shade of the Ajo hoosegow, directly in front of Bill's barred window where I'd gone to sort of cheer the old cuss up, when along came the same circus Bill had worked for. There was a Arab in the lead with a couple of scurvy lookin' camels in tow. About that time they took fright at a pet cougar chained to a post in front of the Greek's pool hall and started to get panicky. From out of the dust and squealin' came the notes of that same weird tune that Bill was always whistlin'. Immediately the camels quieted down and became docile as collie dogs.

Bill stared wide-eyed at the phenomena, a knowin' light beginnin' to dawn in his bleary eyes.

"I'll be damned," he muttered. "No wonder them cussed camels follered me all over creation. It's that infernal tune that charmed them!"

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Road Projects Under Construction in Arizona DISTRICT NO. 1

G. B. Shaffer, District Engineer N. G. Hill Co. have contract 66% complete for the grading and draining of 9.8 miles on U. S. 66, beginning about 32 miles northwest of Ash Fork Jct. and extending northwesterly, N.R. Η. 80-Η (1935). H. B. Wright, resident engineer.

Pearson and Dickerson have contract 90% complete for the furnishing and placing of a two inch asphaltic retreat surface and select material and miscellaneous grading and draining work in the town of Jerome, on State Route 79, N.R.H. 96-A. J. A. Quigley, resident engineer.

N. G. Hill & Co. have completed contract for the placing of aggregate and oil processing by the road mix method of approximately 6.5 miles of roadway, beginning about 7.25 miles west of Peach Springs and extending southwest on U. S. 66, N.R.H. 80-J. M. D. Gless-ner, resident engineer.

Pearson & Dickerson have completed contract for the grading, draining and placing of aggregate base course A. B. and C. on approximately three miles, beginning at Cottonwood and extending southeast to the Verde River, N.R.H. 96-B (1935). J. A. Quigley, resident engineer.

State forces have work 51% completed for grading and draining approximately eight miles of the Hope-Parker Highway, N.R.S. 112 (1935), State Route 72. M. Kisselberg, resident engineer.

Pearson and Dickerson have been awarded a contract for grading, draining and placing aggregate base course on approximately five miles of highway, beginning 34 of a mile northeast of Mingus Mountain Summit and extending towards Jerome, N.R.S. 17. R. Ε. Lawrence, resident engineer.

DISTRICT NO. 2

F. N. Grant, District Engineer Lee Moor Contracting Co. have completed contract for grading, draining, placing select material, base course and mineral aggregate and oil processing approximately 1034 miles on the St. Johns-Springerville Highway, U. S. 260, beginning at the highway junction about 1-3 mile south of the town of St. Johns and extending southerly. Work suspended on account of bad weather. N.R.H. 60. A. J. Kerr, resident engineer.

Lee Moor Contracting Co. has completed the contract for the grading and draining, placing of select material on approximately 2% miles on U. S. High way 260, beginning about 35 miles southeast of Holbrook and extending easterly, N.R.H. 78-H (1935). J. M. Hobbs, resident engineer.

Skousen Brothers have completed contract for grading, draining and placing of base course on approximately 10 2-3 miles on U. S. Highway 89, N.R.H. 95-1 (1935), which begins at the forest boundary approximately 28 miles north of Flagstaff and extends northerly towards Cameron. C. E. Benson, resident engineer.

Heuser & Garnett have contract for the grading, draining and placing of select material on approximately 5 2-3 miles of highway on the St. Johns-Zuni highway, State Route 61, N.R.S. 113-A (1935) 90% complete. A. J. Kerr, resident engineer.

Hodgman & MacVicar have completed contract for grading, draining and placing of select material and adequate base course on approximately 5 miles of U. S. Highway 89, beginning about 38 miles north of Flagstaff and extending North. N.R.H. 95-I, Sch. 2, (1935). C. S. Benson, resident engineer.

E. L. Yeager has contract 26% complete for the paving of 1/3 mile of Porter St. in the town of Holbrook, N.R.M. 178-D (1935) and N.R.M. 83-B (1935). Joe DeArozena, resident engineer.

DISTRICT NO. 3

R. C. Perkins, District Engineer Geo. W. Orr has contract for grading and draining of approximately 4 miles of roadway on U. S. 60, located about 46 miles northeast of Globe, N.R.H. 99-G, 56% complete. A. F. Rath, resident engineer.

