The Coconino sun., 1913-05-09
ONE GOOD THING
 CALLS F0R ANOTHER

the construction of a great build
 ing And so it is with the devel-
 opment of the country. We begin
 with the smaller projects and
 reach out after the more preten-
 tious ones as the time and means
 permit. Each succeeding year
 finds new things demanding our
 attention and well it is, too, for
 there is always something stirring
 the ambitious spirit and cultivat-
 ing the desire for the achievement
 of greater and grander things.
 Thus we find the lottiest and
 highest ambitions of the race cul-
 minating in successful realization.
 We see and read of the accom-
 plishment of things today that
 were considered utterly impossi-
 ble only few years ago. When
 Columbus talked of the earth as a sphere, he was the laughing stock of the people of that time, but later there has come out of that undaunted spirit and the convic- tion that he was right in his calcu- lations, and with an ambition to establish for all time in the minds of the people of that and other generations the truth, there has come into existence the foremost nation of the world. And so it goes with every laudable and commendable enterprise. Born in the mind of some individual is the stepping stone which means much to nation, state or commu- nity. The establishment of the auto line through the northern part of the state has been accom- plished; the stepping stone to the achievement was very small in the beginning; the first plans were crude and i'll formed; they were looked upon with disfavor by many who offered as an argument against them that the other end of the state had too much money, and that we could not do anything, but all things are possible to him who has the faith to believe that they can be accomplished.
 Now, with the coming of this line and the other things that will naturally follow, we see other op- portunities, and one of the most is the development of oil fields close by that will aid in the establishment of an oil re- hnery so near that the prices of gasoline, other products of the oil fields will be placed at very figure. This will be one of the supply points for those who travel across the country. Under the present conditions the supplies have to be shipped in
 rom distant points, which makes he prices high. The tourist may lot be familiar with the conditions, t takes time to explain things and
 hen one may not always have the opportunity, and our visitors carry away an erroneous impres- sion, that will not be conducive to our best interests and his good.
 Lying to the north and east of Flagstaff in an oil field which is :oday being developed slowly be- ,ause of the fact that 1t is off the -ailway. The field is rich in oil; he product is exceptionally fine; wells are producing several barrels of oil daily, which is being used to .un the engines in the work of lrilling the wells on other proper
 ies nearby. This field is very promising. A pipe line would put
 he product of the field on the market. A railway to the fields would be better. A road from Flagstaff to Durango, Colorado, would reach fine coal and timber and at the same time open up the oil fields at Bluff City, Utah, and give water grade nearly all the way for the road.