Williams news., 1922-08-11
HOW THEY DO IT
 IN FLAGSTAFF (Taken from CoconinO Sum-

watchwOrd. She proved 1t Tuesday night at the mass meeting at the court house, call ed by the city council to get an expression of our people in re- gard to the proposition to buy the John Clark ranch, just north of and adjoining the city limits, for a high school, city park and recreation grounds site. After several enthusias- tic talks for and none against, a unanimous rising vote of en- dorsement was given.
 B. A. Cameron of city coun- cil, presided. He announced that the Clark ranch of 16O acres can be bought for S4S,- 900. The option expires iii December. The city school board will pay $15,OOO for 15 acres of the tract for the new high school, leaving the cost to the town of the balance only $33, 1000.
 George T. Harrington, clerk of the school board, with a map drawn by City Engineer J. B. Wright, explained that the ranch is directly east of the forest service land leased by the town for the present city park and tourist camp grounds. The school board wants the 15 acres between Hunt and Fine avenues and Kendrick and Park streets, four blocks. The high school will face the north end of Sitgreaves street, the Normal being at the other end of that street. The city blocks east and south of the high school tract cut away from it at an angle. MT. Harrington be- lieves if the town buys the ranch, the land necessary to fill out the several adjoining frac- tional blocks can be sold to ad- vantage, that there is other land iIf the tract that can also be plotted and sold. The west ern part of the tract would tie in with our present park. Enough would be left for ath- letic field and race track.
 MT. Harrington called atten- tion to the fact that the present race track is plotted into city lots and will ultimately be sold. Part belongs to the Normal and part to Rabbit brothers.
 The town authorized $275,- 900 high school bonds, MT. Her rington said, and $175,OOO have been sold Another $25,OOO will have to be sold to complete the high school, leaving a bal ance of S75,OOO authorized which will not be sold. In re- ply to a question by Dick Bong berg, he said he did not believe it wise for the school board to buy the entire ranch with the idea of reselling part of it, as this is not the province of the the city could do it to advan- tage, and should.
 B. A. Cameron said he be- Heved the ranch good buy, that while the price seems a lit tie high, it never can be bought for less; that the price on a DOT ton of the present athletic field is $1O,OOO, and it is not large enough nor favorably located.
 John Francis said it is a splendid buy. The town can't go farther east or north unless it takes in the ranch. He had seen downtown lots sell in years past for S25 and lots in the residential section that are now bringing $500 sold for $15. If in a course of time we want to sell part of the land it will bring big return, while the in crease in the value of the prop erty will more than pay the in terest on the bonds. We need a lake and winter sports, he said. There is a place there where by damming the River de Flag we can have a lake. 1 Winter sports are as necessary to the development of a city, almost as summer sports. It is a sensible, good buy.
 C. B.. Wilson said Flagstaff Is rapidly becoming famous as a school center and may in time become the school center of the l whole southwest. There are great possibilities in the city's ownership of this 16O-acre i tract. It will help to make l fhic f1n