The San Francisco call., 1897-03-14

I ledges in number. One freak of nature
seen was pillar of gold and silver ore
| standing off from one of the high walls OF
the canyon, It's height being over 500 leet
| and It's base over 1000 feet in circumfer.
ence. The Indians call 1t 'Silicum' (big
| chimney, but it is known to the miners
as Sullivan's Pillar of Gold, S. J. Sullivan
having located it as mineral claim, which
he will work when the contemplated
wagon road is made to the Indian village
from the world above.
THE Colorado River in an air line i,
only five miles from the agency, but to
reach the point where the Cataract Creek
empties into it requires circuitous and
most laborious journey OF twelve miles
around the great assures. We made tho
trip half the distance on burros and the
other half on foot, ana by clim bing up
the washes. now and then hanging by
our eyebrows, scaling the almost perpen-
dicular walls, crawling under gre at lodges
OF rock, we reached the high mesa land.
where for the moment we were bewildered
with intoxication of delight With the
grandest views Imaginable. From the
edge OF Meteor Point, where we stood, to
the north, the northern walls of the Grand
Canyon stood high toward heaven, above
the Colorado River, their tops covered
with forests. The sun CLEANS brought
out all the beautiful cardinal coIors and
their shades on the ledees of this stupen-
dous wall, which extended forty or more
miles. Mountains were under us; noun
talns lowered above us, now broken by a
seemingly large plateau, with great black
zigzag lines in it, being the dark fissures
or narrow canyons. from which we had
emerged. One mile to the east stood
massive rocky mountain, resembling a
mammoth water tank, called by the In
dians after their god Week-e-a- a-le-a ala. 1t
is two miles in circumference at its base
and 5000 feet high.
ITO the northeast great red wash or
slide, on the walls shone like big blot OF
blood, and further in the same direction q
point, called Point Sublime, stood like a
great peninsula running out on the mesa.
OF to the east the blue northern and
southern walls seemed to meet, forming a
huge basin, their edges covered with
snow. Two miles to the south, standing
thousand feet above US, was an isolated
mountain of stone covering 400 acres, its
northern end seemingly wrought into
long white pillars, the whole mountain
resembling pictures of King Solomon's
Temple, whose name it bears. Three
miles to tha west was big mass of red
oxide of iron, standing far from the lime
stone and sandstone walls its height be-
| ing oyer 600 feet, and its base 5000 feet III
circumference. With the red oxide there
is blended nickel, antimony and meteoric
iron, and it is the belief of those who
have seen it that it is fallen meteor, and
it is called The Fallen Meteor The fall
ing of it is beyond the ken of the Supais.
To the southwest the southern grayish-
blue walls stood in their precipitous
heights, their jagged tops forming church
spires and every conceivable structure.
1.-The great series of terraces of the
north wall leading down to the Colorado
River are veritable titan stairways. Walls,
grand monuments OF the erosion or up
heaval of nature, disappear in the azure
beyond. and the isolated buttes were
sublime. The crooked black lines we saw
seemingly q few hundred rods beyond,
| looking like Indian trails, were the
! walls of Cataract Creek, which, by the
irresistible process of erosion, has cut
| into the bowels Of the earth seven thou
sand and more feet.
| "a railroad is under contemplation,
connecting Williams, Arizona, on the
line of the Atlantic and Pacific road,
with the Grand Canyon of the Colorado
and Yava Supai agency. This road will
run through fertile valleys and great
forests of pine and fir trees, and mining
will be developed to great extent.
Mines are plentiful and the owners and
nixvai fiprv fo,-
over which to ship their ores and bullion
People say in Turkey that il takes ten
uah fo G.