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Show pro v q -(UT a;h)-e v e-n r n g-he-r a l d; - tue spa y, ja nuary 5, i 93 2 Here's the Real -Inside Story On Serious City r- ..- PAGE EIGHT STONY FORD: ITS STORY ' ; . " . y ? . : :.: ,: 0 f V (Editor Note: Because of Interest among: readers in Stony Ford, Ariz this t paper sent AUUon Held, a tborojy un-r un-r reliable correspondent, to the 'town, to see '.what ; makes it " tick. Some readers had, even doubted the existence of the . burr, but we guegftthis story'll make them bis:, ritzy, sophisticate sophis-ticate shut up.) ( , i BY ASIITON REIT) "'V.T0NY W)Itn. Ariz.. Dec. 29 -Tliin is the town they wind up every nighty so It'll go ugain next day. Lero Hawkins,- the city marshal, winds' it lip, with a llg key. "iBverv 'n hus u ky to the city. Ttys M the, only one that really uses it. ; There Is no electricity here, so they have to run the town by clockwork, clock-work, , t The, motive power comes from Big Springs, up at the headwaters of ,ihe Gila river. These spring? are brought into town every week on the Stony Ford Southern, the only railroad in the World that extends automatically every summer. " When it gets iiot, -the rails expand ex-pand and shoot thru town up to the Desert Belle. mine, two miles in the desert. The mine ships ore until un-til i cold weather comes and the talis contract again. Then it shuts down; . Another thing here is reverse rain. - It, never rains down, but the porous sand of "the surrounding desert gets filled, with. wate-from Here's the Stony 'Ford depot, famed in song and story, with the Sandstorm Sand-storm limited of the Stony Ford Southern ready to pull out, thru Echo canyon and the famous echo-answers. . When the reverse rain starts in Stony Ford, the inhabitants fix lunch trays to their feet, some- ! thing like snowshoes, and keep dry that way. I A I M 0 crnr haul V ? On Black Butte, the miners carfc coffin-covers, either front or bac J of themselves, to ward off the hori- zontal rain. No attempt is made to ; save the water, which is not used, either for drinking or washing. No ! one has used water on Black Butte for eighty years."- Marslial Lrm llasklns winding up the" town. The town hall, just to ha different, i liullt to toy-rescnt toy-rescnt an old prospector. underground streams. When the pressure gets too great, Ihe water spurts up, like rain. This reverse rain goes up about 300 feet and then is cought by the prevailing westerly wind and driven against Black Butte, which has horizontal rain. The Stony Ford Southern, another an-other educated transit system, has a train The Sandstorm Limited that dispenses with tracks and Is navigated over the desert, by com pass and dead reckoning. The Southern inns ihru Echo canyon, which answers 'questions instead of repeating them, as the Grand canyon does. " The canyon sometimes gets tired of answering 'tourists' questions and sweats terribly. It contains the; original" corner around which business turned iri 9$9. ! Like other" towns. Stony Ford has its ; Standing joke. Hid name is Malusha Huneh and he is' trying The horizontal rain thalt sweeps against Black Butte is only one of Stony to cross eagles with burros, retail Ford's marvels . . . You dont believe It? . . . Why, tnere's theptcture: ' ing me dcsi ipaiurps ui uom An, eastern miner, caught washing batten '23, was run out of town, as a sissy. Below Stony Ford is the Gila River ferry, an educated boat that has worn aXgroove in the river and requires no steersman. It is supposed sup-posed to knows when to start and stop, but sometimes keeps on across the desertX making paddle tracks in the sand.V The tracks are used for irrigation irriga-tion ditches. Wayne Lisonbee . .Called By Death Wayne' -Iisonbfe, M years old, World - war veteran and; former $pringville resident, died Saturday in a hospital at Long Beach, Calif.. ofUphtheria, according to word re-cejyed re-cejyed here by relatives . --ne body will arrive in Sprlng-vlDe Sprlng-vlDe Thursday morning. Gravesfde Iervices wUl. be held the same day at(;il;30 a. an. at , the Evergieen cemetery uftder the direction of the Spt ihgyile, American . Legion. Mr. Lfeonbee was marrfed to Leia Ptter'son of Sprlngvine In April 19g0 and is survived by his wido and one son, Garrt,, 7 yeas old. lie Is, also survived by 'his mother, Dlla Lisonbee, one brother an-, tasi sister in Caiifoinia - Sjtop That Cough i Held Until Wednesday Br.eakirtg All Records! 4554 Provonians in 3 Days Terrifying? Yes? But hlwHmagnificent in per-.formattce, per-.formattce, production and entertainment!. 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