Arizona republican., 1910-01-29

nous cabbages: dates. figs. water.
 melons and cantaloupes. oranges ana
 lemons and grape fruit and honey:
 beet sugar in all stages of manufac- ture; cotton. from the plant to the cloth; ostriches. from the chick up-
 wards. Our oranges are equal to the
 best in California. Salt River valley
 is noted for it's alfalfa. Sheep range
 in northern Arizona. We have a great deal to say about our climate. | Physical existence is more enjoyable
 than in some other sections of the
 country that might be mentioned It
 is joy to be alive if one is in fair | health and has good conscience. The climate is prescribed for tuber- culosis. and some are cured and many relieved. It is a country for people whose powers of resistance are not very great. as there is not much to resist.
 We have in Arizona the Grand Can yon of the Colorado river-"the great est thing on earth" a picturesque writer has called it: more reVerently
 the ''sublimest thing in the world"
 So they say. who have seen the most
 Of the worlds scenery. When l came
 10 this country in 1889. no one but
 Major Powell had explored the can
 yon and no one had made a continu-
 ous journey along it's course from it's
 head to it's mouth. Since then. the
 continuous journey has been made.
 attended by disaster and success. The
 Grand Canyon is 1000 feet deep at
 its greatest depth and twenty miles
 V-da 1t fc ts-i1 it in 1903 We walked down the Bright Angel Trail to the top of the plateau overlooking the Colorado riv- CT. We sat on a dizzy height. The river. was 1900 feet below The rim was $500 feet above. Horses were comfort for the upward climb. One must see it. The coloring of the titanic rocks. the wonderful architec- ture of nature. the marvellous cloud effects are all as they have been DOT trayed by pencil and pen. It has been said. See Naples and die," Everyone who passes this way. should see the Grand Canyon.
 There are other sights worth sec ing in Arizona; it's petrified forests: it's natural bridge. with a ranch on top; it's Indian pueblos. which stand ! where they stood when Coronado | came and when Columbus discovered | and how much longer. no | one knows; Acoma. perched on | rock 400 feet high and the twin rock, l near by and still higher; the cave l dwellings and the cliff dwellings | where, it is probable. the ancestors of | these Indians took refuge in time of ! stress; q civilization that is older | than the pueblo Indians. the remains | pf a people who built the Casa Grande. Il whose cities are buried under our | feet. whose irrigating ditches are l used by the modern engineer. who I have vanished. no one knows when | and where and why: the reclamation work of the federal government. the | Roosevelt reservoir. near PhoeniX. which will impound. il is said. more water than Assuan in Egypt. and the Laguna dam for the Colorado river It Yuma.
 But. grand as the Grand Canyon s. there is something grander Im- Dortant as civilization is. there is Il more important. With all hat there is to be done We cannot illow the dead and buried genera ions to absorb< our attention. Our mission is for the living generation md for the generations that are to Il ,ome This church must do it's full III 'hare of duty for the salvation of human souls. and for laying strong md deep the foundations of righte- 'usness for a coming commonwealth.