Tanner and Hall have contract 93% complete for the widening of existing concrete pavement with cut-back plant mix. The work extends from 19th Avenue and Buckeye road westerly 13 miles to Agua Fria bridge on U. S. 80, N.R.H. 46-A (1935). Dan J. Lyons, resident engineer.

Lee Moor Contracting Co. has contract 9% complete for the grading and draining of approximately 412 miles of U. S. Highway 60, beginning approximately 5612 miles northeast of Globe and extending N. E. N.R.H. 99-1 (1935) R. D. Canfield, resident engineer.

State forces have grading of approximately 4½ miles on State Route 75, N.R.S. 13-A (1935) 60% complete. W. R. Stevens, resident engineer.

State forces have grading and draining 1½ miles of the Clifton-Springer-ville Highway, State Route 71, N.R.S. 101-B, (1935) 60% complete. W. R. Stevens, resident engineer.

William Peper has contract 96% complete for the widening of a concrete bridge across the Eastern Canal approximately four miles east of Mesa, on U. S. Highway 80, N.R.H. 65 (1935). F. J. Beeghly, resident engineer.

Phoenix-Tempe Stone Co. have contract 21% complete for the widening of roadway and lengthening of drainage structures on U. S. Highway 89, beginning at Six Points and extending six miles northwest of the city of Glendale. N.R.H. 33 (1935). R. J. Holland, resident engineer.

Phoenix-Tempe Stone Co. has contract 48% complete for the construction of approximately 4 of a mile of roadway, grading, draining and oil processing, N.R.H. 97-F (1935), located approximately 2½ miles south of Mesa on State Route 87. F. J. Beeghly, resident engineer.

R. C. Tanner and W. E. Hall have been awarded a contract for the construction of a concrete underpass and incidental work on the Phoenix-Yuma Highway, located on S. 17th Avenue in the city of Phoenix, N.R.H. 30-D. Dan J. Lyons, resident engineer.

DISTRICT NO. 4

W. R. Hutchins, District Engineer Phoenix-Tempe Stone Co. have contract 67% complete for the construction of a railroad underpass, with grading, draining, concrete pavement and cut-back road mix, located within the town of Casa Grande and extending westerly one mile, N.R.S. 100-C (1935), State Route 84. Geo. Lang, resident engineer.

Heafey Moore and Jack Casson have contract 47% complete for the grading, draining and placing of aggregate base course and oil processing by the road mix method of approximately 7½ miles of highway, beginning at the highway junction about one mile west of Douglas and extending northerly on State Route 81, N.R.S. 114-B (1935). D. A. Flickinger, resident engineer.

The Pleasant-Hasler Construction Co. have contract 19% complete for the grading, draining, placing of aggregate base course and oil processing by the plant-mix method of approximately 1234 miles of the Ft. Hauchuca-Bisbee

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Highway, N.R.S. 108-A. A. J. Gilbert, resident engineer. A. J. Gilbert, resident engineer.

The Borderland Construction Co. R. E. Martin has contract 88% com-

plete for the grading and draining of ap-

construction of approximately 5.6 miles approximately 1 1-3 miles of roadway on of the Ajo-Tucson Highway, beginning State Route 81, located about 35 miles

west of Tucson south of Safford on Douglas-Safford

and extending westerly, N.R.S. 110-A highway near junction of Bowie road, (1935). J. R. Van Horn, resident enN.R.S. 114 (1935). Oscar Maupin, Engineer. resident engineer.

State forces have work of grading R. E. Martin has been awarded a conand draining 1½ miles on the Nogalestract for grading, draining and the furPatagonia Highway, State Route 82, nishing and placing of road mix on N.R.S. 109-A, 59% complete. R. C. approximately three miles on the Tucson-Florence Highway, extending from White and Miller have contract 33% Florence-Coolidge Highway Junction at complete for the grading, draining, Florence easterly, N.R.S. 111-В. Н.

Pinney, resident engineer.

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contract 14% complete for the gradW. R. F. Wallace, Assoc. Highway Ening, draining and placing of aggregate gineer, Supervising Engineer.

base course on approximately 34 miles, F. W. Flittner, Assoc. Construction EnEngineer, Supervising Engineer.

Huachuca Military Reservation and exR. Thirion, Assoc. Highway Engineer, Supervising Engineer.

