The Coconino sun., 1918-06-14

from the Grand Canyon southward for hundred miles and more. It only happens that the Arizona people are bit better informed concerning this greatest of summer resorts.
 The Flagstaff region is of the something different" sort. It has qualities found nowhere else, quali- ties now much better understood and attractions much more easily reached since the general use of the motor car. It is doubtful if any modern town on earth has more beautiful setting or one more central to such grouping of natural wonders.
 Chiefest of all such wonders are the San Francisco peaks, surrounding a mammoth extinct crater and rising about 13,000 feet above sea level. The trip to the top of Mount Humphries is red-letter event in the life of anyone who takes it. Just think of q view that takes in four states, the Grand Canyon and field of 500 vol canic cones that cons ago vomited out lava and scoriae that today cover the ancient sandstone for hundreds of feet of depth. The main mountain has been called floral island, with many plants that are peculiar to it. self within all the Southwest.
 To the eastward lie the famous lava beds, where obsidian flakes seeming ly were created in heat that might | have been of a month agone, while above them rises Sunset Mountain, a cinder cone that has the hues of the | o;x.baxx, apJ haloxy sf tho cu1lap h1ack crater, where the ashes of eruption are dull and lifeless.
 On the road to Walnut Creek are passed the Bottomless Pits, where the River de Flag pours its flood at times into caverns that lead through the loose volcanic deposit to some chan mel at depth to a connection with, possibly, the Little Colorado river. And at Walnut creek, the entranced tourist may scramble for a mile through the ruins of ancient cliff dwellings, where the peoples of for gotten era lived and had their family life and left many evidences of cul- ture that. seemingly was gentle and reaching upward from barbarism. h. cidentally, they must have had an eye for beauty, to have builded their homes amid such natural grandeur. On the slopes of the great mountain are cave dwellings of a ruder people yet not the less interesting to the eth nologist or even to the tourist. Of smaller features of interest there are many, yet above all is the very exist ence in the rare air, surrounded by the noble pines and welcomed by flow. CTS on every hand.
 The Grand Canyon is About seventy miles distant, over natural road that is boulevard-like for nearly all the distance through the forest and around the great hills that dominate the landscape. But the Grand Can yon is quite another story and too grand to be included in this small tribute to the excellencies of the northern cline and land. To be seen also are the Hopi and Navajo Indian tribes, their lands reached over the iridescent Painted Desert. From Will. Hams is reached the summit of Bill Williams mountain, only less notable than its loftier neighbor, while the numbering and the sheep and cattle industries are deeply interesting Most of the Arizona folk who go northward find the automobile espe- cially valuable, yet the region most cheaply is reached by rail with sum- mer rates that are to be maintained Arizona Magazine.