The Coconino sun., 1918-08-16
WHERE COLD FISH STREAMS FLOW AND SURROUNDINGS
 ARE AS WILD AS A DEER
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though We encountered a few hills so steep that the gasoline would not feed This difficulty was overcome by our having an extra case of "gas" in our equipment, and with a full tank we successfully negotiated one hill after another, with all hands, but the driver, vigorously pushing, behind. Some fif- teen miles of this strenuous travelling brought us to an open glade in the forest, known locally as Harris Park.
 Here there was water and we thank fully made camp, knowing that the head waters of Clear creek were only about four miles away. There are two mountain streams in the Mogollons known as Clear creek. One heads on the east side of the water shed and flows into the Little Colorado, and the other one rises on the west side and empties into the Verde. This latter one was our objectie.
 This Clear creek runs for many miles at the bottom of an exceeding ly rough and precipitous canyon. sev- eral hundred feet deep, the almost perpendicular walls of which are clothed with spruce and fir and other trees not known to a desert dweller, while on top, the timber is exclusively yellow pine. There are only two trails down to the water, on the side from which we approached it, one is known as the Casner trail and the other as the Dickinson trail, named after the aforesaid Frank Dickinson. As to its accessibility from the other side the writer is not informed.
 It was some tough job scrambling down, but we finally succeeded, and found at the bottom an ice-cold stream of perfectly clear water, in which hundreds of fish could be seen disporting themselves.
 Black bear are killed quite frequent ly in this canyon, and the boys were much disappointed in not seeing any. There are also lobo wolves in the woods, very destructive to live stock. and tn ecowmen pool together and pay S100 per scalp for them. A young local stockman has within the last year or two, with the aid of his dogs. secured seven wolf scalps, receiving the S700 bounty, but, of course, con tributing his share of said bounty, &C., cording to the number of his cattle on the adjacent range.
 A short distance beyond Clear creek and close to the line of Gila county. rises Bakers Butte. the highest point on the Mogollon plateau for many miles around. Here the forest au- thorities have cleared off a small space on the summit in order to afford an unobstructed view, and erected thereon an observation tower or plat form, connected by telephone with Flagstaff, some 65 or 70 miles away. At the present time an 1S-year-old girl holds the position of fire guard there. She sits up in the tower with telescope and map of the forest reserve. and any unusual smoke is inn mediately reported to headuuarters with the approximate location of same. Town girls would consider this as some lonsome job, but the incum- bent takes it as matter of course.
 From this observation point can bo seen Flagstaff and Winslow to the north, Roosevelt dam on the south: Phoenix to the southwest, etc.
 During our trip north to Flagstaff we travelled for several miles along the shoe of Mormon lake, quite a larpe body of water, said to be 35 miles in circumference. In this vicinity a sign post said, Flagstaff 29 miles, Tonto Basin 51 miles" Gin opposite direc- | tions of course). We were then on the old freighting road between the two points. Still further on our way some ten miles from Flagstaff. is Lake Mary, a popular summer camn Tents and autos were much in evil dence here.
 A short distance past Lake Mary the heaviest thunderstorm we had en- countered caught us working on flat tire, and we got thorough drench- ing, besides being scared to death for fear a tree would be struck and fall on us. Somehow or other it feels safer to be rolling along during an electrical storm in the pine woods than to be at standstill in the mid dle of the road. trying to patch a punctnred tube. But, we arrived in the sawmill town without further mis- haps, the speedometer showing H6 miles from our camp in Harris Park. -Chas. Battye in Needles Nugget. Some day when the Colorado river washes Needles away, he may want to run for governor of Arizona, and if he does The Sun is for him. regardless of his previous condition of servitude.