The Parker post., 1914-05-02
IDEAL TRIPS
FOR SUMMER
ARIZONA OFFERS A THOUSAND
PLACES WHERE ONE CAN PASS
A DELIGHTFUL SUMMER VACA-
TION.
(Arizona Magazine.)

Secrete himself from. the mad rush
of the world and enjoy life to it's full
ness, surrounded by all the good
things of nature, but there is just
one place where shady glens and
mountain brooks, bracing air and rug
ged hillsides force themselves into
the center of a busy and hustling
community; where the tourist atmos-
phere reaches clear to the depot and
the bank counter and where the ac-
tive industry rubs elbows with his
tory, romance and the primeval for
est. That place is Flagstaff, a town
OF 5000 or more, christened by a
party of adVenturers from Colorado
on the Fourth of July thirty-six years
ago, by the trimming of a pine tree
and the unfurling of the flag from
its top in recognition of the anniver-
sary. A more appropriate name could
scarcely have been conceived, for it
is built in natural forest at the
greatest altitude of any Arizona town,
nearly 1000 feet, and is popularity
known as the Skylight City
Though this party of pioneers pass
ed along, the Santa Fe railroad soon
followed in its wake, bringing with it
the range and lumber industries and
all those things that go to make up
a modern city Of churches, schools,
theaters, banks, stores, hotels, cleo
trio lights, water works, sewerage, etc
Everything needed by either the cit
izen or tourist is available, though
even yet within a mile of town one
may hide behind the trees and hills,
unseen and unseeing Of human activi-
ties, perhaps for days.
One is loath to leave the little city
with its pure mountain water, scenic
beauty, pretty pine-shaded residences
and good hospitable people. But he
must be on his way along the old
state road where once Bear Green
escorted the tourist to and from the
Grand Canyon, and told hair-raising
stories of the grizzlies. After round
ing the peaks to the east one comes
IN sight OF Sunset mountain, which is
cclored like the sunset on a clear
day and few miles farther on is
Crater mountain. Lunching in one
OF the grass covered prairie parks,
surrounded by cedars, would give the
most confirmed dyspeptic ain appetite
as he inhales the keen air filled with
aromatic fragrance. The Interstate
Highway leads to the rim of the
Grand Canyon at the old Berry Log
Cabin hotel, the exact spot where
William Randolph Hearst lis now
building a palatial summer residence
1t is impossible to describe the
pleasure and awe one feels when see
ing the Grand Canyon for the first
time. The greatest poets and au-
thors have made futile efforts to tell
of its magnificent depths and won
drous beauty, though DR.. Henry Van
Dykes wonderful poem descriptive of
its physical features and embued with
Its spirit, appearing in Scribner's in
September, 1913, is one of the worth
lest efforts. At the Log Cabin hotel
it is thirteen miles wide and one and
one-fOurth miles deep, with a length
of two hundred miles. 1t has peaks
towering from the deeps as high as
our own Dos Cabesas
Descending the Grand View trail on
muleback, many stop at the copper
diggings and take a short side trip
to the stalactite caves. The entrance
to these caves is very small One
has to crawl into the mouth for a
few feet before he is able to walk
erect. Lighting torch he is trans
fixed with delight and wonder at
seeing the long statactites hanging
from the roof of the cave They are
colored like the rainbow, and if one
is hit it rings like the mission chimes
In another chamber is massive
stone bed with four posts, that trav
elers have named fSatan's bed. In
the center of this chamber there is
a grotto i'm the roof resembling the
inside of a bell Unfortunately the
smooth purple surface OF this beau
tiful piece OF Natures art work has
been desecrated by the written names
of hundreds of persons.
This trail is fourteen miles from tn
summit to the river. At a certain
place on it the traveller has to go
around Hance creek six miles though
two men could stand and shake hands
across the creek. Returning to the