WELCOMES YOU TO ARIZONA

Welcome ... TO ARIZONA Executive Office

State House Phoenix, Arizona April 28, 1939

Dear Friends:

Another travel season has started. The highways of our land are filled with happy people seeking the thrill and delight of the open road ahead.

May I invite you and welcome you to Arizona--the Empire of Enchantment in the Scenic Southwest?

Within the borders of our state are countless vistas of unsurpassed beauty and grandeur whose charm will leave enduring memories.

The Grand Canyon! Petrified Forest! Painted Desert! Canyon de Chelly! Boulder Dam and Lake Mead! Wonderland of Rocks! Tonto Natural Bridge! The heavy forests of the Kaibab Plateau and the White Mountains! The list is endless.

Arizona, too, abounds in a wealth of archaeological lore-remains of its ancient peoples. You can visit their modern descendants, the colorful Apaches and Hopis.

I assure you that wherever you travel in Arizona fine roads offer you safe and swift conduct and will add to the enjoyment of your journey.

On behalf of the friendly citizens of Arizona I wish to extend to you a most cordial welcome.

Very sincerely yours,

It's June! Tra! La! La!

And along comes June, with a gay swirl of her dresses, and the scent of perfume, never equalled in all of Paris. Each month in Arizona has a personality of its own. Monotony is not one of gay Arizona's faults, like a tiresome old man grumbling over his teacups. June means that Winter has wrapped his ragged cloak about him, and departed for places unknown. June is a happy month and in June the highways of Arizona, like ribbons of sprightly lace, stream their way along miles upon miles, enchanting miles leading to enchanting vistas for our citizens and our visitors. Our highways of June wind their way through no more pleasant region than Oak Creek canyon, a view of which tantalizes us on the cover page. R. C. Proctor caught the beauty and the invitation of this garden spot. Highway 79 from Flagstaff to Jerome and Prescott, loafs along this laughing stream, which is bordered by trees and stones.

Turning to other matters of passing interest, we give you this month an article by Helen M. Peck on all the glorious summer region around Flagstaff. Mrs. Peck lives at Wikieup, Arizona, loves the land and can describe it.

And again we have Mrs. White Mountain Smith with us. A curious reader asked us some weeks ago, after reading some articles by Mrs. Smith in Arizona Highways, if she is an Indian! No! Mam! Mrs. Smith is a charming native daughter of Virginia, whom we are proud to call our own. Her husband is Park Ranger at the Petrified Forest. Mrs. Smith has for years lived in northern Arizona. We think she writes well, and we know she's authentic. She writes for a number of magazines, keeps house, and has adopted an Indian baby. This month she discusses Indian jewelry.

If you are going to the Fair at San Francisco, please drop in to the Arizona exhibit and say hello. Stephen Shadegg, who lectures there, has given us an account in this issue of what there is to see. We saw some of David Swing's murals before they were sent to Treasure Island, and those murals alone are worth the trip. The Fair commission has done right well by the state at the Fair and to you we extend their invitation for a visit.

As you thumb through this issue we hope you enjoy the eight pages of color blooming out in the middle of this book. Mrs. Lou Ella Archer graciously lent us the color plates from her two books of verse, "Canyon Shadows," and "Sonnets of the Southwest," color portraits of the southwest are from paintings by Lillian Wilhelm Smith and one from George Elbert Burr.

Mrs. Pearl Carlton gives us a word picture in verse of the beautiful Episcopalian church, St. Stephen's in her home city, Douglas. It is a nice tribute. And speaking of churches, Mrs. Pauline Claffey, in a near future issue, will give us a sketch of the first Protestant Episcopal church in Arizona, St. Paul's, in Tombstone. It grew and flourished in the heyday of Helldorado Town.

And so we leave you for June! And may your June be full of miles of pleasant traveling and may there always be happy memories behind and always colorful horizons before you, wherever you go.

ARIZONA HIGHWAYS

PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF GOOD ROADS BY THE ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT RAYMOND CARLSON, EDITOR CIVILIZATION FOLLOWS THE IMPROVED HIGHWAY ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR 10C PER COPY ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO ARIZONA HIGHWAYS, ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT, PHOENIX, ARIZONA PRINTED IN THE U. S. Α.

R. T. (BOB) JONES, GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA

ARIZONA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION:

W. R. HUTCHINS, STATE HIGHWAY ENGINEER For june nineteen hundred and thirty-nine arizona highways is pleased to offer a front cover depicting a fishing scene in oak creek canyon, the work of r. c. proctor and in keeping with the season's spirit of travel and vacation-time we give you travel notes and pictures, and a bit of this and that-

GOVERNOR BOB JONES

WELCOMES YOU TO ARIZONA.

ARIZONA ON TREASURE ISLAND.

SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD

INDIAN JEWELRY

ARIZONA SKETCH воок-

FEATURING G. A. RANDALL.

LET'S GO FISHIN'

WHEELS THROUGH THE WEST

PORTRAITS OF THE SOUTHWEST....

ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH, DOUGLAS, ARIZONA....

A tribute in verse by Pearl Woodworth Carlton.

MYSTERIOUS PALMS OF THE KOFAS.

PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT OF ARIZONA ROADS ALONG THE HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS......

ROAD PROJECTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

YOURS SINCERELY AND SINCERELY TO YOU

ARIZONA - Facts about this empire of Enchantment in the Scenic Southwest

1939 ARIZONA ROAD MAP