The Coconino sun., 1924-12-05
YES, FLAGSTAFF IS GROWING,
AND FLAGSTAFF NEEDS GROOMING

That Flagstaff is growing, and rapidly, is evi
dent from the scarcity of vacant houses this win
ter. It is the first in many when family de
string comfortable home, either furnished OF
unfnrnished, hasn't been able to find it easily al
this time of the year when so many of our people
are south Housing Accommodations both by tht
building of new homes and providing much great
er accommodation in furnished rooms and apart
Iments. have greatly increased in Flagstaff; yet
the scarcity of houses is almost as great now as
usually in the middle of the summer.
Along with our growth in population, which
must have been considerable in the last two OF
three years, there has been steady building
program under way. 1t has been so steady as tC
be hardly noticeable at any time; but counting ur
the notable improvements of the last two or three
years and thinking of them all at the same time
sort of surprises one.
There's the big clubhouse at City Recreation
park, the fine new home of the Flagstaff Woman's
club, the magnificent hall built by the Elks as
adjunct to their home, the enlarged Odd Fellows
building. That beautiful new high school build
ing is one OF the recent improvements Nackard's
handsome, big new store even more recent. An
interesting addition to the Federated church is
nearing completion and will add much to the com
nunity life through the conyeniences it will af-
ford. Henry Albers' fine new laundry building
will soon be ready for use. Mrs. Hensing will
build more modern store building on the site Of
the one burned last month.
There have been notable improvements, too, at
both our sawms. The Arizona Lumber & Tim
ber Co. mill, in the process of being doubled in
saving capacity, was made much larger and atten-
ton was paid to making it attractive in appear
ance, as WE'LL SO that the stranger who sees it is
Many improvements have also been
made at the Flagstaff Lumber Co. mill, enarging
and undermining
Joe Bender is turning dilapidated old Front
street building into one twice as large and mod
ern. Coils MaYflower added an attractive store
building to his others. Nackard has vastly i'm
proved the South San Francisco street section,
erecting new store and hotel structures The
Ideal hotel long an eyesore following destruc-
tive fire. has been rebuilt and Mr.. Cross has it
filled. The county has a good looking, large
garage and warehouse Johnny McWllllams has
done lot in improvement of his mercantile prop
erty on the south side.
There have been numerous very handsome
homes built in the last couple years and several
more are planned for the immediate future.
The building program bids fair to get bigger
instead of smaller Hopes are high that depot
we may be proud of will before long replace the
one we have SO long been ashamed of. The COM
ing of the Central Commercial company to Flag
staff with wholesale grocery store means an
other big structure. Indications are fast getting
brighter that Mrs. l.. r. Hall will build large
store and apartment building on her vacant lots
at Aspen and Leroux. The congregation OF the
Christian church is making arrangements to put
up a church home. Lee CarrOn promises before
long to erect a garage and auto sales structure
that will make us all sit up and take notice.
Along with all this, there has been general
tendency to make the fronts of the business
houses more attractive aAd inviting. So that TAX
ing it all in ALL Flagstaff is a lot better looking
town than it was three years, or even year ago.
There is room for improvement yet or course,
and much has to be done along the line OF clean
ing up before we put up as good an appearance as
we should and easily might. Many park-ways are
that give their immediate localities
drab and dreary look. Old corrals not only an
evesore but menace to health, still exist, and
shouldn't UnsightIy old fences and rubbish IN al
levs and sometimes even in the streets are IN
many cases detrimental to property and in some
cases at least not in conformity to our city ordl-
nanceS.
But accepting as true the Well-known state
ment that Rome wasn't built in day, perhaps we
may as well assume that Flagstaff won't be,
either. However, in connection with this clean
ing-up and brghtening-up idea, it is fact that If
we all got together, and along with US the city
dads insisted just to help us along that the ord-
nances regarding rubbish, etc, be enforced, IN
one day we could make Flagstaff look great deal
more attractive both to us and to our visitors In
the one respect of cleanliness of streets, alleys,
front and back yards, there is hardly another
town of this size in the United States that isn't
setting us good example that it is time for us to
emulate.
GO TSA