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I~Il!Z(OJ~@ MTI~Miwi81~ ~ Mav • 1946 '' '' D~Iyf 'F Ffilin BOY\ ! 0 0 O 0 0 0 i~Il!Z(OJ~@ MTI~mIWi81~ ~ mAv • 1946 '' '' D~IYf 'f ffilIn BOY\ ! 0 0 o _ 0 0 0 At isolated sidings along the railroads or along lonely roads m the cat tl e country you come upon loading chutes. ~ore than lik ely they are deserted because only in the spring and fall when the cattle are on their way to market are they used. They are practical, sturdy tools of the industry, built strong to last , built stronger to hold jostling, frantic cattle; not built to pretty up the landscape or please the architect's eye. They look so forlorn and forgotten when you see t hem from the train window, all alone and away out from nowhere. If you drive by them in your automobile, they are si lent and uncommunic ative , and on ly on close inspection will the ini tials of cowboys carved thereon remind you t hat they are part of a business, the business of beef, and that in a distant way they are related to dinner tables all over the land and beyond the seas. Sometime when you drive by , climb up on a rai l of the corral and carve your initials, and maybe if it is a bright day with high white clouds you'll hear a story of cattle and of men who work them . You'll hear about roundups and and the hard drives from the ranges. There will be the smell of dust and the good fine smell of catt le and horses and leather. Above the bawling of the cattle you'll hear the high hard yip! yips! of the cowhands. You'll feel the excitement for surely nothing could be as exciting as the final loading of cattle, the end of weeks of hard , plodding work. The work is fast and orderly. You wonder how even the sturdy loading bins can contain such stomping and pushing and crowding. When there i~ a pause you'll he ar the gossip of the ranges and you'll learn about prices, markets and cattle brands. And the dust will fly high and thick and 4 he air will be heavy with it . Then it will all be over. The cattle cars or the trucks will have been loaded and the noise of the angry cattle will grow dimmer and dimm er. The hands will head back to the hills and the dust will sett le. Stillness and lon esomeness will return to the scene and that forgotten, forlorn look will come back. By that time you will ha ve finished your carv ing but you will have heard a story.-R. C. llRIZONll HIGHWflVS "Civilization Follow s the Improved Highway" About this time of the year, in the deep desert, Spring is packing up her dresses The mag azine, Arizona Highways, is presented · by the and head ing for th e higher country. Summer, a steady an d well-paying guest people of Arizona to bring yo u in word and picture tbe story of our sta te , yesterday, today and tomorrow; to g uide for lo! these many years, ha s inform ed the management that reservations made a your p leasant journey through thi s smiling land of time long time ago will be taken and the operators of the desert resort have notified eno ugh and room eno ugh and to tell you of the unhurried life therein; to point your way to the distant places Spring to turn in her keys. You know how the housing situation is. throughout our great Southwest, which add to yo ur travels la! Spring is dancing her M ay dance where the clear, cold the spice of a dventur e and discovery; and, to share with So with a tra! la! you our priue in our own corner of America, the deep streams come down from the snow banks, where the mountain flowers play by the West, so ri ch in scenic enchantment, so colorful, so mem­ roadside. There are still many flowers in the desert, forsooth, and eve n now the orable it is beyond co mpar e ... saguaro and the ocotillo and th e palo verde are wearing- their very gayest blooms RAYMOND CAHLSON, Editor. Design but th e light touch of Spring is felt in the higher parts of our land more than ever. George M. Avey, The little peach trees on the Hopi mesas are green and bright in th e sun and the 1946 ~ No . 