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The Coconino sun., 1925-08-14
FIRE DAMAGES ALEX
JOHNST0N'S GARAGE

Half the town followed the fire lad
dies in fast run Tuesday forenoon,
the blaze being in Alex Johnston's ga
rage roof. Quick work saved all but
the rear part of the roof. Mr.. john
ston had set sulphur candle in pan
of water under a wheel chair in the
garage to fumigate the chair. The
chair caught fire. Bad luck has been
chasing Alex around during the last
year or two since his tailoring and
cleaning shop burned out, but the
quick handling Of the fire prevented
a lot more bad luck that might have
happened had there been wind, as
the garage is between and close to his
two houses.
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men 1t is expected to soon be through
with dipping and have the scab we'll
under control. He urged cattle grow
ers to cooperate in this work. for
their own sake and to help the federal
authorities to make a good showing
and get better rating for work
done here.
Hubbard Russell, president of the
California Cattlemen's association,
presented the Arizona marketing plan
for cooperation of cattlemen in this
state in selling cattle through the
California Cattlemen's association. He
gave the history of the new plan
which started last April and includes
Nevada, southern Oregon and Arizona.
The association operated successfully,
he said, selling cattle on the Los An
geles and San francisco markets.
Eighty per cent of the California
herds are now in the association. Most
of these are breeding herds and gave
control of the calf output, or veal
During the cattle slump in Cali
fornia prices were held up due to the
association. Cowmen were ready to
sell at any price. An organization
can sell more intelligently than an in
dividual.
Mr. Russell brought out the point
that fluctuation in cattle prices is due
to lack of organization. Consumers
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"Sunnyside" comprises the 160 acres
in the ranch formerly owned by l.. E.
Johnson, on the National Old Trails
highway, mile and quarter east
of the city limits. Several blocks,
with 60-foot streets and 5O-foot
avenues, the latter running east and
west. bave been surveyc4 an,l staked
by City Engineer Frank r. Goodman
and the plat has been approved by
the county board of supervisors and
recorded. Each of the lots is 50x142
feet. This plated area extends along
the entire highway frontage and also
along the line separating that proper
ty from Mrs. Greenlaw's.
The balance of the property north
of the highway will be sold by the
acre, in three and five-acre tracts.
The II acres lying south of the high
way and railroad will be sold in five
to ten-acre tracts.
A large triangular block has been
given to the subdivision in perpetuity
to be used as city park.
Alf Dickinson said on Tuesday that
many inquiries are being received
about the subdivision, some of them
from the south part of this state and
from other states. The sale of lots
already has begun and several others,
he believes, will be sold within the
next few days.
All of the property is accessible to
The Coconino sun., 1925-08-14
FRANK CHISHOLM MAY
BRING HIS BRIDE HERE

Frank Chisholm, the execreable cuss
who was county farm agent here UNI
til recently and who went away and
got married without giving us a
chance to serenade him, writes to Mr..
and Mrs. Ernest Burrus that after Wis
iting in the northwest, he and his
bride visited his brother in Ft. Collins,
Colo, and are now with his parents
in Del Norte, that state. He init
mates that they will be back here soon.
and after having some good eats with
Mr.. and Mrs. Burrus may go to Phoe-
nix to locate permanently.
The Coconino sun., 1925-08-14
RIFLE CLUB SHOOT

Members of Flagstaff Rifle club
shot at the range at City park Sun
day. The scores were: Al Dillman
80, Mccarthy 80, Pete Solberg 40, Ed
Babbitt SO, w. S. Beard 80, Snyder
3S, r. B. Cree SO, j. w. Bmscoe so,
Burch 21, Allan Cree 1926, H. B..
Scurlock 20x25, Miller 90, Pat Morgan
SO, Ray DeLescaille 81, Joe Tissaw 81,
C. E. Gillian AZ. Next Sunday the
club will shoot at the range All the
members, who can, are requested to
attend
The Coconino sun., 1925-08-14
KENDRICK PARK RANCHER
HELD ON BOOZE CHARGE

Jack Walker, rancher at Kendrick
Park, was bound over to federal court
few days ago by Justice of the
Peace Tom Pulliam, charged with
operating a whisky STILL Federal Of
ficers, Joe d Jackson and Charles
Akin, found the still, fine 10-gallon
affair, and six gallons of finished
product.
Walker pleaded guilty. He was al
ready under $500 bond for trial in SUI
perior court on the charge Of inn
properly butchering livestock, his ar
rest on that charge having been made
on July Z.
The Coconino sun., 1925-08-14

