The Coconino sun. (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1898-1978, 1921-12-30

Salt River valley farmer. The health
seekers from that section will make
Coconino county their summer home.
In fact, Coconino county will become
the playground for Arizona's more
prosperous people.
What Future Holds
Who can predict what wonderful
changes will take place in twenty
years, or even ten years? Ten years
from now the paradise lands will be
irrigated, and from the box canyon to
Camp Verde will extend one of the
largest lakes in the state.
Camp Verde, as the promoters
dream, will be a summer camp for
bass fishers. The Edison or some
other gigantic corporation will have
harnessed the Colorado ere another
score of years and the power gener-
ated will exceed all the juice produced
by mighty Niagara. Then the spud
grower of the Mogollons will pump
water to irrigate his spuds, and thus
insure good crop every season.
Flagstaff, in addition to her lumber
mills, will be famous for her turpen-
tine and paper mills. But these great
things come not by fasting and prayer
but by catching the vision and set
ting in motion the machinery that will
hurry them along. And good roads
invite industry as nothing else does.
He who builds for the present alone
builds but a narrow gauge road, while
he who would build for the future
builds double track and ballasts so
future generations may pass in safe
ty.
On Oak Creek
Perhaps someone inquiries what Oak
Creek has to show the tourist. Its
very inaccessibility has hitherto pre-
vented lovers of beautiful scenery
from knowing what wonders are hid
den away in this little rival of the
great Grand Canyon.
Entering the canyon from the
Thomas place one notes the precipi-
tous walls of sandstone and lime on
either side. Net groves Of deciduous
fruits are found wherever nature has
left sufficient soil to invite the hus-
bandman. Mimoca falls at Pendley's
ranch lulls and soothes the tourists
with its ceaseless rumble of water A
little further down the canyon and
nesting far up on the west side is a
natural bridge that possibly not a
hundred people in Arizona have ever
seen. 1t is sandstone arch with a
span of possibly hundred feet, some
sixty feet high, that some times at
fords shelter in winter to straying cat
tie or predatory animals.
Further down the canyon at Bacon
Rind park is the finest camp site to
be found anywhere, with a number OF
springs of the clearest pure water.
Further on and near Sedona one pass
es Steamboat rock, whose outline
needs no help from the imagination
to identify. OFF to the east is Amphi-
theatre rock, structure rivaling inl
size and beauty the colosseum of Titus
in Rome, structure moreover whose
architectural grandeur was never
made nor married by the hand of man.
This wonder alone if set down east of
the Mississippi would be visited by a |
million tourists year.
Looking west from Sedona after sun
set one may see in the purple haze of
eventide the solhouette Of queen Vic
toria holding the heir apparent in her
arms. By day visit the foot of this
butte and in the open plain one comes
upon Hell's Kitchen. This is large
cave in the sand rock which, like
Montezuma's Well, has fallen in from
the top. It has no water at the bot
tom, or at least none is visible from
the rim. 1t is doubtful if the interior
has ever been explored. Look in any
you please and gigantic cliffs,
spires and minarets summon the lover
of nature to worshipful admiration.
All this will the Oak Creek canyon
road open up. And the beauty about
this road will be that most of it will
afford the people of Coconino county
an all-the-year outlet to the south. The
road in the canyon will never be i'm
passable either from snow or mud,
while it will be small matter to keep
the snow cleared away from the short
stretch of road from Flagstaff to the
rim. Moreover the great cost Of the
road will be the first cost, for the up
keep will not be very great. Yavapai
county has done her part. Her road
to the Coconino line is fact. It's
COconino's move now. What do YOU