Arizona republican., 1912-03-01
COUNTY WANTS
 ID BE A TWIN
Movement is on Foot to Di vide Coconino into Two Subdivisions and Matter Will Come Before the Legislature.

How to make two counties grow where formerly there was but one will occupy the attention of the leg islative magicians during the session soon to be.
 Coconino county is large. It wand- CTS across the map of the northern part of the state in desultory sort of way having it's beginnings and endings wherever they happen to come the lines falling where the wind listeth--and the wind up north does some very clever listing.
 Coconino county is so big that the people living in the western part of it speak a different dialect from those Of the east, and if one had a mind for statistics he could take an adding machine and ready compiler and find out just how many Massachu sets, Rhode Islands. and Delewares could be nestled down in one corner of the Arizona sub-division. It comes to pass that Williams is a smart little town of twenty two hun dred souls and several Indians. Flag staff is right pert" on its own ac- count, and a wiling census man could scrape together her four or five hun dred more souls than Williams can boast
 Flagstaff has a normal school and a couple of big saw mills which give it perfect right-according to 1aggstavaians-to patrOnize Williams whose chief claim to fame is the fact that it is the transfer point for the Grand Canyon and has a Harvey Hotel
 Williams doesn't like playing second fiddle. Williams says that Flagstaff is hogging all the glory and emolu- ments. and that being the county seat the blind goddess is given an unnat- ural slant towards San Francisco Peak
 Williams has some perfectly good patriots who would be willing to serve their country-or county in al- most any capacity so long as the pay roll bore they names
 Anyway the county is too big. Any Williams citizen will tell you that There is no sense at all in living in a county that it takes a week to cir mnavigate-wouldn't that lot just back of the round house make a dan dy site for a court house?
 So it is that a fervent bunch of Williams boosters will wait upon the legislature pretty soon after that body gets down to the hammering of brass tacks, and point out the manifold ad- vantages of drawing a new lot of inn asinary lines, and adding another pink spot to the map of the state. some more representatives, senators, supervisors, judges. sheriffs, and other odds and ends which go to make up a fully organized county.
 Stuck over behind one of these i'm aginary lines would be the ghastly remains of the present Coconino with Flagstaff still retaining it's court house, saw mill and Ralph Gamer on while snugly enconsed betwiXt the other lines would glow and gilt ter the new division,-Williams coun- ty? In this sacred boundary will be when it hapens the growing towns of Williams and Winslow, Winslow being plucked from Navajo, leaving that misfortunate section of the country without metropolis or county seat
 In addition to these achievements the new county will grab the Grand Canyon, or that part of it visited Dy tourists, tourettes and tourines III large numbers.
 The delegation will be here all right. The advance guard is already on the ground and the assemblymen and senators in the city are sitting up o'nights studying the latest state map.
 Just how the plan will fit in with the administrations idea of economy is not yet of record, but if Coconlno county does not wake up some bright morning and find herself twin IL will not be the fault of the hustllng gentlemen from Williams.