Yours sincerely and sincerely to you.

TREASURE ISLAND:

Through the courtesy of the Arizona exhibits on Treasure Island I obtained the April and June issues of Arizona Highways My two copies have passed through a good many hands, both in our very large office and among my personal friends, and we are all unanimous in our praise of it.... Two years ago, en route to Grand Canyon, we went down into Boulder Dam but didn't even stop to look at Lake Mead. After reading your April issue we realized what we missed and are going back to take the trip into the lower part of Grand Canyon via Lake Mead..

Kay Davis, San Francisco, Calif.

The presentation of a copy of your wonderfully informative magazine at the Arizona exhibit at the San Francisco fair cannot fail to convince the public that Arizona is not surpassed in economic importance or as the perfect vacation land.

L. H. Bash, Major General, U. S. Army, (Retired), Palo Alto, Calif.

Arizona Highways has made friends with many people at the S. F. fair, thanks to those in charge of the Arizona exhibit. To these friends we are grateful for letting us know how the magazine is being received.

WASHINGTON, D. C.: It is only within the past century that people are becoming acquainted with the beauty and lure of Arizona, and the many modern developments of this state. Prior to that time people conceived it, solely a land of Indians, and many think today, if you visit the state, the trains and busses offering means of transportation, are manned by Indians. It is such monthly publications as this magazine, illustrating the truth, of present day, and past history, that many folks are being educated to the wonders of the Southwest and the State of Arizona.

There exists in the east, we believe, more misinformation about Arizona than any other state in the Union. In our humble way, we are trying to give the picture of true Arizona: which we realize is a difficult task as we learn more and more of the state.

LIBRARY:

For some time the public library of Indio has been receiving a complimentary copy of your monthly publication, which is read with marked interest by many of the patrons. The July issue and Scenic Arizona are so lovely I wish every acquaintance of mine could have the opportunity to read them.

Alva S. Klotter, Librarian, Indio, Calif.

Arizona Highways will continue its monthly visit to the Indio Library and to Librarian Klotter and patrons greetings and best wishes.

NEW JERSEY:

Each month we eagerly wait the delivery of the "Arizona Highways" Magazine and many thanks to you for having them come through regularly and promptly each month. Without a doubt we consider this magazine the finest publication of its kind to be found anywhere throughout the vast expanse of this good old U. S. A. It is most interesting, so easily readable, wonderful photography, true to life and nature, very educational, invaluable to tourists who visit your state of scenic wonders, a tribute to the pioneers of old Arizona.

J. W. Binder, Manager Fleetwood Hotel, Atlantic City, N. J.

We are proud that Arizona Highways pleases Mr. and Mrs. Binder, for few easterners know this state as well as they do. Many visitors have come to Arizona because of their enthusiasm for the state.

NEW MEXICO:

Thank you sincerely for the magnificent July issue of your magazine. It has utterly ruined my morning's work, for I have not yet seen Arizona, though I have given out bales of maps and folders of your fascinating state.

A. W. Anderson, Secretary, Clovis Chamber of Commerce, Clovis, New Mexico.

Thanks sincerely to Mr. Anderson for his kind comments.

BRITISH COLUMBIA:

The beautiful pictorial display in Arizona Highways makes it easy to visualize something of the grand and unique scenery not to be found in any other part of the world. Arizona Highways is not only entertaining but the informative matter must have educational value as a history of the state. The journal will be a mine of wealth for the historian of the future.

Rev. G. H. Raley, Vancouver, В. С.

One of our aims to be of value to some inquiring scholar who stumbles upon dim and faded issues of Arizona Highways seeking an account of Arizona down the sleepy years.

CALIFORNIA:

This morning's mail brought me the July issue of Arizona Highways on opening the first page I could scarcely wait to get through it for each picture seemed finer than the last. I have thrilled at many of the scenes shown on visits to your interesting state and I hope to make the boat trip up Lake Mead into Grand Canyon this fall.

Miss Cecil Harford, City of Redlands, Redlands, Calif.

Miss Harford can select for herself no more interesting trip than the boat ride up age-old Grand Canyon on placid Lake Mead.

ALBERTA:

I look forward to each issue of Arizona Highways, and wish to congratulate you on your excellent publication. Although I have only had the pleasure of one trip to your wonderful state, I am eagerly planning and looking forward to my next trip. I think the trip from Flagstaff to Prescott via Oak Creek Canyon and Jerome is the finest I have ever taken. I have greatly enjoyed your pictures of this and other scenic routes.

G. O. Vandervoort, Bank of Montreal, Hughenden, Alberta.

We agree with our good Canadian friend, Mr. Vandervoort, that the Oak Creek canyon trip is a highlight of travel pleasure.

