Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-05-28
THE PLAINS or YUMA
some or The cURIosIrIss or The
COLORADO DESERT.

Graves Each of which Tells . story
of Tragedy es Heat. Thfssf and
D~sth-oda stoaes ssd sh~ff. That
strew the Barres Region.
There Is a section OF the Colorado
desert where nature has left soms re-
msrkable records. She has visited the
region alternately with IRE and water
and has left II with neither. IL Is the
most desolate. wild. barren, forbidding
part OF the desert. says the Los Ange-
les Times. aud It IL Stunned alike by
man and beast. That there Is good
and SUFFICIENT reason for avoiding this
locality Is attested by numbers OF
graves. nameless for the most part.
found In the terrible region.
These graves are simple affairs.
merely mounds OF earth with a border
OF stones about each and a pile OF
rocks two or three feet high az the
head. Each tells the story OF
tragedy OF heat. thirst aud death.
Those Items are about all that Is ever
known OF the stories OF those who
perish. Their mummihed bodies or
bleached bones are found long after
the struggle is over. and the finder. re
specting the memory OF the unknown,
scoops a hole in the earth, lays the
CHASTITY relic within and piles up the
only monument available in that Wild
region
The plain now lies nearly a hundred
feet below the level OF the sea, and the
rocks OF the plain and the bases OF the
mountains are washed and eroded in a
wonderful manner. slingling with the
burnt stones and volcanic debris are
rocks worn by the waves and shaped
into hundreds OF fantastic sorms. There
are many acres OF these stone curiosi-
ties, and certain sections OF the held
seem devoted 20 certain shapes and
figures
For instance. one passes through
region which he &c once names the cab
bage patch. for II presents the appear
ance OF a field OF those vegetables
which have turned 10 stone. The waves
have worn the rocks into round bowl
ders about the size Of the vegetable
which they 50 much resemble and have
cut into the globes. Eliminating them In
perfect Imitation OF the leafy layers OF
the garden vegetable.
Another locality Is devoted almost ex.
cluslvely TO dinner plates. Thousands
OF rounded, thin disks are scattered
over the plain or are piled scores deep
In singular piles. each piece shaped eI'
actly like the crockery which adorns
our tables and quite as thin and sym
metrical.
Another section OF this truly wonder
ful region Is given almost wholly 70
dumbbells These vary In size from
pieces weighing one or two pounds up
TO those seemingly calculated for exer'
clslng the muscles Of a giant and
weighing thirty or forty pounds each
In almost every instance these natural
dumbbelis are well balanced. the balls
az either end Of the connecting piece
being OF the same size and weight.
There Il In this plain an arsenal also.
While guns and swords aud bayonets
and powder were not there 20 be found,
there are thousands OF cannon balls
varying In size from two and three inch
balls 20 those NJ for the big thirteen
Inch guns OF modern warfare. And all
are OF stone. all formed In natures
workshop.
There are other objects innumerable.
There are stone roses, stone lilies, stone
tulips. stone leaves. stone birds. stone