"Yours Sincerely"

VIEW OF OUR COUNTRY: Arizona Highways is like a brightly colored kaleidoscopicview of a section of our country that to know is to take delight in. Each issue is as interesting as a novel and much more fascinating-I look forward to the arrival of each new copy with a great deal of pleasure.

Because much of the country you describe and picture falls within Federal grazing district administered by this Service, your magazine is especially interesting to me.

R. H. Rutledge, Director of Grazing, U. S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C.

Each month I have intended writing you to express my pleasure in receiving the current copy of your magazine.

It keeps alive the remembrances of of Arizona and continually brings the realization that we must have missed many of the wonders of the state, and the determination to return at the first possible moment convinced that nothing short of a lifetime there can do justice to Arizona.

Until then, I must be content with memories of the past and anticipation of the future strengthened by your magazine's appearance each month.

One of Arizona's many charms is infinite variety of her beauty and appeal.

Through your good offices, I have received the April issue of Arizona Highways, with notice that I will receive succeeding issues for the next year.

I am convinced publications such as Arizona Highways are a practical necessity in the dissemination of in-formation to the public regarding the highway system being developed with their funds. That Arizona has de-veloped its publication to a high ar-tistic and informative level is evident from the few issues I have seen.

The wise expenditure of public funds, through careful, long-range road planning has resulted in a superior highway system for Arizona. Arizona Highways is privileged to extol the merits and worth of the roads in this state, and to extend the friendly greetings "Happy Traveling" to all visitors in the name of the Arizona Highway department.

THE INTERESTING WRITINGS OF MR. WRIGHT:

We wish to thank you very much for the magazine you are sending us. I learned about it at the Rotary meetings when I was there in Feb ruary. The latest issue brought back a lot of very pleasant memories. We are particularly interested in the writ ings of Frank Lloyd Wright because we used to live a few blocks from him in Oak Park, Ill., before he was so famous.

Your magazine is certainly a continual invitation to get out there again. And, we want to compliment you on the excellent roads your department has provided for us as well as the scenery which Nature has scattered in such wonderful profusion.

F. W. Bedford, Bedford Products, Dunkirk, N. Y.

Reader response to our feature in May by Frank Lloyd Wright has been grateful to Arizona Highways. Mr. Wright and the members of the Taliesin Fellowship have left Arizona for their summer stay in Wisconsin. Early fall will find them back in Paradise Valley.

ANGORA:

I have received from Mrs. W. B. Young of Kirkland, Arizona, a copy of the May issue of your beautiful and interesting magazine. I have enjoyed looking over it a great deal, and am of course pleased to see the fine ar ticle on Angora goats, all so strikingly illustrated.

I know that Mrs. Young and the Arizona Mohair Growers' Association are deeply grateful for your kindness and cooperation in behalf of an industry that is too little known among the rank and file. In behalf of the Angora Journal, the only publication in the world devoted exclusively to the Angora goat and mohair industry, I, too, want to thank you.

Courtland W. Matthews, Editor and Publisher, Angora Journal, Portland, Oregon.

Thanks to Mrs. Young of Kirkland, many people have learned much of that shaggy aristocrat of the range, the Angora goat.

VISITORS FROM PITTSBURGH:

It would take entirely too long for me to express the enjoyment I receive from reading your magazine each month as it comes directed to this office in the name of W. L. Schmidt, 1100 Chamber of Commerce Building.

I feel that you might render me a service by offering a suggestion as to the most interesting attractions that might be possible for one to visit, by automobile, within a period of approximately ten days to two weeks. I might mention that a number of years ago I visited Grand Canyon in northern Arizona and certainly would not pass by the opportunity of again visiting Grand Canyon. That, naturally, would have to be included in my itenerary.

automobile, within a period of approximately ten days to two weeks. I might mention that a number of years ago I visited Grand Canyon in northern Arizona and certainly would not pass by the opportunity of again visiting Grand Canyon. That, naturally, would have to be included in my itenerary.

Chas. H. G. Vogel, The Atlantic Refining Company, 1100 Chamber of Commerce Bldg. Pittsburgh, Pa.

In reply to this communication Arizona Highways was privileged to suggest a ten day trip through Arizona for Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. G. Vogel of Pittsburgh. It was our pleasure to visit with these charming Pennsylvanians when they passed through Phoenix. They subsequently enjoyed a delightful visit to our Enchanted Circle.

WELCOME SCENES:

Through the courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bufton of Miami, Arizona, we have been receiving Arizona Highways. To say the least, this publication is a work of art and possesses an unusual appeal to vacationers. The etchings are remarkable and the photographic reproductions are about the last word. Mrs. Graber was at one time Assistant Dean of Women at the University of Arizona and to her many of the scenes have a welcome familiarity.L. F. Graber, Professor of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.

Many of our readers will remember Mrs. Graber at the University of Arizona. We hope Arizona Highways continues to recall pleasant memories of Arizona.For many months I have been receiving your interesting magazine which I have greatly enjoyed. The illustrations of highways and scenery are splendid and alluring and in my case have resulted in a desire to see the real thing the originals. As a result I am here traversing your roads and viewing your cities and attractive resorts. I have been so impressed by the Arizona climate, by the grandeur of your mountains, and the peace and beauty of the landscape that I have a hankering to remain among you.

