Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-06-07
The GRAND CANYON.
Nowhere in the World Has Its Like
Been Found or Seen.
AN EDITORS OPINION.

The following is an extract from an
article published in the Woodland. Ca,
Home Alliance, by a member of the
California Passenger association.
which visited the canyon a couple of
weeks since:
Pursuing our journey We reach VIII
liams, where we leave the main line
and take the Grand Canyon railroad
to the canyons rim. II is a three
hours ride over low hills and occasion
al gulches, through Coconino forest,
one of the natural parks peculiar to
Arizano, forests of pine, free from
underground. The air is light and
agreeable temperature, always eXhil-
iarating. and the journey is a novelty
and a delight. We arrived at the hotel
at the head of the Bright Angel trail
Wednesday at 10 a. m.
There was no hint or sign of the can
yon until we found ourselves right up
on it's rim. The most unearthly scene
ever looked upon too %stupendous to
describe in words. A vast chasm be-
fore which one stands with neither
speech nor language, feeling as if a
slide had been suddenly withdrawn,
permitting us to look into another
world. The scene was so different from
what we had expected-so unlike any
thing that we had ever seen. What
was spread out before us was seventy
FIVE miles of the canyon, a chasm thir-
teen miles wide at the top. AS we loo"
across from the top on which we stand
to the other side and see nothing but
intervening space we ~instinctively
draw back. Looking down we see a
great trough eighteen miles wide and
from 5000 to 1000 feet deep, or having
a vertical depth of nearly one mile.
But it is not straight and regular like
a trough. For before us is every form
of architecture man yer conceived,
and many he never made use of. Cas-
ties and domes, great walls and battle
ments. turrets and amphitheaters, too
vast to compare with anything eve
seen. Looking down into the great
depths below we catch a glimpse of the
COLORADO river which looks like a tiny
stream, although it is 300 feet wide.
On the trail below we see what APP
pears to be two small p~asteboard box
es, but what are really two large tents.
The willow trees about fifteen feet
high surrounding the tents, look like
grass. After viewing all this 1t is i'm
possible to realize the immensely and
wonderful depth of the canyon until
you go down into it and see the river.
which is still hundreds of feet deeper
than the canyon. Those who have Wis
tied the Yellowstone and Yosemite.
say that they, wonderful as they are in
precipices. are babies besides the peer
less gorge, and some go so far as to
saw that twenty Yosemites would be
lest in this immense gorge. 100
With the building of the branch from
! Williams. came an influx of visitors
| and now hundreds of visitors stop ever
and make the trip to the canyon. This
makes Williams the coming town OF
Arizona. The travel to the canyon is
growing to such an extent that 1t will
be necessary to run at least two trains
a day each way this summer. All Wis
itors spend time and money there.
The town has now a population of
800, elevation $3.50. Its principal re-
sources are numbering, mining and
stock raising.