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Show Springville Residents Write Of Beauty Spots In Arizona t Mr. and Mrs. Walter AnJ erson are among trie fortunate for-tunate people from Springville who are spending the cold winter weeks in Arizona, enjoying the sunshine and beauty spots of the southern state. A fewS of the sights being taken in are described in tthe following letter, which was received from them this week and which we believe their ! friends and acquaintances here will enjoy reading even while it snows : Mesa, Arizona, ' Dec. 18, 1947. We are enjoying this wonderful climate in Arizona and a few of the things we have seen. To walk along the sidewalk and see oranges, grapefruit and lemons lem-ons hanging on the trees, flowers blooming on every side, green leaves on the pepper, palm and all the trees, is something we won't soon forget. We have spent a few winters in California, but we have never seen anything to compare with the miles and miles of fertile farm land and the bright sunshine here. Today we met Mel Harmer, who introduced us to Tom Waters, who was born and reared in Springville. He left Springville and went to Idaho quite a few years ago, but has spent the last two winters in Arizona. We had never seen Mr. Waters before, but when he found that we were from Springville he was more than anxious to get us acquainted with the country. He invited us to go with him in his car and said he would show us a few of the places of interest in this big salt river valley. We traveled for four hours at 45 miles an hour on paved highways with fertile farm land on both sides as far as the eye could see. The large orange, grapefruit, lemon and date farms were indeed a wonderful sight. We bought a bushel and a half of grapefruit for 50c. j The sixth crop of alfalfa is a foot high and grain is six inches high. The fields of cotton have just been harvested. Flax and marrow maize is grown in large quantities. The seeds from the cotton, flax and marrow maize are used to fatten hundreds of herds of cattle, and make real tender beefsteak. Talk about lettuce . . . we saw one three hundred acre field! No wonder this is called the salad bowl of the west.' We visited Buckhorn Hot Mineral Miner-al Springs, where thousands of Indian In-dian relics that have been found in Arizona are on display, and said to have been used by people on this continent 2000 B. C. We then drove to Williams Airfield, where we saw hundreds of airplanes. On our way back we went by way of the little city of Chandler, said to be the wealthiest city of its size in the United States. It has one of the mo3t beautiful hotels I have ever seen. In the lobby hung many rare and beautiful paintings, also Indian blankets, relics and jewelry. Back of the hotel for the use of the guests is an open-air bathing pool, tables, easy chairs, little- cottages, all surrounded by lawn, flowers and trees. As we were on our way home and talking about the wonderful things we had seen, Tom said: "You ain't seen nothin' yet." He is coming in a few days and take us to see the Wrigley estate, Camel Back vicinity, the Biltmore hotel, the Goodyear Plant and more farms on the west of Phoenix. Phoe-nix. Also we have planned a trip to the land of the cliff dwellers. We want the people in Springville Spring-ville to know that we appreciate finding such a kind-hearted, generous gener-ous man as Mr. Waters, and proud to know that Springville is his home town. And even if we do rave about the beauties of another state, we are proud to tell people that we are from Utah, and that our home is in Springville. MR. & MRS. WALTER ANDERSON. |