Arizona republican., 1910-12-11
REMARKABLE JOURNEY
 0F ARIZONA TEACHER
EIGHT HUNDRED MILES ERE
 DONNA TO FLAGSTAFF.
Travelled Through Three States and One Territory to Reach the
 County Seat.

Miss Carrie E. Fish, frail, slen- der little Ohio girl who left Der na-
 tive town less than two months ago | to teach school in Frcdonia. A,izona.
 travelled from her new home three days by stage and three days by rail, | through three states and one territory,
 in order to reach Flagstaff. 13O miles away as the crow flies. and take the
 examination that would entitle her to
 a teachers certificate.
 | The journey of Miss Fish has few
 parallels in the history of the west, even in the days before there were any railroads. Though she travelled | through the widest country now re- | maining in America she met with no accidents and though she saw many Indians which her eastern training and rearing told her to fear. she was never molested in any way. In fact ! she found that the trip was as safe as her friends in Fredonia told her
 it would be, though it was very fa- | tiguing and to travel 500 miles to
 reach a place only 130 miles away
 was "a decidedly new experience for | her.
 News of Miss Fish's remarkable trip has been brought to Phoenix by
 Kirke T. Moore, territorial superin
 tendent of public instruction who was in Flagstaff last week. when the quarterly teachers examination was held at that place. Among those who took the examination was Miss Fish and as soon as she had passed in her papers she commenced the long jour ney back to FredOnia. there to teach the young idea how to shoot in the latest style approved by Ohio and Arizona authorities.
 Fredonia is the largest of two small settlements situated in that part of Arizona lying beyond the Grand Canyon. Six weeks ago the trustees of the Fredonia school en- gagged her. by mail as a teacher. She had had several years experience and they considered themselves un- usually fortunate in securing her ser vices. She was a little timid about venturing into the west of which she knew so little. and her heart almost failed her when she left the Salt Lake railroad at little station away out in the Colorado desert. and board ed the stage for Fredonia
 Three days from the time she left the railroad Miss Fish reached Ere donia. In the midst of the wilder ness she found civilization In that settlement. almost at the northern edge of Arizona, she found a hospita- ble people anxious to make her wei come.
 But in order to hold her position she had to have an Arizona certifi- cate Flagstaff was the nearest point where she could take the examina- ton and the road to Flagstaff was 235 miles long, winding through the widest. toughest kind of country. Moreover the Little Colorado river. stream of shifting. treacherous quick sand at all times and particularly unsafe at this season. lay between. There is no stage between Fredonia and Flagstaff and the only way that she could cover the intervening space was by private conveyance. Finally she decided to go by stage to the railroad. as she had come. and circle around to Flagstaff by rail.
 Boarding a Salt Lake train at the point where the stage line strikes that road. Miss Fish travelled through Utah. across Nevada to Leastalk, California. There she took a train on a little desert railroad and crossed to Goffs, on the main line of the Santa Fe. From that point she trav- eled eastward. across the Colorado river and through Mohave, Yavapai and Coconino counties tO Flagstaff She had covered nearly 800 miles in six days and was only 130 miles from the place she had started from.
 Ed Jones. school superintendent of Coconino county, has twice visited the Fredonia school during his incumb- ency in the office Each time it took him seven days to go there and back. travelling on horseback and in rigs The route lies through Tuba City. crosses the Little Colorado at Lees Ferry. angles up into Utah to Kanab and then south to Fredonia. Some of the road is decidedly rough but on all sides is some of the grandest scenery to be found in the word
 Whenever an election is held it costs the county s90 to get the re- turns from Fredonia. A man is sent out from Flagstaff and he starts back | the day after the election with all the books and records thereof, losing | his own vote
 Though Fredonia is in an out of the way place. its school is an ex- cellent one in every way. Two teach | CTS are employed and last term forty pupils were enrolled.
 That part of Arizona lying beyond l the Grand Canyon is as little known and as sparsely settled as any in the United States. It is a hunters par adise. swarming with deer. wild tur- key and other game.