Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-17

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 astronomer in charge of the observa- tory at Flagstaff. A. T., has been. for some years, making speciality Of the study of Mars. Flagstaff was selected for the site of the observatory on account of the singularly clear and still air in Arizona. It is an atmos- phere almost without vibration. Nev- CT were distances more cautiously de- ceiying to the eye than in Arizona. A point that is apparently, only few yards away may be, in reality. at a distance of two miles. MT. Lowell and his staff have, therefore, excep- tional facilities for their work, and MT. Carr otto Lamplant. the stellar pho tographer of the staff. has taken i'm pressions of Mars that seem to leave little doubt in the minds of experts A1hat canals on that planet reflect themselves by the camera. rms aehieyement is recognized by astrono- zners everywhere IS marking an epocn In the study of Mars and as fairy Closing the argument regarding the Possibility of canals on that body oy bringing their construction there as an unquestionable fact. It was Scnia- parelIi. the Italian astronomer, who first observed what he believed were canals on Mars His report was re ceived with incredulity; but his theo- rv has been so reinforced and sup ported by actual results of o5serva- lions since then that 1t is now gener- ally accepted.
 Early in the decade Of 1SSO-9O Mr. I,owell began special study at Flag staff with his fine 24-inch telescope, but it was in May 1905, that the first AresuIts of real significance were ob- *tained. The light about Mars In said to he faint and the vibrations in the 8air. though less in Arizona than IS usual elsewhere, still produced dis #turbing effects on the plate. MT.
 4oyell says that MT. Lamplant over came this difficulty after long series of experiments. by using diaphrasm on The telescope, cutting down the aperture from twenty-four inches 10 twelve inches, as 3 rule. Ihougn this diaphragming of 8 photograpnic lens is not new, this was the urst lime it vas applied to glass as large as twenty-four inches in diameter ana for such faint objects. Hitherto as tronomers have been more concerned with availing themselves of the hgnt- gathering power of the large lenses. It was a distinct advance and is the one step to which the largest share or credit is due of successfully photo graphing the canals.
 In the vestihule of the Institute Of Technology in Boston were shown number of these photographs. TO the initiated they merely presented a black ground with white lines faint ly defined. MT. Lowell says that the special significance of the photographs lies in the fact that they corroborate the results shown by other photog- raphers of Mars, and that they also corrobarate the methods That the sensitive plate of the camera will re cord a star never visible through even the strongest glass and thus prove it's existence is wonderful fact in stellar photography
 Flagstaff is the next station east of Williams in Ariona,, the latter being the place from which the branch road Tuns up, over the rolling mesas to the Grand Canyon, the terminus being at the new El ToYar Hotel, at the head of Bright Angel Trail. The distance from Williams to Bright Angel is sey- -enty miles. and it is some sixty miles between Williams and Flagstaff. From the latter is brought all the water used in Fl Tovar, for all purposes of table, laundry or bathing Within constant sight of the rapid Colorado river dashing along at the foot of the -canon-a mile and a half deep-there Is yet no water to be obtained.
 Arizona Is the region for the most strange an unearthly beauty. Far from being the country God forgot" t is rather, the. land Of the richest and most varied resources. It is. at once, the oldest and the newest Of all DOT tions of the United States. Its au- thentic and historically recorded past ante-dates the arrival Of the May flower, while it's future is built of the forces of the twentieth century.
 It is the Land of Magic and Mystery It is the land of the yet undreamed of future. and it Is aso the region of breeding mystery, of strange surprise Beside it's stupendous Grand Canyon here are the canyons of Chiquito, Mar ble. Desolation and Limestone; the Montezuma well. Castle Dome, the Four Peaks-rising to the height of several thousand feet, Tor hundreds of miles: the Thumb Buttes, san Francisco Peak, the Tonto Basin, and the Twin Lake all of these phenome- nal marvels of scenery telling their tale of she action of water and of fire, thousands of ages ago. convuisions Of nature which have rent the mountains asunder. opened chasms thousands of feet deep in the earth and projected the bottom of a sea into she air ss d mountain-peak.
 sWhat time the gods kept Carnival z The gods indeed kept high carnival in Arizona. One of these extraordi- nary wonders is the Montezuma Well l some fifty miles rom Prescott. on an kelevated mesa of solid Limestone. The opening is some 600 feet in diameter circular in form as perfect as If E carved by twentieth century work man. From the opening of the well fo the surface of the crater is a dis tance of some seventy feet. and the crater itself Is over 100 feet deep. fed