WOMAN'S CLUB MEETING

A meeting of the lWoman's club has
been called by the president, Mrs. F.
M. Gold, for August %, to elect a
treasurer, Mrs. j. B. Francis having
resigned that office. Applications for
membership will be voted upon at-that
time also. The meeting will be at the
clubhouse at p. m. The program
committees are busy shaping their
next years work. The general COM
mittee will be glad to have members
notify them as to which sections they
will work with during the next year
The Coconino sun., 1925-08-14
DIR. MACKEY CALLED. TO
TEXAS BY FATHERS DEATH

DR.. A. J. Mackey left Saturday aft
ernoon for Lampassas, Texas, called
by telegram received that morning
telling him Of the death Of his aged
father, A. j. Mackey Sr., who had
been i'll for some time. While it was
felt that the patient could not recover,
his death came earlier than was ex-
pected, not giving DR.. Mackey an op-
portunity to be with him during his
last moments. The funeral was on
Monday. Dr. Mackey is expected home
the last of this week or first Of next.
The Coconino sun., 1925-08-14
McAD0O TO MEET GOVERNOR
HUNT HERE; GO TO DANCE

William Gibbs McAdoo, candi-
date for the democratic nomination
for president and Fremont Older,
editor of the San Francisco Call,
will be guests of Governor Hunt on
a trip to the Hopi Indian snake
dance, it is announced from the
governors office.
For months past the governor
has been planning going on the
trip to Polacca, the Indian village
where the tribal ceremonies of the
Hopis will be held this year.
Leaving Phoenix on the night Of
August 18, the governor will meet
his distinguished visitors at Flag
staff, from which point they will
proceed to the scene of the dance.
The Coconino sun., 1925-08-14

Alban Schuele, brother of Mrs. Joe
Babbitt, returned Wednesday night
from Rochester, Mimi, where he went
recently for consultation with Mayo
brothers. He brought with him the
good news that there is no need for
operation. Some dental work was
done which, with rest and sleep, will
restore him to health. He viii visit
here until the weather moderates.
The Coconino sun., 1925-08-14
BROKE A FINGER

Bud Cameron, who works at the
county garage, broke his finger Fri
day morning. He was heping Buster
Thornton close a refrigerator car
door, his hand was caught and the
middle finger broken. An X-ray by
DR.. Vaughn S. Mcclure revealed
straight break. The finger was set
and is doing nicely.
The Coconino sun., 1925-08-14
'SUNNYSIDE,v FLAGSTAFF'S
NEW SUBDIVISION, NOW ON
SALE AND MAY BE BOUGHT
BY LOT OR LARGER TRACT

9Sunnyside," the subdivision of Flagstaff, has
been opened for sale of home sites by Af Dickinson
Son. local realty men, and propretors of the Pine hotel
and expected that before many months have passed
many of the sites will have been disposed of prospective
home builders
The Coconino sun., 1925-08-14
CATTLEMEN OF THE STATE
DISCUSSED DIPPING AND
COOPERATIVE MARKETING
AT FLAGSTAFF SATURDAY

That California will accept properly dipped and
inspected cattle from the scabesinfected areas of Ar
zona was indicated Saturday by Dr. Iverson California
state veterinarian at meeting held in Flagstaff on Sat-
urday and attended by leading cattemen from all parts
of Arizona
The Coconino sun., 1925-08-14
MARIJUANA SINGER

Manuel Escarcazo got off easy in
Justice of the Peace Tom Pulliam's
court on Monday. City Marshal JUS
tin r. Cooper had found Manuel hilAr-
iously singing and after relieving him
of some marijuana, took him arouns
to the justice. Manuel said he had a
paralyzed wife and blind mother to
support, which induced the justice to
believe maybe he'd better be out
working than in Jail. But he tackled a
60-day Jail sentence on to the fine, to
be enforced later if Manuel doesn't
walk the straight and narrow.
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The Coconino sun., 1925-08-14

