Show A city of distances mesa ariz streets are SO 80 feet wide and every block comprises ten acres A residence building site there averages about an acre when you ask ash an address in mesa and the obliging inhabitant directs you to walk sis blocks it sound far but you realize the distance before you arrive says the el paso herald mesa was laid out by mormons cormons who favored unusually wide streets for attractiveness and who made the ten acre blocks in order that every family might be more or less self sustaining in time of indian raids when the family garden might be the only source of food |