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COURTESY TWA COURTESY TWA BOULDER DAM: To fee l the full magnitude of Boulder Dnm, it m,ust be seen from the down stream side. It is hard BOU[.,DER pAM: To the thousands wh? visit Boulder Dam each month, the trip into the interior of the Dam is instructive to realize that behind the pile of concrete is a lake 120 miles long, part of which is backed into the mighty Grand Canyon. and interesting. Informed, courteous guides tell the story of power which comes from a harnessed river. This view shows Boulder Dam and Lake Mead is becoming one of the renowned wonders of the west. Over the top of the dam, U.S. High- some of the turbines in operation, built to utilize the streng th of the million wild horses whose might provides electricity wny 93, carries the wheels of Motoring America,. for people and towns far away. Welcome • • • It'sJunel T ral Lal La! ARIZONA HIGHWAYS PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF GOOD ROADS BY THE And along comes June, with a gay swirl of he r dresses, and ARIZONAHIGHWAY DEPARTMENT TO the scent of perfume, never equalled in all of Paris. Each RAYMOND CARLSON, EDITOR month in Arizona has a personality of its own. Monotony is CIVILIZATION IWLLOWS THE IMPROVED HIGHWAY not one of gay Arizo .na's faults, like a tiresome old man grum ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR bling over his teacups. June means that Winter has wrapped 10c PER COPY his ragged cloak about him, and departed for places unknown. June is a happy month and in June the highways of Arizona, ADDRESS · ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO ARIZONA HIGHWAYS, ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT , PHOENIX , ARIZONA ARIZONA like r ibbons of sprightly lac e, stream their way along miles PRINTED IN THE U . S . A . upon miles, enchanting miles lea ding to enchanting vistas for our citizens and our visitors. VOL. XV. JUNE, 1939 No. 6 * * * * * R. T. (BOB) JONES, GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA Our highways of June wind their way through no more plea ARIZONA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION: J. 111. PROCTER, FRANK C. BLEDSOE, sant region than Oak Creek canyon, a view of which tantalizes Chairman. 'l'ucson. Com1niss ione1\ Bisbee. W . B. KELLY us on the cover page. R. C. Proctor caught the beauty and the R. E. MOORE, M. L. WHEELER, SECRETARY Vice Chairman. Jerome . Secretary. Pho enix invitation of this garden spot. Highway 79 from Flagstaff KEllfPER MARLl
JUDE:,1939 3 ing lights behind a painted plastic show the processes through which copper ore must pass from mine to finished product. This interesting diorama, furnished by the Phelps Dodge corporation, gives vis ual proof to the statement that Arizona produces one quarter of the world 's ON TREASUREISLAND supply of copper. Above the fireplace, an ancient Apache (( « (( basket and a Hopi Katchina doll con tribute to the atmosphere. Papago and Pima baskets and pottery carry out the ByStephen Shadegg Indian motif. A huge Monterey table in the center of the room, on which are « (( two Mexican jug-base lamps, Navajo rugs on the floor, and shaded floor HE friendly invitation, "Howdy, pardners, welcome lamps along the walls add to the at to Arizona," echoing memories of the old west, is ex mosphere of hospitality. Ttended to visitors who enter Arizona's exhibit in the corner of the foyer, an Hall of Western States at the Golden Gate International Indian silversmith works at his exposition on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. trade. Prehistoric baskets and An atmosphere of glamour and romance, the influence pottery are protected by glass of exotic Old Mexico, the majesty of the Grand Canyon, the show cases and, behind a railing peace of snow capped peaks, the soft quiet of mountain of saguaro cactus ribs, a display meadowlands, and the deep brooding silence of the desert, of Porter's saddles and . bridles, await the visitor. Here is Arizona-the bright skies of chaps and boots, all tools of the the Sun Country, the scent of pines, and the hum of pros trade, attract attention. perous cities recreated-on display to capture the fancy Arizona, the youngest state, is a of all who pause, their pilgrimage to other countries inter Murals by David Swing, Arizona artist, make the exhibition one of distinction. Inset, Mr. Swing is land of contrast, of magnificent scen- rupted by the hospitality of the Southwest. completing the Grand Canyon Mural. ery, of romance and color, from the In the foyer of the building fourteeen scenic murals, mesa lands of the north where the Hopis painted especially for the exposition by David Swing, and Navajos live, south through defy the limits of space. The illusion is perfect. This mosphere of warmth and hospitality. the mountain meadowlands to deserts cannot be the inside of a building, the color and light on Visitors feel at home in the comfortable this is Arizona. The interior walls are the canvas speak in commanding tones; this is out of Monterey divans and easy chairs. finished in soft adobe color. Two win dotted with cholla, palo verde, ocotillo, saguaro and ironwood trees. Thus is doors; this is a moody land of far horizons, of scenic On the north wall of the ranch house dows in the rear of the room are occupied wonders fashioned by the Master. David Swing, with the a magnificent mural of the Grand Can by cactus gardens with a background Arizona displayed on Treasure Island. Master's touch, has caught the majesty and glory of yon of the Colorado proclaims with all painted to give the appearance of a In the first ten days the exhibit was Arizona. the beauty and color of the canyon that desert view. In the center window mov• open, fifty thousand guests paid a brier Thirty feet back of the front door, an adobe and plaster wall, with round pole beams projecting, presents a typical ranch home exterior. In the spacious interior, Helen One of the two massive Elephant Towers tha{form the Portals lvancovich, of Tucson, representative of the Arizona Fair of the Pacific on Treasure Island. Commission, in charge of the exhibit, has created an at-
Thousands of persons daily pass the arches into the court of the Hall of Western States at the Golden . Gate Exposition. Within this beautiful hall Arizona and 10 western states have placed their exhibits, each telling the story of progress of the west. Saguaro National Forest is the theme of this mural Note the exquisite mural frames of polished saguaro spines.
4 R.RIZODR.HIGHWAYS JUD€, 1939 5, nino county; the Painted Desert, Navajo county; the Petrified Forest, Apache county; Eme ry Falls on Lake Mead, Mo jave county; Coronado Trail, Greenlee county; Saguaro National forest, Pima county; Roosevelt Dam, Maricopa coun ty; Superstition Mountain, Pinal county; and Montezuma 's Cast le, Yavapai county. All the mu ra ls are framed in the r ibs of the saguaro cactus, and the unusual wood aro uses considerable comment, its soft satiny finish forms an effective setting for the scenic pain tin gs. The Golden Gate International exposi tion, which opened February 18, is sched uled to run until December fifth. The Hall of West ern Stat es is locate d on the eastern side of the island. With Treasu re Island on the west coast of th e United States as a magnetic attraction, hund re ds of thousands of mid westerners will t raver se Arizona this summ er on their way to and from the fair. The extent of this travel has al ready been felt for April travel figures Tumacacori (left) and Cochise Head are murals of fine workmanship and design. of this year exceed those of last year . show painted murals. Other exhibits, All who visit the fair find a warm The Arizona exh ibit on Treasure San Francisco peaks, Emery Falls on La ke Mead, Painted De sert and Tonto Natural Bridge are themes of thes e murals modernistic in tone and finish, help to welcome awaiting them in spac e e ight Island will do much to increase this trans emphasize the simple beauty of the of the Western States buildin g. There 's continental t r avel through Arizona as representation at the fai r. Th ey include state 's display. Arizona is also the only no need of an identifying sign becaus e summer _deepens. Tumacacori Mission, estab lished as a state providing both music and lectures the very feeling of the exhibit proc laims place of worship by Fathe r Kino in 1691, Arizona is the only western state to to add interest to the exhibit. this is Arizona. • for Santa Cruz county; Cochis e Head from the Chiricahua National Monu ment for Cochise county; Tonto Natural Bridge, the largest travertine arch in the United States, for Gila county; the old Territorial Prison at Yuma; the Gra ham mountains near Safford; the San Francisco peaks represent Cooco-
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This strikin g di splay (above) was designed by George M. Avey, high way department artist, to show Treasure Island visitor's glimp ses of Arizona 's sup erhighway s. visit to Ar izona. Thei r comments firm ly estab lished the Grand Canyon as the world's gre atest natural wonder. Three per cent of these visitors plan trips through Arizona within a year, and al most forty per cent of those hailing from the midd le west passed through Arizona on their way to the fair. Th e wa lls of the Arizona exhibit on Treasur e Island are adorned with a series of murals by Da vid Sw-ing. Th e panels on The murals in the outer room were · th e lef t show Territorial Prison at Yuma and th e Graham mountain s. Thi s sec tion joins the murals showing Emery Falls chosen to give each county in the state on Lake Mead.
6 ARIZODA HIGHWAYS JUDE:,1939 7 forest now left in the United States! That seems like a very large order for Arizona, but there it is, lovely, big, sta tely p ines four and five feet through, and as much as fi ve hund re d years old. Ten thousand square mil es of them in Arizona alone! Of the 160,000,000 feet of lumb er cut annually in this state, 95% of it is pro duced at Flagstaff or nearby mill towns. And for the benefit of thos e who think the state so hot and dry, did you know that Flagstaff has the coolest average summer temperature of any city in the West?. That it h as the purest wa t er and that there is mo re ozone in th e a ir than at any other place in th e United States? Also, that as we look out from this height, we can spot thirty eight lakes and several rivers. San Francisco This mountain is th e center of more ' HAT a grand new thr ill this Peaks, the whole world lies before scen ic wonders than any other area in "sittin' on top of the wor ld" the United States for you can now look from there you see W what an exa lt ed, good-to-be -ali ve your feet - and into five states and old Mexico. No mat and "monarch of all I survey" feeling, all the beauty of northern Arizona . ter what a person's tast e ma y be in th e too. But no one can tell you about all matt er o f recrea tion , w heth er scientific, this. Yo u will just have to go up on histo r ical, educational, sportive or mere ly top of the San Francisco Peaks and ex scenic, it can be perfectly fulfilled in Now you can sit down at a n elevat ion perience it all for yourse lf. this too little known part of a marvelous of nearly 13,000 feet and enjoy a pano It isn't every day that the ordinary state. rama so vast , so tremendous in its scope Mont ezuma Castle and Oak Creek Canyon person can negotiate such h eights wi thout and variation, so awe-inspiring and over One hardly knows which way to tu r n are sources of constant delight to summer so much effo rt, time and expense that the whelming in its reaction, that, to say the first , but the eye is quickly attracted to travelers in northern Arizona. game is hardly worth the cand le. But least , "See America First," will ther e a large and shining body of wa ter in in this case it is fairly easy , for all yo u after ha ve a new meaning for you. the distanc e, w hich forms Mormon lak e, surface and u p-to-dat e summ er camps Nea r Walnut Canyon we find the ju st as they were on that an cient day have to do is to follow Highway 66 Right at yo u r feet an d sp reading in thirty miles away t o the south at th e and tourists' tents dot th e shore. Bottomless Pit , another un exp lained when the survivors left them. to Flagstaff in Northern Arizona, thence It landscape between Cave all directions as far as the eye can foot of Mormon mountain. It is a ver i To those who ha ve rea d Zan e Grey's mystery in this land of myst eries. is Most of the up the new spectac ul ar San Francisco Hill and Sunset Crater is ent irely vol carry, but especially to nort hwa rd, let table sportsman's paradise, aboundin g "Call of th e Canyon," Oak Creek will made up of a system of und erground Mountain Boulevard, where you can better description canic in its orig in and aspect . In this me introduc e yo u to th e largest standin g with fish of var ious kinds and harboring need no fu r th er nor caves and cr evices in the limston e forma drive your own car nearly to the top as it winds its way to lower country, for tion, into which billions of ga llon s of vicinity can be found over two hundred on its shores an abund ance of game both of the Peaks, and, aft er a shor t climb this vicinity rivals th e Garden of the water from th e River de Flag annually dead pits which once pour ed forth molten la rge and small. From ear ly spring on foot to th e very hi ghes t one in the Gods for grotesq ue, unique and beauti disappear. It has never been discovered lava in all directions, and now for mile s until snow fli es, pleasur e boats ply th e gro up, there you are on top of the world! By Helen M.Peck fully colored rock formation. The creek where this water again comes to the sur aro und the base of Sun set Crater lie itself, margined by shelving wa lls of red face, if ever. Some say it flow s into wide black valleys denuded of vegeta and yellow, is alive with trout, and wa Mor mon Lak e by some subterranean pas tion, whos e bottom s are encr usted with ters many fertil e littl e ranc hes nestled sage, oth ers that it is the n ever -end in g grea t ma sses of j agged rock, formid on the cur ves of it s banks. Th ese ranches supply of Montezuma 's Well farther to ab le, vic iou s, impassable patches on wh ich furnish a variety of exce llent fruits and the south. During the dry season one th ere is no living thing. But here in vege tables to towns hi gher on the moun may enter this cave r n through a sma ll the midst of these "weird and sinister tain and oth er locations less favored. opening and, once inside, can exp lore monuments" Nat ure chooses to spr in g A littl e m ore to the eas t one can dis long distanc es under the surface and one of he r unaccountable surpr ises. And cer n an irreg ula r cleft which is Walnut th r ough la rge roo ms, but so far no one so a few feet und er the surface we find Canyon extending from the tall, statel y has · trav erse d th e e ntir e length of the th e Ice Caves, where, a' la Ripley aga in , pines of th e mountains down through passage nor solved the riddle. ice can be found the who le year thro ugh. mile after mile of fragra nt gray-green Directing our attention more to the A favorite diversion is to picnic at this cedars. Prote ct ed by the overhanging northward one sees the forest interspersed point and make ice crea m and ice cold walls of this canyon, an a ncient race of with open grassy