W. P. Wesch, Assoc. Highway Bridge Engineer, Bridge Engineer.

W. J. Ward, Assoc. Highway Engineer, Locating Engineer.

R. M. Rutledge, Assistant Highway Engineer, Office Engineer.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Route 3, Flagstaff-Clint's Well National Forest Highway:

the grading and draining of a sec-

tion of this route, 7.6 miles in length,

beginning 8 miles north of Clint's Well,

and extending north, is under contract

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work is about 18% complete. F. A.

Bonnell is resident engineer.

Route 7, the Oak Creek National For-est Highway:

Skousen Brothers have the contract

for grading and draining 4.6 miles of

this route, beginning about 12 miles

northeast of Cottonwood and extend-ing in a northeasterly direction toward Sedona. Work is about 81% complete.

E. F. Strickler is resident engineer.

Route 10, The Pine-Winslow National

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The Horsethief Basin survey, extending from the Black Canyon Road near Canon to the Horsethief Ranch at elevation of 6,000 feet, is under way. F. J. Wade is the locating engineer and F. W. Pender is office engineer.

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Bids will be opened on June 6, 1935 at 10:00 a. m. for placing a bituminous treated surfacing on Sections Al and A2 of Route 1 and A1, A2, and B of Route 2 and Headquarters Service Roads in the Grand Canyon National Park.

On Strawberry Hill, a 6.6 mile section of this route near Pine. Approximately 59% of the contract work has been completed. Earl Green is resident engineer.

Route 11, the Payson-Colcord Mountain National Forest Highway:

The grading of a 3 mile section of this route, located about 26 miles east of Payson, is under contract to Hodgman and MacVicar. The work is about 30% complete. G. E. Nelson is the resident engineer.

Route 30, the Globe-Showlow National Forest Highway:

Rogers Brothers are contractors for grading a 4.5 mile section of this route, running in a southwesterly direction from Showlow. Work is approximately 30% complete. C. R. Brashears is resident engineer.

Grand Canyon National Park Highways:

G. R. Daley and Vinson and Pringle are contractors for grading and subgrade reinforcement of all of Grand Canyon Route 8, Hermit Rest, length 9.1 miles. The project extends westerly from the village of Grand Canyon to Hermit Rest, along the rim of the canyon. The work is about 40% complete. J. H. Brannan is resident engineer.

The Cameron-Desert View Approach to Grand Canyon National Park:

A contract for bituminous treated surfacing on 14.4 miles of this route, near Cameron, has been awarded to the Lee Moor Contracting Company. About 11% of the contract has been completed. V. G. Watson is the resident engineer.

Arizona Federal Lands Project 2, the Kingman-Boulder Dam Highway:

H. J. Hagen has the contract for grading a 2.4 mile section of this route, located just south of Boulder Dam. The work is approximately 50% complete. Grading of another section of the route, 4.7 miles in length is under contract to R. C. Tanner and W. E. Hall Company. The work is about 5% complete. H. L. Lyon is resident engineer on the Kingman-Boulder Dam projects.

Arizona Federal Lands Project 6, the Globe-Showlow Highway:

K. DeWitt has the contract for grading 3.8 miles of the project, located about 20 miles northwest of White-river. The contract work is about 20% complete. C. R. Brashears, resident engineer.

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He was killed by a street car in 1891. On State Highway 82, twelve miles south of Soncita lie the adobe ruins of Camp Crittenden, extensive U. S. army post established in 1867 near the site of Fort Buchanan. The post was abandoned June 1, 1873. It was established to protect the settlement of Babocamari, Sonoita and the Santa Cruz valleys against Indians. Leading a detachment of troops from this post in 1871, Lieut. Cushing was killed by one of Cochise's bands.

The site of Fort Buchanan lies only a short distance below Camp Critten-den.

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It was established in 1856 and named for President Buchanan. Ralph Pumpelly, who visited the fort in 1860, writes: “Continuing our journey we reached Fort Buchanan, a few adobe houses scattered over a considerable area and without even a stockade around it.” It was originally called Camp Moore. The post was abandoned by Federal troops in 1861, due to the Civil War and the approach of a body of Confederates, who destroyed the fort soon afterward. The California Column of Union troops reoccupied it but left it shortly. In 1865 only six men were stationed there. Its abandonment in 1861, according to Barnes, is probably what Poston meant when he wrote: “Old Fort Buchanan of rueful name, Forever linked to nation's shame.” A few miles farther along and 23 miles north of Nogales lies Patagonia, original name of Mowry's mine, located in 1858. The mine was bought in 1860 by Lieut. Sylvester Mowry, who said the origin of the name Patagonia was unknown to him. The mine was seized in 1862 by General Carleton, who charged Mowry with disloyalty and con-fined him in Yuma prison. Mowry was released a few months later, but event-ually lost his mine. The town lies along the banks of Sonoita creek, a beautifully shaded village in an attrac-tive mountain setting.

