The Coconino sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1891, 1891-09-19
Flagstaff's Display.

the display of Coconino products a
the New Mexico Fair on exhibition
there is specimen of the now famou
red sandstone of flagstaff, which tel
years ago had scarce known a scar ant
now is covered with many wounc
from pick and hammer. From Sal
Francisco to New York this beautifully
tinted rock is being ordered for build
ing purposes and as it becomes known
more and more is more eagerly sought
after. Tee face of Albuquerque
handsome Commercial Club edifice il
made of it; the county buildings al
Los Angeles, public and private build
ings in Portland, Philadelphia and the
great metropolis are beautifed by its
velvety, warm hues.
The Flagstaff Brick Company make,
and have on exhibition, dark red
house brick which is exceedingly taste,
full for building private residences.
There is also fire proof fire brick
which is warranted to be all that its
name says it is but whether it is like
the black ink that writes black-but
don't experience alone can prove.
Anyhow it is creamy, personable
brick and is superior in many was to
the Milwaukee burning.
Lining the west wall is the display
&c @ba T,,,,l., ~
whose mills come nearly everything
that can be turned, or sawed or bent
out of pine wood There are curtain
poles and rings, ceiling center pieces
and mouldings, lathings, pailing fences
and scroll work of various kinds and
uses. The reporter asked MIR. Fancher,
who was so kindly furnishing informa-
ton if the company made furniture.
mo! out they turn out the carvings
from which it can be made" and the
reporter takes it that there isn't much
they can't do in those five mills over
in the flagstaff forest. This forest by
the way, is one of the sights of Arizo,
ma. 1t is $50 miles long and so miles
wide, and within its recesses stands
the prosperous city of Flagstaff, where
is located the central mill Of the COM
pany, From it the Mineral belt road
pierces the pine woods, reaching the
others. Water is pumped up from
numerous springs in the foothills and
carried through pipes to feed the great
boilers from whose mighty power come
the millions of feet of lumber which,
in great part, supplies Albuquerque's
growing demands. The Atlantic Il
Pacific also are supplied with all their
material from the same mills. The
trees in this ancient temple of the gods
are all the way from % years to 200,
and in height, when they are full grown
and aged, will average 200 feet. For.
100 feet the are often limbless, thus
furnishing the finest, most perfect
lumber in the world One praiseworthy
thing about this company is that every
month it pays its 800 employees in
money and they can patronize the
general sommisary store or go else.
where. This store, with its 100000
yearly sales, is feature Of Flagstaff
prosperity.
Choice vegetables and grains, raised
without irrigation, are shown on the
south wall. These vegetables were
gathered up hurriedly from gardens
along the line OF railroad and in every
instance they were raised without arti-
fetal appliance of water. There is all
the garden truck" generally found in
eastern gardens and all exceptionally
fine. The Irish potatoes are perfect,
both in color and solidity, and the
yield is simply enormous. Grains
show the same completeness of growth
and one stalk of corn on exhibition is
a freak, from one grain this stalk shot
up and bears eight perfect ears. Oats
is grown six feet high, alfalfa shows
three cuttings, June July and August
each two feet high, and all this with.
out irrigation, From the farm of
Bowers Bros. is exhibited Bowers
Eldin Valley wheat. Three years
ago a single grain was put in the
ground; the first year there was seed
enough to produce bushel and half
of grain the second, and from this there
was harvested 40 bushels the third.
II. Casner has a small exhibit of
choice fruits, pears, peaches and ap
pies. All kinds Of grasses thrive and
the sheep on thousand hills are max
ing fortunes for their owners.
On Thursday four tramps broke
into a freight car on Conductor
Campbell's train between Winslow
and Walnut, They were discovered
by the train men, and the matter re-
ported to Sheriff Francis, The
tramps left the train at Walnut, and
Sheriff Francis, and Chas, Canal,
left here on Oh velocipede car, and
met the Migrants at Cosnino. They
were arrested and brought to this
place. a number of articles which