The Coconino weekly sun., 1892-06-30

be perched on a pinnacle l3,000 feet above sea level and 1000 feet higher than the surrounding country, with a panoramic view utterly setting at naught tue most eNtravagant of your dreams and imaginative flights, viyiiied and intensified by au atmosphere so rare and clear that mountain ranges 200 miles distant are readily dis tinguished aud identified. Can you, by an occult decalcomanic process, transfer to the imagination of listener or reader picture 400 miles square, embracing the most diversified, the most romantic, the most truly surpass- ing aggregation of natural beauties and wonders on Gods oyergrown foot stool, by any power of description or beautiful ingenuity of languageP The writer says no, but does so only in the consciousness of his own inability, and not to discourage others from trying. To the northeast the painted desert spreads out like . huge canvas, on which the artist has at random and with careless stroke placed patches of color, coursing through which the length of the Little Colorado has left its murky imprint, as though the vials of darkness had been uncorked between its sinuous banks. The mesas of the Moqui villages, Navajo mountain, the Carrizos, Sunset mountain, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado and many other objects of interest are to be seen looking northward. Southward the white smoke from the seething smelt- CTS at Jerome can be plainly seen, while Granite mountain, Thumb Butte, Prescott, the Bradshaws, Bean's peak, Expectations mouatains, Baker sbutte, and many other mountain ranges in Yavapai, Maucopa, Pinal, Mohave, Apache and Gila counties are plainly visible. Thus the list might be pro tracted almost indefinitely. Coming nearer home thirty-one lakes are counted, their silvery sheen contrast ing agrecably with the universal yer dure.I Flagstaff appears like village of Llliputians, Bellemont seems an i'm mense farm with about enough houses on it for the average farmers family, the splendid fields of the Arizona Cat tie company catch the eye like freshly painted squares and diamonds of deep green, and in like manner every farm within the scope of vision commands attention and admiration. Hours pass, you are unconscious of the flight of time, and it is only the deepening of the shadows or the very sensible cooling off in the temperature that warns you of the approach of evening and the necessity of departure, no mat ter how respectfully you withdraw your l gaze from the indesCribablc loYelincsS on every hand and direct it to the commonplace boulders among and over
 which you must pick your way 10 tht | place where the horses are standing
 erh7 descent is easy, however, anc
 and after brief lunch at Camp Monte
 Vista, the return is entered into witt scarcely a feeling of fatigue.
 The trail to the summit has short
 ened the trip to the peak about one
 half, and the trip can be easily made in one day. It will be readily under stood that the building of such a trai
 has involved an immense amount O
 labor, and is work that must hay,
 been animated by public spirit of tho most commendablc character. The people of Flagstaff should patroniz, Mir. Doyle in his enterprise, advertis, and push to make the peak one of tn, main points of attraction to the tour ist. It is an enterprise worthy of the most enthusiastic encouragement, and from the very nature of it, can hardly fail to meet the anticipations of the projector. CLIMBER,