The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-07

tirely devoid of underbrush, is most desirable farming land. Settlers who now avail themselves of the cpportun- ity for obtaining government title to these lands will find in ten years hence that their possessions have risen from the dubious significance of possessory right to the dignity of an estate Those who neglect such opportunity will be led to rueful appreciation of what might have been.
 Flagstaff has population of about 1900, and a more thrifty, law abiding and progressive community it would be hard to find anywhere
 SCHOOLS. CHURCHES AND LODGES.
 The public school system of Flagstaff is m excellent one. The schools are graded, and the average attendance is more than 200 pupils. Nowhere in the Territory can better school facili- ties be found.
 The churches are represented here. The Methodist, Presbyterian and Cath ollie all own their own edifces and are all out of debt.
 The secret societies are the E. * A. M., I. o. o. F., A. o. U. w, I. o. F., K. of F., I. o. G. T., and c. A. R.
 LIVESTOCK INTERESTS.
 The value of the livestock shipment from the county last year was about S350,000. There are in the neighbor- hood of 300, 900 sheep on the ranges surrounding Flagstaff, yielding an an. nual clip of about 2,500,000 pounds of improved wool. At a fair market price this product adds $500, 0C0 to the sol vency of our sheep men annually.
 Scab, and all kindred afflictions. which constitute perpetual menace to tho focks of Texas and other States, and are constant sources of expense and dread to owners of such flocks, are here unknown, comparatively speak ing. So easily are they held in sub. jection that among the causes which lead to loss disease is never figured on by Coconino sheep men.
 FOR THE TOURIST AND INVALID.
 A writer of eminence has said that ''one of the most pleasing and advan. tageous features of the climate is the opportunity it offers of camping out in the midst of the finest natural scenery to be found in the world, where the mind is so il- terested and the eye so pleased that physicial ailments are for the time for. gotten. As a sanitarium the neigh. borhood of the San Francisco noun tains has no equal in the whole Rocky Mountain range, snd when this fact becomes thoroughly understood thous- ands of lives will be prolonged. and an incalculable amount of human suffering 
 Flagstaff is the gateway to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, and tri-weekly stage line was established between Flagstaff and the Grand Can yon in 1892. The distance is sixty. five miles and it is travelled in less than twelve hours. The road is level and on excellent one. The stage re- turns from the Canyon every other day, enabling the tourist to abtain view of this incomparable spectacle at the cost of little delay
 In the Grand Canyon are many val. | nable deposits of gold, silver, copper, ead and asbestos.
 Oak Creek lies eighteen miles south 'f Flagstaff, is famous for it's noun. 5ain trout and fine scenery, and it at. 'racts many tourists during the sum. ner months.
 Eight miles southwest of Flaosta(f s found, in Walnut Canyon, the larg. st aggregation of Cliff dwellings to b,, ound in Arizona. The Canyon is sev ral hundred feet deep with steep erraced walls of limestone Under the projections of the strata along the ter aces are half a hundred of the quaint bodes of some ancient race.
 The San Francisco peaks affords the nest and most extended view perhaps D the world, included in the pano- ana is a far glimpse into Colorado, 1ew Mexico, Utah, Nevada and Cali ornia. A trail leads to the summit of Asassiz peak and the trip can be made n horseback.