The Arizona champion., 1890-08-30
LUMBER AND STONE. Great Natural Resources of
 Fair Flagstaff. ARIZONA'S GREAT PINE FOREST. Immense Saw Mills Making Inroads on Its Iue3haustible StOres-Flag- stan's Great Sand Stone
 Quarries.
ARIzoNA'S GREAT PINE FOREST.
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 tic & Pacific railroad, the first town
 of importance to be met with is
 Flagstaff, which lies in a beautiful
 valley in the San Francisco noun.
 tains, at an altitude of nearly 1000
 feet. To the north but a few miles
 rise Agassiz, Humphrey and San
 Francisco peaks, the latter being the highest mountain in Arizona, towering to a height of l5,794 feet. Like Hol6rook, Flagstaff has been a great sufferer from severe fires, on two occasions there being scarcely a building left standing. Like all live Western people though, the resi- dents of Flagstaff were not discour- aged, and although the last great fire occurred but two years ago, the town has been rebuilt better than ever. The business houses are al- most all constructed of stone and brick, and would do credit to a city of 5, ,0O0 to 10000 inhabitants.
 Flagstaff is principally noted forits lumber and building stone industries. 1t is situated in the very heart of the great San Francisco pine forest, which is from thirty-five to forty miles in width and over 200 miles long, embracing an area of nearly 10000 square miles. An idea of the extent of this forest may be ob- tained from a comparison with some of the Eastern States. It is larger than the State of Massachusetts, or larger than New Jersey and Dela- ware combined. The pine Is of very superior quality. It is harder and trife darker than the white pine of Michigan and Wisconsin, yet not so hard and dark al the vel low pine of Arkansas and Missis- sippi.
 The Arizona Lumber and Timber Company, of Flagstaff, own large tracts of this pine, and the output of their mills brings in many thous ands of dollars a month to the town. The headquarters of the company are about 8 mile from the present Flagstaff, being located at what is known as the old town, where are the principal offices, a. large general store with a stock valued at over $50, 900, a sawmill with capacity of 45,000 feet day and complete blaming mill and sash and door fac tory. Twelve miles south of Flag staff, on the Mineral Belt road, is another large sawmill with capa- city of 5O,0OO feet day. Besides these the company own two smaller mills, which are not now running, but will be started up again soon. When these are in operation the combined output of the mills will be l75,000 feet of lumber per day. The company has now over 10, O00,- 900 feet of lumber in the yards, be- sides large quantity of laths and shingles, and is shipping now at the rate of from four to six cars per day. At present there are about POO men employed, but when the other mills start the number will be increased to 300. The land and cottages surrounding the mills are owned by the company, and rented to the laborers at nominal rental. No Intoxicating liquors are allowed anywhere on the company's lands, and as g consequence their camps are exceedingly quiet and orderly.
 The next greatest industry of Flagstaff is her building stone. Ari- zona sandstone is becoming famous. and the demand for it from all parts of the West is constantly increasing The stone is a beautiful brown sand stone, rather soft when first taken from the quarry, but hardens upon exposure to the air. It has been sufficiently tested to show that it is one of the finest building stones ever found. The quarries were discovered several years ago, but little advance was made in working them nntil the