parks, checkered with drinks with ic e from this cave. cliff-dwellers once lived . One can now fi elds of ripen ing grain, and studded If one be so inclined, he may follow visit thes e ancient homes and, witli a her e and th ere wit h l esser peaks, such as the trail thro ugh the cinders to the s um little imaginati on, can peop le them again Elden Mountain, Sunset Crater and Cave mit of S un set Crater and there gaze with some forgotten tribe. But from Hill. down into the crater, a deso late specta cle whence they came, th eir lif e, w here th ~y This latt er is a mound of cinders the rim ·of which is formed by oxidei;; went and why, must st ill re mai n a mys thrown up long ago by volcanic action. of iron and other bright ly co lored vo l tery, for littl e is known about th em, and The crown of this hill is pitted with doz canic as h . This is what gives the moun no other pr int on tim e has been left ex ens of caves which l egend says were ta in its name, for no matter at what . cept these ruin ed hov els han gin g between once used by Navajo warriors. Broken hour or in what _ weather the peak is earth and sky. Not fa r from here you pottery, human bones, stone hatc hets, viewed, it appears always to be crow ned will see the famOU$ Montezuma Castle war-paint and arrow-heads all bespea k wit h the last glow of the sunset, lik e a and Well, Elden Pu eblo and many others, the cruel massacre which once took bed of embers among the dead hills of for more of th ese anc ient ruins are pJace th ere betw een Navajo and Apache. black cinders whi ch surro und it. An Ofttimes, late spring and early summer wi ll find snow on the lofty San Francisco peaks, while the valley below gleams in the reached from Flagstaff than from any This spot is seldom visited by tourists old-timer expla in ed the phenomenon by sunl ight amid the sprightly laught er of birds and the light aroma of flowers. From the peaks one can see a veritab le empire other city. and several caves still remain untouched (Turn to Page 35) of scenic wonder. JUDE:, 1939 9 8 ARIZODA HIGHWAYS ed by machinery and falsely labeled "Indian made! " Experts have little trouble in detecting this spurious product because it is thin and tinny looking and sprinkled too liberally with arrows and INDIAN swastikas and other symbols fondly be lieved to represent the Indian gamut of emotions . And the turquoise are sub ject to suspicion. Any time a tray of rings or bracelets is placed before a would-be purchaser and a number of them JEWELRY are alike in shape and design, it can be safely surmised that they are machine handled. Navajo jewelry, like Navajo rugs, are individual tasks and seldom By Mrs. White Mountain Smith are two of them exactly alike. The beginning of Navajo silverwork + + is so shrouded in conflicting stories one hestitates to make a definite statement AN AUTHORITY ON INDIAN CRAFTS TELLS US HOW as to when and where the art originated. INDIAN JEWELRY IS MADE-AND WHAT TO LOOK We know that now and then a Navajo knocked off a Ute warrior and helped FOR WHEN WE BUY. himself to the ornaments worn by the slain enemy and among those adornments so acquired were some heavy concho belts. Such belts are round or oval discs vary ing in size from one inch across to four or five, strung on a rawhide or leather This copy of a noted Burbank painting belt. Very few Navajos , no matter how in th e Hubb ell Trading Post at Ganado, Jewelry woman's delight since Time Arizona, revealing a group of Navajos in began, is gaily worn by this Indian an hour of leisure, shows various Ind ian girl. A patient silversmith (right) Jewelry, of intricate design, is worn jewelry, characteristic of Navajo dress. with infinite care and skill, works by a Navajo mother and her little at his trade. girl. pseudo westerner. But, back to the be ginning of Navajo silver work! When URQUOISE blue are the skies bend~ng the Navajos were taken to Fort Sumner above Arizona's valleys and plams in 1863, they were not jewelry makers. and silver are the clouds that mass T There, coils of copper wire were iss ued and pyramid against the mountains loom to the various Apaches and Navajos ing thousands of feet above the desert assembled there and they cut the wire at their feet. It was · in this land of into short lengths which they hung over turquoise and silver that the beautiful their arms and used as chips in their Indian jewelry so loved and coveted by gambling games. Soon they were twist all races was born. From the clays lying ing and decorating this copper wire. benea th the desert comes the tender blue When they were returned to their reser stone and out in the Navajo reservation, vation in 1868, Fort Defiance was esta b covered with silver sage that waves and lished and blacksmiths were brought in ripples in th e breeze, silver is hammered there . It is a sure thing that the Navajos and pounded into the bracelets, rings, watched these smiths heat an d hamm er necklaces and belts with which every self iron and shap e it as they desir ed, and respect ing Navajo adorns himself and his when silver coins, besh-lah-k'ai, "white family. iron," fell into their ha pds they found it Visitors, who linger a day or a year, very easy to hammer and s hape it into in the southwest, invariably succumb to most anything the y wanted to make. the lure of the native adornment and Turquoise was not u sed to decorate it pretty soon many of them outdo the In for some time after that, but they mad e dians themselves in the amount of jewelry themselves die s and stamped simple de piled on their persons. Arms are stiff signs on the soft silver. Among the first with ill-assorted bracelets and fingers FRASHERS ' PHOTO decorated b race lets were the narrow ones serve only as pegs on which to hang Th ese Navajo gir ls proudly display trimmed with littl e V-shaped deer tracks. another ring or two. Too often the hasty their jewelry, the handiw ork of th eir Henry Dodg e, first agent to the Navajos, buyer of this native product secures father. saw and sympathized with their efforts poor silver wo;rk and inferior tu rq uoise to make silver j ewelry and he imported a because there is really no guide by which poorly dressed, appear in public without Mexican silver worker to help them. to choose. Playing on the popularity of such a belt. They range in value from a What becam e of that effort is unkno wn Navajo jewelry, several firms turn out few dollars up to a couple of hundred, as Colonel Dodge was killed shortly after immense amounts of machine-made in depending on the weight of the silve:c by a bunch of Apaches. For years the ferior stuff and flood the poorer class conchos and the amount of turquoise set silver ornaments were made without any curio stores with it . So clever are these in them. Nothing makes a nicer finish attempt to add turquoise to them and imitations it is hard to know what is for a knitted dress or sports outfit than among the most beautiful of all Navajo genuine Indian hand hammered and what with due regard such a silver belt, chosen wor k i s the plain silver, its own sheen has been rolled out by machinery, stamp- ,$ .~ ~ to size of concho. Huge six-inch conchos and lust er needing no garni1,hment. rather submerge a five-foot roly-poly """"'-~~~= .,.· (Turn to Page 37) 10 ARIZODA HIGHWAYS JUD€, 1939 11 q.a. Randall
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G. A. RANDALL, with whose work breathes the spaciousness of the ranch his early youth to engineering endeavors, . Arizona Sketch Book concerns itself this and rings true to that certain lyrical working on projects throughout the west. month of June, is as interesting person quality that embodies the western atmos He was very successful in engineering ally as are his sketches and drawings. phere and western scene. and took part in important _building feats Considering his multiple activities and Mr. Randall was born in Berkeley, in the west. When the late Tom O'Con his wide interests in life, it is remarkable California, and was graduated from the nell, state highway engineer, first started that he finds time to draw and sketch the University of California, with a degree out in his profession, Mr. Randall gave western scene, and more remarkable still in engineering and a degree in law. him his first job as an engineer. that he does it so well and portrays his Perhaps because he found the out-of During the World War, Mr. Randall subject with such fidelity and clarity. doors to his liking more than the stuffi- was contact agent for the United States His work is vigoro1,1s and strong. It ness of a law office, he devoted most of Railroad administration in the west, and
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following the war he became consultant Several times each winter he leaves his engineer for the Standard Oil company. business cares behind, and comes over For the past 15 years his home has to Arizona . to sketch ranch scenes, the been in Ventura, California, but when range and the cowpunche r. ever time affords the opportunity he His devotion and love of the noblest lives on one of his ranches. He is Buick animal of all-the horse-is mirrored distributor for Ventura county and is in all his sketches. He can portray with _ chairman of the Ventura branch of the equal accuracy the sleek, trim racehorse, Bank of America. With all of his busi the brisk polo pony, the casual, awkward ness interests, this lawyer-engineer grace of the cowpony or the delightful rancher-banker has found time to draw playfulness of horses in the pasture. and sketch we ll. His art has been his The sketches and etchings of G. A. hobby since his youth; he pursues it with Randall are honest and fresh and real. I ) devotion and loyalty and his rising repu His lines possess vigor and warmth. he has tation indicates how successful Because he faithfully portrays typical been. figures in the Arizona scene, with hon (. The first exhibition of his works took esty and devotion, Arizona Sketch Book place short ly over a year ago. His ex proudly presents a selection of his works. hibits at the Bachmann galleries in Los Originals are on display at the studios Angeles drew critical praise that is justly of Caroline Smurthwaite in Phoenix and deserved. at the Arizona Biltmore. This man, with his diversified interests and activities, whose tall, rangy, athletic Of this state, Mr. Randall says: "I person can sit with austerity behind a G. A. Randall, engineer, lawyer, love the people and the state of Arizona, business desk of brightest polish, feels banker, devotes leisure time to sketch and even though I am a native of Cali more at home on the ranch, out in the ing familiar scenes of ranch life in fornia, Arizona would have no difficulty ! the west. L.~,~~ ~~~- open and especially around horses. whatever to get me by adoption."-R. C. •
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In places where the mountain streams level off, deep pools like the one shown above in the study by Charles Curnow of Miami prove the feeding grounds of the larger trout. Here the sportsman must fish with ' caution and dexterity because old King Trout, wily and wise, is not to be fooled too easily.
Miles of trout streams in the Wh-ite Mountains of Arizona, the capital city of which White Mountains of is Springerville, are another feature of Arizona's many-sided personality. Photo grapher Max Kegley's study above shows a sparkling stream, the taut line of the Arizona, Rich in sportsman indicating a strike . Forests and Trout Streams, Offer a Summer Paradise For the Vacationist
Throughout the White Mountains, miles and miles of trout streams await the indulgence of the summer visitor. Amid the lofty spruce and pines are numerous camp sites, natural settings for a week-end stay or for the entire summer visit. It is even possible to rent cabins for the summer in the very heart of the White Mountain region. · A network of Ari Silver streams of ice-cold and crystalline clear running water, like fingers of flow zona's modern superhighways lead to McNar y and Springerville, from where the vacation traveler can branch off into ing sunlight, cut gg,y pathways through the heavy forests. Deep snow cover these any direction for fishin' and campin' and loafin'. mountains in the winter, but in the summer the setting is one of gaiety and verdure. JUDE:,1939 17 16 fl.RIZODfl. HIGHUJfl.YS WJJEfl THROUGHTHE WEST
Nowhere on Earth's surface does Nature paint How am usin g it must be to Nat ure, and her faith with more vivi d colors, erect and mou ld on a more ful servants, Time and the Weather, to view man's grandiose sca le than in our Southwest. To describe monument to Tomorrow and his tribute to the the scenic wonders of this area would be a puny Past and Present on eit her side of this continent! gesture. How can mortal man with his grimy ink We can imagine the rauco us laughter and high mirth pots catch the mood and the grandeur and the rug as Nature views these piles of glass, iron and con ged nobility of Time's ageless carvings? Can cold crete. "I have builded and destroyed for fifty words on cold paper, guided by man's narrow vision million years. I will build and destroy long after and narrower intellect, portray the warmth, the your pun y fairs and expositions have vanished into depth, the all-encompass ing, the all -powerful mes dust and forgetfulness. Only I can tell of Past; sage written in stone by the mad winds, the rioto us only I build for Tomorrow." GRAND CANYON storms and changing seasons of the tired Centuries, To point your way through our Southwest we punctuated by the sardonic laughter of a bright Sun, present eight southwestern portraits for your whose aeons are but a fleeting paragraph scrawled in the Dust? consideration. The illustrations are by Lillian Wil helm Smith and George Elbert Burr from two books We can only point to these temples of time and the of verse by Lou Ella Archer: "Canyon Shadows," and river in awe and reverent silence. How diaphanous "Sonnets to the Southwest," used gratefully by and evanescent, how unimportant the events of our Arizona Highways with permission of Mrs. Archer. life and times, when we stand before these pillars The captions in verse are from her sonnets. of Forever! The headlines of our day fade into Grand Canyon, Beta-ta-kin, Canyon de Chelly and nothing when viewed in surroundings which bear in the desert scene show Nature's handiwork in Ari I dare not tell of you, lest while the tale bold outline a million years of History's st ory. zona. Zion Canyon, Bryce Canyon and Zion's Tem Were told a cloud should pass and all untrue It is good for the soul to pause occasionally ple of Sinawava are in southern Utah and the majes Wou ld be my words . . . . and give heed to these sermons in colored stone, tic Enchanted Mesa is in eastern New Mexico. list en to the gentle symphonies of wind mellowed by These are all of easy access to the traveler , and the blue sky and bright sunshine, or shiver in the they represent a small portion of the scenic jewels wild cacop hony of Storm in these cathedrals of of the southwest that will bring wheels through the Agelessness. west this summer.-R. C. •
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ZION CANYON TEMPLE OF SINAWAVA
Spellbou.nd I see you.r lofty walls array Temple of Sinawava! sacred shrine Themselves in colors of the dawn or hu.e That God built for Himself, wherein to meet Of su.nset afterglow .... His worshippers ....
