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This week in Flagstaff history for Dec. 15, 2007

Saturday, December 15, 2007

100 YEARS AGO

David Mitchell, president of the Arizona Sandstone Company who has been installing new machinery at his quarry here, has returned to Los Angeles where his company has a contract for its new post office. His brother is still here and in charge of a large force of men who will be put to work as soon as weather permits. Enrollment at the Territorial Prison has reached its highest point ever with 104 residents. The accommodations are grievously limited.

About 60 miles west of Kanab, Utah, 23 drilling outfits are seeking the bounty of nature: Oil. One well is 900 feet deep. Yield will probably soon equal to the Beaumont Fields as the hills for many miles around this area have the disagreeable, though prosperous, odor of oil.

The new Arizona Territorial Seal design has been received by Secretary Nichols. Its a great improvement, is altogether very pleasing and one which our territory need not be ashamed.

High 53 Wednesday. Low 19 Tuesday. Winds are northwesterly.

75 YEARS AGO

The new issue of license plates for 1933 are now available at the County Assessors office. Through Jan 31, they will cost $3.50, then $7 after that. Our new plates are of natural copper with the numbers and letters in black, according to county Treasurer W. E. Jelly.

Mrs. Harry Rovich, who owns and operates the Trading Post and Guest Ranch at Shonto on the Navajo Nation, was in town and reports that more than four miles of steel wire have just come and that Mr. Rovich has Indians cutting 150 telephone poles for his own telephone line. He will tie in between Tuba and Kayenta.

The Flagstaff Relief coffers are down to $131. There were 255 men helped with funds, and 119 are still waiting. Another 431 men are registered in Miss Lena Laney's employment bureau in the county Farm Agent's office. It is asked that if each citizen will contribute $1 each, or even less, it would be very helpful. Chairman Dr. Grady Gammage will be encouraging the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to send $3,000 for each January and February.

High 57 Sunday. Low 14 Wednesday. Rain 0.08 of an inch Thursday.

50 YEARS AGO

On Friday, the 72-piece Northern Arizona Symphony Orchestra presented Mozart's "Requiem" with A. Harold Goodman as director, assisted Mrs. Genevive Fitsmaurize director of the Flagstaff Choral Group. The combined choirs of the Church of the Later-day Saints, the Federated Church and the College Shrine of the Ages Choir, directed by Millard Kinney of the College Music Faculty sang.

People are threatening the privilege of cutting fire wood with the practice of indiscriminate illegal cutting. Rangers Wallace Gallagher and Donald Johnson report that they area finding many piles hidden along the road awaiting pickup. The wrong species are being taken and the cutting is too close to the roads.

The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded a contract of $3.16 million for the construction of 200 houses at Page to Page City Contractors, a five-firm joint venture.

The $150,000 Sprouse-Reitz addition is now complete with the frontage on Leroux Street. Increased from 48 feet to 90 feet.

High 50 Tuesday and Thursday. Low 38 Monday. Rain 0.31 of an inch. The Winter Range is in the best shape it has been since 1942.

25 YEARS AGO

The Flagstaff Community Chorus and the Northern Arizona University Symphony presented the "Messiah" Friday evening. The director was Kurt Weinziner, NAU Symphony Orchestra.

The city has reached an agreement with the Alsay-Texas Corporation on the repairs needed on the Woody Mountain Well No. 8 following the collapse of the casing at the 680-foot level. The well had reached the 1910-foot level at the time of the collapse. In addition, James M. Montgomery Consulting Engineers of Phoenix have been contracted to provide preliminary and final designs, according to utilities Director, James W. Clevenger.

A 3-year-old buck wandered into Sears at the mall on Tuesday. He was unharmed and is to be released into the wild by the Fish and Game Department somewhere north of the Colorado River.

The City Council is considering 10 possible sites as a location for assisted housing. The waiting list has reached 302.

High 58 Friday. Low 9 Wednesday. Light snow all week.

Compiled from the files of the Coconino Sun and the Arizona Daily Sun by Susannah Carney.

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