The Coconino sun., 1925-08-07

BEAUTIES OF SOUTHWEST
| GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED
BY SECRETARY BIRDSEYE
With its cover bearing four-color
picture of our San Francisco peaks,
/ it's other pages devoted almost entirely
! to pictures of scenes in and around
/ Flagstaff, and its three leading
larticles--two of them written by
I Roger Birdseye,s secretary Flagstaff
! chamber Of commerce devoted to
Flagstaff, its scenery and its indus
tries, the August number of ''Propres-
sive Arizona the monthly maga-
zine published at Tucson, is of espe-
! cial interest to people here, is Of alb
sprbing interest to all nature lovers
/ everywhere and is mighty good adver-
tising for Flagstaff.
The two articles by Mr.. Birdseye
are written in manner that bespeaks
the mans love for this beautiful and
magnificent country in and around
Flagstaff. The. word pictures he
draws come as near giving one who.
has never seen this country a real
conception of what it is as it is pos
sible for any printed, description to
give. Roger has happy faculty for
| phrasing into a few simple words a
lot Of information and vivid coloring.
He knows this country from having
Travelled all over it, he loves it and
I the sincerity Of that affection shows
when he writes about it. One of his
articles is entitled: Playing About
the Arizona Divide" the other,
Forty Years in the Arizona Big
/ Woods" the latter a sketchy history
/ of the Arizona Lumber 4 Timber Co.
and Of the immensity Of numbering
operations in the north part of the
state, Another article, What We
Learned Aout Lumber" by Lowell j.
Arnold, business manager of PRO
gressive Arizona" describes his
visit to the mill and logging camps of
the Flagstaff Lumber CO.,
We can't resist the temptation to
quote some of Rogers words in
"Playing About the Arizona Divide;"
''Long ago it required the authori-
tative word of John Muir to name
our southwest the greatest concen-
trated treasure store of natural won-
ders on the known globe. Year by
/ year since then the CROPPING fingers of
discovery have added new miracles of
form, color and grandeur to his ori-
ginal mountain OF evidence, until to-
4 day the same statement can be freely
made, unchallenged, as one Of accept
ed fact.
But the southwest is, after all, a
! big place To see all Of the unusual
and extraordinary it contains is the
work of years, equally beyond the
time and means Of the ordinary man.
1t is fortunate for him, then, that
4 there are sections of it SO uniquely en-
dowed by Enthusiastically and eli
matically-that in them he is able to
find with comparatively little effort,
what really amounts to composite
picture of the wonders Of the entire
| southwest.
Such region exists in northern
4 Arizona. To locate it more exactly
take two minutes, pencil and a road
map. On the latter the town of Flag
station both the Santa Fe railroad
and the National Old Trails highway
should appear in almost the exact
lnorth-central part of the state. About
Flagstaff swing a rough circle with
radius, according to the scale Of the
map, of rs or 80 miles. Therein lies
enough Of interest to fill dozen
articles and to keep wheels turning
and eyes busy for a month. For the
moment it is enough to mention the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado, the
molten color of the Painted Desert,
and the chocolate Niagara of the
Grand Falls of the Little Colorado; the
edge of the silent, wind-sculptured
country of the Navajos and Hopis;
! the quaint Indian life of today and the
ancient ruins left by forgotten races;
lakes, canyons, petrified forests and
towering peaks.
"The southwest, as a whole, is a.
| land of startling contrasts In this
small section Of it natures contradic-
tions are almost bewildering. There
are extremes. of elevation of nearly
10000 feet; spots where snow never
fails and heights draped in glittering
white for eight months or more in the
year; points where the summer sun
would send the mercury to 115 in the
lshade-if there were any shade-and
other points where winter has re-
corded 80 degrees below zero. One
can slide ankle-deep on the sides of
lmulti-colored cinder cones and scram-
BILE over the knife-edges of ink black
lava flows that have never known a
blade of grass since they were belched
from the bowels of the earth-and a
few miles away plunge into virgin
forests where there are deer and wild
turkeys and numbering has never
Many Bucilla and Pacific packages,