Yours Sincerely

Yours Sincerely METEOR IN CANADA:

We have been taking your fine magazine for some time, but never thought that Canada had anything in common with Arizona, which would be at the same time nearly unique between the two, until now. But we have-and Canada's first known meteoric crater, with a diameter of more than two miles from crest to crest, exceeds Arizona's Meteor Crater by a large margin.

The Royal Ontario Museum, which had a part in the discovery, has been rated by the British Museum officials as one of the ten best in the world today. Among its more important collections is its library of Chinese works, which covers an unbroken period of more than five thousand years, and has no equal now, either in or out of China. This Museum also has the personal headdress (and other belongings) worn by Sitting Bull at the time of his battle with General Custer.

R. B. Johnston Toronto, Canada Far up in Canada's sub-artic circle, in the northern barren lands of Quebec's Angava area, a new meteoric crater has been discovered. It is larger than Arizona's Meteor Crater, which still is an eyeful of crater.

HE CAN'T CUSS THE APACHES:

What with having articles to write all the time, and being deluged with reader mail, I have plenty to do besides writing to tell you how wonderful your magazine is but I can't help it! All that Hopi Indian stuff in the July issue was particularly interesting to me, since it's about my home country so was that article on Apache cattlemen, since I'm an ex-cowpuncher from Arizona.

Pueblo Indians, from Hopis to those far over in New Mexico, are grand people, and many of them are close friends of mine always were civilized, of course, long before white men came. Not out trying to murder the neighbors like some other tribes. But I can't cuss Apaches as some do, since, in the early days, they spent fifty years or so trying hard to get along with the whites, who robbed and murdered them most brutally and inhumanly, until finally the great patience of the Apaches wore out, and they decided to get even. Boy, did they ever! A little handful of them made a com plete monkey out of the whole U. S. Army for ages, and never did get licked.

Still, Apaches, Navajos, Comanches and all the bronco tribes learned that it was good business to stay far away from the quiet, peaceful, Pueblos-jumping on them was like catching a wildcat; you'd need help to turn loose! Slow to fight, like white Yanks now, but foolish business to get 'em riled too much!

Jason Lucas Angling Editor SPORTS AFIELD Boulder City, Nevada

HONOR WHERE HONOR IS DUE:

While reading the June issue of ARIZONA HIGHWAYS, I could not help but notice the heated argument over one of our famous dams, erected across the famous Boulder Canyon, beginning in 1928.

It is well that we should honor a great engineer and President under whose administration the dam was built, but the real honor belongs to the Great Grand Architect of the entire Universe who gave us all these spots of beauty and wonderment to mutually enjoy and benefit by, and so, when we shall meet him face to face there on the other side, he is not going to ask us how many mountains, rivers, creeks, or dams we had named after us, but what did we do to preserve and enjoy in mutual harmony the gifts he gave us.

As long as there are humans on Earth, there are going to be differences of opinion and jealousy of honors bestowed on other humans. Would it not be much nicer to be able to look at these wonderful scenic spots of beauty wherein the love of the great Creator towards all Mankind abounds, than to look at it as just another political project......

Edward J. Jensen East Orange, New Jersey

A LEGAL QUESTION:

As an old Arizonan. I usually buy a copy of ARIZONA HIGHWAYS every month. Until now, I have been able to resist the temptation to "rush into print,' as old Judge Pattee used to say, about Hoover Dam. Your continued attempt to hide behind a legal quibble has finally "gotten me down." I practiced law for some years in Tucson before I found a more satisfactory, if not more lucrative, way of life. At that time it was a well recognized principle of law in Arizona that the Constitution of the United States, treaties with foreign countries, and statutes of the Congress of the United States constituted the supreme law of the land. Enactments of States contrary thereto were null and void.

The Congress of the United States has passed a statute naming a certain dam which the United States built in the Colorado river "Hoover Dam." It seems to me to be illegal for you to call it anything else in your publication.

Rev. Aubrey Bray El Cajon, California

CAMELBACK IN INDIA:

Your beautiful magazine is welcomed with delight and goes from hand to hand to hand Indian and European from the moment it lands here. From it we have beautiful framed pictures on the walls in every room of our bungalow. The desert around this dusty railway town in the middle of India is known as "jungle" and I can't resist sending you a snap of the local "Camelback Mountain." While a resident of Phoenix, I was an ardent climber of your famous Camelback there. Though not so high I was thrilled to find one here and another one in the foothills of the Himalayas where we go to study Indian languages. I might say that this Jhansi edition also has a "praying monk" a real live Indian sadhu (Holy man) walled away in a hole in the rock by a small temple on the tail of the camel. Famous in Jhansi's bloody history as the last stand of the mutineers in 1856, it has several other names too, but it will never be anything but Camelback Mountain to me!

Miss Beth C. Brunemeier Superintendent of Nurses Mission Hospital Jhansi, U.P., India

BACK COVER

"THE FARM" BY FRED RAGSDALE. Taken with a 4x5 Graphic View Camera, wide field Ektar lens, one second at F22, Ektachrome. View is the farming country just southeast of Tucson. Time: April 21, 1949, 5:45 o'clock in the afternoon. Warm light on cottonwood trees appealed to the photographer and interested him in view.

WIND AND HEATHER

She bids farewell to the withering wind, He cannot pause this hour: He will go; nor cease, rescind, Nor halt for any flower, On, he flies, and on through mists,A sky-shore plover ever,While she flaunts her amethysts: But follows, follows never.

The gale hunts heaven with windrowed zest, Unmindful of the heather; Yet she is the quarry of his quest,Winnowing on her tether.

CHERRY MCKAY

WHEN SUMMER GOES

October rushes busilyRolling up her sleeves; Shaking out her carpets, Brushing down her leaves: Gathering in her harvests, Making crannies tight: Preparing beds for winter, Turning down the light.

EMILY I. ALLEMAN

CAMOUFLAGE

A white flagand the startled doe is gone! Leaping with stiff-legged bounds across the logs, she vanishes into the alder brake to stand immovable and watch the place where she has hidden them, her velvet twins, supremely confident the mottled shade will make a camouflage of leaf and fern to keep them safe from predatory eyes.

CORRALED

My lady of the open range, You tease me with your skittish ways: Across life's mesas, up its hills. I've kept your trail for many days.

You toss your pretty, well-set head, Your dainty heels flash in my face: But I will rope you-Yippee Yil A cowboy likes a thrilling chase.

My love will be my lariat, I'll fling it 'round your fractious heart, And claim you, saucy little bronc, Marked with my brand till death shall part.

SPENDTHRIFT

The elm is hung with golden coin Minted by sun and frost; But soon the wealth is scattered far By a spendthrift holocaust.

GEORGEA RICE CLARK OPPOSITE PAGE “ON THE MOGOLLON RIM” BY ALLEN C. REED. This is the Rim country on a late afternoon in September. The picture was taken on the forest service road leading to Young, near Baker Butte, about twenty miles from Pine. This is a typical profile of the Mogollon (Muggy-own) which extends for 200 miles through the eastern half of Arizona. Like a rocky cliff shoreline of an ancient sea, it separates the higher mountainous plateau to the north and the rolling hills below which sweep down to the desert. It is the watershed for many streams that form the Salt and its chain of reservoirs such as Apache Lake. Speed Graphic, 4x5 Ektachrome, 1/5 second at F16.