ALONG THE HIGHWAYS AND BY-WAYS

LIFE EDITORS-PLEASE NOTETHE GRAND CANYON IS IN ARIZONA: When LIFE magazine inadvertently captioned the Grand Canyon of Arizona, "The Grand Canyon of Colorado," alert Arizona citizens wired, wrote, airmailed corrections to LIFE editors. LIFE in a later issue rectified the error, so now the Grand Canyon is back where it has been for millions of years and everybody is happy. Arizona sincerely hopes the Grand Canyon can be allowed to remain where it is for a couple of more million years.MR. PRIESTLEY WRITES FOR THE POST Mr. J. B. Priestley, English author and Arizona enthusiast, in an article entitled "Rainbow on the Desert," in a recent issue of the Saturday Evening Post, penned a masterful tribute to Arizona and especially the desert region of Navajoland. We advise anyone planning to come to Arizona to read Mr. Priestley's article. Mr. Priestley has spent three winters on a ranch near Wickenburg. He becomes positively lyrical when he writes of the state.

There is a strange loneliness and beauty in this land. Time goes slowly and life like the Indian and the barren landscape seems never to change.NOTES: Contractors have laid the base aggregate and will before late fall have completed the paving of 35 miles of Highway 60 between Salt river and Showlow-A stretch of the Morristown-Wickenburg highway, from Morristown to the Hassayampa river has been completed. The work on the rounded shoulders of this road is about the best in the state Progress is reported on the road contract on the Superior highway slashing away at solid rock is very arduous. a tourist bureau has been placed in operation in the Arizona high way department which will operate in conjunction with the plans department Tourist traffic to Boulder dam recreational area is reaching high marks this year and incidentally flood waters of the Colorado river have resulted in a great rise in the waters of Lake Mead, the "little ocean"

The Prescott Frontier days celebration and the Flagstaff Pow-Wow this year attracted record crowds the shows were exceptionally well presented...

With mid July passed, there is every indication that Arizona will experience one of the most pleasant summers in years. The sun even on the desert has not been so severe and up in the mountains of Arizona the weather has been comfortably cool.

FROM HOLBROOK TO CLIFTON: From Holbrook, Highway 66 goes straight and fast to Lupton, just west of the Arizona-New Mexico line. The highway skirts the Painted Desert, traverses a high plateau over which the airliners travel bringing mail and passengers from the east. Sometimes in the winter high winds and snow lash with fury over this plateau beating into hopeless submission the sparse vegetation, but in the summer the country is hard and dry and beautiful. Side roads near Lupton cut away from Highway 66 into a colorful canyon region visited but seldom by the modern traveler. There are rich colors in the canyon walls, miles and miles of landscape unadorned by vegetation or human dwelling.

Across the state line from Lupton Highway 66 takes you to Gallup. From there you can cut back into Arizona to the Navajo Indian reservation of Apache county to Window Rock, St. Michael and on to Ganado. This is the Navajo country. The Window Rock Indian agency, trim neat rock buildings, built against rock cliffs. The Mission of Ganado where the hospital is and where the Indian girls are trained to be nurses.