Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-10
CORONADO TRAIL
ON
SATURDAY, 18th

CLIFTON June 9-"The Coronado
Trail" new million dollar highway
through the Apache nationals forest
I from Clifton to Springervflle will be
! dedicated June 49, the first day Of a
! tWo-day celebration at Hannagan's
Meadows, 73 miles north of Clifton
The program will include a union
I church service, sports, dancing, speak.
ing and indian ceremonies.
/ The executive committee in charge
announced a it's final meeting at Han
nagan's Meadows Sunday that indica.
tions were for an enormous attend
ance and requested all to come well
equipped to camp, with ample provi.
! sions and bedding. A free barbecue
VIII be served Saturday, June 19, from
IL noon until p. m. All other meals
must be furnished by the visitors
| themselves, the committee announced.
| The completed program includes the
White Mountain Apache Indian devil
dance with 125 Indians participating,
| from sundown Saturday until sunrise
! Sunday, music by the Navajo Indian
school band from Fort Apache, and
Idancing on specially constructed plat
form, with orchestra of jazz music.
The dedication of THE Coronado
Trail and the unveiling of monu,
ment to mark the trail will take place
at p. M Saturday. Governor Hunt
of Arizona will officiate. Mayor Peter
Riley of Clifton will preside during
the speaking program which begins
at that hour J. P. Hodgson, manager
of the Morenci branch of the Phelps
Nod cra =
! dress of welcome on behalf of Green
lee county and speaker yet to be
selected will deliver similar address
on behalf of Apache county. j. D.,
Jones, assistant district forester, will
speak on the United States forests.
Various phases of roadi development
in the county will be the subject mat
ter of addresses by G. G. Morrison,
district engineer, United States bu-
reau of public roads; wv. c. Lefebvre
Arizona state highway engineer, and
Is. Nj. Atwood, district engineer, Ari-
zona highway department.
Charles l.. Davis, Indian agent at
Fort Apache, will speak in explapa-
tion of the devil dance and other In
dian ceremonies to be staged at the.
celebration.
Al-cha-se, for 40 years the ranking
chief Of the White Mountain Apache
Indians, and other ehiers, exacted d
promise from the executive committee
that no photographs whatever be
taken of the Indians. The committee
announced that in consequence it,
would be the committees duty to for>
bid the taking of cameras into the
vicinity of those portions of the
groundd where the Indians will be
encamped or engaged in their several
parts of the program.
Members of various national and
State game associations will meet at
Z o'clock Saturday night, to discuss
important game problems said X. c.
national forest who asked the COM
mittee to include this meeting in the
program.
The community church service will
be held at o'clock Sunday morning
1t will be under the joint auspices Of
various church organizations in Green
lee and Apache counties. Sunday
morning, according to- the program
also will be devoted to horseback rid
ing over the several forest service
trails leading from Hannagan' Mead
ows. Well informed guides will ac-
company these parties.
All business concerns like to break
their own records except the phono-