Mohave County miner., 1912-06-08
First Automobile to
 Bottom of Grand Canyon.

lO ID. u. ol dNSoS VI ohS Ot U AhoIoi agency at Los Angeles, belongs the credit of having driven the first auto- mobile to the waters edge in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado river. Mr. Graves, accompanied by Chester Lawrence, of the Los Angeles Exam iner, passed through Kingman Mon. day morning on their way to the Grand Canyon, north of Peach Springs. Mir. Graves returned to Kingman Thursday morning last, having nego. tated the trip without accident. He and Mir. Lawrence found the going rather rough in the canyon, but it is the opinion of Mr. Graves that good road suitable to large machines could be built to the canyon for less than lO0O$.
 Thursday afternoon an informal lunch was given to Mir. Graves by the business men of Kingman, at which there was 8 large attendance. At this meeting Judge Carl G. Krook, of the Superior Court presided. Many speech. es were made and general good time was enjoyed. Mr. Graves spoke of great highway through the north part of the state and gave it as his opinion that no other route would be travelled should the people get together and make the north route possible. He referred to the fact that he and Mir. Lawrence made the trip from Los Angeles to Needles in twenty-five hours, but were delayed by the high stage of water in the river, necessitat- ing the shipment of their car to To. pock. The distance from Les Angeles to the Grand Canyon, at the mouth of Diamond canyon can be covered in two days if a good road was built. That the people should Tn no event over- look the fact that they have the only feasible route connecting the east with the Pacific coast and that northern Arizona and especially Mohave county would be greatly benefited by this travel. The most interesting of the scenic features of any of the routes was that of going down into the can- yon, and not viewing it from the rim, as has to be done north of Williams. On the southern route there was not one thing of scenic interest, the whole country being either rough mountains or sandy plains, while in the north there were few miles west of A lbuquer- que that did not contain some interest ing bit of scenery. Among the things that the tourist most wishes to see is the Zuni villages. the Cliff Dwellings of Zuni, the Enchanted Mesa, Historic Sunset crossing, the Painted Desert, Montezumas We'll and Castle, San Francisco peaks, the Verde cliff dwell lings, the Natural bridge, the Grand Canyon north of Williams, the Grand Canyon north of Peach Springs. From the one point you can gaze out upon a world of canyons the beauty of which no painter has ever been able depict. while at the other point you can gaze up into the blue vault of heaven through the canyons rift and see the stars Tn midday. while from it's magnificent peaks all the grandeur of canyon depth is visible for hundreds of miles in every direction. To the north of Diamond Canyon are many wonderful freaks of nature. there being the Devils CauldrOn, Witches Hole, the Pit of Azob and one of the most recent of the volcanic outbursts on the American continent. In the middle of the great crater is vol canic cone that rises like fagpole to a night of more than 300 feet, the base being less than twenty feet in diameter. The crater is three miles in diameter and the ashes are so yield ing that a person will go to their knees in it should they try to walk across. The sides of this crater are almost inaccessible, the rim overreach- ing and ragged. The whole surround ing country is the toughest and most inaccessible that man has ever entered. It was from this great volcanic out burst that came the material that at one time damned the Colorado river and formed what is known as Volcano