The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-17

now a'ali themselves of the opportun- 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 a rueful appreciation of what might have been. Flagstaff ahas a population of about 1900, and Q 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 an excellent one. The schools are graded, aud the average attendance is more than 200 pupils. Nowhere in the Territory can better school facili- ties bc found. The churches are represented here. The Methodist, Presbyterian and Cath olic all own their own edifces and are ali out of debt.
 The secret societies are the E. t A. M., I. o. o. F., A. O. U. w., 10, F., k. of P, I. o. c. T., and c. X. R. LIVESTOCK INTERESTS,
 
 The value of the livestock shipment from the county last year was about S350, 900. There are in the neighbor- hood of S00,000 sheep on the ranges surrounding Flagstaff, yielding an an, nual clip of about 2,600, 900 pounds of improved wool. At fair market price this product adds $500, 0V0 to the sol vency of our sheep men annually.
 Scab, and all kindred afflictions, which constitute perpetual menace to the hocks of Texas and ..other States, and are constant sources of expense and dread to owners of such hocks, are here unknown, comparatively speak, ing. So easily are they held in sub. jection that among the causes which lead to loss disease is geyer figured on by Coconino sheep men.
 FOR THE TOURIST AND INVALID.
 A writer of eminence has said that lone of tho 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 in terested and the eye so pleased that physiciai a,liaents are for the time for. gotten. As 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 incalculaGle amount of human suffering alleviated."
 Flqgstatl 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 dl 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 uable deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead and asbestos.
 naif Greek lies eighteen miles south of Flagstaff, Is famous for ita noun. tain trout and fine scenery, and it at, tracts many tourists during the sum. ner months.
 HgRt ~iEes southwest of Flagstaff, IS found, in Walnut Canyon, ihe larg est aggregation of Cliff dwellings to be found in Arizona. The Canyon is sev. cral hundred feet deep v!th steep .terraced waIls of limestone Under the projections of the strata along the ter. races are half a hundred of the quaint abodcs of some ancient race.
 The San Francisco peaks affords the finest aRd iaest extended view perhaps in the world, included in the pano- rama Is far glimpse into Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada and Cali fornia, A trail leads to the summit of Agassiz peak and the trip ran be made on horseback.
 Coconino ip the summer months is a very paradise for the sightseer, scien.