ARIZOnA IGHWAYJ:~~-= E.mBER · · · - Narrow and Unsafe Bridges A Lasting Monument . TO A GREATENGINEER Are Quickly, Economically and Lastingly Replaced With UILDER, executive, soldier, friend - Tom O'Connell has joined that silent host of Billustrious engi neers whose achievements are their end uring monuments. Armco Multi Plate Waterways His death on November 3, 1937, mark ed the end of a career of distinguished service Full Circles 01· Arches, Singly or in Battery, they care for streams up to his state and country ·that covered a period of almost a quarter of .a century. Time, to several hundred square feet in cross sectional area. Write for Illus­ immutable yardstick of values, will list his name conspiciously in the roll of those who trated Literature. built America's great Southwest. His works will long live af ter him. Western Metal ManufacturingCompany 1500 South Central Avenue P. 0. Box 1585 Phoenix, Arizona DECEMBER,1937 ARIZONA HIGHWAYS 3 The courtesy of the open range was are many denominational hospital s and Tucson numbers some of the most pr om­ th e rule most of th e time, except when sanitoriums, private sanitoriums, rest inent people, and man y of them come the Apaches went on a rampage, slaying, homes and "rest ranches," where privacy just for th e rod eo. Tucs on is also host pillaging and running off all available and specialized supervision are ava ilable. to many persons of international fam e. livestock. A welcome to strangers One of the most outstanding of these Each year it is becoming more and mor e meant offering the best. Today Tucson privat ely operated institutions is the "the place to spend the winter." welcomes strangers in increasing num­ Desert Sanitarium for the study and Tucson 's cultural lif e is appre ciated bers and as a host city excels in what treatment of dis ease, established in 1926 by strangers and particularly t hose ac­ it has to offer. as a non -profit project for the utiliza ­ customed to metropolitan influ ences. This Nowh ere else in the world is the sun­ tion of the climatic advantages of Tuc­ is large ly due to th e University of Ari­ shine so constant and the health rays son. The eighteen buildings which hous e zona, whose beautiful campus and edu­ 0 HE pilgrimage to so invigorating . The altitude is 2,400 its activities are locat ed approximately cational plant valu ed at three and one­ feet abov e sea level. The atmosphere five mil es northeast of Tucson, in a Tucson started long ago, when half milli on dollars offer the stud ent is excessively light, dry and clear and desert tract of 160 acres. The lat e sec­ a college education second to none. The wandering natives were invited free from smok e and other impurities. retar y of the treasury, William Woodin, finest artists and outstandin g lect ur ers There is little fog or· dew and very few was one of the many noted persons who are schedul ed on the Music and Art to squal id Indian villages and dust storms. The climate is mild and visit ed the Desert Sanito rium fol· treat ­ courses open to the public. The student extremely low humidity and has proven ment. the village became the cross­ lif e with all its ramifications of sports, a great boon in the recuperation from Th e ideal winter climate results in celebrations and collegiate fun is a leav­ roads of the Southwest. First tuberculosis, sinusiti s, asthma, arthritis, the annual La Fiesta de los Vaqueros, ening and refreshing influence on the rheumatism, nervous disorders or for the Conquistadores, the padres, ("the feast of the cowboys,") which is community. needed rest and out door recreation. held annually in February and is the As the "dude capital" of th e Southwest, Indian tribes and eventually the Climatological data of the United largest rodeo in the southwest. Tucson offers a welcome that is warm States weather bureau show that Tucson Among its regular winter visitors (Continued on Page 24) catt le man and miner, followed is one of the driest habitable points in the United States; that more than 84 per by sett lers bringing housegoods An e?1ening rid_e through the dese rt, climaxed by a pause for refreshm ents befor e a cent of the days are clear with an aver­ hurried campfire, adds to the pleasure of a vacation on one of south ern Arizona's and founding homes. age of 306 days of golden sunshine. When­ dude ranches. ever there is rainfall, it is slight; only four and nine -tenths inches from October to May and six inches from May to Octo­ ber, as an average. Due to low humid ­ ity during the months of high tempera­ tures the physical effect here from heat is not so great as that of those sections with summer temperatures over 80 de­ grees, where humidity records are high. So important as a health center was Tucson, that the U. S. government through the Veterans' Adm inistration, has invested since 1920, when the Veter ­ ans hospital was founded, a total of .