ALONG THE HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS

IT'S JUNE: It's June, the month the poets make such an ado about. Summer is upon us, vacation time begins, and we turn our thoughts to the far away places in northern Arizona, and to the highway mountain regions, the regions of the forests and the cool fishing streams.

Highway department officials expect the heaviest travel season in the history of the state. One reason for this is the Golden Gate Exposition in San Francisco, which will attract thousands of midwestern, southerners and southwesterners, who will traverse Arizona to and from California.

To our friends, venturing into Arizona this summer, may we assure you again of summer traveling comfort no matter where you go in the state. Phoenix, Tucson and Yuma are made comfortable through widespread air-conditioning of public buildings, inns, hotels, courts, and restaurants.

Douglas, Nogales, Bisbee, Safford, Globe and Miami-the larger cities in southern and central Arizona-enjoy comparatively cool summer weather. The traveler too often is unaware of this fact.

So when you visit in Arizona this summer, remember that you will find as pleasant weather at the Chiricahua National Monument in Cochise county as you will on the north Rim of the Grand Canyon.

RAINBOW BRIDGE: The travel bureau of the Arizona highway department has received many inquiries this spring about Rainbow Bridge, just across the northern Arizona state line in Utah. J. B. Priestley's story, "Rainbow on the Desert" in the Saturday Evening Post, some months ago, perhaps has turned the national spotlight on this scenic area more than ever before.

From Cameron, the traveler leaves U. S. Highway 89, travels 110 miles north through the Navajo reservation to Rainbow Lodge. This trip can be made in four hours. The road is a graded road, maintained in part by the Indian service. Don't expect a boulevard but have no fear for your passage, because automobiles are driven over the road daily. In wet weather, the visitor should be careful lest he bogs down in some of the arroyos along the way.

Modern, comfortable accommodations are provided at Rainbow Lodge. The trip from the Lodge to the Rainbow Bridge is made by horseback and pack train.

1939 ARIZONA HIGHWAY MAP IS AVAILABLE: The 1939 Arizona highway map, issued by the Arizona highway department, is now available. Described as one of the most beautiful highway maps in the country, this map gives a complete account of the highway system with a table of distances and points of scenic interest.

The cover was prepared by George M.

Avey, Arizona highway department artist.

Dan Kennedy, whose Chuck Wagon is a winter institution hereabouts, has moved Chuck Wagon and all for a summer visit around Chicago and Detroit.

And speaking of fishing in the Gulf of California we have just received a card from Don Luis, amiable patron of the Miramar Beach at Guaymas, informing us that marlin are running big and strong.

Note to George Fitzpatrick, editor of the New Mexico Magazine, (Address: State Capitol, Santa Fe, N. M.) thanks for the nice plug you gave Arizona Highways in the Mail Bag for May. A number of your readers have written for copies of Highways.

A timid easterner writes to the Travel Bureau of the Arizona Highways department, wondering how many jugs of water a motorist should load in his car before crossing the state. Note to Timid Easterner: You can travel all over the state of Arizona under the same conditions as you travel the most sequestered boulevard in your city.

Note to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City: How about that article you promised us? Now that you have the Fair open, and the coal strike settled you should have time to write... Time's a' wasting.

MOUNTAIN TRAGEDY By CARL LARSON