Rev. N. X. Tully Of Racine, Wis.,.
on Tuesday visited Rev. H. f. Softley
enroute to Salem, Ore.
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once from two other riders. One Of
them ropes snaps like a thread and
sings by like a bullet. but 1t checked
him some till another rope was layed
in the place of It, and 1t wasn't long
till he was stretched out like any COM
mon critter.
In the meantime, my little horse
had picked himself up and was holding
his own against the critter I'd caught.
and that critter outweighed him a good
100 pounds. My saddle was slipping
and I scrambles out OF the scratching
catclaw bush Just in time to pull er
straight, gives the steer some slack,
and then goes the other way. laying
that critter down and tying 'er in
good time.
The dust settles some and I giances
over the little half mile opening. I
can only see about half OF the boys
who are tying down what they caught,
and scattered along in the opening is
somewhere around Is head of tied
critters. But can still hear the brush
a-cracking, and, wondering If I can be
Of any help, rides into the thick OF 1t.
A mile away is another and smaller
opening, and there was the rest Of
the boys with more tied critters. The
COW foreman was rolling a smoke and
acted real satisfied with the catch
we'd made. A little bit OF a bow
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legged hombre from Texas had went
and broke the record by catching and
tying three of the wild ones. all about
mile apart. But none of us had done
bad, for out Of the 20 riders was "a
caught orejanas.
~
THE foreman was sharpening his
knife, the while remarking that a
few more runs like this one would soon
clean the range of the wild stun. And
when the operation is performed on
them critters we'd caught and we
leaves 'em free it sure didn't take 'em
long for 'em to reach the brush line
again.
But there they'd stop and mighty
quick turn around and paw the earth.
Something had gone wrong, and some
how or other they'd took dislike to
that thick brush where they used to
hide and run so well. They tried to
make cover a few times while we rode
by headed back for camp, but each
time they'd have to turn back, and,
wild-eyed, stare at US till we got out
of sight.
"It might be a few days before they
can work their way out and on the big
fat with the other CATTLE" the boss
remarked as we rode on, but they'll
be there to get their water, and once
they're out of this brush all the cow
boys in the world couldn't drive 'em
back in"
Sure enough. in few days they was
out of the brush and mixing along
with the other range stun. They'd
lost all hankering for anything but
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picked UP on fat and gradually lost
their wild ideas and speed, and 1t
wasn't long till they was just as con.
tented in the big fats as they was in
the brush where we'd got 'em out Of
: When Old Mexico turned all upside
down some years ago on account Of
the ''paisanos" wanting more beans
and maybe a little land of their own,
the range there was we'll stocked up
and full of the long-horned cattle.
Some of the maj jordomos" began
rounding up the stock fast as they
could and taking 'em across the line
in the U. S., where they was sold TO
American cattle buyers, who turned
'em over TO the COW outfits and scat
tered 'em all through the range coun-
tries plum up to Canada.
] well remember one Spring when
some of them long horned Mexico stuff
was shipped north and turned loose in
the river breaks and bad lands up
there. There was about 10. 900 head of
'em. When we unloaded 'em at the
railroad they was mighty weak, and
mostly all head and horns from the
suffering they'd went through in the
country they'd just left.
They was trailed for few hundred
miles and turned loose amongst the
gumbo and many-colored pinnacles.
but there was feed aplenty, and the
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herd, night guard or on circle. they
had a way about 'em that sure kept a
cowboy close to his saddle. There was
plenty of times when them critters
would get overornery and when the
cowboy would cuss 'em for a brain
less animal, but there was things
would happen every day while riding
amongst 'em what would make the
cowboy think again, and he'd wind up
to admiring 'en and wondering how
they could be so wise.
] remember how down in the border
States, where the water holes are
miles from the feed, the cattle would
string out every two or three days and
head for the troughs, to IL miles up
into the foothills. There'd be a rocky
trail most OF the way over and too
long for the little calves to make, so
they'd be left behind.
Instinct, or maybe brains, made
them little week old fellers find a hid
ing spot before their mammies left for
the day trip to water. They'd cuddle
up under any kind of brush where
they'd be hid best and go to sleep till
their mammies came back. Many a
time I've rode in on 'em when they
was hiding that way. but they wouldn' t
move. and you couldn't see 'em unless
your horse near stepped on 'em.
II tney Ola nave 10 move. tney
wasn't at all slow about it, and for a
distance would sure make themselves
hard to catch. They'd travel along at
full speed, make circle, and If by
that time you was gone would come
right back, lay down and hide at the
exact spot where their mammy'd left
EN-.
I've seen times when there'd be half
dozen or more of them little calves
left behind that way and all hid along
within a few feet of one another. One
of them would maybe get out of his
hiding place to stretch for a while
then up would come another one, till
they was all out and a-stretching
Then Of a sudden you'd hear little
beller out of one of 'em, and, tail up
kicking and a-bucking, he would race
out acrost the fiat, make his little cir,
| Gle, and come back.
The rest of 'em would take up his
lead and perform the same, and play
on that way till all the stiffness from
| the hiding position they'd been in was
gone, when they'd hide again and
wait for their mammies to relieve 'em
| RUT what always used to set me tc
- thinking the most was when I'd
come across a bunch of them little
fellers laying around anywheres anC
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Completion Of Great Wilson Dam
Will Soon Bring Test at Shoals

