Yours Sincerely and Sincerely to You

THREE DOTS AND A DASH:

... It is difficult to find words in which to express our appreciation of your beautiful magazine, two issues of which have now been safely delivered, though the August number reached us before the July one did.

Belonging to a country with a reputation for beauty, we are nevertheless amazed by the grandeur of the scenes so vividly portrayed by your photographers, and we hope that one day it may be our good fortune to see them in actuality.

We thank you sincerely for your letter of greeting given in your own name, and in that of our son, Cadet Wm. Macfarland, who is temporarily in your country, and who is being most hospitably treated by your fellow citizens.

Assuring you that the monthly visit of ARIZONA HIGHWAYS will be much looked forward to, and thank you again.

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. MacFarland, 40 Alness Street, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

To the parents of many English cadets learning to fly in the Valley of the Sun, goes each month ARIZONA HIGHWAYS. To these parents and to all the English people ARIZONA HIGHWAYS, in behalf of the citizens of Arizona, wishes to extend a hand in comradeship across the seas and a message of courage and strength...

I am writing a few lines in praise of your excellent magazine, ARIZONA HIGHWAYS, which I sometimes receive through one of my unclesReginald M. Fennell, Jackson, Mich., and Cecil G. Fennell, the latter being about the first man (1900 or 1901?) to drive an automobile around Prescott.

I especially admire the coloured insert you published recently as I am experienced in colour-photography. I read many mags. but place yours high.

My father reads your mag. also and it recalls his time spent near Prescott, at I believe Valley Verde, which I can just remember, as well as the Grand Canyon and also a forest fire. These are about all, as I was only about 4 years old then.

At present we are all very busy, but we all hope soon to win this war ("Conquer or Die,' Mr. W. Churchill) and then there will be more work before good, long vacations.

Being on the south coast and only some 60 miles from Nazi-occupied territory, we are in the "front line," but few people show it and we have much to be thankful for.

We greatly appreciate the past, present and promised help of all kinds from our American brothers under that fine man, Mr. Roosevelt.

I have many relatives, including two brothers. in the U. S. A. and hope to spend a vacation there especially in Arizona, of which my father talks a lot.

I shall have a bunch of interesting war-stories (not to be written now), but daresay people will try to forget war after this is settled.

A. G. Fennell, M.P.S., Bournemouth, Harts., England.

THERE'S A STORY IN THAT: ARIZONA HIGHWAYS comes regularly to my desk, and I enjoy it thoroughly.

I read it from cover to cover, and regard it as exceptionally well edited. As a former resident, in my boyhood, of Flagstaff and of Miami.

As a reader, I would like occasionally to read a little more of the colorful history that gives Arizona such a romantic hue. The story about the Rev. Endicott Peabody's Tombstone days is typical of what I mean. Incidentally, it is his grandson who is the current all-American guard at Harvard. Some of the legends of the Tonto Basin country ought to be interesting. I remember, too, that as a boy in Benson I once read a tombstone inscription that went something like this: "Here Lies Foxy the Dancer. He spoke out of turn Nov. 6, 1882." There must be a story in that.Frank L. Dennis. Assistant Managing Editor, The Washington Post, Washington, D. C.Enclosed is a letter from Forest Ranger Phil Kennedy which is a sequel to your story on the Saga of Queho in the September number

QUEHO'S LAST CRIME

which may be of interest. Mr. Kennedy is a native-born Arizonan. He finally learned of the fate of Queho through your September story.

Fred Winn, Forest Supervisor, Coronado National Forest, Tucson, Arizona.

Mr. Kennedy writes: "The last murder known to have been committed by Queho was on the night of January 21, 1919, when he shot with a 12-gauge shotgun. Mrs. Maud Douglas at the Techaticup mine a few miles from where his body was found in 1941. (Mrs. Maud Douglas was Volney Douglas's mother). We built a coffin of lumber picked up around the mine and buried Mrs. Douglas at Nelson. Nevada, which is located about two miles up the canyon from the mine."

"My mother having died from influenza on January 16, just 5 days before this, my youngest brother Leo, who is now in Glendale. Arizona, was 3 years old and was that night being cared for by Mrs. Douglas. Her body fell across him."

"I did not know that Mr. Frank Waite (although I knew him) was one of the trackers. I started the trail myself. The men I knew on the trail were a Sman whose name I have forgotten and two Indians known as 'Stump' and 'Baboon'. They trailed for three weeks and told us that sometimes they were close enough for the sand to be yet caving in Queho's tracks. Anyone familiar with the cliffs of that county will realize how easily a trail could be lost.

"I have often wondered what happened to 'Queho' since he was not seen or heard of again. I later became well acquainted with Queho's nephew, Mike Tobin. Mike would never tell me anything except that Queho was bad."

FOR THE BRAVE:

From time to time I have read articles on "What to Send the Serviceman."

I would like to take this opportunity to state that for the past year my brother has been sending me THE ARIZONA HIGHWAYS monthly. I enjoy reading it very much and am prouder still to pass it on to my fellow soldiers. So, I would like to thank the editors of THE ARIZONA HIGHWAYS MAGAZINE as it has gone a long ways (10,000 miles) upholding the morale of one soldier....

Jim Matt Mathieson, Headquarters Co., Phil. Dept., Port Area, Manila, P. I.

Thanks for the copies of ARIZONA HIGH-WAYS you sent me. A copy is always in the junior officers' mess. They all think I am a propagandist for the Chamber of Commerce. G. Gilbert and I praise the state to the highest heavens, and expect half of Hawaii to move there after the war.

Ens. W. F. Cage, U. S. S. California, Pearl Harbor, T. H.

OF CHRISTMAS AND SUCH

... I want to express my appreciation to you for your beautiful December, 1941, issue of ARIZONA HIGHWAYS. I know of no publication in the publicity field or in the commercial world which can compete with this artistic masterpiece.

The entire staff is to be congratulated, and I want to add my felicitation to the hundreds you no doubt will receive. Too often people appreciate an outstanding piece of work and never let the ones responsible know about it, but this issue of your magazine cannot be overlooked.

If your purpose is to entice people to visit Arizona and promote travel over the state's roads. I am sure you will get results. Your past publications have been of an extraordinarily high standard, but this one surpasses all others.

The color photography is magnificent-but I choose the Grand Canyon winter scene as the outstanding piece in the entire publication.

Florence Lee Jones. Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal, Las Vegas, Nevada.