Yours Sincerely

CINQUAIN

Into The silent lake A pebble fell, and made The mirrored scene scattered puzzle Pieces.

BLUE LUPINS

A bit of Arizona sky Comes down to earth each May, And blossoms in the lupins, All summer long to stay.

In dry or rainy seasons, You will always find them thereThey seem so very grateful For such a little care.

NAVAJO AT CAMERON

Warrior by the general store, Granite-still and mesa staring, Years are reckoned by the score Many moons of agile daring Have been chiseled in a face That ignores the tourist throng; Dignity and silence trace Tribal dance and pinto thong. Raven locks are silver gray, Yet long sightless eyes are gazing Past the white man of today Where a signal fire is blazing.

EL DORADO

The old prospector, with his mule And meager grub stake, and his pick Still haunts the western border lands To seek the buried Spanish gold. His face is tanned by desert winds, His clothes are caked with dust and sweat; But in the shining of his eyes Eternal hope has never dimmed.

SANCTUARY

Wish no evil on little things That live by tooth and claw, By razored beak and venomed sting, Or cruel, slashing paw. Such meagre sanctuary they share Of scorching rock and weed, The acrid pool, and earth worn bare Of all but thorn encrusted seed.

MESA

God bethought to fashion a mountain: Then said, when half-way through, "I've many a mountain, many a hill, I'll make this a mesa-in licu."

MOUNTAIN NIGHT

Night comes gently to the mountains. The canyons first are filled with purple shadows That draw soft draperies over the harsh rocks, And turn the river's turbulent refrain into a lullaby.

Then, one by one, the high peaks yield Their golden banners of the sun's last warmth To night's cool, insistent fingers, That tuck them down to sleep Beneath a dark blue blanket Drifted with silver stars.

YOURS SINCERELY READING HABITS AT INDIANA U.:

I am enclosing a short article from the December '53 issue of the Indiana University Alumni magazine. Trust that you will be im pressed-I was.

Congratulations on the continued success of your incomparable publication.

READING HABITS SHOW STUDENTS ARE REALISTS

Apparently Indiana University undergrads are stern realists, mindful of fiscal security, for they read Business Week more than any other mag azine in the I. U. library.

In a recent survey by library officials to determine which magazines the students read most, Business Week won hands down.

Apparently there is more of the gypsy in I. U. faculty members. They were polled on which periodicals they would like to see kept on the library's shelves, in a survey aimed at eliminat ing little used publications. Most votes for retention went to ARIZONA HIGHWAYS.

WELCOME, GROCERS:

I wish to thank you again for so kindly sending copies of the famous ARIZONA HIGH-WAYS to our recent convention of the National Retail Grocers Secretaries Association, in Kan sas City, Missouri, January 11th through the 15th.

The impact of this publication on the group has been obvious for a number of years, with the result that this year when a vote was taken for the next convention, Phoenix, Arizona, was unanimously chosen as the site. (Incidentally, the convention will be held from January 9th through the 15th, 1955, at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix.) ... A recent article on the Gadsden Purchase in ARIZONA HIGHWAYS for November, 1953 (pp 31-33), and an editorial on the same in The Arizona Daily Star for January 4, 1954, have both perpetrated an error in giving the area of the territory acquired from Mexico by the Gadsden Treaty (1853-1854) as 45,535 square miles, whereas the Statistical Abstract of the

GADSDEN PURCHASE:

United States gives “the area as remeasured in 1940” as 29,640 square miles.

It is unfortunately true that the figure of 45,535 square miles appears in the World Alma nac, the Scribner Dictionary of American His tory, and in a large number of text books.

The General Reference and Bibliographical Division of the Library of Congress states that it has made an extensive search in an effort to discover the origin and basis of the larger figure but that it has found nothing conclusive. The most detailed statement located is found in Edward J. Carpenter's The American Advance (London, 1903, p 264) which says that “The region in dispute was about 460 miles in length by 130 miles at its widest point, and comprised 45,535 square miles.” “The region in dispute” is quite vague in comparison with the precise boundaries and exact measurements of the United States geog raphers. In the Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey prepared by William H. Emory of the United States Army and published in three volumes as a Government document (34th Congress, 1st Session, House Executive Document No. 135, 1857-1859), Emory stated that “The territory acquired under the treaty of December 30, 1853, lies between the parallels of 31° 20' and 33° 30' and between the meridians of 106° 30′ and 104° 0 longitude from Greenwich, and contains 26,185 square miles” (Vol. I p 93).

The Statistical Atlas of the Twelfth Census (1903) gives the area of the Gadsden Purchase as 31,017 square miles and The Abstract of the Thirteenth Census (1913) as 29,670, at which figure it has practically remained since that time.

The figure of 45,535 square miles is obviously a loose estimate or guess uncritically repeated in a long chain of error without checking the Government reports which show that the geog raphers have been in substantial agreement since the first survey was made after the Gadsden Treaty was ratified.

American historians have treated the Gadsden Purchase with general neglect, as an incident growing out of the annexation of Texas, the Mexican War, and the territorial expansion of the United States to the Pacific Coast on which hundreds of volumes and thousands of articles and papers have been written. While the Gads den Purchase has not received the attention on the part of historians that it merits, there are two brief but scholarly accounts based on a critical examination of the sources in both countries that deserve mention: P. N. GarberThe Gadsden Purchase (1923) and J. F. RippyThe United States and Mexico (1931). To these publications the general reader may be referred. Garber gives the area as 29,670 square miles. Rippy gives no figure.

BACK COVER "WUPATKI" BY ESTHER HENDERSON.

This national monument, near Flagstaff, attracts many visitors during the summer, when the mountain regions are cool and comfortable.

OPPOSITE PAGE "SUMMER STORM NEAR ST. JOHNS"

BY WAYNE DAVIS. Here in the high plateau country of eastern Arizona, summer storms add pageantry to the landscape.