Williams news., 1904-02-20
THE GRAND CANYON
An Unusually Good Description . of One of Arizona Wonders.

Grand Canyon was written by Miss Elizabeth B Moves, of Oshkosh, for an Oshkosh paper, says the Phoenix Republican. Miss Moves is sister of Miss Moves, of Phoe nix, and having visited here is quite we'll known to many Phoenix peo- pie. Many who have seen the Grand Canyon pronounce Miss Noyes' description as one of the best they have ever seen, giving in its comparatively short length good idea of the main features:
 The delights of travel depend upon the viewpoint of the traveller. If he looks only for the commercial there is nothing to interest him in the desert wastes of Arizona. For him, there is "nothing there but railroads and mines," and that wondrous miracle of nature known as the Grand Canyon of the Colo rado is nothing but pile of rocks" But if nobler motives control him, he bathes himself in the sunlight and fills his lungs with air which is the very elixir of life and looks about him to see what God has wrought. Here in this great south west, so little known to the mass of our citizens, are scenes worthy of the attention of every tourist; but they are passed by in indifference by thousands every year. Arizona boasts a natural bridge far surpass- ing in size and beauty the one in Virginia. Here are petrifed for ests, ice caves, extinct volcanic era ters and ruins of the prehistoric race of cliff dwellers. Though nat urally a desert it has a variety of scenery, with it's buttes and mesas and giant cacti that makes it wierd ly picturesque when compared with the Mojave desert of California and the alkali wastes of Nevada.
 And here, too, is the Grand Can yon. There are other grand can yons, almost any of them better known; butthere is only one Grand Canyon of the Colorado, and that is located in northern Arizona. Nowhere else is there an other such a hole in the earth. It is 25O miles long, 13 miles wide and over a mile deep. Mount Washington could be inverted in it and not quite fill up the hole. And yet, with the magnificent panorama at his feet, one cannot grasp it's immensity. The clear Arizona air deceives you, and you long to toss pebble to the opposite rim. Try it, and throw as hard as you possibly can, and it seems simply to drop over the ledge at your feet. Pull your watch and time it, and in from eight to twenty seconds you will hear it strike on the rocks below you. The upper layers of rock are sandstone, and so have coroded faster than the underlying granite, and this leaves what is known as the lower plateau, 5000 feet below the rim. This plateau from the rim seems to be covered with punches of sage bush, which the guide will tell you are cedar trees From advantageous points on the rim, and six or seven miles away in an air line, the Colorado river can be seen. It appears to be an inoffensive little stream, but in reality it is a torrent as wild as Niagara in the lower gorge and twice as wide. Our adjectives are all overworked, and there is noth- ing in the English language that can give any idea of the immensity of the Grand Canyon. One so fortunate as to have seen it has an impression that will never be for gotten, and one that is so touched ehitect that adequate description is impossible.
 The artist revels in the coloring of the canyon. There are three distinct strata of the upper sand stone, white. red and slaty blue.