5 cottonwoods are singing of the summer months to come. !Vlay is a gay mon th and VOL. XXII ~ MAY, the May danc e is th e gayest and most colorful of all. SIDNEY P. OSBORN you to Ansel Adams, whose Speaking of co lor, it is about tim e we introduc e Governor of Arizqna photography has added so much to these pages and to whose work we do, to use a worn but descriptive phrase, point with pncte. lYir. Adams is a San 1s·ranciscan by ARIZONA HIGHWAY COMM ISSION m · the western lands by h a bit, by reputation and achiev eme nt habitat, a wanderer H. 0. Pac e, Chairman·-·---··-··-:-------·--·--···-··--··Casa Grande photographers. Ed ucat ed as a musician, he one of America's most distin guis h ed (\farce ! N. Forman, Vice-Chairman ... ·-···-- -·····---·-···-·--Yuma in th1s conn ect ion took up photography as an adjunct to his hobby of mountaineering. J. M. Smith, Commissioner .. ·---·····----·-·-----····-·--·-·--Central that he first visited Yosemite in 19Hi and h as been identified with that area since Dewey Farr, Commissioner___···--·---·····--·-·····---··-·--·St. Johns year. His published work, either in photographs or text or both, includes such books JJern,,,·d MacDona ld, Commissioner···-----···-·--·-·--Kine;man as: The High Sierra, Taos .Pueblo, lV1aking a .Photograph, Sierra Nevada, Th e John Gene Eagles, Executive Secr etary· -····-----···---·····------Phoenix Muir Trai l, Illustrated Guide to Yosemite Valley, Michae l and Anne m Yosem it e VI/. C. Lefebvre, State Highway Engineer·-···---··-·Phoenix Va ll ey, Born Free and Equal, the story of the Japan ese-America ns at !Vlanzanar; K. G . Langmade, Specia l CounseL_··--·-·· ------··-----··--Phoenix and J:lasic-.l:'hoto Series, practical textbooks on applied photog raphy. He h as bee11 vice-chairman, advisory committee on Photography, 1Y1useum 01 !Vlodern Art, New York, and was director, photographic section, lJepartment of l<'ine Arts, San l<'ran­ cisco Golden Gate lnternational J!:xposit10n. ·l'his past year he has been in charge L£G£no of the Department of Photography, Calilornia School of 1,·ine Arts, at San .l:'ranc1sco. ln 1941-42 h e was commiss10ned by the lJ epartmen t of Int erior, VVashington, lJ. C., c; f\AND C1\NYON SKYSCAPE. ........ .. ___ .·······--·-·CovEn to do a series of photo-murals for the Department of Interior lfoilding and has just Anspl Adams hnppened by the Sout h Rim of Grand been awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memonal Foundation Canyo n w liP11 e,ll't h and sky antl a setting sun 1'-lational Parks and Monuments Colllh in e<l to form a ~trange and start lin g fo rmati on to prepare a book of photographs and text on the of h0n11tr nncl co lor. 'of this country. YVe cou ld tell you much more .about him, but nothing can speak of his a bility as well as his photographs. The name of Ansel Adams is h ereby enro lled EARLY WESTERN PHOTOGRAPHERS .. ·--··----··-------4 in the fami ly of Arizona Highways. His contributions, we hope, will add much to f'liot:og-rnph_v is fun for the moaerns; to the pioneers i11 the weste rn co untr y it was fun-and hard work. your en joym en t of these pages. isn't th ese days?) we thirik you / If you are interested in photography (and who UNDER WESTERN SKIES "Ea rly YVestern .Photographers" by Beaumont !) will en joy an account in these pages ot An attempt to portray in color st udies the charm an ,l _with the 1Y1useum f Newhall. Mr. Newhall, who has b een associated for a long time moo<ls antl chan ging personality of our western sk ies. I of Modern Art in New York City, is the author of ".Photograp hy : A Short Critical CENTER INSERT History, " and is well equipp ed to tell us of the pioneer photographers who came th is way when th ere were tew roads and th e Indians were numerous and generally A POSTSCRIPT FOR TRA VELERS ... ..... ·-·········-··········3 0 hostile. Ou r illustrations are from original prints and when you read of the equipment A brief note ca lling your attention to Frontier Days, those early-day photographers had to carry yo u will marvel at th e exce llence of the Pow-Wow and Smok i Dances held in Ariwna. their ar t. Im ag ine having to tote your own dark room and developing from a wet DA VIS DAM .. ----··········----···········-···--··········-······--····--··----·-··32 plate! Another chapter in taming the Colorat lo- to contro l it:, water, curh it s temper arnl to mak e pow er. They ai·e, breaking ground now, up in Mohave County , for Davis Dam, the ha s taken next in the series of dams to contro l the Colorado Riv er. Herb McLaughlin THE LONGHORN ........ ----····················· ······················· ······38 some pictures for Arizona Highways, which we herein present, to record the His foot steps ar e no long er hear,l in the land­ beginning of thi s great project, the most important building project in peace-time llut t.he cattle country will neYer forg' et him .
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