The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-21

IS an excellent one. The schools ar, graded, and the average attendance i more than 200 pupils Nowhere il the Territory can better school facili ties be found.
 The churches arc represented here The Methodist, Presbyterian and Cath olic all own their own edifces and ar' all out of debt.
 The secret societies are the F. & A M., l. o. 0. F.. A. o U. w., I. o. F. k. of F., l. o. c. T., and G. A. R.
 LIVESTOCK INTERESTS.
 The value of the livestock shipment from the county last year was about S350,000. There are in the neigbbor hood of 300, ,000 sheep on the ranges surrounding Flagstaff, yielding an an, nual clip of about 2,500, 900 pounds of improved wool. At a fair market price this product adds S300,0G0 to the sol, vency of our sheep men annually.
 Scab, and all kindred affiictions, which constitute perpetual menace to the focks of Texas and other States, and are constant sources of expense and dread to owners of such Aocks, 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 bsSfound 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 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 alleviated.n
 Flagstaff is the gateway to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, and a tri-weekly stage line was established between Flagstaff and ths 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 its noun. tain frqpt and fine scenery, and it at- tracts many tourists during the sum- mer 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- erol 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 lbodes 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 ,ornia, A trail leads to the summit of Agassiz peak and the trip can be made ,n horseback.
 Coconino in tho summer months is very paradise for the sightseer, scien. list or sportsman. Under the shade of ts immense pine forests months of 'een pleasure may be enjoyed. The archaeological hero finds field worthy f bis keenest interest; the scientist nay study geological formations un. :nown to the light in other lands; the portsman in the streams vii find reat salmon and trout, and in the 'oods the moui:taln lion, bear, deer nd wild turkey. The light .::" pure, zone-laden and brqcipg, and health is happy condition that must be known ) all who tarry. ''