The Arizona champion. [volume] (Peach Springs, Mohave County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1883-1891, 1888-11-10
GRAND CANYON.
One Of the Grand est Sights on the Amer
lean Continent in this County.

One Of the Grand est Sights on the Amer
lean Continent in this County.
Visitors to the Grand Canyon Of
the Colorado river near the northern
boundary Of this county agree that
it is one Of the grandest sights in
nature to be seen on the American
continent. The walls rise almost
perpendicularly from the bed Of the
Colorado river to a height of over
1000 feet, and standing on the
summit and looking down on the
river, which at this point is from
one-half to three-quarters of mile
wide, the stream looks like a band
of silver stretched along the ground.
Owing to the long distance neces-
sary to travel from the railroad to
reach it-seventy-fve miles--there
are comparatively few people who
care to make the trip even to see
this wonder of all wonders, and as
a consequence the accommodation
provided for sight-seers is rather
poor, but parties vino have recently
returned from there report considera-
BILE improvement in progress now,
according to flagstaff exchange.
1t is situated about a mile and a
half east Of Mr.. Hance's
place, The terminus of the wagon
road to the canyon, and consists of
a huge reservoir, excavated and con.
structed by Philip Hull, Jr., and
his brother, at an expense of about
81, 900; 1t covers about sixty square
rods and averages fourteen feet in
depth. The same spot had been
used by We ancients for the same
purpose some years previous, just
how many we cannot say, bnt huge
monarchs of the forest had to be
cut off the site before the ten feet of
mud and water could be cleared out.
The old walls, consisting in the main
of original clay aud earth, cut into
straight and smooth, were as plainly
visible as the day they were made.
The bottom is on bed rock, sloping
ledge, and nearly all the water CON-
ing in runs through a gravel strata
on top Of this ledge, and does not
flow over the surface. The Hull
boys constructed it to water their
sheep from, as this is their winter
headquarters. Some day they hope
to see a railroad and hotel out there,
and say that they have piloted sew
eral eastern capitalists at different
times along the canyon, and that
all talked railroad and hotel very
strongly. They say that two differ
ent artists have made paintings of
this section of the canyon, each
l0xl4 feet, one being sent out by
the Pullman Car Co., and we won
der that the people do not make an
effort to herald to the world a
knowledge of this, probably the
greatest natural curiosity on the
globe, and certainly holding that po-
sition in the United States by going
far, yes, very far, beyond anything
else in vastness, sublimity and aw-
full and imposing grandeur. We
dare say that not one person in TO-
900 throughout our enlightened ma
ton has ever heard Of it, and the
information of most of those who
have is so meager that they have
never given it a second thought,
and have no conception of the vast
ness and terrible sublimity of those
awful depths. Flagstaff is the
most available point for railroad
to the canyon, and from the termi-
nus of the present wagon road the
most beautiful portion of the whole
canyon may be viewed. To have
a railroad from there to the canyon
will be but natural result of ad-
vertising its beauties. - Journal
Miner.