GEORGIA:

I want to take this opportunity of telling you what a wonderful job you are doing to sell Arizona. When a dyedin-the-wool Georgia cracker keeps the entire year's file of Highway magazines of another state on her living room table, they have to be good.

Mrs. O. N. Lackey, Rome, Georgia.

Note to Mrs. Lackey: We are always glad to hear from Georgia. The only thing better than reading Arizona Highways is to visit Arizona..

ARIZONA:

The July issue is a humdinger, and a great credit to the staff. As an advertising medium it excels anything in the west. (You note that I take in plenty of territory, and I mean it, for it is the truth.) It is a great help to every Chamber of Commerce in the state, and I am quite sure that all of them realize it..

W. W. Midgley, Flagstaff, Arizona.

Arizona has no more faithful or loyal citizen than Major W. W. Midgley. Pleased we are, indeed, for his kind comments about Arizona Highways.

TEXAS:

The magazine is one of our favorites an and we look forward eagerly to the coming of each issue. We have made a number of trips through Arizona and we always plan our next trip in the same direction.

G. H. Brush, Walling, Bradfield & Brush, Austin, Texas.

In July more Texans visited Arizona's Petrified Forest than visitors from any other state. Texans are travelers.

ARIZONIQUES

Suggested reading: H. H. Bancroft's "Arizona and New Mexico;" John R. Bartlett's "Personal Narrative;" J. Ross Browne's "Adventures in the Apache Country;" Thomas E. Farish's "History of Arizona;" Frank C. Lockwood's "Arizona Characters;" Father Berard Haile's "Dictionary of the Navajo Language."

In 1875 Corydon E. Cooley and Marion Clark settled together on what is now Showlow creek. Deciding that there was only room for one, they agreed to play a game of Seven-Up to see who should move. When the last hand was dealt Cooley needed only one point to win. Clark looked at his cards and said, "If you can show low you win." Cooley threw down his cards and exclaimed "Showlow, it is!" Hence the name, Showlow, Arizona.

Superstition Mountain, about forty miles east of Phoenix, rises to an elevation of 5,030 feet. To the early settlers, the Spanish and the Pima Indians, this mountain was considered dangerous because Apache Indians raided from the mountain sides. Ranchers and miners who have been into the canyons of the Superstition say it is a region of great beauty.

Matthew B. Rivers, a Pima Indian born at Sacaton, killed at Cantigny, May 28, 1918, was the first Arizonan killed in the World War. He was attached to Company K, 28th Infantry.

Eskiminzin was one of the Aravaipa Apache chiefs who warred aganist the white man. In the Apache language his name means "big mouth."

The National Park Service of the Department of the Interior has under its jurisdiction a class of reservations called national monuments. The majority of these national monuments were created by presidential proclamation under the authority contained in the act of Congress of June 8, 1906, entitled: "An act for the preservation of American antiquities." This act authorizes the President of the United States "to declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated upon the lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be national monuments."

Under a general definition a national park is an area preserved in Federal ownership by act of Congress because of its outstanding scenery, national in character. A national monument is reserved because of its historic, prehistoric, or scientific interest.

Over 200,000 automobiles bearing foreign license plates entered Arizona during the first six months of 1939.

Large scale copper mining did not begin in Arizona until after 1870, although the Ajo mines were started before that date. Jim and Bob Metcalf discovered the first mines in the Metcalf-Morenci district in 1870.

The Mission San Jose de Tumacacori was founded by Father Eusebio Francisco Kino about 1691. It was discovered by American settlers in about 1850 and was created a national monument September 15, 1908. It is 49 miles south of Tucson and 19 miles north of Nogales.

The name of Tucson is believed to have come from a Pima Indian word "Sluyk-son", meaning a dark or brown spring. The Papagoes say "styuk" for black and "zone" for foot or base of a hill, or near a spring. Fr. Marcos is believed to have visited the place as early as 1539. U. S. troops occupied Tucson in 1856. On August 16 of that year a convention was held there to organize the territory of Arizona as a political entity.

The Navajo Indians have been called "the Arabs of the American desert."

The first colonization move of the Mormon church in Arizona took place in 1873 under the leadership of Horton D. Haight.

Tubac, the first town established by white men in Arizona, reached its glory in the 1850's. A writer described life there as follows: "We had no law but love, and no occupation but labor. No government, no taxes, no public debt, no politics. It was a community in a perfect state of nature."

Pauline Weaver was a famed guide, scout, trapper and hunter in old Arizona. He came to the state about 1830 and died in 1867.

In the mining development at Tombstone one of the great obstacles to successful operations was the amount of water struck in the mines at a depth of 500 feet.