Williams news. [microfilm reel] (Williams, Ariz.) 1891-19??, 1903-10-31
Interesting Points Of
the Grand Canyon

Grand View Hotel region peculiar
geologss explorers travellers search of
odden pahs and the weary turning unmoeed nature for
To form adequate conception of the Grand Canyon its
spendor and it's mmen its structure and its relation to the
conditions which have made the chas possible
must visit Grand View.
original hotel log building erected in the days when
only this of Canyon visited the traveller coming by
stage seventy miles, Flagstaff 1t has been remodeed and
newly furnished throughout In addition building of thirty
eight with heat and other modern convenience will
be completed about November Is, 1908.
The and front windows command glorious
broad the Canyon which forms immense amphhea
splendid towers and temples cliffs and The opposite
eighteen miles distant low enough to permit the vision to
range the painted Desert" to the long, irregular battle
Echo Cliffs fifty miles distant beyond which lies the land
the Ho and the Navajo famous for their
the hundred
miles away.
left Canyon continue westward,
buried the black trench the Gran
Achaan) gorge Rim visible only occasionally
point Thomas Moran painted his great picture
from Bs Point the longest stretches of the river in the
Northeasery the the granite does appear
the bottom the Canyon brodens and the winding
through the alternate black red and green of
the Agokian sees which view here nowhere else
the world Here the Great Unconormity
on of the Archaan Agonkan and Lower Caban strata of
intense interest to geologists.
The head of Grand View Trail Grand View Point from
remarkable the Canyon obtained
The outlook the trail descend unobstruced d
on and glorious views present themselves turn From
half three trails lead in different directions the
"Plateau thousand feet lower One leads the which
supplies drinking the hotel and mining thence
brink remarkable where the edge
of Plateau oveangs granite the third winds north
ward along the Plateau and through wonderful ten
miles the edge where with the Red Canyon
Trail fine twodays' trip from Grand View Hotel down Red
Canyon Trail the returning the Grand View Trail by
way of the mine and the
Two miles and quarter Grand View Trail
of the Canyon Copper Company and the train
the Rim interesting sight At the mine comfortable
beds provided regular meals served and guests
remain there nights
sunrise and sunset within the Canyon
On the level and only mile from the mine beaut
full and extensive limestone whose vauled ceilings white
with usted while slender stalactes depend from
above aagmtes covered with mosske fetwork
from the rocky floor them Guests Grand View Hotel
conducted through the mine without charge
Across the river the junction Grand View and Red
Canyon Trails deposit of highgrade asbestos which has been
worked to a considerable extent
direction there delightful walks and rides beneath
the great the Coconino Forest" the East be
obtained magnificent views the Coconino Basn broad
unken plain covered with dark pnyons and sagebus and
beyond it, miles away the Painted Desert ribbon of saffron
and the horizon while far southwark the San Fran
peaks "a extinct vocanoes above the forest
the southern edge the Basin several typical cliff dwell
excellent state of preservation and below the plain
small about which of ancient pottery
found There also interesting
dwellings, the hotel point projecting into the Grand
Canyon ride northwad the Basin for three four
days trip he will discover other and larger and from the
northern the Ban Lincoln Point look directly
down the Painted Desert and passing will gain the Rim
of the Little Colorado Canyon miles long, less than half
mile wide and 1900 feet Deep tributary Of the Grand Canyon