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A world shut in by wa lls of flaming red, The very air is still-no earthly breath Whose sheer unsloping cliffs descend until Distrubs its dream; a spring, which did not fail They meet a stream so turquoise blue and still The past, still ripples down ·its rocky bed; It must be painted on the river bed .... Ah, what a setting for a life-or death! cl ..::;eorgeElbert Burr
ENCHANTED MESA BRYCE CANYON
Erect, austere, unyielding to the winds, White shapes appear as from darkness drawn Undwarf ed by distance or age, you stand, By wave of fairy wand to greet the day; And all unsoftened by the haze of blue that binds The night is overcome and sinks away; 7'he mighty rock, the pine and desert sand There in the shadow something moves, a fawn Forever into one .... Comes toward the spring, then in a flash is gone H . F . LINK
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I stand among my confreres in the square Of churches; towered, Gothic'd, ivy-grown. I am a prototype of one in fair Have all the mountains given up their gold? And far off Canterbury, and I own ls that a yellow sunset-cloud I see? Inception to consecrated purpose, fraught Across the desert grease -wood buds unfold With sentiment, by those who pastored, day .And spring is in the palo verde tree. By day, through years of saintly toil, and sought To guide the Pilgrims' footsteps in the Way.
Within the sanctuary's holy place An empty cross, cool candle-lighted dusk, Where now another, filled with spiritual grace, Administers the cup. I stand, a trust To sacred purpose, reared on sacred sod, A symbol of integrity to God. -Pearl Woodworth Carlton.
JUD€, 1939 27 a ridd le, a fog of uncertainty that need ed clearing up and having the true facts MYSTERIOUS PALMS set forth as a matt er of general interest to the state. As a preliminary move I wrote to Dr. Thornber, botanist, at the state univer OF THE KOFAS sity and was informed by him that he had heard of a "wild palm" growing I . somewhere in the desert mountains, but that he had never seen them nor had them classified. He asked me to secure leaf and seed and seed stem specimens and send them to him for identification. He stated that he would get together all the information he could on the subject . Immediat ely thereafter, I picked up my 80-year-old desert rat friend, the "Reckless Kid," at his cabin in the Har cuvar mountains and we drove to Quart zite; thence 18 miles south on the Yuma road to a sma ll home-made sign reading "Pa lm Canyon" and bearing a wavering arrow that pointed uncertainly toward distant Signal Peak. Nine miles of slow . and rough tra vel The rugged Kofa mountains in Yuma ing brought us as close to the moun county . Arrow shows entrance to Palm Canyon. tains as we could take the car, so at this point we disembarked, took a snap shot photo of the mountain, and set off "They sailed away for a year and a day, on foot, carrying our lunch, canteen, To the land where the palm tree grows." I lightw eight longhandled picks, camera, : t sack for specimens, etc., and in less tha11 N a dark, narrow canyon in the north ~ \ a mile we wa lked right through the face west extremity of the Kofa mountains ' ' of th e cliff and were in Palm Canyon. I in Central Yuma county grows a tall, [' I, Towering cliffs several hundred feet slender, fan-leafed palm, 40 to 50 feet ~." in height rose on both sides of us, while in height, that is found n9where else in t;\ J \ the bed of the canyon itself was a wreck the United States. It is further distinc (~ age of rocks and boulders piled like jack tive in that it grows nowh ere else in }'. straws, making a most impressive dis Arizona, nor in any other part of the play of the power of the sudden and ter Kofa range. This hermit tree grows only rific cloudbursts which occur only in in the shadowy canyons descending from frequently but with great violence in the old Indian lookout point, Signal Peak. these desert mountains. It is Ari zona's only native palm. Fresh tracks and other signs of the Bighorn sheep and of wild burros were visible in many places. One could not conceive of a more favorable hideout for these sturdy, persecuted animals. Palm Canyon is not much over a mile These are views of the mysterious in length from its fan shaped head, palm trees in th e Kofas, proudly directly under Signal Peak, to the point wearing their ageless centuries, tell- where it opens onto the desert, but many ing no one whence th ey came. sma ll lat era l, knife-blade chasms cut their way down through the precipices on either side, in many cases spilling their Gashed deeply into the volcanic abut infrequ ent waters in a final drop of sev ments of Signal Peak, with towering era l hundred feet into the canyon be walls so high that from November to low. March the sun does not shine upon its It is in these side chasms, high up in floor, Palm Canyon conceals within its the walls of the main canyon, that the short length one of the most remarkable mysterious palms grow, and it is only by freaks of nature in a state that is full of careful scanning of the cliff face that strange and bizarre natural objects. occasional glimpses of the beautiful What variety or species of palm is green of the waving fronds may be ob tained. this? From whence came it? How long The occasional paims that can be seen has it been growing there? Under what looking up into the face of the cliff conditions does it grow and why is it by appear to be growing in rocky niches, not found elsewhere in Arizona? So many conflicting stories as to the location of these palms and as to their size, number, and species, had been told me by persons who had actually seen By Roscoe Willson them that I felt here was a mystery, With Photography by the Author. high over head, and on e w ould neve r seen in the finder were the boles, while _one eighth by one -quarter of an inch in suspe ct that other palms wer e gr owing only the tops showed when pointing size which could be easil y swallowed up an d bey ond th e ones in sight . down gulch. It was therefore necessary and carried by birds, they may have bee:a It was due to the information obtained to take all pictures with a good deal introduced in this manner. It is also Progress and Development from M r. Eli Shelton, of Vicksburg, that of up or down tilt to the camera, which known that the Indians have used these I found th e larg est g r oup of palms, as plainl y shows in the resu lts . seeds as food and, in consequence, they he had been there with a party and had That this jungle had been visited by may have been brought in by wander obtain ed some ve r y beautifu1 photo "white men" was evidenced by the in ing bands from Mexico or elsewhere in Of Arizona Roads gr aph s. jurious and unsightly carving of initials ages past . Ar med with this information, we on several of the large palms, and some As to the variety, I learned from Dr . one's sense of "fun" had been NE day during the Mesozoic Era first wagon r oad acr oss th e Sta t e. With knew ju st what to look for and found satisfied Thornber on my return to Phoenix that by setting fire to the downhanging a few reptiles belonging to the them were 1 5 mul e-draw n wa gons. that what, from the canyon floor, ap about 1927 Dr. 0. F. Cook of the U. S. By A. F. Rath fronds of a small tree. No other signs Department of Plant Industry visited 0 dinosau r group became weary of . Since the milita ry for ces were e ngag ed peare d t o be a me re niche high up in STATE MANAGER of fire were vis the wet, spongy earth they were travel th e north wall , with t wo or thr ee palms ible, which was rather this canyon and made an exhaustive at that tim e in prot ection work, the y ing through. They had taken notice of Ari zona Highway Plann ing S urvey gr owing in it, was actually a perfect remarkable, considering the amount of st udy of the palms with the result that found wheel ed equipm ent un sati sfa ctory some dry and stable ground nearby and jungl e o f palms of all sizes extending dry litter covering the ground. he pronounced them to be a new species for their use. Th ey d ecided to t r y ne w The tallest were urged by divine inspiration to back into the mountain for about 200 of these palms give indi and gave them the name Washingtonia equipment. Th eir difficulty was solved cations of great age, which may be change their cour se and try this tempt yard s. Arizonica, or Arizona Palm . temporarily b y importin g cam els from judged to some extent by the growth ing section. Doing this they had by ac During the next three centuries the As is usual when new discoveries ar e the East and usin g th em for packing. To get into this "land where the pa lm rings that are clearly discernible in the cident discovered the comfort of travel Spanish penetrated and conquered most made, some botanists disagree with Dr. The camels mad e suc cessful cross-coun tre e g rows," it was necessary to climb photographs, and which indicate wet and ing on a solid but slightly plast ic ground. of the northern territory. Their main Cook, maintaining that our Arizonica is try trips and we re giv en c re dit for being very st eeply upward about 200 fe et above Today perfectly recorded in a slab of occupation was the construction of mis merely a descendant of the southern entirely satisfactory, but one day in 187 7 th e canyon floor and finally lift onese lf limestone can be seen the imp rints of sions and converting some of the tribes, California pa lm ( W ashingtonia filifera) near Gila Bend , they were turn ed loos e up throu gh a perfect slot . between sheer these three-toed lizards who, on that and doing a sma ll amount of mining brought here "by Indians or ea r ly tr avel on the desert to d r ift until exter minat ed wall s, with bar ely room enough for a br ight but humid day, inadvertently dis and farming. We have little knowledge ers." by the elements and old ag e. man to s queeze through. At this point of the progress they made in road con covered the value of a stable material to The need for road way development b y my ba r omet er registered 2400 feet above Dr. Thornber and I had considerable travel on and left for us to discover struction during this period, but can lat er now had r each ed an im por tant stag e, sea level. correspondence regarding these palms definite proof that Arizona is the birth safely assume that a few crude roads and Congress found it n ecessa ry to ap As w e emerged from this slot, or nar and the following extracts from his let place of the modern highway. were built, adequate perhaps for the propriate $50,000 fo r the construction r ow throat, we found ou r selves looking ters clearly show his conclusions: These authentic records can be seen simple needs of a small number of cannon of a road from Fo r t Defianc e, New up a st eep and rough, narrow chasm, "The discovery of palms in mountain at a place a few miles east of the Grand and carts. Mexico, to the Colorado Rive r , near th e with sheer walls apparently rising to the canyons in Yuma county came to my at Canyon. The early American influence in this mouth -of the Mohav e, and $200,000 for skies and nowhere over 40 feet apart at tention about 1925 or 1926. Prospectors Now skipping a few g·eologica l per new territory was first represented by a road from El Paso, T exas, to Yum a. th e ba se but studded as far back as one brought specimens of a piece of leaf and iods we discover other evidence of early the infrequent appearance of trappers The latter rout e w as mo re important to could see w ith palms of all sizes and in a few seeds. The discovery was inte r est day travel in Arizona. This time we who traveled mainly by horseback and transcontinental t r avel. Const ruction all cond itions of growth and decay. ing and novel in that it was the first find a network of trails connecting a pack train. They contributed little to work started in 18 57 and wa s complet ed Th e tall est ones, from 40 to 50 feet real verification of an old story that number of cliff dwellings scattered ward the development of ear l.y roads, the following year. This can b e desig in h eight, we re mostly in the last stages 'wild palms had been found in moun throughout the State. Those dwellings since their interests were mostly _in the of gr owth, and were thinning and dying tain canyons ' in western Arizona. have long been abandoned, and perhaps high and rougher country where game nated as the first F eder al aid post ro ad at th e tops. "I talked with Dr. 0. F. Cook late r it was the too frequent u-se of these con was found in abundance. in Arizona, since it was o ver this rout e that stage lines carri ed th e mail, expr ess Young tr ees with their fronds still concerning the Arizona palm and he necting trails by war parties that caused The first authentic attempt by Amer and passengers to Califo rnia , or to point han ging to the ground were interspersed expressed the opinion that they repre the ultimate downfall of this primitive icans to traverse the Territory with s amon g thei r elders, while the extreme ly sented a new species. race of people. However, this is a mat modern equipm ent occurred in the years east. steep and boulder strewn chasm bed was "The leaf of the Arizona palm you ter of conjecture, since the cliff dwellers 1846 and 1847 when a military expedi Arizona was acquir ed from Mexico in a ma ss of logs, dead leaves and seed sent me last winter is the first one of have vanished from their ancient homes, tion, en route from Santa Fe, New Mex the year _ 1848, and in 186 3 wa s c re at ed stems, which, with th e sh een of the this species that I have seen and is quite perhaps again to reestablish themselves ico, to Yuma, on the Colorado, broke the into a territo r y sepa r at e fro m th e wes t - wav ing gr een fronds confronting the different from the leaf of the California in pueblos erected on top of our high eye, g ave ve ry much the appea r ance of fan palm in the greatly enlarged ligule and isolated mesas. a mini atu re tropical jungle. which occurs at the base of the blade Leaving our Indian now safely perched We w ork ed our way slowly up through of the leaf at the union of the leaf on the mountain top , let us direct our this jun gle for about 200 ya r ds to a stalk, or petiole, and the blade. attention to Old Mexico where the next point where th e palms thinned out to "We are quite willing to admit that step in transpo r tation progress is about Down through Palm canyon, a nar nothin g, and where the chasm ended in this is a new species of pa lm and that to take place. Here we find a small now crevice in the rocky Kofas, one group of Spanish explorers and mission a sh eer rock wall that was unsealable. sees a desert expanse outstretched . it is entitled to be called by a new name In that short distance there were ap- · -Arizonica. aries discussing the rich v illages to the pro ximat ely 55 palm trees of all ages "I think your statement to the effect north, called the Seven Cities of Cibola, and size s, th e tallest appro ximately 50 dry periods that may occasionally have that these pa lms have been growing in where silver, so the Indians told them, fee t in h eight , with a diam eter of twenty been of several years duration. It there this Canyon for 1,000 years or more is was used for material in their construc inch es, and the smallest mere babies. fore seems conservative to place the age very conservative, and I think you might tion. Omitting the details of the ens uin g One of th e fallen logs we measured of some of these palms at between 250 be justified in saying that they have expedition which ended in disaster to was 3 6 f eet in length, but as part of and 400 years, especially when it is con been growing in this canyon for several many, we find the beginning of civilized th e butt was gone we estimat ed that it sidered that the area in which they thousand years." t r ail breaking that brought the first had eas ily measured 50 feet from