The Parker post., 1911-11-18

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who farm the lands in the vicinity
and have stock in the mountains.
Like most of these towns the wide
streets shaded with a great variety
of trees, the cleanliness, and the
general air Of permanent home-mak
ing gave real charm to the place.
Coconino and Mohave counties now
divide the Arizona Strip between
them but because of the intensely rug
ged country near the Grand Canyon
through which no permanent roads
have been made, Miss Hall was
obliged to turn southwestward 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
admiration of the few people, chiefly
government engineers, who have seen
it. 1t contains another fine forest,
the Mt. Trumbull reserve, and vol
canic area equal to the section east
and north of Flagstaff which has held
the interest Of travellers and student:
alike, since it's discovery.
This is an ideal dry farming region
and the state of Utah has had such
keen appreciation of it's value and
possibilities that it has been overlook
ed by competent persons and some in
tending settlers have their lands al
ready selected, pending the sale Of
state lands in the future. Miss Hall
brought back specimens of as fine
corn as one would wish to see grown
on new land under the dry farming
methods. All grains Of temperate
climate do we'll and alfalfa is grown
on all the older ranches.
Much of this region, and of the ad-
joining part of Arizona, has an alti-
tude of about $500 feet and climate
not colder than that Of Wickenburg,
Figs, pomgranates, peaches, pears,
apples, and all fruits of the season
were displayed in lavish profusion
and of finest color, size, and flavor,
while the Flaming Tokay and other
grapes were of remarkable size and
rfection-having taken first prizes
both on the Pacific coast and in the
east.
Whenever a railroad Is completed
into this section Arizona will have 6
new fruit belt that will be worthy
rival of the Salt River and Verde val
leys. The land has only remained
unsettled because of it's remotenesf
from market and supplies, and it il
extenive enough to give northern Ari-
zona a goodly population in the flu
ture The finest of these valleys
will be tributary to the railroad now
under consideration from Lund on
the Salt Lake line to the Kaibab for
est, and they will insure traffic for
such a road long after the numbering
has ceased to be of first Importance.
Particularly in the tremendously
wild and rugged mountain region
along the northern rim, where many
canyons are still uneXplored mines
Of Importance are sure to be devel-
oped in the future. Indications of cop
per have been found in many place..
where lack of transportation facili-
! ties forbade development, and what is
probably the highest grade copper
mine in Arizona, the Grand Gulch
property in Mohave county 95 miles
south Of ST. George, has been worked
for many years and still has on it's
dumps all ore under thirty per cent.
the distance to smelter being too
great for profitable working of ore
that elsewhere would contain a for
tune.
A good deal of placer gold mining
| has been done along the Colorado riy-
er and the great canyons and sand
washes leading down into it, and fu-
ture discoveries of rich diggings seem
reasonable expectation for prospect
ing has always been and still is diff
ficult because of the much-broken
character of the country and only bet
| ter roads will make it really known.
Rather an interesting evidence of it's
present remoteness is the fact that
after leaving Flagstaff, Miss Hall did
not find a place where she could buy
newspaper or a periodical of any
sort until she reached the town of
Chloride some twenty miles north of
Kingman. All the mail lines go In
from some point in Utah or Nevada
and the service is so slow that she
received mail but once in nine weeks
1t being impossible to direct the for
warding of mail from Phoenix quick
ly enough to catch the few postoffi-
ces on the route.-Republican.