The border vidette., 1927-05-28

by are rude hogans where mod.
ern Apaches live-remembering,
perhaps, the days when all this
land was theirs. Northward,
another excellent highway winds
on it way to Pine and Payson,
the fascinating Tonto Rim with
it's timbered skyline, Mormon
and Mary's Lake and finally
Flagstaff, with connection mid
way with the new Fossil Creek
highway to Prescott.
Going on to Globe, the Trail
recrosses the dam and climbs
imperceptibly, SO that one can
look back for miles on the placid
waters of the blue lake. Five
miles from Roosevelt the Tonic
Cliff Dwellings may be seen dis
tinctly, an apartment house in
a great cave far UP q oliff, easily
| reached by road aud trail if ore
! would Examine The remains CT :
vanished race adept in irriga
tion and farming, in pottery and
weaving.
The mountains here are merg.
ing into hills on a high plateau
of grazing land, but in the dis.
tance they still rear tall and
mighty. Off TO the left another
road leads across the upper Salt
River. and climbs into the Sierra
Anchas and their summer re.
sorts. and on the Pleasant Val
ley, which lives up to it's name.
Thirty miles of pleasant driving
through the hills and the rising
smoke of smelters gives notice
that the G!ote Miami district,
one Of the largest mining dis
tricts of the world, is not far
distant. One last slope leads to
the paved highway between
Globe and Miami; one is back
again in the age of industry and
railroads.
The greatest beauty of Central
Arizona's scenic attractions is
that one leads to another; that
Northern Arizona and Southern
Arizona and their equally fam
Gus wonders are ever just around
the corner. From Globe one can
go on east to Rice and turn
northward to the great lumber
camp of McNary and on through
the forest to 'Springerville, join
lin another transcontinental
route back through Northern
Arizona. Or one can go further
on, through Stafford, to Clifton,
another interesting mining city,
and take the new Coronado trail
to Springerville through the be
autiful Blue Range, famed for
deer and turkey and it's trout
fishing. Or one can turn south
from Globe, over no less scenic
mountain roads to Winkleman
and to the Tucson highway
through Mammoth and pretty
Oracle.
To return to Phoenix, the
usual route is over the Miami
Superior Highway, over ranges
and skirting canyons that rank
with the Apache trail in color
and grandeur, rejoining the Tue
son Phoenix highway between
Apache Junction and Florence.
There are a dozen just such
routes that make possible loop"
trips all over Arizona. a comb
ination of possible circle trips
that make one dizzy as he tries
to lay them out on the map.
Many of them equal the Apache
Trail in rugged, colorful beauty
the Pine Payson Long Valley
highway between Roosevelt Dam
and Flagstaff; the Fossil Creek
highway that connects it with
Prescott; the Mammoth Oracle
highway from Globe to Tucson;
the Hassayampa Trail and Black
Canyon highways between Phoe.
nix and Prescott; the Colorado
TT al between Clifton d
Springerville; all these and 9th
ers are worth seeing for their
scenic appeal.
But only the Apache Trail has
the series of three great dams
and three long lakes, storing
water and generating power for
the landholders of the Salt River
Valley, and to many it is the
most varied motor trip they have
ever taken.
Of the 10000 people accident.
allv killed in the limited States