the grow is in a region of five-inch rainfall, Palm Canyon is now included within white man to Arizona. It was this ex ba se t o th e top of the fronds when it or less; that there is no permanent water the Kofa Game Range, recently created pedition conducted in the year 1539 that was at full growth. or moisture about their roots and that by presidential proclamation, and as brought Fray Marcos de Niza to Ari Th e se curing of good photographs was the soil in which they are rooted is com there is evidence that these palms are zona in his search for the Seven Cities extr emely difficult, as the sky was over posed of scanty gravel and decomposed beginning to die out through lack of of Cibola. He returned immediately to cast with clouds, and the slope of the rock and boulders. soil and moisture, it is hoped that some~ Mexico minus the coveted building ma cha sm was so steep that if one pointed How -they originated in this area will thing will be done to perpetuate Ariz terial. The adventure is celebrated this H A R RY DUBERSTEIN th e camer a up the gulch, and held it never be positively k'nown, but, since ona's only Native Palms in their native year in commemoration of the four-hun U. S. 80, 70, 89 and 60 near Flor ence Junc tion anywhere near lev el, all that could be this type of"palm produces a seed about habitat. • dredth anniversary of this trip. 31 30 ARIZODA HIGHWAYS JUDE:,1939 ern half of New Mexico. It became an Vve have fourteen counties ranging actual political entity in the S0's. in size from the smallest, or Santa Cruz Our modern high way system actually County, which is equal in area to the began in 1909 when an act was approved State of Rhode Island, to our largest that created the office of the Territorial county of Coconino wh ich is equa l to Engineer, whose duty was "to aid the the combined areas of Vermont and New Board of Control in selecting and desig Hampshire. nating high ways and supervising their Since mapping the State is a niajor construction and maintenance." Prior to feature of the Planning Survey, some the act, road work was carried on under of the difficulties involved in its devel the direction of district road overseers opment may be of int erest. Indian names who were appointed by County Super naturally provide the greatest amount visors , who spent annually about $200,000. of research in our endeavor to spell them Immediately after the office of Engin correctly. In rec ent years the Indian eer was created and an engineer ap ,Department has encouraged the tribes to pointed to fill the position, a tentative be self -supporting and to rely more upon system of Territorial Highways was their own resources. This encourage laid out, consisting of a north and south, ment was so well taken that many of and an east and west road. Upon funds the affairs of self -government are decided becoming available from land and other by a governing body known as the tribal property taxes, construction work on sec council, and their enthusiasm for doing tions of these two main systems was things is apparently boundless. I refer carried on as far as possible up to the to place names only, please remember. advent of Statehood in 1912. At the ex Frequently this august group of redmen piration of Territorial authority, about will decide to change the names of a few 145 miles of highways had been con villages, causing our map department struc ted. no end of trouble. An example of this Following Statehood a State Highway difficulty is found on the Papago Res Engineer was appointed and a State ervation, located in the southern portion Road Law approved. Highway opera of the State, where recent changes have been submitted for approval. For years tion continued under this form of ad In the high mountain regions of the state, Arizona's modern highways lend ministration until 1927 when the present themselve s well to the needs of safety and high speed travel. the village of Santa Rosa was known by Commission system was established. no other name; now it has been changed to Gu Achi. Covered Wells had its face Here we have but briefly touched on similarly surveyed, but in less detail. fifth in area, and our population speak With this information tabulated and de several native languages in addition to lifted and now proudly calls itself Maish the road progress of our State, and in The Apache Trail, between Phoenix and Globe-Miami district, here skirts the Vaya; Santa Cruz is Como Vo; Sweet a spiri t of jest we modestly lay claim Walls of Bronze on Fish Creek hill. lineated on traffic flow maps, the average the predominating English and Spanish. daily densities can be studied at a glance The other languages referred to are of water will perhaps be Siovi Shuatuk, and to the birthplace . of the trail and by San Juan is Hahakamuk. Our base stages have traced a steady progress in provement is the yield of motor vehicle 10 years . With this thought in mind, for any section of roadway, whether it course Indian. The major tribes speak license fees, gasoline taxes and Federal Arizona joined the other States and the is an important section on the primary different tongues, have different customs map will reflect all changes and the new the growt h and development of our names appearing thereon will not be dif present system of high-standard roads. aids. This revenue must provide the Bureau of Public Roads in conducting a system or just a mediocre streak of dust and live on different reservations set funds necessary to construct roads of series of related, fact-finding studies on the primitive system. aside for them. These tribes are the ficult to pro nounce once you master the The cause for this progress in high Papago tongue. way development was the demand placed greater width, improve the horizontal designed to develop information needed as One tabulation has already shown that Apache, the Navajo, Hopi, Mohave, Hual upon it by present and future traffic and vertical alignment, to resurface fail a basis for a sound program of future 72% of all vehicle miles traveled in pai, Piute, Havasupai, Yuma, Cocopah, We encounter similar difficulties all needs. Modern road building began ing pavement, revamp bridges or meet highway improvement. We were Num Arizona by vehicles registered in incor Pima, Papago, Maricopa and Zuni. They over the State. Recently the Bureau called our attention to the spelling of a from taxes on property but these funds any urgent requirement demanded by the ber 16 to organize our State -wide Plan porated areas are traveled on the State represent one-tenth of our total popula ning Survey. Since all are familiar with Highway System after they leave the tion . place on the Navajo Reservation in the have been withdrawn and today the only present high-speed motor population the function of the Planning Survey, no incorporated areas. Other tables show assured sourc e of financing highway im- that has increased 73% during the past time will be devoted to its explanation, that 93% of the trips made in Arizona but we will instead describe our progress are intra-state trips, that of all foreign and some of the connecting difficulties. vehicles interviewed 18% were making Our initial field work is complete and intra-state trips. That in trucking ex approximately 75 per cent of the office change between California and Arizona, work is finished. Our annual average California has a safe lead in agricultural, working force consisted of 42 State and manufactures and miscellaneous products, 27 W.P.A. employees. but of animal and animal products we The field traffic studies were con lead by a safe margin . ducted with the aid of loadometer and These are but a few of the results of pit scales and traffic counts by manual our traffic studies. Their value is not and automatic counters. To secure a in reviewing and comparing figures but maximum representative truck and bus in supplying the heretofore unknown sample we located 36 stations on the factors necessary in the determination State Highway System at points that are of the future needs of this increasing passable the entire year. From these traffic. Our studies should and will locations the frequency of truck and bus greatly contribute to the solut ion of this movement, their origin and destination, problem, especially the financial survey. their distribution on the different road This fiscal study will contribute knowl systems, their classification by types, edge toward future financing, knowledge whether they were of rural or urban vitally necessary in the maintenance of ownership, their weight, length, height an unbroken continuity of highway needs From remote cowtra~ls, the Arizo!'!a road syste m of today has developed into and width and the nature of their loads and improv eme nt. Salt River bridge on Highway 60 represents a typical engineering feat of th e Ari zona superhighways serving all needs of modern travel. were taken. Passenger car traffic was Geographically speaking Arizona ranks highway department in spanning river and creek beds and eliminating flood hazard s. 32 ARIZODA HIGHWAYS JUDE:,1939 33 ------~------·1 making agency surrounded by much worry and distress. This is · hardly the case, however. This department is also responsible for the development of the SITTING ON first comp lete inventory of all rural pub lic roads witliin the State's boundaries. TOP-OF THE They will tab ul ate by systems the mile age, surface types, widths, structures, the location, measurement and descrip WORLD tion of all substandard sections; also a ( Continued from Page 9) complete, detailed grade crossing sur vey showing by diagrams their situation, highway traffic and train movement, numb er and cause of all accidents occur ring at each intersection for a period say in g that when he was digging the of five years. With our 27,500 miles of Grand Canyon and using th e dirt to make rural roads and 750 grade crossings this the San Francisco Peaks, he accidently is not a small job in itself when properly spilled a · load of the brightly colored executed. earth there and so he named it Sunset A modern highway in Arizona represents all the details that modern engineering Mountain . science can design into a roadway. In conclusion it may be mentioned Beyond these hills and still more to the that up to the present time we have northern part of the State. We had 'map, Townsite plats, Department of northward, it seems but a stone's throw not applied a great deal of planning shown this as Zihl-dush-jhini. The In Commerce Aeronautical quadrang les and to the Litt le Colorado River with its survey data to our work. We did, how dian Service may calls the place Zihi other information. The completed base muddy rapids, its Grand Falls, and its ever, in conducting origin and destina dush-jhini and the U. S. G. S. map has map was reviewed by the County En majestic walls of sandstone and lime tion studies in connection with pre shown it as Zilh-tah-jini. This difficulty gineer's office, Grand Canyon National stone plunging from one to three thou liminary surveys on a number of new is yet unsolved. Park Superintendent's office, Forest sand feet in a single breath -taking drop . Mormon lake, a turquoise jewel, nestles in a setting of pines and mountains. sections being considered as additions to Our map troubles are not all confined Supervisor's office of the Kaibab, Coco Beyond this river, as far as the eye the State System find these data inval to reservations, however . To describe a nino and Sitgreaves Forests, and on the can reach, shimmers the immense and keep their silent watc h over this magic stories and descriptions in "Wild Horse uable. Our Secondary and Feeder Road drainage in Arizona it is proper to choose Navajo and Hualpai Reservations were colorful expanse of the Painted Desert, was te place, home of the Navajo and Mesa" and "The Vanishing American." Federal Aid System is being scientifically one of several terms, all meaning the reviewed by the respective superintend a region scarred with domes, buttes and Hopi; where every year near Oraibi, To the east, the Painte(l Desert is treated by using these data . same thing. These terms are: a stream, ents' offices. All names as far as possi vermilion cliffs. Truly an enchanted the oldest continuously inhabited town flanked by Canyon Diab lo and the Petri an arroyo, a wash, a gulch, a draw, and ble were checked against the records of Upon completion of the init ial report, land, where strips of purple sage alter in the United States, the Hopi Indians fied Forest. In this vicinity one also the Papagos call the lower end of these the U . S. Geographic Board and the which will embody the greater amount nate with patches of waving grasses to stage their famous Snake Dance. spots Meteor Mountain near Winslow. an ak -chin. The trouble starts when University of Arizona Place Names Book . of statistical work, it is hoped that the form a part of this mighty red and gold Along in August when the last rays It is estimated that about five thousand the same drain is shown as a draw on In addition to the references mentioned foundation for future study will hav e desert land, where Shadow Mountain of a setting sun touch the sacred stone years ago the largest meteor that ever one sheet of the map and continued as a all maps and notes on file at the State been firmly established, that highway stands forever in shadow as Sunset does in the kiva, this primitive ceremony hit the earth buried itself Ii.ere a thou wash on the next sheet. Highway Department were used . This authorities may better estimate future in sunshine; where beautiful billowy begins and is the Indian prayer for rain sand feet under the surface. Th e. terri Since the field work connected with county, incidentally, embraces part of traffic needs and at the same time pre clouds are massing for storm and weave in the heart of this strange, silent and fic impact formed a crater six hundred our maps covers the road inventory and the Grand Canyon . vent unnecessary expansion of the State lacy shadows on the mesas; where the unconquerable land. It was here that feet deep, three miles around and with culture only, we depend on other sources It would appear from the description System beyond the ability of the State age -old battlements of Monument Valley Zane Grey found inspiration for his a floor of forty acres. of information to -complete their con just given that the inventory division to maintain a regular rep lacement pro struction. This information has been of the planning survey is only a map- gram from funds annually available. • furnished us by State Departments, Counties, Cities, Forest, Indian and Park Services, air maps, rai lroads, irrigation districts, and others. To better acquaint you with some of the work involved in the preparation of a county base map let us select Coconino County. The area of this county is 18,- 623 square miles. Reference maps used were Township plats, U. S. Geological Survey quadrangles numbering 8 sheets, three of them advance sheets, National Forest maps of the Kaibab, Sitgreaves, Prescott and Coconino forests. Others were Soil Conservation maps of the Navajo Country, Department of the In terior map of Arizona and of the Boulder Dam Recreational Area, Bureau of Pub lic Roads Transportation Map, Post Of fice map of Arizona, Indian Service sketch map of the Kaibab Indian Reser vation, National Park Service map of Bright Angel Point area and the South Rim village area, U. S. Geological Sur vey and University of Arizona map of • Arizona, U. S. G. S. River Survey of the Little Colorado River from mouth to Tolchico damsite, Santa Fe Railroad Long range planning is a feature of Arizona highway engineering in order that right of way maps, Coconino County Grand Falls on the Little Colorado shows a river tumbling and roaring over a series of rock shelves, presenting a mighty the road of today will meet traffic demands of tomorrow. picture of Nature in a more tempestuous mood.
