Willmar tribune., 1899-07-05

high, and is now SO large in diameter
that I have a friend who has ridden
horseback across it. This is one of the
most astonishing and wonderful
bridges in the world, and that trans
continental traveller who journeys from
!: the east to Cali lifornia is hot wise who
falls to spend the one day. that is: nee
essary %to visit this wonderful bridge
and the equally wonderful forest by
which it is surrounded.
To the Indians Of Arizona this for
est has been an inexhaustible mine,
For, from here, from time immemorial,
they have secured pieces of agate, jas
per and other petrified wood, of which
they have made some of the finest ar
row points, spear heads and stone
knives ever constructed. These abo-
riginal specimens have been found scat
tered all over the middle-western por-
tion of the United States, thus showing
that the Indians of this region made
quite trade Of petrifed wood ar.
ticles. .]~s@ 1$5 =: sss.s@
The petrified forest region is really
divided into three distinct sections:
the first section, which we have visited,
and two others. About two miles to
the southeast Of the first deposit is
the second. This is about the same
size as the first, but there is much more
OF the petrified wood in the same
amount of space. The whole region
IS wild, barren, desolate, cut and
scanned. There are somany wild gorges
IN 1t that now and again it presents an
appearance as if it had been taken in
some gigantic hands and twisted out
Of shape. .>.... s 5s ~
(: Yonder the soil looks as if it must at
one e: time liz have been boiling mud, thrown
out from ayast volcano.
! Six or seven miles further, going. due
south, the third deposit is reached.
There is an immense area Of wood here,
All found on the southwest side of the
mesa. sas,a Immense trees,sor split sections;
have kept the mesa from washing away
as rapidly here as elsewhere, and many
OF these logs are still scattered over
the plateau. ss....s ..s s.5,; I.s,1 y. r. IA
II is frightful desert region, and I
mad li7l an experience here that was as
novel no. as it was unpleasant. We had
come further than we had intended
and and were not provided with a; suffi.
Cheney Of water. The weather was, in
.tensely hot, and soon our little stock
OF water was exhausted. The thought
ct waiting until we got back home
was maddening, but. E saw no other
course. course Adam, however,, kneW. trick
Tar TAR better than waiting. Riding along
until we came to the dry bed Of q
stream, that seemed as il not aS drop
OF water. had. been in it for ten years,
he quietly took the essadd lie and bride
from his horse, and, tying q rope around
8its1neck turned it loose. With an in
Sstinct as unerring AS that of the bird
IN q its flight, the horse went to a GER
tain spot in the wash and commenced
the sand wit h his feet. He
threw Nout witt almost as great ra-
pidity asa dog paws the earth from q
squirrel hole, but Tar greate1< guam
titles. t stood and wat tched him III
alm1azenent, am while. am said s.Oh, hes
smart, Did louS never seesa hoss
dig Tor ssat ter, hat lhoss has saved
my life man ii1ne he can find
water il it's s. be had ere you 2ahd
me would lie down die. oW see
him .''S
~ With intentgaze HE horse.dreW back,
and steadfastly va tched the hole he
had mad few min iutes u half
81 water had elected at the
Sb1ottonls q the hole and. though the
waiter wa mel cool nor fresh
not thiint quenched
our HRS cool of the even,
dne etllrne1