Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-02-13
CHALCEDONY PARK.
The Wonderful snIeih.d Forest in


 EOna.
 The following article regarding fbe
 famous Cha!cedOny park of Arizona is
 rom Inc pen Of a gentleman who has re-
 cehtIy visited It and k deeply impressed
 "ith Us beauty. Inc article will be
 read w!th additional interest from the
 iact that number of San Joseaus.
 among them Nm. Adams, ir., and 5. L.
 Shaw, con oi Isaiah Shaw, Of Berryessa.
 are largely interest, | In this vaiuable | psoPerty. Ihis petr ned forest is des- cHoed IF the Curreat number oi lha fOpn!Sr Science 3 0ntLly by Prof. George f. kuuz:
 Chaiced1uy park, OIt-ide of it's nam
 moth drpu-its Oi iasp, rIzed wood, fossil. and peiuticatiOus, has an antique histosy Liors strange than that ot any other | place 10 the world. there is G legend handed down to the preseu. tTIue O. Navajo Indians, that DO ages past where thls unparalied freak fl nature now ex- isis, there Was Q thuily garden O. l flowers shaded ny NummOtn forest. ! the openings being of productive spots. covered with the richest soil on wh.ct sboriglnes of Aztec Jnl iu raistd, 'tsath the baimy cline of a tropical sun, sl! the fruits, cerals, vegetables, etc, produce able uuder such favorable conditions
 Then the Great Spirit. who controls the gods of war, turned lOOre hrs thun der bolts sEi lightning ti-sEe-. ani this productive. trOpicHi country was de.uged with fire, the very fastening of it's fOun- datIon were torn RsunIer and by cun- vulsiOn Ot nature. too sublime and fer ribie m It's irti1ite power to describe, was changed lutOIjs present state Of his touc grandeur. Thousands of acres of fnEest, of veTdGn. plain aEd cultivated fields, Gs well as villages with tleIr peO- pie, were submerged and cru .hed and tossed about and changed Gs only the theoretical powers of hades # unlocked on earth might generate. This par adise now lost, became nu angry sea of melting rocks. The earth itself l changed into dIgested volcanic food, the | ar Of sulphur bath, the very skies | were filled with tufl, ava Obsidum and | volcanic ash, and this garden O. l. len | became an example of the OmnipO;ent's | awful power. The remnants of this en- | frightened race who were lucky enough | to be stationed outside thIs the greatest | crater oi the world, and WEo were spared, | were also changed from a civilized, | thrifty people. to a band of scmi-barbar- ous Indians, but among them there still | remained few descendants of that once | wonderful people who erected cities, built canals, cultivated the soil and pros- pered as only people of intelligence, such as was possible during then age l could do. This may have been the veri.able garden of Elcn of old Adams time as It really IS to-day the park of wonders Of our day. Wonderful discoyeues are made m Cha.cedrny 1 park every day ard no where else m the known world is such field presented for the study ot the tourist and scientist. The ruins of En ancient city are scat tered over Chalcedony park. Pieces of Aztec pottery, decorated with yarIOus co.ors and many beautiful devices were scattered by the elem enis and ere now found in every direction throughout the Park. it is tto intention Cf tine J. ". ,C M. Co, to make Co grand exhibit at the American exhibition Co toe held in Liver pool, commencing May lst, lSS6. and early n the spring g'yItable accommO- dauOns VIII bc furnished at ChsicedOny park for visitors, and blackboard or stage run from CJrfCsG tO the first de- po-it, distant eight m!i,-s up a pleasant and almost level valley. At their store. N Q. 2i6 West Iwenty-th!rd street, New ! fork city, the company have ;Le iaTg est accumulation Ot choics mineral ! specimens and curigs m ;Le Unised ! Ststes.-San Jose, Cal, Mercury