SEEING THE ORIGINALS:

Paul Cook, Washington, D. C. (Visiting in Arizona.) It is impossible for any magazine to adequately tell the story of Arizona. Arizona Highways does as well as it can, and our earnest desire is to create in its readers a desire to see the "originals."

ARIZONIQUES

As a national forest, the Apache National Forest in Arizona and New Mexico is 41 years old. There are 350 miles of trout streams running in it, and an abundance of wild game. Fifty thousand people visit the forest annually.

It is estimated that 145,000 persons of Mexican descent are residents of Arizona.

Average rainfall in northern Arizona is from eight to fifteen inches.

Arizona flora ranges from the subtropical to the sub-alpine.

Mesquite pods have been used for centuries by the Indians for food. Ground acorns are used by the Indians for flour.

Arizona's game refuges cover a total area of 4,117,762 acres of which 2,617,762 are under state control, while the remainder is under control of the Federal government.

Eight of the national monuments in Arizona contain archaeological sites. They are: Navajo National Monument, an area of 360 acres in the Navajo Indian reservation in Northern Arizona, containing three cave pueblos, Betatakin, Keet Seel and Inscription House; Canyon de Chelly National Monument, near Chin Lee in Northern Arizona, an area of 83,840 acres, with 138 major ruins; Wupatki National Monument, an area north of Flagstaff of 35,865 acres, consisting of three groups of ruins; Walnut Canyon National Monument, near Flagstaff, an area of 4,750 acres including about 300 cliff dwellings built under sloping canyon walls; Tuzigoot National Monument, near Clarkdale, consisting of three large pueblos, one of which has been excavated; Montezuma Castle National Monument, within an area of 521 acres near Camp Verde, containing ancient cliff dwellings, the most important of which is a five-story structure located in a natural cave in a cliff; Tonto National Monument, near Roosevelt dam on the Apache Trail, with an area of 1120 acres consisting of two principal ruins; Casa Grande National Monument, near Coolidge, extensive ruins of Hohokam culture contained within an area of 472 acres, and which derives its name from a four-story prehistoric edifice, the largest structure in the group of ruins.

Land acquired from Mexico by the United States in the Gadsden Purchase consisted of 45,500 square miles between the Gila River and the present southern boundary of Arizona and New Mexico. The cost was $10,000,000. Tucson was the largest city within the area included in the Gadsden Purchase.

The famous Butterfield Stage route of territorial days extended 2,759 miles from San Francisco to St. Louis, by way of Los Angeles, Yuma, Tucson and El Paso. The Butterfield Stage carried mail twice a week over this route. A trip consisted of about 25 days of hard travel.

National forest lands in Arizona consist of about 12,000,000 acres.

There are more than 100 species of trees in Arizona.

One of the most famous early day roads in Arizona was El Camino del Diablo (Devil's Highway) extending through the southwest corner of Arizona from Sonoyta, Sonora to Yuma.. Father Kino explored this route in 1699. A traveler, two centuries later, described this route: "as a land of 'silence, solitude, and sunshine,' with little to distract the eye from the awful surrounding dreariness and desolation except the bleaching skeletons of horses and the painfully frequent crosses marking the graves of those who perished of thirst.' In 1859, the following advertisement appeared for the San Antonio and San Diego Stage company: "Passengers and Express Matter forwarded in New Coaches, drawn by six mules over the entire length of our Line, excepting from San Diego to Fort Yuma, a distance of 180 miles, which we cross on mule back. Passengers Guaranteed in their tickets to ride in coaches, excepting 180 miles, as stated above... An armed escort travels through the Indian country, with each Mail Train, for the protection of the Mails and Passengers."

The Gila Monster is the only poisonous lizard found in the desert southwest.

In 1911 Robert G. Fowler broke the world's sustained flight record by flying from Yuma to Maricopa without stopping-165 miles in 206 minutes.

KFAD, now radio station KTAR, was the first radio station licensed in Arizona. It received its license June 21, 1922, the 36th station in the United States.

The story of the Spanish conquest in Arizona has been contained in such journals as "Descrubimiento de las siete Cuidades," by Fray Marcos de Niza; Pedro de Castanedo's "Relacion de las Jornadas del Cibola;" and Father Kino's memoirs of Pimeria Alta.

The pictographs of the pre-historic Indians, of which there are many in this state, constitute Arizona's first written literature.

There is no word or expression in the Navajo language to signify affection, or love, or endearment.

A grave of a Navajo is sacred to all members of his family, and it is considered sacrilege for an outsider to step on the grave.

Jack Heath of Tombstone, who was one of six defendants who escaped the death sentence in February, 1884, after killing three people in a raid on a store, was seized from jail by angry citizens and hanged. A coroner's jury decided "he came to his death from lack of breath."

The condition of ranges on March 1 in Arizona was 80 per cent of normal compared with 75 per cent one month ago, 77 per cent one year ago, and with 84 per cent for the ten-year average.

Tucson was the first city in the United States to establish a municipal airport.

For the year ending June 30, 1938, there were 13,000 Indian children in Arizona, of whom 8,000 were enrolled in Indian schools.

Over a ten year period, Nogales has an average of 318 days per annum of sunshine. Thie city does not experience either extremes of heat or cold weather.

The Arizona Cactus and Native Flora Society maintains a desert botanical garden on 800 acres in Papago park, between Phoenix and Tempe.

THINGS OF INTEREST