The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-28


 is an excellent one. The schools are graded, and the average attendance is more than 200 pupils. Nowhere in the Territory can better school facii, tics be found.
 The churches are represented here. The Methodist, Presbyterian and Cath olic all own their own edifces and arc all out of debt.
 The secret societies are the F. x A. M., 1. o. o. F., A. o U. w., l. 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 300,000 sheep on the ranges surrounding Flagstaff, yielding an m. nual clip of about 2.500, 900 pounds of improved wool. At fair market price this product adds s300,0G0 to the sol vency 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 focks, 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 in terested and the eye so pleased that physical ailments are for tho time for gotten. As sanitarium the neigh borhood of the San Francisco moun- 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."
 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 a 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.
 Oak Creek lies eighteen miles south of Flagstaff. is famous for its noun. tain trout 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- 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 lbodes of some ancient race.
 The San Francisco peaks affords the finest and most extended view perhaps Tn the world, included in the pano- anna IS far glimpse into Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada and Cali 'ornia. A trail leads to the summit of Agassiz peak end the trip can be made ,n horseback.
 Coconino in the summer months is ! very paradise for the sightseer. scien.  list or sportsman. Under tho shade of ts immense pine forests months of 'een pleasure may be enjoyed. The here finds field worthy # his keenest interest; the scientist nay study geological formations un- lnown to the light in other lands; the portsman in the streams will find ,reat salmon and trout, and in the woods the mountain lion, bear, deer nd wild turkey. The light airis pure, 'zone-laden and bracing, and health is l. A: AL |