34 ARIZODA HIGHWAYS JUD8, 1939 35 On the opposite side this desert is are part of any up and doing Z uni's and r uns from ten cents to sixty or bulk guarded by the snow-crowned, gray dress. seventy a carat. There are many var of Navajo Mountain, near whose base Tu rq uoise is a se mi -pr ecious ge m ieties an d grades of this southwester n the little visited Rainbow Bri dge spans fou nd i n deposit s o f cla y ,and sh ale and gem , and it is we ll to study them before a deep and rugged canyon. T hese two INDIAN there are a bout a dozen min .es in t he making extensive purchases. One very sub lime touches of Nat ure prov ide the Southwest th at turn out goo d st ones. inferior grade, almost white, is bo ught background for t he chara cters in th e JEWELRY Amo ng th em a re th e o nes in N evad a and up by Ger many a nd dyed over t here "Rainbow Trail," and, not far away is New Mexico a nd Color ado. Just out of and ret urned to t hi s co untry for use by that only spot in the United States where (Continu ed fr om P age 11) Sa nt a Fe is the o ldest min e kn own to commerc ial firms. The soft stone read the bo undaries of four states cross at ha ve been worked by Indi ans befo re t h e ily abso rbs co lors and sometimes oil or right ang les. It is said t hat N avajo comin g of th e Sp ani ard s. Tiffan y ac grease is used t o darken a poor gra de Mounta in holds rich depos its of go ld an d qui red it many ye ars ago a nd i t do es not of turq uoise. Th e hardest stone, about other rare minerals, b ut wh ite me n who pro duce any ge ms n ow. six in h ardness, is a deeper bl ue and have very foolishly prospected there Tu r quoi se has alway s be en a sor t of resists dyes or grease . The softer grade Thi s Old Mexico se nd s a great am ount of have mysterious ly disa ppeared. ma gic ston e to S outhw est ern Ind i;rn s. goes dow n to three an d can b e dyed s uc jo is j eal ously g uar ded inf erio r tu rq uois e to th e United St at es God of the Nava Pr ehistoric gr aves yield st r in gs ~f thi s cess full y. Th e ge ms are po lished wit h by the Red Man and st ill remains unex and there is a min e in A riz ona n ear cherish ed gem and shells inlaid with bit s carbor undu m w hi ch gives them a h igh plained and unexplored. Kin gman that pro duc es a b ea utiful soft of it ar e found in alm ost e very deser t ed luste r. T hat is how they are polished The Painted Deser t h as been c all ed gree n ston e much us ed in ch eap er jew ruin. It would b e almo st imp ossible t o comm erc ially, b ut I h ave wa tchd Nava j o Nat ure's pa let te on w hi ch th e G r ea t Ar elry. Th e best silverw or k contain s th e find a N ava jo without a bit of tu r quoi se utters po lish them on a tist obtained and b lended th e colors for deep blu e bla ck veined tur quoi se fro m an d Zu ni stone c son. Th e rich est then the Grand Canyon: somewher e on hi s per Neva da a nd Colora do. Thi s st on e is wh eel covered w ith sa nd paper and Magic chasm deep an d wide, may we ar thousand s of dolla rs w ort h found at an eight y-fiv e foo t l evel and bu ff th em wit h bucksk in. They get the Colors changi ng as th e chang in g ti de, ar ound his neck and still be dres sed in sells fr om $5 to $50 just a s it comes fr om st one s hap ed t o th eir fa ncy ; then w it h Temples, domes, untramp led sod perfe ct ta st e, but h e is no more und er th e th e m in e. Wh en the ston e has been a da p of hot seali ng wax fasten it on Masterpiece of A lmighty God ! pro tection of th e N ava jo P owers -Th at cut an d polished, it s ells by th e cara t the e nd of a st ick and ho ld it firm ly This sub lime specta cle, w hi ch defi es Be than hi s poore st b ro th er w ho ha s only all the words in all the lan guages to de one small bead t ied somewh ere in h is scribe it, lies to the northwes t of t he knot of c oar se black h air . ·Tu r quoi se Peaks about eighty mi les away , and is pro tects th e wea r er fro m sn ake bites and thi s w hole the crown ing attract ion of chinclees; from b ein g s tr uck by li ghtnin g magnificent pa norama. Ho ur af t er hou r and from th e ev il d esigns of hi s moth er can be spent under the spell of its eve r in-la w. If one is for tuna te en ough t o changi ng color and line; many month s e sto ne found coul d be taken up exp lor ing down i nt o possess a bit of th e hard blu the m ile of its depth an d a cross th e thi r in a p r ehist or ic dwellin g, th en on e is in teen miles of its width up o n t o its nor th deed blesse d b y th e N av ajo gods. More rim. Here we find the Ka iba b Forest than likely th e owner w ill b e called up on sheltering a her d of thirty t housa nd deer to us e it in "sin g" and mon ey c anno t and ot her game. Ba ck from th e r im we buy it . On the cradl e board of each N av can see Ho use Rock Va lley, t he hom e of ajo bab y a tu r quoi se bead i s t ied an d a large herd of wild buffa lo. Skir tin g on a strin g a round it s neck i s plac ed ilion Cliff s this va lley we see t he Verm such a b ea d when th e fi r st to oth is cut, zig-zag in g t heir way fr om L ee's F erry when th e fi rs t wor d i s spok en, and th e back to where the B uckskin M ount ain s fir st step is taken , a nd each a nd every drop again to t he level of t he deser t . event of it s life i s ma r ked b y th e a ddi This is the lit tl e t rave led coun try w here tion of anoth er bead . once lived an d l oved t he "R iders of th e Purple Sage." Amon g th e Zuni Indi ans, fin est tu r At last toward eve ning we fo llow t he quois e w ork er s of all th e trib es, th e clear view westward toward th e land of th e blu e ston e holds m any v irtu es . If th e sett ing s un. Thi s aspe ct off ers w ide wear er of this semi- precious ston e does contrast to that of eas t a nd nor th and a dishono ra ble act , th e tur quoi se tu r ns south . The timber quick ly g ives w ay to a s ickly yellow and d oes not res um e it s wide open and seem ing ly en dless s t re tch es own pu re blu eness until at onement fo r of lower a nd mo r e level countr y. All is th e act has b een mad e. Bits of tu r quois e magnificent ly lighted wi th the g lor y of were found stickin g in th e hou ses of th e the s unset, but s ubdued by pa t ches of Zunis when th e gree dy S pania r ds con purp le sage and s hadowed in the d istan ce qu ere d Cibol a in search of grea t we alth . by t he b lu e h aze of far -off mount ain Th e Zunis think turquois e w ill cur e blind ranges. ness and th ey car ve s mall fe tishes from Finally, in the extreme west, t he sage it which ar e ca rr ied a s pocke t pi eces. brush fades into t he horizo n and "s h a Th e man e of each ra cin g pony conceal s dows of t he even ing s t eal a cr oss th e a turquoi se, and th e f in est and b est tur sky." We take o ne last look at t his awe qu oise neckla ces are buri ed with th eir inspiring scene, s triving by s heer will owner in or der th at th e inm at es of th e power to impress it on o ur memory so as next wor ld may kno w that a pers on o f to keep it a lways. T hen we re luctantl y importanc e h as come to d we ll · amon g turn and come down "o ut of the m oun th em. Th e Zuni Indi ans wear grea t tain," with a new concept ion, a new and Lake Mary, near Fla gstaff, res ts in a beau tifu l sett ing, and is an attraction for rope s of odd-shap ed tu rq uoise as neck deeper respect for Ar izona, the won northern Ariz ona visi tors in th e summer. lac es . Th ese , to geth er w ith str in gs of A Zuni silversmith, we ll versed in an ancient occupation, creates and moulds at der land. • r ose colore d coral and a f ew s ilver beads her work bench.
36 ARIZODfl. HIGHWAYS JUDE:, 1939 37 against the polisher. Ston es prepared necklac es that reach curio stores . The this way lack the hard gliste nin g sheen bett er old ones made by the Navajos are of the commercia lly po lishe d stones, but to be found rarely outsid e of tradin g ALONG THE HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS to us lovers of rea l Indian work, the posts on the reservat ion. They are get native cut and polished turquoise is far ting rarer all the tim e and ha r der to ob IT'S JUNE: RAINBOW BRIDGE: Avey, Arizona highway department ar more appealing . tain . Very few Navajo womel). take up It's June, the month th e poets make Th e travel bureau of the Arizona high tist. silverwork as a trade, but the Zuni such an ado about. S umm er is way departm ent h as received man y in * * So much for the turquoise. Let's get girls upon us, * * go in heavil y for it. I doubt if the vacation time begins, and quiries this spring about Rainbow Bridge, Dan Kennedy, whose Chuck Wagon is back to the silver work. When th e Nav re is we turn our thoughts to th just across the northern Arizona state a wint er institution hereabouts, has moved ajos first began to make ·jewelry they a Zuni bell e that cannot and does not e far away places in north make h er ern Arizona, and to the high way lin e in Utah . J. B. Pri estl ey's sto ry, Chuck Wagon and all for a summer used American coins. Th ese, contain own lavish d ecorations. Some moun of the Zuni tain regions, "Rainbow on the Desert" in th e Saturday vis it around Chicago and Detroit. ing so muc h alloy, showed red when women are listed as th e best th e reg ions of the forests fective. In this mould h e poured mutton and Evening Post, some months ago, perhaps * * filed and beaten. Th ey hailed craftsmen, or women, among native the cool fishing streams. * * with grease and left it while silver s lugs were has turned the national spotlight on this And speaking of fishing in the Gulf glee the Mexican peso when silver workers. Highway department officials expect that coin being reduced to a greasy looking liquid scenic area more than ever before. of Ca lifo rnia we have just rece ived a card came into their lives To bu yers of Indian j the heavi est travel season in the history and many a trader over a charcoal fire. When he decided ewelr y, h ere are From Cameron, the traveler leaves from Don Luis, amiable patron of the added to his ill -gotten a few simple rules that may of th e state. One reason for this ga ins by charging the silver was just right, he tipped the help you in is the U. S. High way 89, travels 110 miles Mira mar Beach at G uaymas, informing the Nava j o a full dollar for the your selections: Golden Gate Exposition in San Fran coin. grease out of the mould and poured the north through th e Navajo r eserva tion us that marlin are running big and Now, practica cisco, which will attract thousands of lly all hand made jew elry silver into it. He carefully leveled the First: Buy your Indian jewelry as to Rainbow Lodge. This trip can be strong. is pound ed out of silver slugs midwestern, southerners and obtained stone until every portion of the design well as a ll other Indian arts and southwest made in four hours. The road is a grad * * * * er ners, who direct from the U. S. mint and this silv er was full and then he laid a flat greased crafts, from a reliable dealer, preferably will tra verse Arizona to and ed road, maintained in part by the Indian Note to George Fitzpatrick, editor of is much eas ier to handl from California . e. With a length stone on top of it. Then we waited. a member of the ·Indian Arts and Crafts service. Don't expect a boulevard but the New Mexico Magazine, (Address: of ra ilroad iro n and two or three as sor ted He smoked and looked at the landscape association. In order to be a membe r To our fri ends, ve ntu r ing into Arizona have no fear for your passage, because State Capitol, Santa Fe, N. M.) th .anks hammers, th e smith goes to work, and and I sat and looked at him . I'm sure of this association, whose standards are this s umm er , ma y we assure you again automobiles are driven over the road for th e nice plug you gave Arizona High with reso unding blows soon reduces the he must have been on t he "long walk" set by men and women who know and of summer traveling comfort no matter daily. In wet wea ther, the visitor should ways in the Mail Bag for May. A num silver to the shap e desired for a ring with Kit Carson, down to exile and back devote thei r time to such things, a dealer where you go in the state. Phoenix, be careful lest he bogs down in some of ber of your readers hav e written for or bracelet. I watched a Navafo boy again, but I'll never know . After half must carry only hand-made, genuine Tucson and Yuma are made comfortable the arroyos along the way. copies of Highways. cut a slug in half , heat it with a gasoline an hour or so he lifted the cover from Indian work. When you enter an Indian th rough widespread air-conditioning of Modern, comfo rtable accommodations * * * * blow torch obtained from the t r ading the cast and I supposed he'd break the A timid curio stor e look for the ce r tificate of pub lic buildin gs , inns, hotels, courts, and are provided at Rainbow Lodge. The easterner writes to the Travel post, and then hamm er it into a man's stone away from the metal ornament Bureau of the Arizona members hip. res taurants . tr ip from th e Lodge to the Rainbow Hi ghways depart ring . He flattened the middle out to but with his strong brown fingers he Bridge ment, wondering how man y jugs of water Second: Choose you r Indian jewelry is made by horseback and pack his satisfact ion, then turned it sidewise gently loosened it from its bed and Dougla s, Noga les, Bisbee, Safford, train. a motorist should load in his car before and pounded with your wardrobe in mind. For sport th e silver back into a smooth brought it forth . He flexed and curved Globe and Miami - the larg er cities in * * crossing the state. Note to Timid East things nothing is nicer than a reasonable * * heavy shank for the ring. With a thin the silver until it suited him, then placed southern and central Arizona-enjoy 1939 ARIZONA HIGHWAY MAP er ner : You can trav el all over the state amount of silver jewelry. But you can strip of s ilver pounded on his anvil he a long square ended turquoise in the comparatively cool summer weather. The IS AVAILABLE: of Arizona und