Nogales, twin cities of the border, is familiar to almost every Arizonian. From the Spanish word nogal, walnut, the old settlement was first known as Los Nogales, also as Line City, then as Isaactown, after the owner of one of its principal saloons. Early settlers say the Santa Cruz river, which flows through both the Mexican and American cities, was lined with walnut trees, and in 1882 the name Nogales was agreed upon for the community. The town is situated on a land grant originally owned by the Topeka Cattle Company, of which Isaac N. Towne, “citizen, politician and stockman”, was president and general manager. Nogales has become one of the principal ports of entry to Mexico with a cosmopolitan atmosphere found in few other sections of the Southwest. Across the street lies the Old World.

Ten miles north of Nogales, on U. S. Highway 89, is Calabasas, Spanish settlement founded about 1763 as a visita of the Jesuits, and an early day mining camp of the Americans. It is rich in legend and history. The town was named by the Calabasas Land and Mining Company in 1865.

Twelve miles from Calabasas is Tumacacori Mission, one of the earliest of the ancient Jesuit chain. Erected in the latter part of the Seventeenth century, this old church structure, at least twice pillaged and damaged by Indians, is situated in the valley of the Santa Cruz. On the recommendation of Will C. Barnes, at that time assistant U. S. Forester, the mission was made a national monument in 1908 and has been partially restored. Its present custodian has done a great deal of research work in connection with its history and guides who are stationed there like to tell its story to visitors.

Leaving Tumacacori, the motorist drives only about eight miles north to Tubac, one of the oldest settlements in the state and the center of culture and refinement in the Southwest in the middle of the Nineteenth century. There is a small modern settlement there, but little trace remains of the ancient buildings. First known as a presidio in 1752, it was a pueblo and mission in 1814-24 and a mining center in the early 60's, at which time it was head quarters for the Santa Rita Mining Company. J. Ross Browne visited the settlement in 1853. He writes: “We found the old town of Tubac abandoned by its Mexican garrison. As the houses were good we occupied them during the ensuing winter, passing the time exploring the country. It has probably 150 silver mines in a radius of sixteen miles. They have not been worked for fifty years.” Returning in 1863 he wrote: “It is now a city of ruins and desolation.” Cozzens was there in 1858-59. He says: “The very elite of Arizona call Tubac their home. It had then some eight hundred people, onesixth of whom were Germans who came from Germany to make homes in Arizona. A very attractive place with its peach orchards and pomegranates.” “The old records of Tubac, kept by Charles D. Poston, are now in the county recorder's office at Tucson,” writes Will Barnes. “They include original certificates of Poston's appointment as alcalde, signed by the governor of New Mexico, Tubac then being a part of that territory. A weekly newspaper, the Arizonian, was started in Tubac in 1858, printed on a press brought by the Wrightson brothers of the Santa Rita company to Mazatlan and hauled overland from there to Tubac. It was the first press brought into the territory and the first newspaper printed there. Ed Cross was editor. According to Bartlett, Mormons located a colony at Tubac in 1851, before the Gadsden Purchase, but did not remain long. He calls it a “God-forsaken place of dilapidated huts and buildings and an equally ruinous church.” It is only a short drive, still on U. S. Highway 89, from Tubac to Continental and the Santa Rita Range Reserve. At the former in 1914, the Continental Rubber Company had a large plantation of gayule, a rubber producing shrub, but the experiment failed. The Santa Rita Range Reserve, with an area of approximately 50,000 acres, was set aside in 1906 by Presidential proclamation for carrying on experiments in grazing cattle under Southwestern range conditions.

