Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-01-23
GRAND CANYON ILLUSTRATED.
A Superb Volume Treating of the
 Worlds Greatest of All Wonders.

The title of work just published i:
 ''In and Around Grand Canyon: The
 Grand Canyon of the Colorado River
 in Arizona" The author of the book is
 Prof. G. Wharton James, and there is
 probably no man in the country who
 is better qualified for the writing of
 such book than Prof James. The
 canyon has been visited by thousands
 of people, and every one who has ever
 seen it has been impressed with its
 magnitude and grandeur. Visitors
 usually, however, make their stay
 there very brief take a day or two in
 seeing its beauties, then leave with
 the impressions of it stamped upon
 their memory.
 Prof. James has visited it about a dozen times. He has viewed it from every point of vantage. He has de- scended into its depths, and scaled its precipitous heights, for days and weeks at a time. He has studied it as student would study book and has delved into its mysteries as no other man ever has, hence the asser- ton that no man is so well qualified as he to write of its attractions. No mortal mind has, however, ever been created that can frame language for an adequate description, but from his familiarity with it Professor James comes as nearly towards imparting an accurate description of it as can be found, and too much cannot be said in praise of his work.
 The book is illustrated with thirty full page plates and seventy pictures.
 As the author says in his preface, it lis not an ordinary book of nasty travel and hurried description, but the growth of ten years visits by him, during which he has explored many wild. and picturesque trails of the canyon, and has been tireless in his work of gathering together all the local history concerning these re- gions."
 The extent and grandeur of this immense gorge is briefly told in the following by the author:
 Those who have long and carefully studied the Grand Canyon of the Col orado do not hesitate for a moment to pronounce it by far the most sublime of all earthly spectacles. If its sub limity consisted only in its dimen sions it could be sufficiently set forth in single sentence. It is more than 200 miles long, from five to twelve miles wide, and from 5000 to 5000 feet deep. There are in the world valleys which are longer and a few which are deeper. There are valleys fanked by loftier than the palisades of Kaibab. Still the Grand Canyon is the sublimest thing on earth. It is so not alone by virtue of its magnitude, but by virtue of the whole-its tout 
 Ten different routes are described by which the Grand Canyon may be of them rugged and more or less dangerous to travel. No or dinary boat, whether propelled by oars, steam or electricity, can live and i either ascend or descend its turbulent waters. Practically no fish are found in its undisturbed solitudes. Though l the country through which the river flows is dreadfully arid, it is so accom- as to refuse to be piped or pumped by any simple method to re- | vive the Sahara above. Though its power is enormous, no com merce can place useful loads upon its widely tossing back. Though its cleo tric potentiality is great, it refuses to . yield single volt for any useful pur pose. It is the wild, untamed, fero- | cious stallion of rivers; proud self willed, impetuous, powerful, wholly | and understandable, vet | grand and majestic" The | book is published in Boston by Little, Brown & Co. Price $500.