Arizona republican., 1912-06-12
HOSPITALITY
 OF WILLIAMS
Studebaker Tour Has Been Transferred Into a Fri umphal Processio 0 n Through a Land of Per petual Delights

1 WILLIAMS, June 10.-At sever l o'clock this morning the StGdebakel 1 tourists bid farewell to the hospitable l citizens of Flagstaff and started or 1 their way to Williams. An hours stor
 Lumber company's mill. mile west ot
 Flagstaff, and the voyagers were guid-
 ed through the whole plant by A. A 1 Dutton, the manager. This mill has q l capacity of eighty thousand feet ptl ] day and is the largest in the Flagstaff l district.
 l From the mill the road leads west l along the railroad tracks toward Will I Hams. For twenty-five miles the rock strewn way winds up and down through sparsely wooded hills. All along the road the best timber has been | cut and the ground is strewn with the half decayed tops and branches of threes which went long ago to feed the mills. Each year the lumbermen pene- trate farther into the hills and all the logs now handled in Flagstaff are brought in by rail from the mountains For the last eleven miles of it's devil
 ous course the road is fairly smooth and the drivers were just beginning to l trifle with the speed laws when lake a mile or so long was sighted. The prospect appealed to the picture man. and so, for the one hundred and ninty- ninth time, the cars were lined up and photographed.
 Many of the broad bill girt meadows in this part of the world are minia-
 ture lakes during the rainy season and even now some of the ponds are acres in extent. These marsh lakes serve as | watering places for range cattle and in summer they are the chosen residence of many Mallard ducks and other wa ter fowls.
 l AS the machines sped along the open road in the early morning the air was cool with the chill of fall. Last night l frost flecked the roofs of Flagstaff and snow brakes along the road served as an additional reminder of the fact that 1 this is the north country even though l it is as far south as North arolina. About noon the party arrived in Will l Hams seventy-five strong and the re- ! ception committee treated one and all
 to lunch at the Fray Marcos hotel l During the afternoon the mill of the 1 Saginaw Manistee Lumber company | was explored from top to bottom. This plant has a capacity of one hundred and thirty-five thousand feet per day l and is by far the largest in Arizona and | New Mexico.
 l The band saw, toothed belt of steel l that runs over revolving wheels, will rip logs with much less waste than the
 old fashioned circular saw and for this | reason band saws are used almost en-
 tirely in the big mills.
 l Tn the Williams mill two big saws
 are constantly at work ripping the logs From the time the log is dragged uI l the chute into the mill until the lum- 1 Der is piled in the yard the wood Is never lifted from it's place by hand l An endless chain carries the log to the carriage; "the steam nigger,' toothed arm of steel throws it into place; the carriage is pushed back and forth past
 the saw by piston and cylinder con 1 trivance; and as the boards make thell way down the rollers from the saw | half a dozen hooked things of steel arc
 waiting, each to grab its particular sort l of plank and hustle it off to it's par | ticular destination.
 After visiting the mill the tourists I returned to the Fray Marcos where | they were the guests of the Williams people at a delightful banquet. meet l ing of the touring association was cal 1 led bv President O'Neill and the mem | bers extended a unanimous vote o1 1 thanks to the citizens of Williams anu | the management of the hotel for the splendid entertainment they had pro-
 villed and to Wayland Wood for tho able and energetic manner in which he ] has conducted the tour. After the l banquet Messrs stark and Lowe of the l reception committee took the place oi the pilot car and led the visitors to the opera house where they danced to their 1 hearts content.
 Every imaginable courtesy has been l extended the visitors. The cars are parked under the care of police guard The whole party is lodged in the Fray Marcos and every cent of their bills will be paid by the citizen committee of Williams.
 The tourists have been hospitably entertained all along the line but now that the journey is nearing its end it is assuming the proportions of tri- umphal procession The tourists an unanimously vote the people of Williams
 the liveliest, jolliest, most generous crowd in all the state.
 Mrs. M. A. Mclaughlin, 512 Jay