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Eight miles south of Tucson, just off Highway 89, is the famous Kino mission of San Xavier del Bac, established as a mission about 1732, perhaps as early as 1720, by the Jesuits for the Papago Indians. It is the oldest mission in Arizona or California, according to Farish. Bancroft says that about 1778 or 1780 it was destroyed by the Apache Indians. The present church is dated 1797, which Bancroft believed to be the date of its completion. Belton quotes Father Kino as having written in his diary as early as April 28, 1700, “We began the foundation of a very large and capacious church and house of San Xavier del Bac.” Upon expulsion of the Jesuits from New Spain in 1767, the mission was taken over by the Franciscan fathers, under Fr. Garces, who came from California to take his new post in June, 1768. It is still in use as a school and church, and to those who have not been there, it is well worth a journey to Tucson for the express purpose of visiting it.

No place to go? Gentle reader, there are a thousand places, and maybe one thrown in for good measure. You don't even have to pick out a route or an objective. Get an Arizona road map, step on the starter and follow your nose. It makes little difference in which direction you travel. You'll find many things to interest you provided only that you hold down the speed a bit, lift your eyes from the pavement occasionally and look about you. It's time, money and effort well spent.

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(Continued from Page 10) thing that's been puzzling us is the Golf Scores printed in some of the papers where it says some man made it in 72 or 78, etc.

“The man that made our Map for us was in such a hurry he forgot to tell us how or what to count and we can't figure out whether a score of 72 means that he Made it in 72 hours or 72 Days or used up 72 Balls Going Around.

“All our Bunkers and Hazards are Natural. Anything that don't move or is Dead, like a Sand Wash or a Mesquite thicket or a Dead Steer on the Far a Way we call a Bunker. If it's alive, like a Rattlesnake or a Cow, we call it a Hazzard and if She is Young and Has a Calf its Extra Hazardous. That's why our Caddies all go horseback. Liz-

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ards don't count unless they get above Buzzard's Roost and the Caddy had to Hide a lot of Little Sticks with Numour Knees. run her Three Miles horseback to catch bers On, for miles and miles and a her and then wrap her up in his Saddle month or so, until the Road Money Blanket to get her home again. She is all gone then they go back home went to Pasadena the next day. again or to Yuma. Then in Four or Five or maybe Ten Years, some more Best Friends or Relatives come up here again and they go away off out in the Brush Somewhere and Try to Find some of the Little Sticks the others Hid Four or Five or maybe Ten Years before. The one that finds the Most Sticks with the Biggest Numbers On will probably be elected Supervisor or Highway Commissioner this time.

"The other day a Missus Delancey from Maine enroute to California stopped over to Rest, she said, and play a little Golf. The first day she was Playing, along in the afternoon between the 3rd and 4th Holes she stood on a Lizard Hole while she was swinging her club, and the Lizard crawled up her knickerbockers just as she was making a big swing. She missed the Ball but she knocked the Caddy off his horse and when she started toward Mexico the War Whoops she let out was heard in "We hear that the Board of Supervisors are going to do some more Road Work up here somewhere. Every Four or Five, or maybe Ten Years, when there is More Road Money than they can spend down around Yuma, they send up some of their Best Friends or Relatives to do Road Work. They go away off in the Brush Somewhere and "If there is any Reward offered for finding one of these Little Sticks with Numbers On, we want to claim it. The other day when we were away out in the Brush Hunting Badgers, we found one--Number 999 which probably means that it may be 999 years before the Yuma or Maricopa County Supervisors will ever do anything to improve the Main Travelled Highway from Phoenix to Los Angeles and the Coast, by way of Buckeye, Salome and Blythethe Best and Shortest and Only Real Route to the Coast."

"Sixty years ago the Indians chased an old prospector from the Colorado River to where Phoenix now is. He hit some of the high places and dodged around through the brush something like a spring chicken after a grasshopper-like a cricket on a hot stove or the lady on the back seat. This old prospector made the trail you are now hitting the natural and shortest route to the coast-the scenic highway-scenery high and in the way; but don't blame the old prospector he was in a hurry. He knew the Indians were following him, but he never expected you to, and he didn't know the Yuma County Democratic Boards of Supervisors were going to relocate his trail and call it a county road-a Yuma County Arizona road just because they are Democrats and this isn't a road. They come up here every two years full of Democratic promisesafter our votes, and every year after our taxes to help build roads through the sand down around Yuma, our county seat, which is so far from here it costs $17 to send a postal card. They are so busy saving the rest of the world and tryng to make it safer for Democrats that they forget all about us up here on the old Indian Trail, which is just the same as it was sixty odd years ago, only worse, as 137, 556 tourists can and do swear to and swear at, and then swear some. Go to it!"

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