"I TRAVEL THE SKYWAYS OF THE GRAND CANYON"

FOUR PICTORIALS DEPICT IN PANORAMA OF VISTA AND EXPANSE ENCHANTING ARIZONA, WONDER STATE OF NATURE'S GRANDEUR, BEJEWELLED QUEEN OF THE EMPIRE OF THE WEST. LOVELY . . APPEALING . . BEAUTIFUL.

We sought, not long ago, pictorial photographs of scenic Arizona to help us in our mission of best telling the story of Arizona. A contest was announced with three cash prizes for the winners. Then came the judging. Hundreds of pictures were submitted by pictorialists from all over Arizona. The judges examined and reexamined, and finally the result was four photographs instead of three, with the award for four prizes instead of three. The judges felt elimination of one of the four pictorials would be too difficult.

ARIZONA HIGHWAYS again proudly presents four pictorials of Arizona the Enchanting.

Norman Rhoades Garrett of Prescott submitted the first prize winner, his famed ON THE RIM, a pictorial of the Grand Canyon. That illusive, evasive "something" which everyone feels upon seeing the Grand Canyon, seems to be grasped in this pictorial. Perhaps the tree in the foreground, gnarled and weather-beaten, lends an intangible mystery to the Canyon in the distance. A prepossessing view!

MOUNTAIN MEADOWS, submitted by Jas. R. Wilson of Phoenix, was awarded second prize. The pictorial was taken in Coconino county in northern Arizona. Here is portrayed the expanse that is Arizona, the distance and the beauty. You sense the storm that hangs in the clouds above the mountain peak and in the leaves of the trees is the music of an impatient wind. A lovely view!

L. J. Bennett of Winslow catches the freshness and the sparkle of the clear water of Oak Creek as it tumbles over the rocks in his associate third prize winner, OAK CREEK. It is the general impression of the visitors to our state that too little mention is made of Oak Creek Canyon. Mr. Bennett's pictorial shows the cliffs in the background and trees by the creek. A refreshing view.

The other third prize winner, M. H. Deshler of Phoenix, goes to the desert for his study of PALO VERDE. The usual custom of the desert is to center the pictorial study on a saguaro. Mr. Deshler's featuring of the Palo Verde tree, perhaps, struck a responsive note in the eyes of the judge. Of all the inhabitants of the Arizona desert, none has the charm and gayety of the Palo Verde. Mr. Deshler has likewise caught the desert in the background, with the cacti and the mountain range. A representative study.

We wish to thank our many friends who submitted photographs to our contest. Many of these pictorials will appear in other issues of ARIZONA HIGHWAYS.

Our contest proved Arizona is indeed the land of enchantment and of infinite variety. And we know of the inquiring interest our citizens have in their own state and their appreciation of the beauty of the desert and the mountains and the sky of Arizona.

Our pictorials in this issue are representative of the broad fair land of Arizona: the Canyon, strange and mysterious; the mountain scene, lonely and lovely; the sparkling joyousness of a mountain stream; the silence, and strangeness of the desert. All so appealing and beautiful.-R.C.