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ARIZONIQUES

The yucca is not a cactus, nor is the ocotillo. Botanically the ocotillo is related to the violet. The Mexican government is building the Angostura dam, 80 miles south of Douglas. The dam, to cost $5, 000,000, is the first unit of the $40,000,000 Yaqui valley project, which, when completed, will impound water for a lake 20 miles long and ten miles wide. Angostura dam is reached through the port of entry at Douglas.

Cash income for Arizona agricultural products in 1939 reached a total of $60,984,000.

The burro is not native to the southwest but was brought here by the Spaniards during the Conquest.

The elevation of Grand Canyon on the south rim of the Canyon is 6,866 feet. The elevation of Cape Royal on the north rim is 7,876 feet.

In Arizona the regulations concerning speed are as follows: No vehicle shall be driven upon the highways, at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent, having due regard to the traffic, surface and width of the highway and the hazard of intersections, and any other speed conditions existing. Nor shall any person drive at a speed which is greater than will permit the driver to exercise proper control of the vehicle and to decrease speed or to stop as may be necessary to avoid colliding with any person, vehicle or other conveyance upon or entering the highway in compliance with legal requirements and with the duty of drivers and other persons using the highway to exercise due care. No vehicle transporting passengers for compensation, or transporting property, when equipped with pneumatic tires, shall exceed a speed of fortyfive miles per hour. No vehicle equipped with other than pneumatic tires shall operate upon the public highway at a speed in excess of twentyfive miles per hour.

Navajo Bridge, seven miles below the historic Lee's Ferry crossing on the Colorado river, has a span of 616 feet in length and the bridge floor is 467 feet above the river. This bridge is on U. S. Highway 89, and is one of the foremost engineering achievements in the state.

During December Yuma experienced 28 completely clear days, while three days were reported as "partly cloudy." There were 299 hours of sunshine at Yuma during December out of a possible 311 hours, or a sunshine percentage of 96, making Yuma the "sunniest" city in the United States during December.

On January 1, 1940, there was estimated to be stored back of Boulder Dam, 22,720,000 acre feet of water, about nine million acre feet of water less than estimated capacity.

The Carnegie Institute of Washington, D. C., has turned over the Desert Laboratory, near Tucson, to the University of Arizona.

The United States Government earned $4,321,000 during 1939 from the sale of power generated at Boulder Dam. A national monument is an area set aside by the president of the United States primarily for its educational value, with secondary recreational and inspirational value. A national park, which is proclaimed by Congress, is essentially set up as a recreational area.

The first white settlement of Gila County was a tent colony of miners at the Ramboz silver claims, ten miles north of Globe. It cost 25 cents for each letter brought up from San Carlos by Indian runners to be delivered from a volunteer postoffice.

When the Rev. George K. Dunlop was consecrated bishop of the Episcopal diocese in 1880 he found in Arizona, he wrote "not a church building, not a piece of property, not an organized congregation, not a clergyman and only forty communicants who had in any way reported."

The first American warship of importance to bear the name of "Arizona" slid from the ways of the Brooklyn navy yard in June, 1915, christened with the first water over the Roosevelt dam, from a bottle broken against her prow by Miss Esther Ross of Prescott. Two vessels before had borne the name "Arizona," though only one was of importance. She was an iron, paddle-wheel steamer, built in Wilmington, Deleware in 1858.

A herd of elk was turned loose in the mountains of Winslow in 1913, the animals being brought from Wyoming at the expense of the Arizona Order of Elks.

According to Historian Andrew Jensen of the Latter Day Saints church the first Mormon settlement in Arizona was made by Anson Call on the Colorado river in 1865. In 1858, however, Jacob Hamlin, with a party of twelve, was sent to do missionary work among the Hopis.

Dean Thornber of the University of Arizona in his book, "The Fantastic Clan," says: "All told there are more than 1200 species or kinds of cacti, of which about 225 occur in the United States, and the rest in Mexico, Central America, South America and outlying islands. Of the 225 species occuring in the United States, about one hundred are native of Arizona, the premier cactus state, and nearly two hundred grow in four southwestern states, California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, with a few in Utah and Nevada."

The Santa Cruz river has one of the largest underground flows in the world.

In the Grand Canyon section of the Colorado river, there are 245 treacherous rapids to be dealt with by the venturesome boatman. Because of these and other rapids, the Colorado has been termed the "world's most dangerous river."

Over 1300 square feet of tracing cloth was consumed by the Arizona Planning Survey in preparation of the Arizona Base Map.

Fort Huachuca, the last of the border forts, was established in 1877. Among the officers stationed at the fort before 1900 was Major Chaffee, who later was to lead the American Relief Expedition to the American Legation in Peiping during the Boxer uprising.

The San Carlos reservation has an area of 1,610,240 acres and a population estimated at close to 3,000.

Seventy-five percent of the Apaches living in Arizona still live in native tepees or wickiups.

Maricopa county at its greatest length and width is more than 100 miles across.

The Supai Indian reservation in Havasupai Canyon, in the Grand Canyon, has an area of 28,400 acres.