100 years ago1924: The U.S. Secretary of the Interior makes Coconino County an offer of $200,000 for the Bright Angel Trail and will use every effort to secure additional appropriations of $100,000 annually until the road from the National Old Trails Highway is completed to Grand Canyon. Aside from this, the government will permanently maintain the road built. The offer in detail was made (to) the county Board of Supervisors Monday by J.R. Eakin, superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park, in a formal letter which reads (in part) as follows: “For the construction of trails within the Grand Canyon National Park, $100,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: PROVIDED, that said sum may be used by the secretary of the interior for the purchase from the County of Coconino, Arizona, of the Bright Angel toll road and trail within said park … and the secretary of the interior is authorized to construct an approach road from the National Old Trails Highway to the south boundary of said park.”
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Editor Chris Etling takes you behind the scenes of just one example of how we look through archives for information used in the Flagstaff History column.
Gallery: Pigskin in the park amid nice Flagstaff weather
Football in the Park
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