is furnished by an electric plant. Churches, schools, and fraternal 

 organizations are representative and adequate. A condensed 

 milk plant is a recently established industry. 



MESA CITY Sixteen miles east from Phoenix is the "Gem 

 City , but now better known as the gateway to the Tonto res- 

 ervoir. Mesa is the nearest railroad point to the dam site and 

 construction camp of Roosevelt and from here runs a magnifi- 

 cent mountain road with superb scenery along nearly tbe whole 

 of its 60 miles. Over the road travel daily lines of stage coaches, 

 while numerous freighting teams are engaged in carrying -work- 

 men and supplies to the great engineering work in the heart of 

 the mountains. Mesa has a high school and contributary graded 

 schools with over 700 children enrolled. The population of the 

 town is about 1200. As the center of a country especially 

 favorable for growing fruit, grapes, melons, and cantaloupes, car- 

 loads of these products are shipped every year from Mesa, besides 

 live stock, hogs, and sheep. Mesa is the center of the largest 

 operations in pumping for irrigation purposes from the almost 

 inexhaustible underground supply of water. Several large plants 

 are established in this vicinity and are in successful operation; 

 one alone irrigating over 3,000 acres of alfalfa. 



