Show enthusiastic I 1 the settlement of mesa arizona must be a very pretty place to J justify the tol following lowing from the phoenix gazette mesa is enjoying a repose after the labors of the harvest field with the exception of a few building improvements some freighting fret biting and trait fruit ped people in general are taking it easy under their own vine dine and ng fig trees what an abundance of ripe delicious fruit plenty of milk milic and honey lull full granaries cool shades and pleasant showers they are in a pa position i tiou to laugh at the tax gatherer and d frown down the grumbler in the whole extent of the salt Sait kiver valley had bad the pioneers who first ettlel here their choice of position for settlement tl they could not have chosen a better location the mesa is indeed the one spot a ot on the continent of america I 1 where ere the weary will find refreshment tresh ment where the consumptive asthmatic a 8 can find relief and aad where the fever racked patient will receive a new leahe of life mesa today to day with its b sparse population Us its simple but happy happy ways its plentiful supply of 0 water and its broad acres of aspro as productive soil as ever the sun shone on shall not seea see a score of years roll by ere it will be the home of thousands with surroundings unequalled unequal led in beauty by any in the union |