Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-31
ROADS II


 the highway between that community and holbrook is a 'litue tough The road makes good on the warning and, in dry weather, gives a slight indica- ton of what il must be at the pres ent time. Constructed, in the main, out Of roadside clay it doubtless pre- sents, in company with an automobile in wet weather, spectacle ai.in 10 d small boy and a greased pig.
 But the road is travelable in fair weather. It has a chuck or two for each yard or yard and half. It's grades are practically nil and it fol lows, generally, the main line of the Santa Fe. The country it traverses is not pretentious. In the sGTroInu- ing country there are sheep and some cattle. During the past season, how ever, all stock was exceedingly hard pressed to find either grass or water. The range was baked and the land adjoining, as far as the eJe cou,n reach, was barren of that vegetation which makes for stock food.
 In an hour and half's run from Winslow the county seat of Navajo county is encountered-Holb by name.
 HoIbrook-An Afterthought
 Holbrook must have been an aIter- thought originally. we wouIu not venture a guess as to the number of people who claim it as a residence, but that they are few in number we will concede without argument. Some where in the community is a court house. We were looking for way out and overlooked the ediface. In late years Holbrook has taken on more importance than heretofore.
 In years past it was the railroad freight and passenger station for a large part of the Navajo reservation, which lies to the north and covers hundreds of square miles, and for the southern Apache county country. Of late, however, it has become the june tion for the Apache railroad which terminates at the little community of Cooley-a lumber mill camp, and is also the center of some oil excite ment.
 Many of us remember the dollars we spent, during the oil boom in Hoi- brock oil companies. We bought a tremendous lot of experience when we made our purchases but so far no oil, at least in commercial quantities, has been developed. Many men still have confidence in the Holbrook fields and if their faith is rewarded, Navajo county and the little communi- ty of Holbrook, will certainly come into their own.
 The Petrfed Forest
 Eighteen miles southeast of Hol- brook, lying partly in Navajo and partly in Apache counties, is one of the states great wonders-the petri- fled forest. The area has been de- clared a national monument and is to be perpetuated by the government as a truly wonderful example of natures many sided activities.
 Lying in a basin the motorist tops a slight hill and drops into the flor est" The party has about concluded that the driver was off his road. Where is the forest?" is the ques tion. And then the first signs ap- pear.
 While we could not substitute an adequate name for tie place, we are certain that it rather a loose term. What once was a forest is now pet rified The average tourist expects to see great tree trunks, craning their petrified nakedness into the heavens and all we see is a great fallen for est of petrified wood. But it grows on one.
 Like so many natural wonders of this and other states. the first glance is something disappointing. We per haps expected something totally diff ferent. We may have visualiZed, as we, remarked above, standing forest of pine, or~fir. But we see the colors of the rainbow, done in rocks; rocks which have the exact shape of trees.
 A detour through the forest from the main highway gives the motorist a better idea of its extent and great ness. Along the main road there is ] ample traces of the petrification. but