The Arizona champion., 1884-08-02
TON1Vb BA~lN.
The Contemplated Wagon Road snd what
 it Will To for Flagsts6. ..'
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 July 20, IS84. y@s.
 EDITOR CHAMPION: -Exertions;.arel being made by the people ,ot rontO Basin to have wagon road cons,rue /. ted from the tunnel .si the NJ: B. R. R., to Flagstaff. The scheme, if ear ried out. will be of gr.at importance to the entire population of this isola' ted region, who have. to pay, enor'' nous prices for clothing, groceries and breadstuff,, the. only one mer- chant claiming thai, it is so hard to get in goods that he has,to charge to- keep even; bu, the stockmen think otherwise. and have determined to. have 9 cheaper, market A, the lres- ent time ronto Basin has some thirty stot k raisers, their amount of stock being as high as 40, 900 read of cat tie, besides horses in propor ,ion, and your informant thinks that 8.ooo Is about the nuial,er of sheep. Most of these are situated in the Sara Anchcs, di,tar ce of,wenty-hve miles. The people of,he Basin are pre,ijudiced aga,nst sheep raising. ' t,'@
 :, Outside of stock raising, farming is carried on to quite an extent, the pop ulaticn being far in advance of bnsi ness at present, creating demand for ce.eals. Besides the mining in- dustry. which now comprises over one hundred persons, there will be'a considerable increase when the new m,ll arrives, which Is intended to run on custom ore, but virtually belongs to the OK Bow mine, vf which Mr. St. Johns Is superintendent.
 The benefits that Flagstaff will de- rive for their sha,e of the outlay, should they tevl inclined to embark Tn it, are extensive, as the entire pat ronage of thl> region of country would go to your town. This the lnhabl. ,ants state empha,icallv, nctwlthstand ing parties with pa k trains w,.I say otherwise. Should they try to dls pute any statement make am pre- pared tu ,ontradiot them, as the ma. jo,ity of the people asked me to make tneir wants known through the col. umns ot the CHAMPION, which 1 an doing. At the present time num- Der oi farmers, stock men and micers go to Winslow tor their supplies, over d rough road, waiting sometimes as long as four or five days oa expense, for 'heir goods.
 Now. Mir. E.lltor, four or five hun dred dullars will give Flagstaff d Gus tom of fifteen UT twenty tn"usaud dol lars year. This small amount cou ( easily be given by such firms as P. B Brannen X Co. and R. kllpatrloI X Co.,, and it will also be an objt, Tor the saloon men, as this community hires plenty of help and they have only chance to get.On tine .Ianpas' twice year. but when they do LJrt bless You, they proceed ilst as do, go clean through.
 The foregoing IS correct State mcnt of facts r,l ,tive to the mater
 This section, too, will be lrea pleasure resort. as there Ire many nat ural wonders to be seen. The ia nous natural bridge, situated on Pm Creek, and four miles from the Mor mon settlement, is, without doubt one of the Curlos,ties of the world Strange as 1t may appear, plenty c people in the Ba'ln have never vlslts
 Il, although situated Tn close proxln ity to them, as II was of. recent dat the discovery was. made. To give correct idea oi this mammoth affai It would occupy several columns, an < 1 will defer it until another letter, bt , for the present stuff t II 10 say ii
 natural bridge of Virginia could | put m any one chamber, h iding from vlew. More anon. l. L.