The Coconino sun., 1923-12-28

ed, for some are dead, others are just I
as we'll as dead, and Flagstaff did not |
get the railroad.
The four men above mentioned were |
loyal to the core, and the way they |
paid their money, their work, and dis
played their faith was, as say, sonle- |
thing not of earth, or earthly.
went down to Williams again, and
that good little old town, or its peo-
pie, gave me bonus of $4,000 to-
ward the railroad, and $4,000 towards
rebuilding the Saginaw mill, which
would never have been rebuilt in Will
liams had it not been for the efforts
of the writer and John G. Brown, the
company's manager at that time.
Time proceeded, and the road pro-
gressed. The skeptics called it
"Young's Dream" when the track was
laid 80 miles out from Williams, and
then when the crash came, it was fin
ished within five miles of the Cam
yon, and with all the culverts in, and
material needed to finish it, and
even the small amount of $4,000 ju-
diciously expended could have finish
ed the railroad, but the steal was on,
and you know, humanity loves to be
a flunky and loves to toady to and
/ play with, and for, the Powers that
be-never appreciating that since the
dawn of man, the majority have been
used as the orange-a few suck the
/ juice, eat the meat, and these toad
/ tests, as the public, like the skin of
/ the orange, in time are thrown away
\ into the garbage can of so-called civ
/ ilization.
There is more to this story, and it
/ does not read well. For the sake of
some living, / will refrain at this
time from mentioning facts, but, Fred,
4 if go first, and you peruse my files,
! you will find some very interesting
reading, and we hope in that day,
The Sun will still be shining and
you who are sitting in the shadows
will have all fear eliminated, and
4 for the sake of local history, it may
be your pleasure to present this
whole truth, and nothing but the
1 truth"
/ write you this personally to use
\ as your own judgment may dictate,
for | know you know me sufficiently
well to appreciate the wonderful sat
\ isfaction | get from reading these
statistics Of travel to the Grand Can
yon-a thing at first, like all things
of merit, scoffed by the supposed-to-
/ be wise, and the man of original
thought made almost an object OF
scorn in forcing the issue.
/ hope the little town of Williams
will some day do justice to the four
men whom / have mentioned. It would
not have been a whistling post at this
day had it not been for this railroad.
| 1t was a wonderful little town in that
day, and full of wonderful people. As
town, it has large space in the
sacred place of my heart reserved for
pleasant memories. Today it is not
/ the town it was, and / am trying to
(! discover at this time, and at this long
4 range whether it is lethargy, or ego
4 tism and conceit which is holding it
4 back. ] believe its worst curse is the
curse that afflicts us all, and that IS,
it has too much law, too many peace
officers, and too many men admins
tering its affairs that have no COM
prehension of what government is.
In the past ten days three different
men have reported to me their near
Il ness of being arrested for wrong
I. parking in the streets of the town,
1 and one man visited the little city
I for the purpose of locating there tenn
/ porarily, at least and maybe perman-
emily.
H Therefore hope that Williams per-
ceives the fact that in this day the
|. newspapers as officers, serve a pur-
/ pose, but one car of people wrongly
used by the peace officers of "a town
/ can do it more harm in a week IN
these days of travel and close COM
munication of the people than all the
newspapers in Christendom can do in
q year.
am enclosing you a personal let
ter which | have been importuned to
have published, from New York to
San Francisco. ] send this to you for
your perusal and information, culled
from many things in my files that
will make interesting reading, espec-
ially for the old-timers Of Coconlno
county.
With kindest personal regards, be-
lieve me,
Vn,1r f7riapd