Arizona republican., 1911-11-03

oughly explored under the direction O
 the church while the rest of AriZon; was scarcely settled outside of Tue son. old stone forts still stand tha
 were built in the days of the war wltl the Navajos. and ranches may be seer | that were established at the time cot ton was grown on the Virgin river.
 The whole Buckskin Mountain reglor
 has been well stocked with cattle anC sheen since the early Eighties. an, range conditions are now better thar for some years Dast because of tho forest reserves which regulate graz
 ing and have encouraged the develop ment of water in ungraZed sections Along the loot of this plateau is { series of valleys covered with a heavy growth of black and white sage and SC lfavorably situated for dry farming that
 the land is already being taken up and
 put into cultivation.
 The Kaibab forest. covering the
 higher portion of this great plateau, is
 one Of the finest in Arizona and will
 yield some three and half billion feet of lumber ready for imEIe Hate cutting It is expected that this body of timber
 will in a few years bring in the rail road for which this region has waited so long At present one small saw mill cuts lumber to meet the local demand
 being situated at Jacobs Lake in a fine body of yellow pine timber.
 Miss Hall spent several days at the town Of Fredonia. which is the most northerly town, though not the most northerly settlement in Arizona. She found it a prosperous little place set tied chiefly by families from Utah who farm the lands in the vicinity and have stock on the mountains. Like most of these towns the wide streets shaded with a great variety of trees, the clean Illness. and the general air of perma- nent home making, gave a real charm to the place.
 Fredonia has a good school house and about fifty pupils on an averag4 and is very much alive to all school matters. In spite of the fact that teachers have to travel about 150 miles by wagon to get to the place, and often add to that a long journey by rail to some point on the Salt Lake line from which stages come in with mail and
 messengers.
 This town is about 100 miles from Bright Angel Point on the Grand Can yon. the nearest railroad. yet entirely cut off from there by the Grand Canyon. A trail has recently been built down Bright Angel Creek and a cable line extended across the river by which the Bright Angel Trail on the southern rim can be reached. It would be a matter of reasonable expense to inn prove this trail and cable and the wagon road from Fredonia to the northern rim till much tourist and Oth- CT travel might come that way.
 It is now necessary to telephone a message from Fredonia to points 200 miles away in Utah and have the mes sage sent round to southern Arizona; but the forest service telephone line comes within a few miles of the north ern rim and the service is willing to extend it to the rim if it can then be connected with the line at Grand Can yOn station on the southern side. This is not a very difficult matter and would be of such service to rangers. tourists. and settlers, that the state could well afford to consider it for the near fu- ture.
 Coconino and MOhave counties now divide the Arizona Strip" between them but because of the intensely rug ged country near the Grand Canyon
 .ls- have been made, Miss Hall was obliged to turn northwestward into southern Utah to find roads that would permit the exploration of the Mohave county side
 Since the days of Major Powell and the first geological surveys this region has excited the wonder and admira- ton of the few people. chiefly govern ment engineers, who have seen it. It contains another fine forest, the Mt Trumbuu reserve. and a volcanic area equal to the section east and north of Flagstaff which has held the interest of travellers and students alike, since
 ts discovery.
 A feature Of this region from Ere donia westward is the succession of plateaus. trimmed by cliff walls of like ness to the walls of the Grand Canyon itself in form and colOring. with wide and mostly level valleys between which have afforded fine grazing lands and will presently be the scene of great agricultural development.
 This is an ideal dry farming region and the state of Utah has had such a keen appreciation of its value and pos abilities that it has been overlooked by persons and some intending settlers have their lands already so ected, pending the sale of state lands in the future. Miss Hall brought back speciments of as fine corn as one wou'n wish to see grown on new land under the dry farming methods. All grains of a temperate climate do well and alfalfa is grown on all the older ranch es.
 Southern Utah, "Utah's Dixie Land {, IS it has been called since the Sixties. has been known for its fruit, which Tn and quality rivals that Of any part of the United States. Miss Hall reached the town of St. George few miles north of the Arizona line in time .o witness the Fifty Year Home Com ing. the fiftieth anniversary or the settlement of the place. A feature or this celebration, to which more than ! thousand people had gathered from