Weekly journal-miner., 1910-08-10
LOCAL BOYS SCALE
 THE FRISCO PEAKS
(From Sundays Daily.)

Henry Adams and Gail Gardner, two young men of this .eity, returned yesterday from a three weeks out ing to the northern part of the Ter ritOry, and accomplished the interest ing feat of ascending the San Fran cisco peaks, near Flagstaff, reaching an elevation of 1S,S2O feet.
 In speaking of this remarkable journey and the time and trouble experienced in getting on top of Arizona they state that it was a trip that will live in their memories for years to come.
 They used saddle horses from the foot of the mountain for the climb until an elevation of 10000 feet was reached, when the timber line pass ed away. Dismounting, they started upward on foot, and in about two hours afterward were on top of Mt. Agassiz, the highest point, where the registered markings showed the above figures. From that point they went over to Mt. Humphrey, prac- tically the same height.
 They viewed the magnificent seen cry for hundreds of miles around, the most weird and fascinating of which was the Painted Desert ' slumbering in the eastern part of the Territory, and the rugged rim of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, that was cutting its serpentine route to the north. Granite Mountain, near Prescott, looked like a little pile of rocks, while other pronounced landmarks adjacent to Prescott were hardly visible. Many beautiful scenes were pictured, and New Mex leo lands on the east, with the Cali fOrnia desert on the west, were cas- fly visible, and it seemed as if a rock could be tossed into Utah without any exertion.
 The long, rolling mountains of the Mogollons, the Sierra Priettas near Prescott, the majestic Brad shaws, and other ranges, carried no more effect from their heavenly view point than rolling foothills like one sees in Lonesome Valley. The Mile High City of Prescott was nearly two miles below them, and was seen in a little washbowl basin with considerable difficulty.
 The atmosphere at that elevation was a very trying one and they moved cautiously and slowly. The cold also was very severe, and with the perpetual snow they stood in, with the air as clear as crystal, they fingered no longer than two hours on the summit.
 The most beautiful spectacle was the witnessing of tremendous rain and thunder storms in all directions be- low them in the dense clouds that lowered over the horzon. The streak ed lightning flashed in all it's ghast- ly fury below, and the descending torrents seemed to carry the wrath of the Almighty. Many of these at- mOspheric disturbances were going on intermittently, and the scene was an overlapping one, never to be forgotten. They were warned by an old resident not to finger too long on the summits, when a storm was in range of their position. To do so meant possible death by lightning, that strikes almost necessarily in that region when a storm is passing over the peaks. Not a vestige of vegetation was to be seen, not even the iehen that usually lives where the lava flows.
 They report that game was in abundance, and many large bands of deer were reused from their slum- bers just at the edge of the tim Der line. Antelope and smaller game were also seen. In all the trip was one of the most enjoyable and in structive ever taken in Arizona.