Arizona republican., 1913-12-23

Flagstaff, Arizona is the jumping off place of the business man into vacation land. At no place in the world is there railroad connection with . so many wonderful sights-where the marvels of both this world and others can be reached. Climate and excep- !. tionally good geographical position :. give to Flagstaff the name of the premier vacation city of the state Arizona has been calling to mind a picture of dry wastes. But study l, of one of the least read of newspaper features-the weather report-wOuld i show that of all places in the United States Flagstaff has generally the coolest days in summer. If winter gives it coat of snow of true east ern depth. summer. at least tempers the heat to the vacationer from the south. It is altitude that gives Flagstaff its splendid cool climate Located part way up the south shoulder of the San Francisco peaks, it can not help but be at one time the coolest and most picturesque town in Arizona. The height above the sea is nearly seven thousand feet It is protected on all sides by high peaks. some ris- ing thirteen thousand feet. Its alti- tude naturally brings it into the pines belt the most pleasant of western forest trees. The resolution was re- cehtly taken by the citizens of the town to preserve what pines are left within the built-up portions and to keep as many in the new additions as is possible. This will make Flag staff the pine city of the state and give it's streets an appearance of n; q in any other way.
 Beside climate there is another str6ng factor in the development and popularity of Flagstaff. and that is the Accessibility of natural and arti- fitial marvels. A list of the interest ing places to be visited in or near F1agstaff would include examples of practically every lion" that Arizona po6sesses. First of all, perhaps, is the Grand Canyon, situated sixty miles to the north. over splendid mountain roads, the mOtOrist can make an easy half days journey to this greatest of natural wonders the Titan of Chasms. Excellent hotel ac- cOrt1modations and plenty of OppOr- tunity for camping annually draw tens of thousands of visitors this way by the various routes. Not few of the travellers make the trip in autos from Flagstaff
 one might box the compass al Flagstaff with places to visit. A point to the east of the canyon is the painted desert that strange parcheC spot in the northern apex of th' triangle formed by the two COloradOs the little and the big rivers. Colo runs riot here, and legend has 1t al accounted for in the interesting wa, of the Indian. Life is almost neve found naturally on this spot; it IS dead place in the midst of teeminj life. No one ever more than crosse this desert. One never tarries, fo without water it can be terrible a well as terribly beautiful. It's path but lead to places of liver interes Another notch and the hand point to the Moki Indian villages thos strangest of tribal homes, where ar mingled two branches of the puebl building descendants of the mysteriou first races of the southwest. In an other place we describe the peculia ceremonial dance of the Walpi Tn dians. held on the chief mesa to tn east
 \ point eastward is another resei vation-that of the Navajo, the blank weaving Indian, and the one to Who
 the white man gives most respec His industry as much as his naiN Indian way makes him of interest the visitor For it's seldom that a Indian is both industrious and na
 ural. Being blanket land and ne; Flagstaff. it's natural that the ci
 should be headquarters for this splel