. In & around the Grand Canyon; the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona . ces, overthe cluster of homes at their feet. It is a typical Western town. The railway tracklines one side of the main street, and businessblocks, many of which are saloons, the other, fullyjustifying the aflfirmation made in the towns adver-tising literature that there is nothing puritanicalabout Flagstaff, It is the county seat of CoconinoCounty, and has a- population of about twenty-fivehundred people. It possesses a fine stone court-house, high school, three churches, and the Territo-rial Normal School. It
. In & around the Grand Canyon; the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona . ces, overthe cluster of homes at their feet. It is a typical Western town. The railway tracklines one side of the main street, and businessblocks, many of which are saloons, the other, fullyjustifying the aflfirmation made in the towns adver-tising literature that there is nothing puritanicalabout Flagstaff, It is the county seat of CoconinoCounty, and has a- population of about twenty-fivehundred people. It possesses a fine stone court-house, high school, three churches, and the Territo-rial Normal School. It is the trading centre for thecattle, sheep, and mining men of a large surround-ing country. As a pleasant summer resort it hasalready acquired a reputation in the territory. THE GRAND CANYON 45 Whichever way the traveller approaches Flag-staff, whether from the western desert region orfrom the wild rockiness of New Mexico, he is en-chanted as the train enters the forest lands aboutfifteen miles before reaching Flagstaff. The tallpines, growing larger as the forest is The Watering Troughs at Ckdai^ Ranch on the Way fromFlagstaff to the Canyon. are a pleasant and welcome sight after passing overthe arid lands of western New Mexico and therugged, rock-ribbed dreariness of the continentaldivide. The whole face of the country changes at this point,as if you had been transported to another land. The mo-notony of the leafless undulating prairies gives place topicturesque mountains and fertile valleys, richly deckedwith green deciduous foliage, and the eye rests with plea- 46 IN AND AROUND sure upon long vistas of pine forest, where monarchs of theglades raise their towering crests hundreds of feet towardthe sky, each tree standing solitary and straight, as ifplanted and trained by skilled hands, and with not a par-ticle of undergrowth to choke up the surface of the green-sward beneath. This grand woodland scene stretchesaway from the base of the San Francisco Mountains so
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