Escort Notes

• What is the Spanish word for table? Answer: Mesa



• What does Hohokam mean? Answer: The Ancient Ones or Departed Ones.



• Who were the first Native American settlers to Mesa? Answer: Hohokam Indians



• What is Mesa's elevation? Answer: 1,241 feet.



• How many days of sunshine does Mesa usually have? Answer: 320 days.



• Who were the second settlers to Mesa? Answer: The Mormons.



• What year was Mesa incorporated? Answer: 1883.



• Who was the first mayor of Mesa? Answer: Alexander Findlay McDonald.



• What is the 3rd largest city in Arizona? Answer: Mesa.



• What is Mesa's most notable landmark? Answer: The Arizona Temple.



• What was the Honeymoon Trail? Answer: The road from Winslow to Saint George, Utah. Prior to 1926, Mormon couples had to travel to the Mormon Temple in Utah to be married.



• Mesa is home to what Spring Training team? Answer: The Chicago Cubs.



• Name the Mesa rancher who played a leading role in bringing Spring Training baseball to the Valley? Hint: A stadium is named in his honor. Answer: Dwight Patterson



• Name the east Mesa "spa" that was, for 25 years, the Giants' headquarters as a prelude to Spring Training? Answer: Buckhorn Mineral Wells.



• What mountain range east of Mesa is believed to be the hiding place of the Lost Dutchman mine? Answer: The Superstitions.



• Arizona is number one in the nation mining what product? Answer: Copper.



• What German pioneer discovered the "Lost Dutchman Mine?" Answer: Jacob Waltz.



• Of which Arizona legend was the 1949 film "Lust for Gold" concerned? Answer: The Lost Dutchman Mine.



• In the movie The Mountain (1956) starring Robert Wagner and Spencer Tracy, which Arizona mountains represented, in close-ups, the Swiss Alps? Answer: The Superstitions.



• What national forest is located in the Superstition Mountains? Answer: Tonto National Forest.



• What were the historic 5 C's of economic support to southern Arizona? Answer: Cotton, copper, cattle, citrus and climate.



• Name the dam that is northeast of Mesa and named after the 26th U.S. President. Answer: Roosevelt.



• What lake is behind Horse Mesa Dam? Answer: Apache Lake.



• What Arizona city was formerly known as Zenos? Answer: Mesa.



• What are the 4 chain lakes northeast of Mesa? Answer: Saguaro, Canyon, Apache and Roosevelt.



• What national monument is perched on the cliffs above Roosevelt Lake? Answer: Tonto National Monument.



• What is Arizona's state flower? Answer: Saguaro cactus blossom.



• Name the largest type of cactus in the world and found only in Arizona. Answer: Saguaro.



• How can one best judge the age of a Saguaro cactus? Answer: By the number of arms.



• What is the plural for cactus? Answer: cacti.