The Coconino sun., 1926-07-02


Through miles of dense growth
made up of ferns and columbines,
with wild grape vines over-hanging
the road, through other miles of tall,
straight oaks and pines standing with
toes dipped deep into mountain
stream, where trout dart unafraid in
to the lights and shadows, the road
runs close at last to the gate Of Tioga
/ Lodge, better. known to Arizonans as
| the Thomas ranch.
Cherries Are Ripe
The Lodge forms a splendid term
i Inal If one cared to explore no fur
theT. Tall cherry trees, laden with
1ich, red fruit was too much of a
temptation to the president of the
Good Roads, and he carried off the
! spoils of his encounter with them, in
long bending branches. Apple trees
were STOPPING under their load, and
blackberry hedges lifted their fruit
up for inspection. The canyon is hard
to realize. 1t is honey, comfort
able place, one with which the trav-
eler can become chunmy and one
which calls out a "God speed" as the
motorist departs.
/ The road to the canyon runs thru
an area of the biggest continuous for
est of pine trees on the continent, ana
the biggest in the world, with the ex-
ception of the only recently accessi-
bic forests of pines in Siberia. Mr..
! Robertson forgot most of the time
! that he was being interviewed, and
because of that fact, just what he
thinks Of creeds and doctrines, soci-
ology and candidates, cabbage and
cornbeef, wine, women and song, is
better left untolsi. He did divulge,
/ however, that he believes in Arizona
Not the south of her, not the north
of her, or the east or the west, but
the amazing Wilderness of the state,
and that, with the help of his eff
cient organization no state in the
Onion will forge ahead faster on the
good roads program.
To Better Reads
! An authorization of $4,000 of for
est money set aside by the federal
I government for use beginning the
fiscal year of July /, 1927, will be
used to construct better road
through Oak Creek canyon, and with
/ its construction, stretch Of country
/ embodying every phase of Arizona s
northern beauty will be easily acces-
sible to the tourist.
| During the convention of the Good
Roads association in Flagstaff, a run
/ was made up San Francisco Peaks,
and to those lately from the low lying
valleys of the south, the sudden raise
to 1890 feet altitude, with the re-
sultant difference in temperature, the
| change came with much the same eff
feet as an electrical shock.
The trip up the peaks was made
over the Weatherford road, being
/ built as a private enterprise by Col
onel Weatherford Miles of smooth,
rolling ROAD runs through the forests
1 Ct pine and fir trees, over acres of
buffalo grass, and suddenly as the
altitude goes higher, the frs and
pines give way to groves and borders
of other growths. Down through sill
ent stretches where tall, white, quak-
I ing aspens guard the roadside, the
/ avenue runs in and out like an eager
adventurer, peering, ever peering,
for what lies just around the curves.
| The car ran smoothly up the hills,
taking the grades with purring of
content. Always just ahead lay the
snow, but before we reached it, and
/ just when the hands began to tingle
with the excitement of a probable
SNOWFALL battle, blasting from the
crest, warned the unwary traveller
that the road was still under con-
stTuction. From the summit of the
peaks one can see the Grand Canyon
rim, the Navajo mountains in Utah,
the summit Of the Continental Divide
in New Mexico and Colorado, the
Superstition range in Arizona and
some of the mountain peaks in Cali
fo1nia, Nevada and Old Mexico That
was the only disappointing thing in
the whole trip up the peaks-the fact
that the summit lay just ahead, and
that wisdom called halt before we
reached~it.
On Sunday run was made to the