and security from military interfer-
ence.
When the armistice was signed, the
nitrate plant, one mile inland from
the dam, with a capacity of $50 tons
of nitrogen compounds a day and
having an emergency steam power
plant of 100000 horsepower, was
about completed. Work on the
hydraulic power installation, the dam
was still in the initial stages, so vast
were it's proportions.
In striking contrast to almost all of
the other great wartime undertakings,
Muscle Shoals did not become useless
as soon as hostilities ceased, for it
possessed, and still possesses, peace
time possibilities Of fabulous value.
Being a source of two such impor-
tant factors in civilization as electric
pable of benefiting the American peo-
pie in innumerable ways, but for the
present special attention is focused
on four phases of its usefulness-fer-
tilizer, explosives, navigation and
power.
Fertilizer and explosives, diverse as
these products are, have this in com
mon-both consist of compounds of
nitrogen. The preliminary stages in
the manufacture Of each are the same,
and any plant that can make one can
be readily adapted for the production
of the other.
heterogeneous fertilizer is one of the
great needs of the country. Our nat
ural supplies, including animal and
vegetable refuse and the nitrogenous
by-products of coke and gas manufac-
ture. are not sufficient to fill the de-
mands of American farmers and
the deficit must be made up by impor-
tations from Chile. Hence, ever since
the war there has been widespread de-
mand that the Muscle Shoals nitrate
plants be devoted to the production of
fertilizer. One feature OF the proposal
made by Heny Ford was that in addi-
ton to leasing water power he would
purchase the nitrate plant for $5,000,-
900 outright and produce 30, 600 tons
of fixed nitrogen annually. to be sold
to the farmers at cost plus per cent.
Others made offers along the same
general lines.
X y x X
THE ultimate disposition of the Will
= son Dam power installation and
whether 1T will be operated or disposed
of independently of the. nitrate plant
cannot, OF course, be foretold at this
time.
AlInOuSn OlSpOSltlOn OF Muscle
Shoals now centers around its peace
time uses, the mammoth development
still remains essential to the national
defense. War cannot be waged with
out nitrates, and with Muscle Shoals
ready for operation the United States
will be prepared to make nitrates for
munitions.
Primarily. of course, electric power
is the reason for construction of the
Wilson Dam, but other conditions and
Evening star., 1925-08-02

there amt no more of them cattle
left; that is. not enough of 'em to
speak of. The few you'll find are in
the movies or following the rodeos,
where the contestants ride and rope
'em both. Then there might be a few
more running loose on the range or
up in the hills and turned wild again,
but you might just as we'll say that
they're gone, and gone for good.
For with the limit Of the range there
is nowadays there's got to be cattle
on it thatll bring the most value per
head, and 1 can't say that the long
horn was ever much of a beef pro
ducer. not compared with the mixed
Hereford and Durham stock you'll
find on the range now
A ND when / say I'm sorry for the
= cowboy that there's no more of
the long g-horn, It's that ] know how
much the cowboy liked to work them
cattle. l know how nice they was to
stretch a new rope on and how hard
one of them steers would hit the other
end. take all the kinks out of It. and
make ,er sing the whole 40-foot length.
Yessir, and them cattle was a lot of
company. too, and always up to some
fling. If they'd stampede. they al
ways done a good, interesting job of
it and make us ride for all we was
worth, and then some; and even when
the nights was still and quiet they'd
make you wish you could see through
the dark so you could tell what they'd
be up to then.
Like, for instance. the whole herd
may be bedded down and resting con-
tented like, two or three of us boys
would be riding around 'em steady.
keeping our distances apart and sing
ing to 'em as we'd ride, land all would
seem hunkydory. But there was al
ways a few of them natural-born
leaders, in each herd-the kind that
never sleeps much-and them would
sure have to be watched mighty close.
They'd wait till the riders made the
round and was far enough away so
they could make a sneak without be-
ing heard. Then they'd ease out and
step light till they was far enough
and safe to break into run and make
their getaway.
But us boys was on night guard for
the purpose of keeping 'em all to-
gether, and that we tried to do. with
the result that not many could ever
sneak out without we caught up with
'em and turned 'em back in the herd.
You couldn't very well go to sleep
on the job when them cattle was
around, and whether 1t be on day
Evening star., 1925-08-02

