Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-08-17
VIVID DESCRIPTION OF
THE GRAND CANYON
SUBLIME SCENERY LAID OUT 3 Y NATURE HOLDS MAN IN ITS
sPELL-REAcHED BY uNIoU { RoAD-VIslTED BY THous.
ANDS EACH YEAR.

sublimity, the impressiveness of the
scenery, and its fascination cannot be
accurately described. 1t is impossible
for one man to express his emotions
to another. Those who have been
here nee are almost certain to come
again. The geological features are
peculiarly attractive to scientific men
and every European savant comes
here just as he goes TO Niagara Falls.
Several college professors are spend
ing their vacations here-a dozen or
more from Chicago alone. DIR. T. Nit
chell Prudden, of Columbia Univer-
sity, New York. has been here for
three months each summer for the
last ten years. He has a tent and
camps in the pine woods on the rim
of the canyon. 1t is getting to be
quite a resort for bridal couples. They
hire camp equipage and cooks and
out, roughing it for a month or
so of their honeymoon. 1t ought to
be a grateful place for society people
to recover from their designations.
There is no better way to recuperate,
mentally and physically, than by
camping out in this climate: and now
that there is a first class hotel, with
all the comforts and Injuries you can
get in New York or Chicago. those
who do not like tent life can find ev-
erything to suit them. The atmos-
phere is good for tuberculosis. but the
hotels will not take sufferers from
that disease, and they are compelled
to live in tents.
There is a choice of five hotels
along the rim of the canyo stretch
ing a distance of sixty miles or so and
covering the grandest part of the see
merry. All of them may be reached
from the railroad by stages. which
meet every train, and while there is
no style or ostentation, there is pien-
ty of comfort. The beds are good, the
food is plain but plentiful, and you
al get a bath for a dollar, which
means a great deal where the water
has to be hauled $50 miles by train or
carried $500 or 5000 feet up the prec-
ipitous sides of a canyon on the back
of a mule. 1t costs the Hotel FL To-
var SS7 a day for water alone. Every
drop that is used for cooking. drink.
ing and bathing is brought in steel
a distance of 127 miles from
Mountain Springs, near the city of
Prescott. 1t is transported in steel
made expressly for the purpose.
holding 9,400 gallons each. There is
a train every day, operated by four
men, who do nothing else. Upon arri-
the water is distilled, filtered. aer.
I and distributed by pressure. !
There is a spring down in the CANYON
about four miles, from which a suf1c-
lent supply might be pumped. but it
Is on a mining claim held by a man
who wants the modest sum of $50, 900
it. Nevertheless, there are forty
bathrooms in Ell Tovar and regular
for a room with bath is only S.
a day.
The supply of drinking water for
me Grand View hotel is brought from
cottonwood Springs, three and one-I
naif miles down the canyon. $500 feet |
below the hotel. 1t is transported in
casks of ten gallons, made to fit the !
packs of burros, two casks to each
Ourro. 1t is pure, cool, hard water
me water for bathing, cook and lam |
Try purposes at the Grand View hotel
. caught on the roof during the &C.
;aslonaI rains and stored in cisterns.
LAST season was dry and the supply |
gave out, so that every drop of water
nat was used for three months was
brought up from the Cottonwood
There is no water on the
surface OF the earth within ninety
niles OF the hotel, which accounts for
he high laundry charges.
Considering the extra opens of
maintaining a hotel under such cir
'umstances, the rates are very rea-
and are less than those charg-
I'd at the ordinary hotels at eastern
water places, while the accommoda-
ions will average a great deal better.
fou can get good, plain, neat quar-
ers, with excellent meals. at the
'heaper hotels for 81 a day, and bet
err accommodations at the new hotel
or all you wan to pay. The minimum
S $3.50 per day. There are accommo-
atoms at Ell Tovar for about $50 peo-
Ne for 81, $3.50 and S. a day. Those
Who desire the less expensive quar-
can get a room at the Bright An
gel hotel for 10 cents a day and live
m the European plan at prices lower
han are charged at the ordinary Chi
ago or Washington restaurants.
a bill of fare before me which
hoWs soups at 10 cents, roast beef,
amb, chicken and other roasts 35
ents; steaks, 40, 90 and 20 cents;
~egetables, 10 cents; deserts, 10 and
o cents; ham and eggs, 80 cents, and
Their articles at similar rates. Peo-
lie who want to live still cheaper can
tents and camp out.
saddle horses can be hired by the
'eek or month, and it is better to en- z
age them in that way is one is to re-
for a week or more, because you
'lI always be sure of getting a safe
easy riding animal. {
The new hotel Is a great success. II {
one ct tae most unique buildings !
the country. 70 was built by the
ANA Fe Railway company at a cost I
s2a0.Ooo, after rh. designs of MI !
,hittlesev. q Chicago architect. who 4
MS educated i'm Ae offices of Burn
q Root. II is built Of 0rs and
FINISHED with mission furniture in a ,
losJ tasteful manner. Il is more like !
big hotels you see in Norway and
WlIZerland than any you see in this =
ounJry, and is admirable in harmo- :
y, simplicity and dignity. The bed B.
are large and airy. and the pub
@ apartments are more like those of =,
clubhouse than a hotel. You will
surprised 10 learn that il is 227
'et long and 21S feet wide at the ,
ldest part. II is quite as perfect I'm A,
accommodations as any hotel i'm ~