Williams news., 1906-11-24
THE SUPAl COUNTRY
Supai Ariz.. Nov 12, 'O6

Editor WILLIAMS NEWS:
 Dear Sir: 1 herewith enclose a $3 co order for another years sub -rri ption to the WILLIAMS NEWS In weekly visi's. it seems like d stter from home. and I have a. ways thought a man was wiser it. the end to support his home paper Our news in his remote place l. ne pa pers and occasional louriss 1 have been in the government = 'rvice little less than six month ,rd am now under the thiid super intendent. Dr. and Mrs. Harrison, (thr second for m-) were transferred about the first of this month to the Navajo jo reservation. ard Mir and 'lrs Chas E. Coe are now filling their places. and every thing seems 'o move smoothly here a prrsrn There are two trails here to the rill tops The To'a Cohi. 10 the irand Canyon, 12 miles. and the Hualapai to Seisman and Vii Hams, eight miles of clear water and fine scenery
 There is some of the most picturesque scenery known in this canyon. Below here are many falls The Mooney's falls, I am informed, is th. lower line of tn. Supai reservation, and I am told that the fall. straight down. i- 165 feet The nexi falls abuv. is Bridal Veils, and 1 would judge the ia II of water, straight, to be bout 150 feet
 There are numerous t,ll- ahn<c and below to the river Around me of those falls are trickling brooks or springs. den-tly covered with a sold mat of ferns
 On the third of this month was acting guide for Mr. Johnson, of Grand Canyon. guide on the Bright Angel trail, and he admitted to me that there was no such scenery around Grand Canyon or Bright Angel, which I know to be fact.
 Just below Mooney's falls to the left, going down stream about 2OO| yards, secured solid toa perpen dicular wall, is solid iron ladder for over 200 feet, put up in sections bu: one has to pass through down ward tunnel through ,he falls to reach it. 1 know, nor cant learn of any way for man or horse to reach this only fall only through rhis tunnel. I have been told tht. miners used to let their burros town and up over this fall by windlass.
 On the 7th of October. past, in company with R. T. Barton, of Grand Canyon, and two young lady tourists from New York, I found, near by this place, in a deep, short canyon, what seemed to be the bar rel of single-b barrel Winchester shot gun, badly bent up and the stock broken off or rotted off and gone. The gun barrel was in a leather scabhard and all fairly well preserved. but evidently had been there or nearby for years A short distance away, in d hole of water. lay shod horse with his bones considerably crushed, as though all had fallen there together over wall many hundred feet above Could some pro-pector have met similar fate in years gone hy2
 Around Bridal Veil falls still stands the miners houses and tents The buildings are painted and some people might he proud of them as a home. The U G P Mining com panv have sp"n' thousands of dol lars mining. making roads etc. and some of their work will last 10 the peoples benefit while :he canyons last. especially the roads.
 Our fruit wound up with Septem Der. but we still have wild grapes which are now delicious, but they will soon be gone
 Yours very truly,
 J M. THoRNE.