requirements were taken into consid-
Grafton by the designers. Hugh L.
Cooper & Co. of New York. The Ten
nessee River has always been naviga-
BILE, although little used commercially.
However, protection of its commercial
potentialities demanded provision for
navigation.
The Tennessee is what is known as
fiashy stream-that is, one whose
discharge varies from a relative trickle
of water to torrent in a short space
of time. The discharge has been
known to run as low as 1850 cubic
feet per second and in time of flood as
high as 900 cubic feet per second.
These rapid fluctuations dema nded
adequate provision TO cope with enor
nous floods. Hence the dam, an ad
junct to which is a two-stage lock on
the north bank of the river having
total lift of SO feet. Thus the passage
of vessels of siZable draft is not I'm
peded by the great dam that holds
the river in leash.
Proper disposition of Muscle Shoals.
in whole or in part, has occupied the
attention of Congress through many
days OF heated debate. In addition to
the Ford offer, which for months was
the vortex of the tornado of dispute.
proposals for taking over the power
Associated Power Companieg, EIon L.
Hooker, and the Union Carbide Co,
while Senator Norris fathered a bill
providing for Government ownership
and operation through a corporation
controlled by a board of directors APP
pointed by the President and author
lied TO lease 10 public and private in
terests power not needed for the pro-
duction of fertilizer.
Cr,fR ha
for none of the proposals, however,
and months of discussion ended in the
creation of the Presidents investiga-
tion commission. This body is com
posed of Representative John c. Nc
Kenzie of Illinois, Senator Nathaniel
b. Dial of South Carolina, Harry A.
Curtis, professor of chemical engi-
neering at Yale; William Mcclellan,
electrical engineer, of New York, and
Russell F. Bower of the Farm Bureau
Federation.
This commission will report to Pres
ident Coolidge. The President will
make his recommendations TO Con
gresS. Congress will debate, decide
and instruct the War Department on
what it shall do with the mammoth
development. In the meantime, the
Corps of Engineers. under Gen. Tay
lor who has been in command since
the retirement of former Chief of En-
gineers Maj. Gen. Lansing II. Beach
last year proceeded with putting the
finishing touches on the construction.
One morning soon Uncle Sam will
find himself possessor of a power and
nitrate plant which, with all adjuncts,
has made him dig down in his jeans to
the tune of S160.000,0 900. What viii
he do with it?
(Copyright l925)
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not at all hid. The reason they wasn't
hiding just then was a good one, for
right amongst 'em would be full
grown, long and lanky steer with
horns of the kind that could more
than meet an argument with most
anything.
That steer would stay on the job as
guardian till the mothers trailed back.
Along about sundown you could see
EN-. Picking up speed and walking
faster and faster, they'd start beller-
ing for their calves d mile away, ana
the closer they'd get the more they'd
beller and the faster they'd walk. TIL
they'd finally break into g. trot. and.
tired as they'd be from that long trip,
besides packing all the water thev
could hold, they'd manage to leave tbs
dry stuff" behind and get to their
calves quick as they could.
The little fellers, hearing their nam
mics coming, begin to perk up their
ears, then break out on a run to meet
'em. and even though to the human
eye they may all look alike, there's no
confusion with the cow and her calf
about which belongs 10 which.
The nursing goes on and all seem
plum satisfied with everything in gen
erai. The big steer finds himself all
alore, and after watching the pro.
ceed,ngs for a spell, seeing that all Is
o. f., trails out by his lonesome.
headed for the water hole, miles and
miles away.
So there you be. While that critter
had no use for the human and wasn't
at all affectionate in any way. not
mentioning how contrary and ornery
she'd get or how sometimes she'd
make you travel TO keep out of her
horns way, there was occasions a.
plenty when you'd find yourself a
cussing at 'er orneriness and at the
same time admiring the wise way that
critter did have of being ornery and
keeping you a-guessing.
Apd what's to their credit is, i&
trouble come they'd meet that troubles
together and fight IT together to a fin
ish. If lone COW was making a los
ing fight trying to protect her CALI
all she had to do was let out a call,
and there'd be a herd Of big steers
answering it, and, whatever the en-
emy was, bears or wolves, they was
put on the run and making far-apart
tracks.
The human is the only enemy they
had that would make 'em scatter and
keep 'em a-dodging, and they took it
out on him in ways that was ornery,
sometimes even getting the best of
him, too.
Copyright. 1925)