Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-31
Chronicles Of A Camper
 By One Of Them

l ! great tree trunks, broken in evenly 1 figured lengths, that the tourist can ! well imagine as being ready for traa,- | port to a saw mill The forest is on | the ground. It was put there, pre- sumably by the gigantic hand of ra- 1 ture in the form of an ice flow. The ! flow, carrying sand with it, gradually rotted away the trees and deposited sand. which through centuries and { countless thousands of years, became crystalized. When the flow retired ! the forest was left as it fell, but in the breaking up process the trunks of the trees bl oke apart as candy cane would when dropped to the sidewalk.
 The petrified forest is worth the while of any tourist. It is reasonable to say that more people, from outside the state of Arizona, are acquainted with it's wonders than are those from the confines of the commonwealth. It is known the country over as ole C- the great sights of nature. It will remain to posterity and will, annually, bring thousands of tourist through it's boundaries.
 The Little Colorado Country
 After leaving the Terrified Forest over roads that are more than passa- ble, Apache county is found. Here, too, the gently rollias plains of the Little Colorado are to be found.
 Nowhere has the writer been in Arizona that compares with the stalk ed plains of western Texas, eastern New Mexico, southwestern Colorado, as does the Upper Little Colorado be- tween Concho and Springerfield. The country is largely volcanic and the soil is excellent for farming. Water of course, is the question, as it is everywhere in Arizona.
 At 'Concho, a village made up prin cipally of Mexicon residents, there is the first real sign e agriculture in Apache county. It can be seen, how ever, that the surrounding country is peculiarly adapted to stock raising. Its plains are great ranges and only the fence of the land leaser or land holder breaks the landscape.
 St. Johns
 St. Johns is the county seat of Apache county. Outside of being the center of small agricultural district on the Little Colorado, the community is little else. Sleepy and, apparently, indolent it's residents are about equal ly divided between the Mormons and Spanish speaking people. A few Gen. tiles reside in St. Jchn but they are neither numerous nor important.
 St. Johns seems to have missed the spirit of the tourist. But our eXpe- rience in the little community led us to believe that it was learning fast. Little provision has been made 70 take care of the motOrist, either his inner being or his steed. We remain ed for a night at the Apache county seat. Trouble had forced us to re- main there, aGded to a threatening rain that hovered to the south.
 SpringerviIIe
 At an early hour we were on our way the next morning. It was thirty miles to Springerville, over reason ably good road We made the dis tance in about an hour and half and witnessed in Round Valley, of which Springerville is the metropolis, veri- table fairyland, nestling close to the fringe of the White Mountains. Springerville is as modern as it is possible for a community to be, locat- ed 105 miles from a railroad. It has two big stores, several good hotels. a good garage and a lot of good, straightforward, honest, hospitable, Arizona people.
 It was at Springerville that we stocked our larder We asked for nothing that the merchant did not have. We paid prices for our stock of goods that was no higher than we expected and which really effected a saving over carrying the provisions many hundreds of miles in our ma chimes.
 Into the Mountains
 ] Prior to leaving Bisbee for the | White Mountains, Fred Sutter had written to his friend Fred Colter. :. These gentlemen had served in the state senate together and in order to become better acquainted had run in