The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-15
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The Grand Canyon of the Colorado
is the subIimest spot on the globe, " said
Colonel F. L. Bradshaw, a prospector
and miner of thirty-fve years expert
ence, at the Brown hotel last evening,
while speaking of experiences in the
southwest mo man can look down
that great chasm without feeling there
is a God. Never shall 1 forget the re-
lief I once experienced on arriving at
the brink, after travelling for days I'M
der the burning heat of an Arizona sun,
and almost perishing from want of
water.
The place was where Cascade creek
falls for a distance of LOO feet into the
apparently bottomless abyss. The
water is dissipated into mist as it
plunges through the air, and the scene
is one of the most beautiful in nature.
We started down the narrow trail. The
distance TO the bottom of the canyon at
Cascade falls is $500 feet, and the path
is the SteeDeSt l ever saw. 1t is the
only place in the world where burrOs
are obliged to climb stairs As one adj
VanceS downward he sees an entirely
different vegetation from that at the
top, and finds himself gradually ap-
preaching a tropical region. At the
bottom are delightful groves of peach
trees and fields tended by a tribe of
Indians under friendly protection of our
government.
When our tired and hungry party
reached this little chasm we were met
/ by Ind4Sn girls with baskets full OF
I peaCheUc which they offered Shyty as
gifts. The visit to this charming gar
/ den, away down in the depths of the
/ grandest abyss man has ever looked
/ upon, was a treat I shall ever renem-
/ Der with profound pleasure"
/ Colonel Bradshaw told of adventures
/ in the cliffs, fishing and hunting excur-
4 siOns in the canyons and at the mouth
] of the Colorado river, and described the
! strange scenes and remarkable animals
/ encountered in the deserts of the south
/ west Having spent year in the
/ Grand canyon and FIVE or six years on
the desert, he has an extensive knowl-
/ edge Of subjects seldom heard of IN
/ haunts of civilization.
! AT Tyson's Wells, where 1 have To-
| Gated my camp said he, "a point or
/ the overland trail ten miles from the
/ Colorado river, are hieroglyphics which
! strike the few travellers with astOnish-
| ment. They are drawn and painted II
/ cOIerS on the face of the rocks and rep
/ resent the direction and distance to the
] next water tank, and incidents IN tht
/ life of that race. now extinct, WhIcf
filled the valleys on the streams II
/ southwestern Arizona and built tbs
great canals, the remains of which are
seen today. At our camp is an anc1en
| canal, twenty feet across at the bottom
! and formerly ten to fifteen IeeL deep
1t can be traced for a distance of thirty
miles Undoubtedly it was built to sup
ply water to a wide region. Not sin
gle human being now lives on the trac
that in ages past was cultivated b!
tens of thousands Of people These re
i gions are now visited only by the pros
pectOr or the hunter.
THE mouth of the Colorado river /
one of the favorite resorts Of hunter
and fishermen in winter. In the sum
mer the heat is so intense that FEY
/ could survive it. The tide rises thirty
five feet and it is only by taking Tefug
in the bayous that boats are able to re
sist the immense waves rushing up tn
open mouth of the stream. The JeV
fish, weighing 125 pounds and more.
easily caught, and the mullet IS so nu
merous in the narrow estUaTies that
a boat is rowed along slowly it will 500
; be filled with the fish jumping froT
,, hiding places along the bank The muI
let goes through the air somewhat l
the style Of the flying fish, and at IN
right season millions gather in the shal