$2,022,367.00. The hospital has a ca­ To visitors arriving by airplane, Tucson landmark. ~ are the Pioneer hot el in th e center pacity of 301 beds for the treatment of and th e Valley Bank building , in lower right . Warehouses pnra,llel the 1·ailro nd tracks tuberculosis, and 57 beds for the treat­ clirtgonally to the 1·emliinder of the city. ment of other diseases. In step also is the Arizona State Elks Association, with a large hospital main­ tained exclusively for the treatment of tuberculosis . The hospital is on a 40 << >> acre tract west of Tucson, with an in­ OLD PUEBLO spiring view of the entire city and sur ­ rounding country. LTHOUGH Tucson (Too-Sahn) An yway, Tuc son has played th e host by word of mouth, the fami ly man, bring­ Realizing- -the -· value of a concerted is the home of the Un ivers it y to strangers since time immemorial, and ing household goods, women and children . health pr ogram, the Tucson city health of Arizona, capital of the dude to da y, as one of the leading win ter resor ts So today, served by bus and freight department and the Pima county health ranc h country of th e southwest, of the southwest, the city is visited by lines, eight trains daily east and west department have been combined, and are I nucle us of mining and agri­ many thousands of easterners who an­ over the main line of the Southern Paci­ now operated under one head, the health cultural activity in the south ern nually come to Ar izona for the excellent fic, the American Airlines, and strategic­ director. A recent Works Projects Ad ­ part of the state, ~1-ieOld Pueblo is claim­ schools, re sorts, dude ranches, sanator ­ ally located on U .S. Highway 80, Tucson ministration building program adds new ed by some historians to be the oldest iums, and "old world" atmosphere found maintains its supremacy as a cross roads structures and equipment which will city in the United States, ( chart er grant­ only in southern Arizona at Tucson. of commerce . bring the total valuation of the plant to ed by the King of Spain in 1540) and sti ll This pilgrimage to Tuc son sta rt ed long And despite its modesty, Tucson is a more than $100,000. A yearly personnel retains th e quaint simplicity of a modest, ago when wand ering nativ es wer e in vited cosmopol itan city . This too started way and supply budget of $36,000 is contri­ almost bashful, community. to the squal id Indian villag e at th e foot back, when as a crossroad of trave l it buted to by the City of Tucson, Pima Per hap s this may be attributed to th e of Sen tin el Peak , whe n th e village be­ necessarily became the headquarters for County School district No. 1, the State wint er climat e, which by it s mildness, came th e crossroads of the Southwest . a complex group of humanity that in­ of Arizona, and the United States public does not incite th e permanent r esident s From Mexico came the Conquistadores, cluded miners, soldi ers , merchants, cat ­ health service. One of the newest ad­ t o undue activ ity, (th e last census report Padr e Kino, transient Indian t r ibes, and tl emen, Indians, Mexic ans, all welcome ditions is the therapeutic pool for the shows the Mexican pop ulat ion as close eventually the catt lemen, miner, and, as to the Old Pueblo, so named beca use of treatment of infantil e paralysis. t◊ 65 per cent) . the country was gra du ally advertised the adobe wa ll around the orig-inal town. Besides the government operated agen­ cies for the treatment of invalids, there X T IS called a "Shrine" and is that, but not in the sense that it was ever dedi­ cated to a Saint, ·but rather, if it were dedicated, would be­ come the monument of a de­ cidedly hardened sinner . Nearly all unite in declaring that the spot came into promin­ ence on an evening over sixty years ago when a gambler, who had become enamored of the white wif e of another man, was shot, and, stag .g·ering away from the scene of the shooting, finally fell and died on the spot that is now "The Wishing Shrine." All college is not confin ed to classroom s, as evid enced by thi s g1·oup of colleg e students and winter vi sitor s singing around a campfir e.