The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-04-12

tirely devoid of underbrush, is most desirable farming land. Settlers who now avail themselves of the opportun ity for obtaining government title 10 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 has population of about 1900, and 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, and tho 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 cdifices and are all out of debt.
 The secret societies are the F. & A. NJ, I. O. O. F., A. o U. w., l. Q. F., K. of P. and l. o. G. T., all prosperous.
 LIVESTOCK INTERESTS.
 The value of the livestock shipment from the county last year was about S350,000. There are in the neighbor- hood of 300,000 sheep on the ranges surrounding Flagstaff, yielding an an, nual clip of about 2.500,000 pounds of improved wool At fair market price this product adds S300,0C0 to the sol yency of our sheep men annually. Scab, and all kindred aiflictions, 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 never figured on by Coconino sheep men.
 FOR THE TOURIST AND INVALID.
 A writer of eminence has said that lone 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 in terested and the eye so pleased that physical ailments are for the time for gotten. As q 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 all incalculable amount of human suffering alleviated.
 Flagstaff is the gateway to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, and a ti-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 a view of this incompatible spectacle at the cost of little delay.
 In the Grand Canyon are many val uable deposits of gold, silver copper, lead and asbestos.
 Oak Creek lies eighteen miles south of Flagstaff, is famous for it's noun. tain trout and fine scenery, and it at tracts many tourists during the sum ner months.
 Eight miles southwest of Flagstaff, is found, in Walnut Canyon, the larg est aggregation of Cliff dwellings to be found in Arizona. The Canyon is sev- eral hundred feet deep with steep terraced walls of limestone. Under the projections of the strata along the ter races are half hundred of the quaint abodes of some ancient race.
 The San Francisco peaks affords the finest and most 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 can be made op bprsobo oG