The Winslow mail. (Winslow, Ariz.) 1893-1926, 1911-01-28
HOLBR00K CENTER
OF AIN IMMENSE
TERRITORY
NAVAJO COUNTY BIGGER THAN
MANY STATES EAST
Immense Shipments of Wool
Sheep and Cattle Show lmpor-
lance of Great Arizona Dis
tributing Point.
(By A. H. Hilton

an elevation OF little over y ,UOU
feet above sea level, on the north
bank OF the Little Colorado river
sits the beautiful town OF Hol-
brook, Arizona. One mile west
of town the Rio Puerco joins the
Little Colorado. HOlbroOk is
the county seat of Navajo cOun-
to, one of the largest counties in
Arizona and as large as many an
eastern state HOlbrook might
we'll be called the commercial,
banking, financial and educa-
tional center of Navajo county.
1t is one of the best business
towns along the Santa Fe coast
lines in this territory. An imme-
date forwarding business is be-
ing carried on from this point to
the towns located south of here
Snowflake, ST. Johns, Springer
vile, Fort Apache and smaller
places. Innumerable big sheep
and cattle ranches are located
north and south and east and
west, and for hundreds of miles
in every direction the roads re-
date from Holbrook to all the
outlying sections. Mr.. Winches-
ter of Winchester & Lyon in AL
buquerque, took the writer all
over town and showed him the
water works plant, the court
house and other public improve
ments, including the three-span
suspension bridge over the Little
Colorado, which is very necess
airy in time of high water.
at Woodruff, twelve miles dis
tant, dam impounds the water
for irrigation purposes during
the season from April to Octo-
Der. Not much water passes
Holbrook in the summer time
except the floods from the tor
rental rains on the Rio Puerco
The writer blew into HO1hrOOlx
busted" waiting for some re-
turns on the pelts of 1000 skunks
shipped from Salomonville, Ariz.,
and the market being poor on
this stuff at present, was against
it until ]. E Cox, a former Albu-
querque boy, run across the hide
hunter and cashed his draft on
Socorro bank. The latter will
be Oft on the John R. Hulet stage
line to Fort Apache long before
this is read, so it will take
White mountain Indian scout to
locate him for the next two
weeks.
The Cottage hotelin Holbrook
is located on Tamrack avenue,
north OF the railroad, and iscOn-
Quoted by Miss Grace Smith, the
patrons of the excellent hostelry
being merchants, bankers, stock
men and professional men, who
sat at the same table like broth
ers. Here the writer met Thor
wald Larson, a scandinavian
and lawyer at that, who is quar-
termastcr agent for the U. S.
army and one of the leading at
torneys of Navajo county. He
being counnryman of the wri
ter, and the latter being also in
the skin business, we got along
excellently and he gave me a let
ter to Captain Lodgstreet, COM
handing officer at Fort Apache,
The writer had the pleasure of
meeting another countryman in
the person of Rev. Elmer Elm
quist of St. Haul, MINI, who is
spending the winter with his
mother here.
Railroad receipts at Holbrook
show that last year there were
shipped out over a million and a
half pounds of wool, 10000
sheep and 10000 head of cattle.
There are two frst-class banks.
two big wholesale houses, four
hotels, ice and cold storage plant,
newspapers, harness shop, two