The Arizona champion., 1885-03-21
OUR ADVANTAGES.

east or west, over the Atlantic x Pa ci6c. Amid the magnlficence of Natures grandest architecture are found the relics and mementoes of primotive human art, as though the ambitious forerunners of our present race had tried their puny skill in com petition with the Divine Artihcer. Thus archaeology, ethnology and ge ology have rich and productive harvest fields in the bosom of this wonderful territory. If we believe that "the relic is to past what the germ IS to the future," let us speculate upon the promising germs of gold, silver, cop per, rubies and ameythists which are beneath her giant pines and whole some gramma grass, and paint a pie ture full of soft, lustrous, rosy light, which shall meagerly depict the proud maturity of this favored land. Ari- zon, indeed, whilom the cowboys circus ring and the Apache's charnel- house, becomes apace the miners golden goal, the phthisic's sanitarium, the huntsman's delight, the artists Parnassus and the endless storehouse of the antiqurian.
 Among the numerous and interest ing points along the line of the At lantic & Pacific we mention the fol- lowing, on account of their local sig nihcance
 The little station of Cosinio is dis tinguished because of its proximity to the ruins of extensive and noteworthy Chf-Dwellers, and the flourishing lit tie city of Flagstaff has more numer- ous and varled objects capable of exciting the attention and enthusiasm of the tourist than any other town on the road. The railroad company, cognizant and appreciative of this fact, have made arrangements to build fine hotel here, to enable the so journer in sea ;ch of health or sport to enjoy all the comforts and luxuries he could experience in one of the fash i)nable resorts of the east. Six miles from Flagstaff are the ruins of the most curious, if not the largest Cliff Dwellings Tn the United States, and eight miles from the former station, upon the top of lava mountain, is a large number of cave dwellings of various shapes and dimensions, rudely cut into the solid rock. Flagstaff has great saw-millS. which draw their lumber supply from the mighty forests of the San Francisco mountains, in whose almost trackleSS and intermin- able wilds the ardent sportman finds an inexhaustible quantity of game, such as deer, bear, wild turkey, and many species of small animals and birds. Some of the noble peaks o this range, such as Agassiz's and Hum phrey'S reach an altitude of ovel l3,ooo feet, and from their summit: the walls of the Grand Canyon of tht Colorado, sixty miles distant, art plainly visible, the view in almost al other directions extending fully a5c miles over the rolling plains. West o Flagstaff, and from the railroad track Bill Williams, Sitgreaves' and Ken driCk'S mountains are memorable ob ieCts to the observer as he gaze from the car window and sees ther painted on the blue canvas of tn heavens.
 The writer falters before the task ( saying anything about the Grand Car yon of the Colorado, the most subliin conception of the great Earth-Arch tcct, most awful and awe-inspiring ( all the works wrought by the hand ( time; for there IS really nothing to | said-nothing rather that ought { be said-without repetition of sue a trip as was made by Major Powel It is safe to say that the literatul upon this subject, with one or tw notable exceptions, has not been sa islactory. It IS really a virgin fiel for investigation by the geologist, a untrodden pleasure ground for Il poet and the painter, and bounteol harvest field for the descriptive write Let us suggest to the intelligent read that he picture upon his mental retil two towering, irregular, broken, br tresSed walls facing each other, al forming narrow gorge varying
 depth from half mile to mile al half, and having length of ov
 POO miles, with great turbulent riv coursing through the bottom of i