Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-16

change as mysteriously as do the tints
of the ocean on a summer day. 1t is never
the same, this desert country. It's colors
and it's limitless vistas are always shifting
their tints and outlines.
The Wall on the Sands.
And as you ride to the southwark you
see rising low wall Its height increases
to your right. 1t seems to uplitt right out
of the alkali sands and point upward. You
can see II half a day ahead. 1t is the wall
of the Kaibab plateau.
Like n cash IN the face OF the cliff can
yon opens. You travel UP this to reach
| your goal.
There rs a peculiar feature about these
| canyons II you be on the plateau and
are lost you are sure to strike one OF
| them. To try to descend to the bed is
| futile The walls are too steep 1t would
| be hours work. But follow the general
! direction Of the canyons rim and sooner
\ or later your pony brings you to De Mott
/ park the center of the plateau.
Travelling up one of these canyons YOU
] do not notice much rise. In fact you have
| noticed no rise since you left Kanab
! though YOU climbed hundreds OF feet out
| there on the desert. The floor OF the can
Won is covered with springy turf. 1t Is
! level and hard. It IL no exaggeration to
saw that a man could easily ride a bicycle
ND II. And thus. ascending imperceptibly
you climb up, up until you finally reach
| the floor Of the plateau.
Great promontories stretch out into the
! Grand canyon OF the Colorado. Point
/ Sublime is the largest OF these. This Is
the no,nt whence the aerial tramway is tC
a.
rows down like the point OF a wedge and
standing on its point you have but few
inches OF soil beneath your feet-if you b'
coura geous enough to stand Most peopl,
| lie fat and look over. Looking thus yor
see things which those who have come by
4 railroad 10 the other edge, twelve milei
away, never see. You have view tina
seems limitless.
To this point they purpose TO run theil
tramway from a point far below Another
wire will be thrown from the other side
| where the Bright Angel trail runs down
II will cross the granite gorge. BY thesi
means. for the trans will carry huge
bucketlike cars. passengers are to be car
ried across the gorge; then up to thi
! promontory Point Sublime. In winter tim
they will be thus lifted from hot sunshin
into snow and ice. In summer they will
travel from the scorching heat OF the deser
into the cool shades OF mountain oaks ant
pines. And II the parking project shall b
approved by the government they will g
into a wonderland of big game and Far
flowers such as no national park toda,
knows
From Point Culmer at the southwes
corner OF this Kaibab pisteau, comes IN
famous view; men claim they can see wit
good glasses into. California from thi
promontory. Far to- the westward stFetche
mesa after mesa and pinnacle after pin
nacie, their painted tops showing brigh
in the sunshine, their sides losing them
selves In the muFky shadows of the can
yon's depths. These stretch one after tn
other with wonderful eolored and tinte
vistas between untii seemingly at the yer
worlds rim they lose themselves in shad
owy dun gray shapes. whose fantastic out
lines change before your eyes II is IN
longest stretch OF the Colorado's canyo
that can be seen from any place "
reached by man.
BY establishing In the wonderland a ma
tional park it's beauties will be preserved
II will remain forever a part Of the vii
ana rugged west OF early days.-NeW Yor
Herald.