er the same conditions as not mix Indian jewelry with gold r ings; made a sett ing for a turquoise. Before center as its only ornament. The brace traveler too often is unaware of this The 1939 Arizona highway map, issued you travel the most sequestered bou levard neith er ca n you wear an Ind ia n b ra celet he soldered this frame on the ring itself, let and its stone ca:st now belong to me. fact. by the Arizona highway department, is in your city. · next to a diamond studded wrist watch. he took a little ste el punch on which he While Navajo silverwork is estimated now available. Described as one of the * I say you "cannot" and yet one sees a So when you visit in Arizona this * * * had filed the desi gn he wanted and, with to bring half a million dollars yearly to most beautiful highway maps in the Note to Mayo r Fiorello La Guardia of lot of such incongruous mixtures. Plain summer, remember that you will sharp blows of the hammer , s tamped its trib e, they are by no means the only find as country, this -map gives a complete ac New York City: How about that article silver, shimmering lik e pearl, goes well one plain dignified design on each side of silver craftsmen in the Southwest. pleasant weather at the Chiricahua Nat count of the highway syst em with a you promised us ? Now that you have with anything and everything. I've seen the setting. Th en with a solder made Almost all the Pueblo Indians work with - ional Monument in Cochise county as table of distances and points of scenic the Fair open, and the coal strike settled a string of polished silver beads of s ilver and brass he fastened the tur silver, and the Zunis doubtless turn out and you will on the north Rim of the Grand interest . you should have time to write ... Time's large silver ear r ing s worn with a black quoise frame to the main r ing . Placing as much or perhaps mo re silver and tur Canyon. The cover was prepared by George M. a' wasting. the heavy oval ston e in position, he quoise jewelry than do the Navajos. velvet dinn er gown and th e effect was lovely. But turquois e, beautiful as it clinched the edges of th e frame firml y Their work is almost all for the tourist is, must not be expec t ed to down over the tu rq uoise. Under the tr ad e and turquois e invari ably over get along ha rm oniously with blues or purples or t urquoise a cushion of pasteboard had shadows the silver framework. They MOUNTAIN TRAGEDY re ds. It shows to advantage with pink, been placed. Th e finished ring was have tak en the Navajo cra ft and light yellow, brown, black and white. Befor e carefully inspected for fla ws or rough ened it with their fanciful designs. By_CARL LARSON buying turquoise-set jewelry, make up places and th en thoroughly buff ed on Brooch es depicting dragonflies and but your mind whether you want blue or th e whee l covered with buckskin. Work terflies and other of their cherish ed in green tu rq uois e and th en stick to that ing stead ily all day this boy could turn sects are numerous, and their bracelets choic e. Th e soft green stones are very out six suc h rings, provided the tu rq uoi se are st udd ed w ith dozens of small tur appealing and if all your jewelry is set was cut and polished ready for him to us e. quoise. Hopi Indian s, too, do quite a with green turquoise well and And such a ring, with an excellent tu r lot of silv er work. They love the squash good. Otherwis e, turquoise of conflicting colors quoise sett ing, sells for around six dol blossom or pomegranate necklace, called can set up a nice little civil war of its lars. The youn ger s ilversmiths seem a mar riage or wedding necklace, and own! Blue turquoise is harde r and more to know little about the art of makin g they and the Zunis make most of the cast, or "sand mould," ornaments once valuabl e, as you'll lea rn when you price quite the mocfe among silvers miths . Far silver sets with the different shades of in the depths of the Navajo mountain the gem. country I came upon an old long hair ed Practically all silver jewelry will dis silversmith work ing at an outdoor forge. color your skin when worn next to it. After the usual tender-and acceptance That is on account of the sulphur in -of cigarettes, I seate d mys elf and your blood and is no fault of the article watched him. He spoke no English but itself. If this both ers th e wearer, a now and then he turned a toothless smile light painting of the j ewelry inside with my way ju st to let m e know he hadn't colorless nail polish will entire ly elim forgotten I was th ere . In a soft soap inate the trouble. When yo ur silver stone or sandstone he had gouged out a becomes discolored take dry soda and a These pictures of a rare mountain tragecly, a beaver crushecl by a falling tree, were taken by Carl Larsen of Globe. "They design about eight inch es long and two were taken on Black Ri ver,'' he writes, "at the mouth of Bear Wallow Canyon on th,e San Carlos Indian Reservation. I soft cloth and · gently rub it until the found th e beaver half a mile below camp as I was wrang inches wide, very ling horses one morning. I thought it unusual and that some peo simpl e and very ef- original sheen is restored. • ple might not believe it happened; so I returned to camp and got the camera. It was a clay of high wind and the tree probably blew over very suddenly." 38 .ARIZOD.AHIGHWAYS JUDE:,19 39 39 I
cellaneous smaller size concrete box cul material, and the placing of a mixed bi ROAD PROJECTS UNDER CONSTRU_CTION verts and other miscellaneous work inci tuminous surface, using SC-4 road oil, dental to the construction of approxi road mix, and other miscellaneous work of approxi DISTRICT NO. 1 Tanner Construction Company, Phoe-• mately 7.03 miles of the Aguila-Congress incidental to the construction nix, Arizona, has a contract for the con Junction Highway, beginning about 7.5 mately 11 miles of the Bridgeport-Mon Joe DeArozena, District Engineer miles northw est of the Maricopa County tezuma Castle Highway, beginning at Tann er Construction Company, Phoenix, struction of a bridge about 2.75 miles southwest of Kingman. The substructure line and extending northeasterly, and is the junction with the Cottownood-Se Arizona has a contract for grad ing and to be completed by December 31st, 1939. dona Highway about 3 miles east of draining the roadway over a new located will consist of 6 intermediate piers and 2 abutment piers built of reinforced con · Federal lands project 11-A (1). A.F.E. Cottonwood and extending southeasterly line. Placing an aggregate base course 7105. J. A. Quigley, resident engineer. and is to be completed by October 31st, and oil processing the roadway using an crete. The superstructure will consist of a steel girder deck with a 26' c lear roa d State Forces are placing oiled curbs 1939. Federal aid secondary project 3-A SC-6 road oil, plant mix. The construc and rubble masonry drains on the Mor (1). A. F. E. 634. C. S. Benson, resi of one 7 span, ·6 girder bridge on a way, approximately 251' long. Construc dent engineer. tion tion started March 13th, 1939, and is to ristown-Wickenburg Highway, U. S. 45 degree skew; one 4-25 ft. span bridge Routes 60 and 89, Works Progress Admin Packard Contracting Company, Phoe 10'x8'x- be completed by July . 31st, 1939. Federal on a 30 degree skew; one 3 span, aid grade highway project 85 -A (2) . istration participating. A. F. E. 2401. nix, Arizona, has a contract for grading 56.5' concrete box culvert; one 3-span A. F. E. 6686. Geo. Lang, resident en Ned Mulleneaux, foreman. and draining the roadway over a re 10'x4'x53.5 concrete box culvert; one located line, placing an aggregate )Jase 10'x8'xl10.5' concrete box culvert; one gineer . Fisher Contracting Company, Phoe course and mixed bituminous surface 6'x5'x104' concrete box culvert and other DISTRICT NO. 2 using an SC-6 road oil, road mix. Th~ miscellaneous work on approximate ly 3.1 nix, Arizona, has a contract for replacing dip with a 8'x6'x47 .5 con F. N. Grant, District Engineer construction of one 2 span 10'x8'x29.5 miles of the Kingman-Needles Highway. an oil surfaced concrete box culvert, the widening of 2 Beginning at the town of Kingman and crete box culvert. The grading and drain ing and oil surfacing, using SC-4 road (?swald Brothers Contractors, Phoenix, existing bridges to a 28' clear roadway extending southwesterly. Construction Arizona, has a contract for the grading the widening of 3 smaller size concret~ started January 23, 1939 and is to be oil road mix, of approximately .4 of a mi le of the Phoenix-Yuma Highway. Begin and draining the roadway over a new box culverts and other miscellaneous completed by September 30th, 1939. Fed "That newcomer is dissatisfied. H e located line. The construction of one 3 work_ incidental to tI;e construction of ap eral aid grade highway project 85-A (1). wants to go back to Arizona." ning about 20 miles west of Gila Bend and extending westerly. Construction span 10'x8'x82' concrete box culvert on a proximately 5.74 miles of the Springer A. F. E. 6603. Geo. Lang, resident en 30 degree skew; one 10'x8'x40' concrete "It's all right, mama. There's a worm ville-New Mexico State Line Highway. gineer. started March 13th, 1939 and is to be in the apple." completed by June 15th, 1939. ·Federal box culvert; one 10'x7'x44 .5' concrete box Beginning about 9 miles east of Spring Tanner Construction Company, Phoe cidental to the construction of approxi culvert; one 6'x7'x78.5' concrete box cul _ervi1~e and extending easterly to the New nix, Arizona, has a contract for the mately 6.86 miles of the Hope-Parke r aid project 69 (2) A. F. E. 8021. A. J. Kerr, resident engineer. vert; one 6'x5'x51' concrete · box culvert ting about ten 6'x7'x29.5' concrete box Mexico Sta~e Line. Construction start grad ing and draining the roadway over a Highway. Beginning at the town of Hop e and other miscellaneous work on approxi ed April 26th, 1939, and is to be com Phoenix -Tempe Stone Company, Phoe culverts and other miscellaneous work re-located line. Placing a11 aggregate and extending northerly. Construction mately 4.72 miles of th e Flagstaff-Fre incidental to the construction of approxi pleted October 31st, 1939. Federal aid base course and oil processing the road started March 7th, 1939 and is to be com nix, Arizona has a contract for the con donia Highway . Beginning at the town of project 73-A (2). A. F. E. 6084. E. H. struction of a bridge across the Santa mately 9.8 miles of the Showlow-Holbrook way usin g an SC-6 road oil plant mix, pleted by July 31st, 1939. Federal aid Fredonia and extending southeasterly. Highway, beginning nea r Sh,iwlow and West, resident engineer. the construction of one 4-span concrete secondary project 112-D (1). A. F. E . Maria river about 11 miles northwest Construction started January 12th 1939 State Forces are constructing a line Shelp, resident engineer. of the town of Hillside. The substructure extending northerly. Construction started bridge on a 30 degree skew; one 3 span 7212. Howard and is to be completed by October' 15th, November 2nd, 1938, and is to be complet change on State 65, Winslow-Pine High 10'x4'xl12.5 concrete box culvert on a 15 Skousen Bros., A lbuquerque, New Mex will consist of 4 intermediate piers and 1939. Federal aid project 132-B (1) ways, . consisting of grading, draining, for grading, and drain 2 abutment piers built on stee l H piles ed by July 31st, 1939. Federal aid project degree skew; one 6'x5'x38.75' concrete box ico, has a contract A_.F. E. 8903. H. B. Wright, resident en 136-A (1). A . F. E. 7704 . F. A. Berg, surfacmg and fencing, beginning 2.6 miles culvert and other miscellaneous work on ing the roadway over a new located line. driven approximately 30' be low stream gmeer. north of the Coconino National Forest bed. The superstructure will consist of a resident engineer. approximately 1.18 miles of the Kingman Placing .an aggregate base course and (?swald Brothers, Contractors, Phoenix, bo1;1ndary, and extending north toward Boulder Dam Highway. Beginning at the oil processing the roadway using an steel plate girder deck approximately W. E. Bondurant, Roswell, New Mex Wmslow. Works Progress AdministJ:a 392' long with a 22' clear roadway. Con Arizona, has a contract for the grading town of Kingman and extending north SC-3 road oil, road mix. The construction and draining the roadway over a new lo ico has a contract for the construction of tion participating. A. F. E. 5102 C. J. westerly. Construction started January of one 2 span 10'x5'x41' concrete box cul struction started April 17th, 1939 and is a bridge across the Little Colorado river Houck, transitman in charge. to be completed by November 15th, 1939. cated line. The construction of one 10'x8' 23rd, 1939 and is to be completed by Sep vert, one 2 span 10'x5'x29.5' concrete box x55.5' concrete box culvert; one 6'x6'x- about 2.5 miles east of Winslow. The sub State Forces have begun the surfacing tember 30th, 1939. F-ederal aid project culvert, one 2 span 10'x4'x29.5' concrete Federal aid secondary project 4-A (1). structure will consist of 8 intermediate of six. (6) miles on the Concho-Showlow A. F. E. 638. J. A. Quigley, resident 45. 