P.O. Est. April 14, 1905.
Barnes, Will C.; Granger, Byrd (ed.) Arizona
Place Names University of Arizona Press. 1960
p. 385
In 1904, speculating that the railroad would lay tracks through the area, Charles H. Pratt with the help of Ernest and Dick WIck Hall laid out a town plat here. Dick Wick Hall, a noted humorist, ssaid the town was named because Mrs. Grace Salome Pratt took off her shoes and the hot sand burned her feet, hence the slogan, "Salome, where she danced".
The railroad missed the town by a mile and the community had to be moved. Hall had so much trouble getting Post Office Department permission to move the mail service that the final application reads as follows: "One and a half miles closer to defeat," making the word defeat look like depot (which he wrote quite clearly a few lines further down on the form.) Salome Peak and Salome Wash have associated names. PO est Feb. 21, 1905 Chalres H. Pratt or Dick Wick Hall PM. Location changed Feb. 21, 1906."
Barnes, Will C.; Granger, Byrd (ed.) Arizona's names : X marks the place Falconer Pub. Co. : distributed by Treasure Chest Publications, c1983. P. 540
Websites
Arizona Department of Commerce Community Profiles- Salome, Arizona
http://www.commerce.state.az.us/pdf/commasst/comm/salo-wen.pdf
Salome, Arizona Local Government Website
http://www.azoutback.com/salome.htm
Books/Manuscripts found in the ASU Library Catalog
Dick Hall of Salome : the story of a most unusual westerner / [by] Peter Odens.
The
Salome sun, 1925-1926 : Dick Wick Hall's richest humor, Claude G. Putnam's
greatest pictures / reissued by Laughing Desert Enterprises.
Items on the Arizona and Southwest Index
'Great' Salome Gold Rush Sent Miners Flocking to Seek Riches.
CE EPH HA-144
Biography of Dick Wick Hall.
FB BIO HAL,DIC
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