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Reading microfilm or browsing the yellowed pages of the Star, which has served Southern Arizona since 1877, is a romp through Southern Arizona's history. Occasionally an old editorial makes us say "Oh wow" as it portends the future or seems as if it could have been written yesterday. With the monsoon upon us, we found this editorial from Aug. 30, 1939, relevant. Its headline: "Nature at Work."

The welcoming rains of the past month, besides breaking the intense heat of previous weeks, have once more enabled nature to produce her bounty and her beauty.

Throughout the southern part of the state, the parched brown ranges have been turned into green fields of waving grass. Now is one of the best times of the year to get out away from the cities and see the beauty that nature can work in Arizona when the rains come.

Principally on account of the contour of the ground, which permits sweeping views of rolling lands stretching to the horizon, the Sonoita-Elgin-Patagonia district is today one of the most magnificent sights to be seen anywhere.

Drive through the Empire Ranch road after turning off at Vail. From the crest of the divide looking to the south stretches one of the loveliest and far-reaching views one can find anywhere in Arizona. It is more than just once glimpse.

It lasts for more than an hour even though one is traveling in an automobile. A great green carpet rising now and then to cover a low range of hills, dotted only at infrequent intervals with groups of little dark dots, which turn out to be cattle, and even rarer larger dots, which turn out to be ranch houses, stretches out ahead, to the right and left, until it blends with the distant horizon. It is nature, pure nature with not a thing artificial to be seen.

All of this is available 50 miles from Tucson, and where the rise in altitude changes hot blasts of air to cool, refreshing breezes.