75' concrete box culvert; one 6'x4'x47' 123-D (1) A. F. E. 9304. Geo. Lang, box culvert, and 6 miscellaneous smaller concrete box culvert; one 5'x5'x37.5' con piers and 2 abutment piers built on con Highway, State Route 61. A. F. E. 6103. resident engineer. size concrete box culverts and . other mis eng ineer. crete piles driven approximately 55 ft. J. M. Wilkinson, foreman. Warren Southwest, Inc., Los Angeles, crete box culvert and .other miscellaneous Warren Southwest, Inc., Los Angeles, cellaneous work incidental to the con work on approximately 9.96 miles of the below streambed. The superstructure will California, has a contract for grading truction of approximately 8.83 miles of California, has a contract for grading Flagstaff-Fredonia Highway, beginning consist of a steel plate girder deck with DISTRICT NO. 3 and draining the roadway over a re-lo- . the Ajo-Gila Bend Highway. Beginning and draining the roadway, placing an im a 26' clear roadway and approximately ported borrow base course and mixed near the .town of Fredonia and extending R. C. Perkins, District Enginet· cated lin e. Placing an imported Borrow about 18 miles north of Ajo and extend southeasterly. Construction started Jan 766' long, and will replace the present · Base Course and oil processing the road ing northerly . Construction started March bituminus surface, using and SC -2 road steel truss bridge which is 14' clear Lee Moor Contracting Company, El oil, road mix. The construction of one uary 12th, 1939 and is to be comp leted way using an SC-3 road oil, road mix. 7th, 1939, and is to be completed by by October 15th, 1939. Federal lands proj roadway and 620' long. Construction ~aso, Texas, has a contract for subgrad The construction of one 6'x6'x36.5' con September 30th, 1939. Federal Lands 6 span 10'x7'x29.5' concrete box culvert, started on March 3rd, 1939, and is to be mg the ro!id':vay and refinishing the one 2 span 6'x4'x29.5' concrete box cul ect 9-A (1). A. F. E. 8903. H. B . Wright, crete box culvert, the construction of Highway Project 10-A (1) A. F. E. resident engineer. completed by November 30th, 1939. Fed sloJ?es, furm~hmg and placing select ma 17 dips, and other miscellaneous work in·· 8508. A. J. Kerr, resi dent engineer. vert, one 8'x6'x29 .5' concrete box culvert eral aid project 40-B (1). A. F . E. 6605. terial, applymg SC-6 road oil plant mix and other miscellaneous work on approxi- N. G. Hill and Company, Phoenix, Ari F. A. Berg, resident engineer. type "B" . seal coat and asphaltic sur~ mately 5.39 mi les of the Ajo -Tucson zona, has a contract for the grading and face treatmg the roadway, on approxi Highway. Beginning about 1.67 miles draining the roadway over a new located Tanner Construction Company, Phoe mately 3.89 miles of the Globe-Showlow east of Ajo and extending southeasterly, line. Placing imported borrow and select nix, Arizona, has a contract for the fur Highway, beginning about 50 miles and is to be completed by October 15th, material over the roadway construe- nishing and placing of a mixed base northeast of Globe and extending south 1939. Federal aid secondary project wester ly. Construction started on De 110-G (1). A. F. E. 633. A. J. Kerr cember 28th, 1938 and is to be completed resi dent engineer. ' ?YOctober 31st, 1939. Federal Lands pro Skousen Bros., Albuquerque, New Mex .Jee! 6-B. A. r-E. 6087. C. B. Browning, ico, has a· contract for the smoothing up resident engmeer. of the present se lect materia l and the Lee Moor Contracting Company, El placing of a mixed bituminous surface. Paso, Texas, has a contract for subgrad Usinis an SC-4 ro~d oil, road mix on ap mg the roa~w~y and refinishing the proximately 7.5 miles of the Aguila -Con slopes! furmsh~ng and placing select gress Junction Highway . Beginning- at material, applymg SC-6 road oil plant the Maricopa County line and extending mix, Type "~" sea l coat and asphaltic northeasterly and is t o be completed by surface treatmg the roadway on approxi December 31st, 1939. Federal aid secon m::i-tely 3.1 miles of the Globe-Showlow dary project 1-A (2). A . F. E. 7106. Highway beginning about 46 .1 miles J. A. Quigley, resident engineer. northeast of Globe, and extending south . Skousen Bros., Albuquerque, New Mex wester ly. Construction started on Decem ~co, has a contract for grading and drain ber 28th, 1938, and is to be completed mg the roadway, placing an imported by October 31st, 1939. Federal aid project borrow and aggregate base course and a 99-F. A. F. E. 6088. C. B. Browning mixed bituminous surface, u s'ng an res ident engineer. ' SC-4 road oil, road mix. The construc Lee Moor Contracting Company, El NORMAN G. WALLACE tion of one 2 span 10'x3'x34' concrete NORMAN G. WALLACE !'aso, Texas, has a contract for subgrad Coronado Trail, between_Sprin:gerville an_dClifton, is one of the truly great scenicways box culvert, one 3 span 10'x5x34' con Ever pleasing to the traveler is the highway leading from Kingman to Boulde1· Dam. mg the roa~w~y and refinishing the for the modern trave ler in Arizon_a. . This patl~way ?f the Conquistador winds its way crete box culvert, one 4 span 10'x3'x34' This highway, U. S. 93, joins U. S. 66 at Kingman, leads to Nevada over the Dam slopes? furmsh~ng and placing select through some of the _most beautiful scenery in Arizona--through rich forests, over concrete box culvert, one 5 span 10'x4'x- itself This trailway represents some of the most exacting road engineering and material, applymg SC-6 road oil plant lofty mountain tops, and through country wealthy in historical lore. 41. 75' concrete box culverts, and 7 mis- construction in the west. mix, Type "B" seal coat and asphaltic
40 fl.RIZODA HIGHWAYS JUDE:,1939 41 surface treating the roadway on approxi ministration participating. A. F. E. 7014. Lyons, resident engineer. V. J. Eyer, Sedona and extends 3.577 miles northerly mately .53 miles of the R. D. Canfield, resident construction superintendent. to Indian Gardens. Work was started Globe-Show~ow engineer. State Highway beginning about 43.0 State forces are widening and sloping Forces are widening and surfac November 21, 1938 and is about 75% com miles ing shoulde rs, and filling borrow northeast of Globe and extending south shoulders and widening structures on pits plete. V. G. Watson, resident engineer. westerly. Construction started U. S. 70 from Globe City Limits, toward on the Bisbee -Douglas Highway, U. S. Route 17, Snowflake-Pinetop, Sitgreaves December Route 80, between Forest Ranch 28th 1938 and is to be completed by Cutter . 'works Progress Administration and National Forest October 31~t Douglas. Works Progress Administration W. E. Orr, Phoenix, Arizona, 1939. Federa l aid project participating. A. F. E. 7014. R. D. Can participating. completed 99-E. A. F.' E. 6089. C. B. Browning, fi eld, resident engineer. The works consists of a contract for grading, draining and resident engineer. State Forces are grading, widening the existing 20 feet of hignway placing borrow backfill surfacing to a 40 foot shoulder-to-shoulder on a portion of Lee Moor Contracting Company, El and fencing State Route 75, Duncan-Clif width . Section B of Arizona Forest Route 17, A. F. E. 4401. Boone Waughtal, engin Paso Texas, has a contract for subgrad ton High ways, constructing a line change Snowflake-Pinetop, on April 20, 1939. beginning 7 miles north of Duncan. Works eer-in -charge. Project begins approximately 2 miles ing 'the roadway and refinis hing the State Forces are improving U. S. 80, slopes, furnishing and placing select ~a Progress Administration participating. north of Pinetop and extends 3.175 mi les A. F. E. 7505. W. B. Matlock, construc Benson-Douglas Highway through Bis northwest to a point approximately 2 terial, applying SC-6 road oil plant mix, bee . The work tion superintendent. consists of widening and miles north of Lakeside. C . H. Clark, Type "B" sea l coat and asphaltic sui: resurfacing 1500 feet of pavement. Two face treating the roadway on approxi State Forces are constructing a grade resident engineer. change, widening, grade changes, curve betterment on mately 11.57 miles of the Globe-Show~ow re -la ying oil cake and dangerous curves, placing Route 28, Fredon ia-Houserock Valley Highway, roadside imp rovemen t on Washington curb, gutter Highway, Kaibab beginning about 42.5 miles and sidewalks, reb uildin g rubble retain National Forest northeast of Globe and extending south Boulevard, from Delano Ave., to East Oswald Brothers, Contractors, Los An Van Buren ing walls, placing cattle guards and wester ly. Constr uction started on De Junction. Works Progress fencing and constructing geles, California, have the contract for cember 28th, 1938, and is to be completed Administration participating. A. F. E. a gr illed drain "Wh.o's your favorite movie star?" grading, draining and placing crusher 2102. Earl Bodine, across the highway to eliminate wet "Ferdinand by October 31st, 1939. Federal aid project res ident engineer. pavement. the bull." run ro ck top course with a light bitumin Ernest H endrix, foreman. Works Progress Adminis 99-A. A. F. E. 6090. C. B. Browning, tration participating. A. W. P. WESCH, ous treatment on portions of Section C State forces are widening and surfac F. E . 8012. Highway Bridge Engi and D of resident engineer. "Now I wonder wlu;i,t happened Boone Waughtal, engineer-in-charge. neer, Bridge Engineer. Arizona Forest Highway Route to ing the McNary-Fort Apache Highway, 28, Fredonia-Houserock Valley. Project Lee Moor Contracting Company, El that bronk peeler?" Works Progress Administration partici State Fore .es are work in g on curve W. J. WARD, Associate Highway En Paso Texas, has a contract for easement and betterment on the Oracle gineer, Locating Engineer. begins at Jacob Lake and extends 11 subgrad pating. Equipment on this project is miles northerly towards Fredonia. Work ing 'the roadway and refinishing the Junction-Mammoth Highway, State Route R. THIRION, Associate Highway En miscellaneous work incidental to the con being fu rnis hed b y th e Apache Indian 77. Works Progress Administration was started April 17, 1939 and is about slopes, furnishing and placin~ select m'.1- struction of 2.74 miles of the Service. Work started in June, 1938. A. par gineer, Highway Planning Engineer. terial, Super ior tic ip ating . The work started January, J. H. BRANNAN, Associate Highway 5% complete. C. R. Brashears, resident app lying SC-6 road 011 pla!1t mix Miami Highway. Beginning at the Gila F. E. 7301. C. S. Redd, res ident engineer. engineer . Type "B" sea l coat and asphaltic sui: 1939. A. F. E. 33 (47) . Frank Watson, Engineer, Supervising Engineer. Pinal county lin e and extending south State Forces are wideninK U. S. 80, foreman. Route 33, Catalina Mountain Highway, face treating the roadway on approxi westerly. Construction started Tempe Streets, 8th Ave., to 11th Ave. E. F. STRICKLER, Associate Highway mately 10.72 miles of the Globe-Show January State Forces are grading, draining, Engineer, Supervising Engineer. Coronado National Forest 23rd, 1939 and is to be completed by Works Progress Administration parti Project consists of grading low Highway, beginning about 30.9 miles surfacing, fencing and making roadside R. M. RUTLEDGE, Assistant High and drain September 15th, 1939. Federal aid pro cipating. Work consists of pavement wid improvements on ing of a highway on the south side of northeast of Globe and extending south ject 16 (2). A. F. E. 7018. ening and resurfacing, State Route 82, No way Engineer, Office Engineer. westerly. Constr R. C. Can curb a nd gutter gales-Patagonia Highway. Works Pro E. V. ALDRICH, Junior Highway the Catalina Mountains, between a point uction started Decem field, resident engineer. and roadsi de imp rovement. A. F. E. En approximately 17 miles northeast of ber 28th, 1938, and is to be completed by gress Administration participating. The gineer, Materials Engineer. State forces are widening U. S. 80, 8019. Earl Bodine, construction sup er Tucson, Ar izona and So ldier Camp Ran October 31st, 1939. Federal aid project intendent. work consists of relocation and line Mill Avenue Junction to McAllister Ave. changes, and the ger Station near the summit. The proj 99-D. A. F. E. 6091. C. B. Browning, Works Progress Administration parti widening of the present BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROAD highway. A. F. E. 8217. R. PROJECTS IN ARIZONA ect has been completed from the foot of resident engineer. cipating. 'vvork consists of pavement DISTRICT NO. 4 C. Bond, resi the mountain to a point 9.5 miles toward J. R. Van Dorn, District Engineer dent engineer. W. E. Orr, Contractors, Phoenix, Ari widening, curb and gutter, guard fence PROJECTS the summit. H. H. Woodman, resident zona, has the contract for grading and and roadside improvement. A. F. E. Tanner Construction Company, Phoe UNDER CONSTRUCTION engineer. draining the 8019. Earl Bodine, construction super nix, Arizona, has a contract for Route 7, Oak Creek Highwa y, Coconino roadway over a re- located grading UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF National Forest PROJECTS SUSPENDED FOR line. Placing an aggregate base course int endent . and draining the roadway over a new AGRICULTURE-BUREAU OF and oil processing the located line . Placing an aggregate Pearson and Dickerson, Contractors, WINTER roadway, using State forces are constructing a line base PUBLIC ROADS Inc., Prescott, an SC-4 road oil, road mix. Constructing change on U. S. 70, Globe-Miami course and oil processing the roadway Arizona, have the contract Route 19, Clifton-Alpine Highway, Crook High for grading, draining and placing base a 2 span 12'x14'x96' concrete bridge cul way, consisting of grading, draining, using an SC-4 cutback asphalt, road mix. G. L. McLANE, Senior Highway Engi National Forest vert; a The construction of one 4 course surfacing with light bituminous All Arizona Engineering and 6'x7'x56' concrete box culvert; a surfacing, back sloping and landscaping, span 10'x7'x- neer. treatment on a portion of Section B of Construc 6'x7'x84' concrete box culvert and other Claypool to Globe. Works Progress Ad- 37.5' concrete box culvert; one 5' spar W. R. tion Company, Clifton, Arizona, has the 10'x3'x37.5' concrete box culvert; two F. WALLACE, Highway Engi Arizona Forest Highway Route 7, Oak contract for grading, draining nee r, Supervis ing Engineer. Creek. Project begins 0.6 miles north of and plac I 3 span 10'x8'x43.5' concrete box · culverts, ing cushion material on a portion of Sec and 18 misc ellan eous smaller size con tion B of Arizona Forest Highway Route crete box culverts and other miscellan 19, Clifton-Alpine. Project begi'ns approx eous work incidental to the construction imately 45 miles north of Clifton and of approximately 7.66 miles of the Ben extends northe r ly 6.115 mi les. Work was son-Steins Pass Highway, beginning suspended for the winter on December about 2 miles southeast of Bowie Junction 1.4, 1938 when about 