Arizona republican., 1918-05-21
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"The Apache railway which is be- ing built out of Holbrook to the White Mountains" said c. M. Zander yesterday, lis well along, the rails being laid for distance of ten miles out of HolhroQk and the grading be- ing completed for fifty miles,"
 MT. Zander is chairmap of the state tax commission, the members return ing Sunday from a trip into Navajo and Apache counties, making their annual inspection preliminary to pre- pairing the assessment rolls.
 "The Apache railway when con- pleted,'' added Mr. Zander, will run from Holbrook seventy
 into the White Mountains terminating at Cluffs Cienega, the lumber center of a great timber belt. It is expected that the road will be into Snowflake by July an1 into Cuffs Cienega by October.
 The oil excitement around Hol- brook is unabaJed. Eminent geologists have visited the field and pronounced it the more encouraging than any undeVeloped field known. Up to date, there has been 130,000 acres located The prime mover in the field is the Home Oil company, composed of local people. These people propose to put their own money into the company and to put all of the money into the ground. They will not start drilling until they have at least ESQ., 900 in the treasury. Aside from the geological conditions, this is the most encouraging feature of the district.
 Await State Loan,
 At Woodruff the farmers are still working to get their water back upon the land. When the Lyman dam broke. the flood took out the dam and canal at Woodruff. These people have now finished the dam and are working on the new canal from the dam to their lands. All the new work is of q permanent nature and when finally installed this time the little community of Woodruff will be permanently established.
 Apache county has just finished and moved into their new court | houss This is d beautiful structure made of white sandstone quarried from an adjacent mountain. It sets 1 tie city of St. Johns. All the people at St. Johns are impatiently awaiting the Notation of the state loan to tho | the lands supplied by the Lymar dam which was destroyed by flood They will rebuild this dam with the loan made them by the state. It vii supply 15,000 acres and will make O that locality one of the most substan' tial in the state.
 New Road Terminus.
 "Springerville recently suffered ; severe setback from fire. MT. Bake had just finished q large modern ho tel and banking quarters. Adiacen to it was a large garage. This tool fire and burned down, with it burning twenty autos and the new hotel. Tn structure will be rebuilt. Springer vile is fast becoming, you migh say, a division point for overland aut' travel. From the few cars shor time ago passing through this town tho traffic has increased until las year more than 1000 cars were reg istered.
 From Springcrville tho commission went to the terminus of the Apach railway in order to become familia with the character of construction 0 the new road, the location of the ney town and the improvements alread made. Cuffs Cienega Is on the stat highway between Springerville an Globe, the entire distance betwee these points now being connecte with a good road, making this par of the White Mountains comparativel easy of access from the south. Tn road reaches an elevation of nor than 5000 feet. It descends int Cluffs Cienega which is at one eleva ton of more than 1000 feet.
 Land of Wonder
 At Cluffs Ciegna we might sto and make a few observations. This in the center of the greatest continuou pine forest on the North American con tinent. It reaches from the Kaiba plateau north of the Grand Canyon en tirely across Arizona and into Ne' Mexico, more than 200 miles in lengt