Weekly journal-miner., 1921-06-15
LOST AVIATOR OF CROSS-U. 5. FLIGHT FAME LIKES COOL
 PRESCOTT WEATHER

dS HS ulNCycQ I1t COOL pldZd ana
 breathed a lot of Yavapai air.
 1 The young flyer was thinking of
 the six days he spent recklessly in
 the Great Bend country of Texas
 last February, and the heat and
 thirst and the carburetor cap he kept
 in his mouth to promote thought
 away from drouth and the long walk
 of two days without water and the swimming of the river and the other
 journeyings to and fro before he
 found the world again.
 Pierson docked at the Santa Fe
 and looked up the chamber of 2om-
 merce in order to inquire about the
 landing field at the Target Range,
 because he is coming to Prescott in
 a few days by ship to do few
 chores around the Grand Canyon for
 the national park service of the in
 terior department It is understood
 that an international civilian airpiane
 company is aiming to put in sight
 seeing busses at the canyon, and the
 army has been asked to make sur
 vey of the landing field possibilities
 and other conditions there for the
 department of the interior.
 In the course of his wanderings about town, the flyer interviewed the forest service and while he missed
 Forester H. B. Wales, had quite a chat with Mrs. Rosemary Campbell. the chief clerk, concerning the lay of the land between here and the canyon. The subject of the need of air patrols for forest fire detection was touched on and Pierson said he believed the country needed such an institution and that from Prescott, where there is the best landing field, the important forested areas of five national forests could be successfully patrolled.
 Pierson leaped to fame first in the transcontinental air race over year ago, won by Flying Parson" Mayn- ard on the best flying time, although Pierson's record for actual elapsed time was 20 hours better. Both fly CTS were compelled to change engines on the double trip across the con tinent Pierson did 137 miles an hour in his ship, which was a De Haviland plane, equipped with 4O0- horsepower Liberty motor.
 His second flight among the major headlines came last February when, on a trip from Fl Paso to San An tonic, he burned out his motor and was forced to land in the wilds of the Great Bend. For two days he was without water and it was six days before he reached civilization and reported his whereabouts. He was searched for by scores of army planes and for a time the widest rumors were current as to his fate. The incident now is a joke to the aviator, who finds the keenest delight | in the peculiar fact of his modes of on that memorable voyage.
 q started out in an airplane," he says. After the ship was beached, I took to my feet. I swam river and then floated down it on raft. The next means of transport was a burro, followed by a horse. l then adopted an automobile and ended my journey on a train. During that trip I made up my mind that when l got back. I would have me an ice 1ox and keep it right at my side. would have it filled with every kind of drink from milk to beer, and llso fruit and everything else, that Iuenches thirst But after I got a ot of food, I abandoned the ice box dea."
 Pierson left last night for Ash 7ork, where he will interview Billy ( Glenn regarding the possibilities of t n air field there. He will go in [ urn to Williams, Flagstaff and the i ,anyon. On his return, which will t e in about 10 days, the aviator is V rdered to fly over these places and l. 1ake landings and then to spend h ome time flying over the Grand ,anyon to make an air map and to a judy weather conditions, air cur Il ents and other scientific subects o ear to the heart of flyers. W When completed, it is believed, his II eport will convey the whole data h eeded by any outfit planning to | .ake commercial flying for sight E ,eing over the canyon a regular a 1junct to that famous spot. pr