The Arizona champion., 1884-01-05

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 than consistency in his report. In the center of beautiful park at the southern base of this mountain stands Fort Moroni. named in honor of one of the patron saints of Mormonsm. Its location IS near large spring that bursts from the mountain side, water ing a considerable portion of the plain below. This fort was erected by John w, Young, son of Brigham Young, late President of the Norman church. MT Young was then prom inent contractor on the A. X P. line. and built this fort for the protection of his people and property during the excitement attending threatened Apache raid. MT. Young IS a genial and hospitable gentleman and once within Moroni's walls 1t mattered not whether standing in defiance to the wiley Apache, soothing tumultuous mob of persistent, wolfsh creditors or entertaining hls three wives and five mothers-in-law, he was ever the same corteous, hospitable gentle
 man and master of the situation. But we dlgress. From the summit of the main peak we look east upon the vast plains and foothills drained by Flax and Rio Puoco rivers and far beyond a powerful field glass revealed to us the continental divide. In the mur- ky distance south lie the Mogollons with intervening peaks, parks and mountain gorges The thirty miles between us and bold Bill Williams to the west seemed not one-fourth that distance, while antelope, sit greave and hendricks seemed to join the foot hills below us. To the west over the highest peaks of Bill Will Hams we could trace broad Cheno valley from its source in the red mesa country to where it is lost in the broader valley of the Verdie, near Prescott. Beyond the Cheno in the hay distance arose in shadowy out, line the sombre hills of the Music and Hualapais, so far indeed their outline merged into the horizon and grow in. distinct among the c ouds. But the crowning glory in the wild and won derlul sights spread before us was the Grand Canon of the Colorado, whose course we could easily trace in its zig gy windings through the buckskin range from Lees Ferry to where il enters the broader valley above liar
 dyvllle.
 In our descent we encamped for the night half way down the grand old peak on the north side and while the pickering light of our camp fire threw grotesque and fantastic shadows among the white ghastly aspen around and above us, our patient buro assum- ed pehsive attitude and gazed won deringly and it seemed tittingly upon us as if meditating on the follies and eccentricities of man. His attitude of mournful, pensive resignation sug. gested to us the picture of Mark
 Twain weeping over the tomb o
 Adam, his sweetly submissive consci 'ousness of outraged innocence sug
 gested to us the deplorable condition
 of Abigail, whom we are told was sen
 to purgatory without having ever com
 mitted sin. We were alone in a,
 wild and romantic spot as ever tho
 moon shone down upon, and we wll
 never forget how, when near the Dor
 der of dream land that night, we were
 startled by the cry of some bird o night or prowlirg animal from the
 nights above, shrill and wild as a ma niac's scream, defiant as the neighin! of a war horse. From our camp tn, following morning we looked dowI upon the cone. shaped hills, them selves mountains of some magnitude
 whose bowl-shaped basins on theil summit suggested that they were ex tinct craters and owed their elevated position in the world to their own ex CavationS.
 Each altitude in our decent repre- sented as many different seasons no tiCeable in the different stages of veg etable growth and especially in th' f berries from the flower at timber line to ripe, luscious berries near the base ) Should the tourist or traveller de sire to visit the village of the Yava O r Ava Supais, he should procure guld , at Williams. Without a guide h' may founder for days among th'
 black gorges of the cataract wlthou , having penetrated its mysteriou depths. When he has once located { the object of his search he will requir the steady hand and cool head ol tht . "old timer" to assist him to descenc
 the steep trail that winds along tn 9 walls leading down to the narrow val ley. Here lives the remnant of ? once powerful tribe numbering nov only 7I souls, one of the most inter } esting and perhaps the most isolated < race on the continent. They are 5 simple, plodding people, given t
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