ARIZONA'S HIGHWAYS

Arizona Monuments

LETTER of inquiry recently received by the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, and its full, adequate answer are of historical interest to people seeking historical information of Arizona, therefore the letter of inquiry and the reply are given in part below.

The letter is from J. L. White in far away Rock Springs, Georgia. He wishes information relative to the ghost town of Ehrenberg, the Wickenburg massacre, the Oatman massacre, Tombstone's boot hill and other things of the early days. He writes:

"If convenient I will appreciate some

information relative to the following in your state: Ehrenberg, the ghost town on the Colorado river across from Blythe, Calif. "The Wickenburg massacre. "The Oatman massacre in the gold mines near Oatman.

"Tombstone and its famous boot hill. "The reason for the name for the famous Superstition mountain near Apache Junction. "And last and unusual, Hi Jolly's tomb beside Highway 60, near, or at Quartzsite, famous camel driver. Was he with the U. S. Army which once operated a camel brigade from El Paso, Texas, to the Pacific coast, or one of the commercial caravans that once operated in your state? "These are things I have seen while journeying through your wonderful and, to me, unusual state."

The reply from the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, signed by P. B. Murphy, executive secretary, follows: "Arizona is indeed an interesting state, There are many interesting things to see. We wish it were possible to give more of a description of the places to which attention is called as one passes through."

"Ehrenberg, which is on the Arizona side of the Colorado, on U. S. 60, was established as a mining supply station in 1860. At that time the principal means of transportation was up the Colorado river by boat from the Gulf of California, and then into the interior mining towns by pack trains and wagons. It was called Mineral City until 1863, then Ehrenberg, in honor of a prominent mining engineer. The population in 1871 was about 500."

"La Paz, another ghost town, established about the same time, is about ten miles up the river. It became a considerably larger place than Ehrenberg."

"The Hi Jolly monument is to the memory of Hadji Ali, an Arab brought here with the army consignment of camels in 1856. The name was corrupted or distorted by soldiers and pioneers to Hi Jolly. So far as we know camels were never used commercially, except perhaps a few after they were turned loose because they were unable to adapt themselves to the rough, rocky country. For some years they were wild on the desert. There are reports that some were seen as late as twenty-five years ago; however, this is somewhat doubtful."

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ARIZONA'S

ARIZONA'S HIGHWAYS will be travelled by more than two million tourists during 1937. This number of visitors will spend more than $75,000,000 with the corner service station man, the grocer, the tourist and trailer camp, the druggist, and all the others. The state's many national forests will harbor many of these tourists, with the vast free camp grounds under supervision of the U. S. Forest Service providing recreational advantages not offered in the more thickly timbered Eastern and Middle Western states. For Arizona, with its sixteen national monuments, eight national forests, the Grand Canyon National Park, and the uncounted number of natural wonders in all sections, is fast becoming the vacation-land, both summer and winter, of thousands of easterners, who do not “just pass through,” but stay a while to enjoy the great, untamed West as it is to be found throughout Arizona. In the vicinity of all these natural and man-made wonders the tourist, whether he will be here just for a day, or for a year, will spend his travel dollar for necessities just as the permanent residents of Arizona.

Itemized, the one or one hundred dol-lars the tourist will leave in his visit to Arizona, will be spent during a jaunt which will take the average citizen on a 4,000-mile trip, as follows: Twenty cents for transportation; 20 cents for hotels and other lodgings; 25 cents for purchases at retail stores; 21 cents for eating in hotel dining rooms, restaurants, and lunch counters; 8 cents for amuse. ments, and 6 cents for refreshments and confectioneries.

which will take the average citizen on a 4,000-mile trip, as follows: Twenty cents for transportation; 20 cents for hotels and other lodgings; 25 cents for purchases at retail stores; 21 cents for eating in hotel dining rooms, restaurants, and lunch counters; 8 cents for amuse. ments, and 6 cents for refreshments and confectioneries.

Those travelers who choose Arizona as a part of their summer or winter travel will be fortunate in this regardthey may find in summer in the northern part of the state a most comfortable vacation climate amid an area which contains the largest group of natural wonders of the world. In the winter the central, western, and southern portions of Arizona provide a mild climate, with government weather bureau stations recording over an eleven-year period the average percentage of sunshine as 89.7 per cent. With a top of some $75,000,000 as the 1937 “tourist crop,” the new “industry” can go still higher.

As an individual's income increases above a subsistence level, he does not continue to eat more food, wear more clothes, or live in more rooms, in the same proportion that his income increases. There is a fundamental law of economics which has been verified over many years, in prosperous and depressing periods, under actual living conditions, which explains this,” the experts tell us.

It is known as “Engel's Law of Consumption” and is as follows: “As income increases, the proportion of income spent for food decreases; the proportion of income spent for rent, clothing, fuel, and light remains for the most part un-