Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-07-23
TRAVELLING TO THE GRAND CANYON.
CBY JAMES FAULK. !

ert over the Sante Fe railroad to-
wards Albuquerque. To tie the
broken threads of narrative is not an
easy task, especially when after leav-
ing the points to be traversed by
such pen descriptions the writer has
| journeyed on and had scene after
scene OF continueing transcending
character pass in panorama before
an enchanted vision. And then.
finding the time to write as you gol
| We notice that some other of the
brethren of the press did not keep
up with their plans IN this respect,
as when the national editorial party
is joined it's found that they move
so last and crowd so much of sight
seeing and entertainment into every
day that writing hastily few post
cards is about the best you can find
opportunity to do. Editor Thomas
of the Chronicle Call had to make
similar explanation to his readers of
why it was he wrote no more fire.
quently while on the jump with the
penci-pushers of this great nation.
Before resuming the regular rote
narrative let us drop back little
and speak of Ell Paso and skirting
the Mexican boundary line travelling
up from that city a piece, as our
train ran alongside the Rio Grande
for a number OF miles. All that sep
Grated US from Old Mexico was the
thin skeen of water of that stream
which could be forded in places. and
the actual going across and pressing
foot on the soil of that revolution
torn country. We had no special
desire to do so, being content to
make the trip over there with the
eye, in view of the general facts of
war, murder and rapine prevalent
for months and months on that side
of the river, and the particular fact
that just at this time Huerta had
been arrested in El Paso charged
with attempting a new revolution
and a stere.hoose~ filled with several
thousand charges of ammunition
| found in East Ell Paso to conduct
such military plans with, had the
ex-dictator not been apprehended by
| Uncle Sans vigllant secret service
men. Anyway the ground looked
across tie border line just as it did
! Ga the Is.sscaa side. Only an i'm
agiuary geographical difference. The
same desert streams, the same low
lying mountains, ravines, canyons
etc. at this portion of country.
Finding that we could save a
break of twelve hours in our con-
nection, and few hours of actual
| travel. by cu,o.ng across from Belen
to Williams instead of running on up
North to Albuquerque and over to
Williams, we concluded to describe
the long side Of the triangle with
one continuous line, rarher than des-
cribing two lines by the full run and
and longer distance There was no
more to be seen at Albuquerque than
we had already seen than houses and
folks and we had seen lots of such IN
similar mountain towns. It's mere
ly good mountain health resort,
made so by the high dry atmosphere
and we had had quite our fill of that
in travelling over the high desert
plateaus and mountains nearby in
getting into that country. Our
ticket was accommodatiye at this
point and the save of these hours
enabled US to catch up nearly a day
with our party about which more
anon.
Williams IS junction city from
which the Sante Re line has a spur
running out from Its main line to
the California coast, up to Grand Can
yon where is to be seen the great
Colorado river Canyon, in Arizoni,
and its there that the river has CHS
eled down through the high plateau
through the sides TILL it runs several
thousand feet below overhung with
towering cliffs which almost make
the head swim with their terrible
ness in size and depth and yet de-
light the eye AMI senses with their
mighty size and marvellous beauty of
color and variety OF shape and form.
We arrived at this place shortly be-