ARIZONA MONUMENTS

2000 Years-- In the Valley of the Sun

states, and supplied nearly half of all copper used in America.

Schools were almost unknown, and it was not until after he came that public schools were provided for in the territory to any appreciable extent.

The latest development of all is that of agriculture. While the ancient people irrigated, built canals, and the Indians from the earliest days of the first explorers were irrigating in a crude way and the Mexican colonists had practiced irrigation to some extent in the extreme southern parts of the State, there had been no great attempt to develop large irrigation projects, and from this small beginning which was made before he came, he saw the most marvellous irrigation engineering developments that have taken place anywhere in the world. He saw irrigation works combined with hydro-electric power.

The first crops grown were corn, barley and pumpkins, and then a little alfalfa. The vision of those early growers was to produce for their own use, for their herds of cattle, and to supply the military posts and the miners; but from that objective which was soon achieved, he has seen the development of some tropical crops of truck products, of winter truck gardens, until thousands and thousands of cars go out of this Valley every season to supply markets from a thousand to three thousand miles away.

Even the most visionary of those early growers could no more have conceived the attainment which this man has seen than they could have visioned the airplane or the submarine.

He saw the climate prove a magnet which drew people from different states to enjoy the sunshine and the dry invigorating air. He has seen the finest in resort hotels built to accommodate people who have means to seek the best in all the world.

He proudly boasts that the biggest city he ever saw in all his more than four score years is Phoenix, and he has seen that grow from the desert land where there was not even a town lot laid out, not even an adobe shack.

He has seen thousands of pale, emaciated men and women come under the invigorating air and life-giving sunshine, and come back to the enjoyment of health and the happiness that goes with it. He has seen people who were virtually paupers become well-to-do.

Perhaps best of all is the fact that he has never lost his vision of what may come in the future, and unlike some who grow old in years he does not scoff at the new, but enjoys the comforts and the pleasures, and keeps up with the happenings of the time.

What an experience! When he first came here Andrew Johnson was president. The war between the states had just closed. The South was yet to be reconstructed. Arizona was a young territory with its second territorial governor. The entire population of Arizona in the next census was less than 10,000, and a large percentage of these were Mexicans. The population of the entire United States was under forty million. The electric light and all the developments of electricity have come since then.

These and many others in one man's lifetime.

My dear Mr. Campbell: I have just had the privilege of reading your August number of "Arizona Highways," and cannot resist the temptation to write you and congratulate you upon this very fine number. The pictures are extraordinary, the articles are interesting and well written, and the whole makeup is attractive and praiseworthy. One or two more numbers like this and you will convince me that I ought to move down to Arizona.

I do not know how far we are paid up, but as a special favor to me, please keep me posted so that I do not allow our subscription to lapse.

Yours respectfully,