Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-08
CANYON 1000 feet deeper tina

"A
A ,,, Grand canyon OF the Colo
II N RADIO river, and surprising II
N \ for sheer cliffs and dazzling
,g, Of color" IS almost inconcelv-
M, Rut all these claims the eXplor-
frederick A. Cook, conqueror of
-. pmous Mount Mckinley, makes for
lso yentna canyon of interior Amer
'a a.,," wills of the Yentna," says DR..
Ec,ok rise in successive tiers for 1Voo
I,.st0 The greatest depth OIL Ine
nrond canyon Is little more than 5000
There are $3.50 feet In n mile.
ie ,,s,s makes Ycntna canyon one and
,b,rd miles I'm depth, or one-seventh
cNHs.,,ar man the canyon of the Colorado,
ENt,!ytp1-+, s,inuosed to be without q rival
nnvvhere In the world.
s" SS,,ou Holmes. who has studied and
D"S,,graphed the show places of the
u NV saws the Grand canyon of the
ttat iu river Is the greatest natural
NV In the world. DR. Cook, an
Wu IN, cood authority, says the canyon
E 'y,,n o yentna river is not only deeper
so. Wv hat Of the Colorado. but that It's
nee ttt' are sleeper, its colors more won
,l,a and its scenery indescribably
t,ynder and grander
LOCATED IN ALASKA.
VI NJ. all comparisons, then, the great
II natural wonder in the world is not
H. Grand canyon in Arizona. but the
INeptna canyon in Alaska; but like the
,.csntlv discovered lguaza falls of
south America, which surpass those of
Ia.tssara and the Zanbcsi. the Ientna
hpDfgn track
NIT none but the hardest travellers
|knay see II.
n That part of Alaska in which the
Eyentna canyon occurs is at once one
Fl ~ me least-known and most remark
Eable countries in the world There Is
nlount Mckinley, the highest mountain
d North Amerlca-20, $50 feet. A few
II Years ago this mighty peak was I'M
ktnown II was supposed that the top
f North America was Mount st.
\ Tuas but Mckinley, or Boshoy, as the
natives call 1t. has been found TO be
much higher than ST. Elias. So much
& FOR the slow progress OF exploration in
"a Alaska
Dr. Cook climbed Mckinley. In so
doing he found the Yentnn canyon. Nc
Kinley lies some go miles east Of the
Il Pacific ocean. The canyon of the Vent
ma is midway between the sea and the
mountain 1t Is wilderness which
until gold lured the prospector into its
depth no white man had ever seen.
DESCRIPTION INSPIRES TERROR.
Dr. Cooks description of the coun-
| Try fairly inspires terror. The sum
| mer is short. While it lasts the en-
ploer must make his dash into the in
| terror. Rains are almost unCeasing.
The rivers are swollen by rains ana
melting snow and ice. The vegetation
Is rank. There are no trails. MosQui-
toes give man and beast no respite
| from a torture equaling anything ex-
panenced by Stanley in the interior OF
Africa.
The tundra, or Alaskan lowland, is
half solid, half water hole. and travel
over II is painfully slow. The streams
ayt violently swift. DR.. Cook led two
expeditions against Mckinley. The
4 first was defeated because IT lost too
much time in ascending the Yentna
and other swift rivers in rowboats.
! The second expedition went better
equipped for the hardships Of travel
III that topsy- turvy part of the world.
Il ,limbed the Yentna and its tribu-
Eliss with a motor boat. covering in a
View hours distances over which the
FIRST expedition had toiled for days.
But IL Is to this country of violent
Matters, VOracious insects and undis-
iurbed isolation that the world must 60
T. behold its greatest natural wonder.
Emerson said: IF a man makes bet
pr book or better basket than his
teighbors, the world will make a beaten
path TO his door, though he live in a
wilderness and that is true of can
foAs, mountains and waterfalls as II Is
soi men.
4 Until six years ago the tourist could
sgan the rim of the Grand canyon of
IT. Colorado only by taking n 9O-mile
Hshge ride through the San Francisco
mountains and the Painted desert. Now
PIC railroad runs the canyon. there
Ere several hot, ~ the south rim,
End the tourist looks into the red
|epths Of the Colorado with all the
Eomfort and luxury Of seeing the des-
Pr from a Pullman.
SIGHT FOR THE TRAVELLER.
Some day, doubtless, the traveller
'nay see in equal comfort the worlds
Greatest canyon and the highest noun
Pain Of North America. \ few years
'ego the famous Victoria falls of the
IZambesl We're lost in wilderness:
JOW a railroad bridge spans the river
immediately below them, ana the tour
vs. sees the great cateract from the
test possible point Of view by merely
jeeHng through a car window.
Occasional descriptive bits in Or,
Cooks new book. ION the Top of the
continent afford an opportunity to
tompare the Grand canyon OF the
aAoloradO and the greater chasm Of the
aentna The Grand canyon runs
lhrough a desert dotted with noun
hlns' Seen In summer, there Is no
snow, nor any sign of ice. In the
.hwer two-thhds of it's depth. the can
Bon Is barren OF trees At the bot
.!om Is the rivera red thread rang
ths IN width from 100 to 500 feet,
!. into this chasm the sun pours, and
|pto the skies the great walls rise
ia upon black, blue upon red and
|Fhl'e upon bluc--to the green of the