Arizona republican., 1906-08-01

from the standpoint of the tourist than anything else, for just now the town is
 full of engineers who can speak tech
 nically of the progress of operations.
 But the tourist side of the subject will
 be of general interest for many valley
 people have spent the summer in that
 section and in the future there will be
 a constantly increasing number.
 In the latter part of June MT. and
 Mrs. Fowler and several others from
 the headquarters at Roosevelt accepted
 an invitation to go on a little trip up
 into the Sierra Anchas, that occupied
 about two weeks This was one con
 tinuous panorama of beautiful scenery and natural wonders. the equal of
 which many people cross continents to see. They went first to the upper saw mill camp. thirty-two miles above Roosevelt, on Workman creek, so named after a pioneer by the name of Workman who lived in those parts. On this creek they visited a waterfall esti- mated by the engineers in the party to be about 250 feet high The falls have
 been worn away by the water into a semicircular shape, the center of them
 being perhaps fifty feet back from a
 line connecting the two ends. At the time they visited the place there was a flow of water perhaps twenty feet wide going over the falls, but it was a thin flow, so that the water in its flight through the air was transformed al- most into spray, making a real bridal veil fall In the canyon below one could pass under the falling water. be- ing protected by the shelving rock. It presented such a picture as would make any spot. within reasonable dis tance of a railroad, famous an over the country During the trip they saw quite a number of deer and wild tur- keys and all the smaller game birds peculiar to Arizona. There were nu- merous bear tracks in evidence. also. | but no great effort was made to find the bears.
 On the way up they visited what is locally known there as the natural corral" It is a flat grass and tree l covered area of two or three acres on | the summit of a high, rocky eminence. l reached only by narrow road up the ] side of the mountain from the canyons ! below. This flat mountain, or mesa, | top is connected with the adjoining mountain only by narrow road. and | it is related that in the early days the | Indians drove their ponies on this big | flat rock put a pair of bars across the l road and securely imprisoned them un- | less they chose the alternative of jump l ing off the cliff
 Over on the other slope of the Sierra | Anchas is McFadden's corral, another | natural resort for restraining stock i The difference is that this place is ! reached by a road going down from the | mountain tops. which opens in a sort of | large, rock -bottomed bit, enclosed by | perpendicular walls on every side but i one. and that Is open, but facing a | precipice hundreds of feet high.
 From Juniper Flats, further on, one can get a view Of the White Mountain ! Indian reservation, miles and miles 1 away. All this fairyland of natural ! scenery is but a few miles from Pleas ant valley. perhaps fifteen, and ten ! miles from Cherry creek, where the | bear crop is reported to be unusually | large this year. And the entire coun- try, also, seems to be rich in mineral | though there is less develop ! ment than in other parts of Arizona. |