73% complete. E. F. and extending southwest to the town of Koch, res ident engineer. Bowie. Construction started March 8th, Route 28, Freclonia-Houserock Valley 1939, and is to be completed by December Highway, Kaibab National Forest 31st, 1939. Federal aid project 130-D. (1). Fisher Contracting Company, Phoe A. F. E. 8610. A. J. Gilbert, resident nix, Arizona, has the contract for grad engineer. ing, draining and placing base course State Forces are widening shoulders surfacing with light bituminous treat and structures and filling borrow pits ment on portions of Section C and D of and making roadside improvements on Arizona Forest Highway Route 28, Fre State Route 84, Pichacho to 9 miles west donia-Houserock Va lley. Project is lo of Casa Grande. Works Progress Ad cated between points approximately 3 ministration participating. A. F. E. and 16 miles north of Jacob Lake. The 2701. Ernest Hendrix, foreman. length of roadway between these points State Forces are widen in g sho uld ers covered by the project is 6.137 miles. and filling borrow pits on the Sacaton Work was suspended for th e winter on Picacho Highway, State Route 87. The January 3, 1939 when about 73 % com work consists of widening one structure, plete. C. R. Brashears, resident engineer. oiling 1200 feet of line change, filling Jacob-Lak e Rim Approach to Grand deep borrow pits and widening narrow Canyon National Park shoulders. Works Progress Administra Fisher Contracting Company, Phoenix, tion participating. A. F. E. 2501. Alfred Arizona, has the contract for grading, R. Wilson, foreman. draining and placing base course surfac State Forces are grading, draining and ing with light bituminous treatment on surfacing 13.5 miles of U. S. Highway a section of the Jacob Lake-North Rim NORMAN G. WALLACE 80, Florence-Tucson Highway, Oracle Approach Road to Grand Canyon Nat The traveler today, driving the highway between Phoenix and Junction north. Work consists of NORMAN G. WALLACE ional Park. Project Tucson, is afforded con Between Phoenix and Tempe a four lane highway begins at Jacob Lake a view of beautiful desert country. Even in the deepest summer, desert travel has struction on new location, with appurte carries local as well as transcon and extends south 1.278 miles. Work was only comfort for the motorist, who find s modern highways tinental traffic. Built to modern standards, this highway has everything the traveler suspended for the winter on November at his command. Then, nant drainage construction, surfacing can desire-width, adequate striping, proper curving. too commodious air-cooled inn s, hotels and auto courts affords him rest and relax- and fencing. Works Progress Adminis In Arizona road design, 23, 1938 when about 95% complete. C. R ' ation wherever he wishes to stop. tration participating. A. F. E. 8023. D. J. engineers think both of safety and high speed travel. Brashears, resident engineer. JUD€, 1939 42 RRIZODA HIGHWAYS 43 Yours sincerely • • • and sincerely to you
HIGHWAYS GOES TO SCHOOL: Highways . Arizona is a grand land for U. S. governors as monthly greetings ARIZONIQUES .... At present I am teaching the the painter and the sketcher, and there from Arizona. (P. S. We are glad Gover natural resources and natural wonders is much, much talent in this state that nor Carr, a good Republican, enjoyed our of our western states to a g ·roup of wide we will present from time to time. portrait of Smokey, a good Democrat.) eyed listeners. Of course, I am dwelling at length -on Arizona, there seems to be BOULDER DAM AND LAKE MEAD: DOWN TEXAS WAY: The first instance of prospecting in Tumacacori Mission, a national so much of interest within its boundaries . . ... I would like very much to point was in 1583 when Antonio monument, was founded in 1691 by varieties of cacti, the unique . . . . . The magazine is highly attrac Arizona The many out to you the great importance of this the famous J esuit priest, missionary Joshua trees, the Petrified forests, Paint Boulder Dam development to Arizona. t1 ve from every standpoint and it un Espejo fcrnnd rich silver ore near ed Desert, Boulder dam, Grand Canyon, As you will find, I am sure on investiga doubtedly is one of Arizona's "Best what is now Prescott. and explorer, Father Eusebio Fran Indian hogans, all so common to you tion that approximately 60% of the Sellers." . It makes the reader Arizona cisco Kino. conscious. My young assistant Dawson * * * * folks, but of such outstanding inte re st people visiting this area enter it from * * * * Duncan, is sold on it and will' tour the The first visitor to the Grand Can to us easterners, and all made so vivid the north. This means that the majority In the year 1929, Arizona produced to me again through the pictures of of the people would be visitors from this state _later this summer .... yon of Arizona was Don Garcia Lopez over 800 million pounds of copper "Highways." Needless to say, my pu area to Arizona and not the other W. M. Thornton, de Cardenas, one of the captains of valued at $100,000,000. For over a pils, I believe, are deriving much valuable way .... Chief of Austin Bureau the Coronado expedition, who arrived information as well as valuable enjoy e,J,s quarter of a century, Arizona has Claud F. Harmon, . C. P. A., The Dallas Morning N there in 1540. Looking for gold and ment from my copies of the magazine. The Harmon Auditing Co., Austin, Texas. ' produced abo ut 40 per cent of all They even ask when the next one is mineral riches, Don Garcia was not Prescott, Arizona. copper mined in the United States . coming ...... New sma1: Duncan will have a grand impressed by what has come to be * * * Miss Margaret D. Scully, ... .. In your April issue, we were summer, as will anyone spending a sum known as the most spectacular scenic 117 E. Garfield Ave., mer vacation in Arizona. And should General John J. Pershing served particularly interested in the article, area in the world. One of the most remarkable trips Wildwood, N . J . It seems that his journey take him through Phoenix, we as a second lieutenant under General "Sailing on Lake Mead." e ever made down the Colorado river a little piece on the Boulder Dam recre would be happy to have him drop in th * * * * Miles in the Indian campaign in Ariz We are happy to know Arizona office and "talk shop." by boat was made by Buzz Holm Highway s is welcomed in an eastern ational area, featuring Lake Mead's Arizona's first newspaper, The ona during 1885 and 1886. booming attraction for sailors has a strum in 1937, who went from Green schoolroom. Trying, as we are, to picture Weekly Arizonian, was established in * * * place in one of your summer issues. GOD'S COUNTRY: River, Wyo., to Boulder Dam in 52 * the industrial, agricultural, historical and Tubae in March, 1859. The Temple of the Church of Jesu s scenic views of Arizona, Arizona High . ... I feel your magazine is a great days. He made the trip alone . . . . . We must add that your maga Christ of Latter-Day Saints at Mesa ways has found its way into many Arizona zine is one of the most unique publica accessory to my boosting of Arizona * * * * * * * * schoolrooms. which is something I have done with Eighty per cent of the Arizona is one of the most imposing edifices tions we have seen in a long time. After The Salt River Valley Water Users' reading several copies of it, one cannot lavish extravagance for many years. state highway system is paved with in the west. It was built at a cost of . . . . . I presume you receive a good help but become decidedly Arizona mind Whel!-ever_ ~rizona Highways comes, I asphaltic oil mjx. The remaining 20 association operates and maintains about one million dollars. The build many complimentary observations, but feel like k1ckmg over the traces and going ed. There can be no doubt about its per cent is gravel and concrete paved four reservoirs on the Salt River, ing is 55 feet high, 129 feet north and that one more will not annoy you. The effectiveness in publicizing your state's back to God's country . . which have a total storage capacity members of my family and I scan this road. south and 184 feet east and west. scenic and cultural attractions . . . . Helen Schuster, of 1,900,000 acre feet of water. beautiful magazine with great interest * * * * * * * * each month. The editorial make-up, the David V. Cleary, Los Angeles, Calif. The BUICK Magazine, The Verde river, which has been * * * * Authorities differ on the spelling of charm of the photographic and other il In January, 1877, Governor Saf it lustrations, and the informative material Detroit, Michigan. . . . . I only wish California had as harnessed for reclamation purposes the word "Navajo." Some claim give us great pleasure. It so happens good a state publication as Arizona by Bartlett dam, 54 miles northeast of ford of Arizona told the territorial should be spelled "Navaho." Congres Th e Boulder Dam Recreational Highways. Every copy is passed around legislature that business men and that I have spent a good deal of time area, f eaturing Lake Mead, is becoming Phoenix, drains 5,600 square miles of sional appropriation bills for the Na in Arizona, and thus I am again brought traveler s. A and kept for future reference. The earth's surface, varying from semi citizens of Grant County, New Mexico, vajo Indians spell the word with the of our country. a renowned attraction for stories and the pictures all are first close to a wonderful part motor boat ride on Lake Mead up Grand had petitioned to be annexed to Ariz "j." Scientists and ethnologists gen We will greatly miss this compelling vis rate-a credit to you and Arizona . t.ropical desert to high mountains. Canyon i s to us one of the most spectac ona. The Governor suggested that erally spell the word with "h." When itor if it should cease to come .... ular scenic delights in the west. For W. W. Robinson, * * * * Watson B. Miller, The first trip down the Colorado the legislature ask Congress to ap Navajo county was created by the the excellent Buick Magazine, we are Title Guarantee and Trust Co. ever National Director, preparing a story on Boulder Dam rec Los Angeles, Calif. river was made in 1869 by Major J. prove the petition but nothing Territorial Legislature at midnight, National Rehabilitation Committee, reational area. came of it . March 21 , 1895, the author of the Washington, D. C. W. Powell, the second director of the GREETINGS FROM CANADA: Geological survey, whose party tra * * * * bill, Will C. Barnes, insisted on the .. Arizona Highways will continue to SAYS THE GOVERNOR OF word as "Navajo." Arizona Highways COLORADO: . . . . You may be interested to know versed the Green and Colorado rivers Blooming peach trees is an annual be a regular visitor to the home of L e that last season, I used a number of Ari . spring spectacle in Canyon de Chelly , will continue to spell it "Navajo." gionnaire Miller, and to that we wish to .... I enjoyed the magazine with the from Green River, Utah, to the mouth zona subjects in my Canadian radio in remote Navajo land. The first trees * * * * add our appreciation for thoughtful com picture of the Democrat on the front page episodes about of the Virgin River. growing more intel broadcasts. Historic ment. The only way we can determine very much. He is Tombstone, Bisbee, Douglas, the Painted were brought from Spain by Fran The 800-acre botanical garden being whether we earn our keep is by l etters ligent, if you ask me . The art section ciscan~ for the Hopis. During a severe with Desert, Wonderland of Rocks, the Yuma developed in Papago State Park east from friends. of the magazine compares favorably others that lend themselves plant the best in the country. The stories prison and drought in Hopiland, the Hopis of Phoenix will be the only one of its a_dmirably to dramatic radio presenta ed peach seedlings in the fertile floor ARIZONA SKETCH BOOK: about the Southwest warmed my heart. gratified at the public kind in the world-several thousand a desert rat or a mountain coyote t10ns. I was very of Canyon de Chelly. And a failure .... You are editing a splendid publi I am !espo~se to these and received many exclusively desert plants, featuring cation and I enjoy reading it each month. or something . Anything which has to do about Arizona from listeners of crops has never been known. cacti-are being planted in this nat with this country appeals to me because mqmnes In fact I pass each copy on to some who have never visited the state or who ural setting of desert beauty. in my blood. I think A friend here. Your "Arizona Sketch I have the country had passed through it, unaware of the Book" department is espec ially credit we will subscribe for the magazine. It one. * * * is too goo~ to miss . . . . many attractions it holds for every Colossal Cave, between Benson and able .... If the gods decree, we hope to travel y Ollin Wineland, Ralph L. Carr, your splendid highways again next year. Tucson, has been explored for 39 Editor and Publish er , Governor of Colorado, Perhaps the attraction that lures us back miles. It is without moisture and the Western Colorado and Eastern Utah, Denver, Colorado . most is the friendships we made there ... temperature never varies from 72 de Grand Junction, Colorado. So wrote Governor Carr in a letter ,..,. to his friend, A. S. Han son of Phoeni x, Dick Bird, A.R.P .S., F.Z .S., grees the year around. . . . . It is really a grand magazine, who had previously sent him March issue "Camera Trails", the photography, and interesting articles, with "Democrat" Smokey, Deser t Scotty's Radio Feature, and do please continue to give us "Arizona burro, on the cover pag e. We borrowed Regina, Saskatchewan, ~ Sketch Book." .... the excerpts from Governor Carr's lettter Dominion of Canada. . ~ -\; ~ - Mrs. Winifred Cooper, to Mr. Hanson, and at Mr. Hanson's re ~ -- ..-- ~ -...... ,--1/ /, - "\ Edmonton, Alberta, Canadian Radio Commentator Dick '-~-// ' \~ quest we placed the Colorado executive :..,- ~ ? ....._ ,,.- \ l ,,,f7\ ( Dominion of Canada. on our mailing list. 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