The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16
WONDERS OF ARIZONA
SCATTERED EVERYWHERE

| DGHl lENED EVENl WI1ENE
| The 96 miles of excellent highway
from Phoenix to Globe gives the au-
/ tomobile traveller a chance to see
quite variety of Arizona landscape.
On leaving Phoenix the highway runs
! through the richest section of the
Salt River valley, where the tourist
sees orange groves, date palm gar
| dens, green alfalfa fields, great acre
ages devoted to growing winter vege-
tables. Before reaching Apache juno
ton, where the Apache trail branches
off for Roosevelt dam and Globe, the
absolute desert is entered; here the
Gila monster and the rattlesnake
alone are able to find subsistence.
The highway skirts the famous Su-
perstition mountain and one has only
to look at the surrounding terrain to
realize that the aboriginal inhabitants
avoided the locality, or that such re-
puted deposits of wealth as the Lost
Dutchman mine should be located
there.
Reaching Superior Junction, an oil
station located where the highway to
! Florence, Tucson and Douglas
branches to the south, we note that the
Automobile club of Arizona has been
here as the familiar sign giving di-
rection and distance is in plain view
from the junction point Proceeding on
the way east we soon see Pickett
peak, rugged uplift in the desert,
that would be famous in song and
prose if located near the Rhine, but in
Arizona almost unknown.
On reaching Superior, the largest
unincorporated village in the United
States, we, find hustling copper
camp located at the base of the Pinal
in front of the traveller, presenting
a face seemingly impossible, but the
state engineers followed a crooked
canyon leading into the rocky mass
and by engineering ability laid out an
excellent road that has more thrills
to the mile than the ordinary person
experiences in a lifetime. The road
winds and weaves. back and forth up
the steep side OF fhe canyon, follow
ing ravines back into the rocky front
and by numerous hairpin curves grad
ually gains elevation necessary to hit
the huge hole that has been in view
for sometime, the longest highway
tunnel in Arizona.
This elevation is reached after the
winding highway has passed the same
point three times at varying eleva-
tions. Passing through the tunnel the
traveller has opened, not unfolded,
scene of rocky grandeur unsurpassed
by anything found in Switzerland. The
walls of the narrow canyon tower
thousand feet above the roadway and
in many places huge boulders, weigh
ing hundreds of tons are balanced
awaiting slight push to bring them
hurtling down on the passing traveller.
The topography gradually changes
as the miles flow under the car and
while the country becomes more level
it does not lose its rocky nature or
increase its usefulness for agricul-
tural purposes.
Coming closer to Miami the motor
ist catches gIimpses of the old wagon
road used in early days by freight
wagons and stage coaches and Won
ders how the grades were ever ne
gotiated
Inc highway Lll1H
tain section is unpaved but presents
a surface of living rock, smooth and
broad, that offers greater traction
than the paved sections, no danger
of washouts to delay the automobile
traveller.
All dangerous curves, diversion
points, etc. are plainly marked by
Automobile club of Arizona signs that
warn the driver in time to reduce his
speed.
Miami, a hustling copper camp of
seven thousand, and Globe with like
number of residents are b0 of IN
terest to the tourist as tie large
smelters and mines that make the two
live cities necessary, are worth more
than passing glance.
At Globe the local Automobile club
manager, Mrs. C. T. Woody, informed
the visitor that over 200 automobile
tourist cars passed through the city
daily, that during the coming winter
season the Apache trail scenic side
trip of the Southern Pacific that takes
the train tourist to Phoenix via Roose-
velt dam and lake would bring more
Pacific coast bound tourists through
Globe than ever before.
Every locality in Arizona is inter-
ested in guiding and conserving this
great flood Of tourists. anxious to
view Arizona scenery and all should
consider the matter as statewide
proposition, that visitor in Flag
staff is a benefit to Yuma and en-
courage the coming of the hurrying
thousands of motor travellers.
PRESCOTT GETS MORE GOLDEN