The Coconino sun., 1923-06-08
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Mr.. Harrison described how the
county came into possession Of the I
trail. At the conference the county
officials had at Grand Canyon a few
months ago with Congressman Louis
Cramton and Carl Hayden, the propo-
sition submitted by the congressman
was that the county sell the trail to
Uncle Sam in return for the expendi- |
ture by the latter on the main highway
to Grand Canyon of at least 100000,
In addition to the benefit this bet
ter road would bring, the congressman
felt it would be an entering wedge
with congress for the appropriation of
money for other roads feeding the
national parks, the Washington policy
heretofore having been to build no
roads except within the parks.
Mr.. Harrison said that the law pro-
vides that any property sold by the
county must first be advertised and
then sold at public auction, no matter
if the United States is the purchaser.
IF the government should bid 500, 1000
for the trail, he said, it is likely they
would get it, and then a binding
agreement could be made between the
government and the county as to the
spending of the money on the Grand
Canyon road.
Captain Wright said that the new
ball ground in city recreation park is
three-fourths done, the race track will
be begun soon, the dam will be finish
ed this week and the grandstand will
be completed soon after July /. When
these improvements are completed, he
said, Flagstaff will have the most
beautiful and convenient park in the
state. In the rustic grand-stand
building there is to be big ball
room, custodian's office, reading and
rest rooms, lockers, toilets and bath
rooms. These things will make the
park an even more attractive place
for tourists. The town will be proud
of the recreation park and it will
greatly benefit us.
Mr. Hardy said the state automo-
bile club was organized two years ago
for mutual protection of automobile
owners, the signing of roads and dis
! semination of maps and other Gtera-
ture advertising this state. There are
81 branch offices in Arizona, the
Flagstaff office being in charge of
| w. B. Raudebaugh. There are 25 To-
cal attorneys who give advice to mem
bers without cost up to the point of
litigation. C. B. Wilson is the legal
representative in Flagstaff. The road
will soon be signed from Prescott to
Ashfork and it is hoped soon to sign
it from Pine and Payson to the Santa
Fe trail.
Mr.. Atwood said he appreciated the
welcome he had received at the meet
ing, that he came here last fall for
the benefit of the health of one of his
children and that he and his family
will remain in Flagstaff three or four
months Though most of his life was
spent on the Atlantic seaboard, con-
sidering his 171a years of reportorial
work he doesn't consider himself a
| tenderfoot.
All his writing has been of afinan-
cial andn industrial matters. In the
! last few months he has written four
articles on the copper industry in this
state, two on the oil situation in Cal
ifornia, one more recently giving
| his general impressions of Arizona
conditions and people and hopes to
write several dealing with the live
stock situation and other fundamental
| industries of the southwest.
The thing that most impresses him
| about Arizonans, he said, is the feel
| ing Arizonans have of opportunity
and possibilities of growth. He spoke
of the remarkable growth during the
last ten, even five, years. While get
| ting his hair cut the other day the
barber off-hand dropped information
along the same lines about Flagstaff
how a few years ago we had no
pavements and 13 saloons.
One of the problems in this state,
he said, is that SO many come here
for only short time, a few years at
most, taking no civic responsibility,
throwing more responsibility on those
| who remain here.
Speaking of roads, he said he would
be chary in saying which he believes
to be the most important trunk road
of the state. But he feels that even
greater than an improved road to Cal
| ifornia is the need for one north and
south, one that will weld more firm
| ly together the people of the state. He
was amazed in Tucson to find that
many old timers there had never seen
/ Grand Canyon on even the Apache
trail. People of Arizona should know
the different sections of their own
state, he said. Southerners should
come north and northerners go south.
The present sectionalism is getting
hard blows from Rotary conventions
and other things Of the sort that are
bringing the different parts of the
state with their various interests into
closer touch and understanding.
He believes the state should sup
port more industry. There should be
more small manufacturing enterprises,
even if each employs no more than
two or three men, to help supply the
needs of the state and develop it in
dustrially These small factories have
been a tremendous boost to southern
Hol;fo1o,ia