The San Francisco call., 1897-03-14

Grand Canyon stood high in the fore
ground, a solid wall, seemingly great
[ barrier to mortals. Down into the depths
! We went and were soon on the dry bed of
the creek in Hock-a-pock Canyon, with
its edges lined with Patio Mariah' and
willow bushes. AS we descended we found
] that the extent of the vegetation de-
creased. The fssure became narrower
and the walls became higher; fifty or
more feet of jump-offs were to be seen,
and around them, over the big boulders,
hugging he sandstone and porphyry walls,
we led the frightened horses, following
the trail. Now and then long, narrow
sheets of water were seen, falling from the
high encompassing walls, to pour along
the creek rocky bed and soon to fail over
another precipice of fifty or more feet and
then to disappear under huge boulders,
forming underground streams, only to re-
appear mile or two further on.
lover the dry bed of the creek we led
our horses. the precipitous walls reaching
over 1000 feet on each side OF US, ana their
top edges being only twenty feet across.
Not ray OF sunlight penetrated these
deep chasms, and it was fearful to look
upward to see only narrow strip of the
blue sky and to expect the walls to fall
and crush one 10 death. The echo of our
voices was brought welrdly and hoarsely
to US, and the echo of a whisper could be
distinctly heard.
''As we descended into the mighty gorge
we hoped that the next turn In the creek
would bring us 20 wider space. But not
80. The great wall of the frowning stone
1ad 70 af Rt1r o. a
couple of miles we came into wider space
and to the rim of a great basin where
descent of sixty feet can be made to its
bottom, which contains about twenty
acres of land. This descent is made on a
'burro bridge, or a slide consisting of
long poplar logs corduroyed with smaller
logs and cribbed with stones, one OF the
many Of Prospector Sullivan's unique
bridges for Transporting ore from mis-
mines near by. After safely going over
this bridge we turned from the basin and
after travelling 800 yards south finally
reached our destination. the Indian viii
lage, over 1000 feet down into the lower
world
Here, situated in the bottom land OF
the Cataract Canyon on a rise, IS tie
agency, consisting of limestone and
sandstone one-story house occupied by
Professor K. G. Bauer, the teacher at the
agency. Mrs. Bauer and their little son
Warner, and Charles Bushnell, the farmer
OF the agency, and substantial school
house, recently built of limestone and
marble by Mr.. Bushnell alone. Mr.. Bush
nell quarried the stones from the high.
cliffs, brought the Lumber on burros from
the heights, and with his trowel, saw and
hammer built monument to himself
which will only decay with the stupendous
walls overhanging it.
1.-The dividing walls of the canyon here
STAND 1900 feet high, and across the little
dell the distance is only 800 feet. Along
the eastern wall the Cataract Creek flows
north over the pebbles to little valley
three miles in length and about half
mile wide. There are $50 acres of the soil
cultivated by the Supais, under the super
vision of Professor Bauer and Farmer
Bushnell.
"The Supais have been pea ceable tribe
of Indians, and it is their boast that they
have never been at war with the Hikos'
(white people). They were, in the dim
past, of the Hualpai tribe. Dissensions
arose among them and hundred or more
braves seeded and took refuge in this val
ley. They built fortresses on the edges of
the high walls, from which they hurled
stones down upon their enemies, the
Hualpais and the Navajoes. Peace was
finally restored and to-day the Supais and
Hualpais are friendly, but they keen a
sharp eye on the Navajoes, who occasion
ally steal from them squaw or child.
During the fifties, when the Mormons
were converting the Indian tribes to their
faith John d. Lee. the same miscreant
VINO was shot 10 death in Utah for the
hand he took in the Mountain Meadow
massacre, came into these deep recesses
with two of his white wives and converted
the Yava Supais to his faith. He planted