Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-07-30
THE CALIFORNIA TRIP.
LBY JAMES FAUX. ]
MORE ABOUT THE GRAND CANYON.

dream OF years realized if your case
was as ours, /. e. having read and
heard of this grand sight for years
and drawn your menta, picture of it
and hoped and waited to have it act
ualized and now to stand In the pre-
sent moment of such realization and
to behold that its one of the few
sights up to represent ations. 1t
makes one want to uncover his head
and thank the Creator for putting in
force the elements of nature that
chiseled out such a scene for mortal
eve, and then to thank him secondly
for being one of the fortunate ones to
glimpse it in this present life.
It's really in the column of one OF
the Great scenic wonders of Amer
lea ranking along with Niagara
Falls. Mammoth Cave, Lookout
Mountain, Pixies Peak, Estes Park
and the Royal Gorge of Colorado.
and the Quebec river rapids, the
great Lakes and deserts. We can t
speak of Yellowstone park. as have
not seen it, but know whereof we
speak of those wonders mentioned as
we have seen them and can make the
comparison as first hand statements
Like Niagara Falls-its one of those
sights of which the pictures convey
to the mind pretty near an exactly
correct impression as near as ink and
paper can do so and where exaggera-
tions of colored inks is not taken to
run expectations too high. We
stood on the brink of that mighty
chasm and looked across and dreamt
of the time soon to come when Its
yawning emptiness of scape would
be filled with circlmg aerop.anes and
airships there to amuse or convey
the sightseeing crowds across the
abyss as their inclinations and de
mands might dictate. The writer
and wife in discussing it decided that
it would be sometime before we
would incline to go sweeping over
that void of space even though few
years later an aerial navigator might
be found bold enough to essay the
voyage. In fact we will about be
content to delay view of this from
the upper ether until that time
comes when these who have part in
the resurrection will soar away in
the clouds to meet the coming Lord
and King OF kings. That will be
time enough if we may be so fortu-
nate and its interest will still obtain
enough on that grandiloquent occa
sion TO toss back a glance at the ia
ding earth and it's vanishing gran
denrS.
The railroad station and switches
lie in the valley below, while the hotel
etc, is on plateau running to edge oil
the canyon cliffs hundred feet or
more above. The edges of the mean
dering line of cliff is skirted with
concrete walks and these are pro
tected by iron rails on the cliff side
The hotel grounds are beautfied
with flowers, palm and cactus and
pueblo indian house which is rath-
er shop for indian curios down
stairs and resided in by an imported
tribe of indians up stairs taking part
of the space in the grounds. They
sell all kinds OF indian made pottery,
beads, baskets, bow and arrows and
the noted Navajo blankets which
are woven by the indian women in
sight in their building. We fear the
white men with charac eristic shrewd
ness ge the lions share of the
profit, as we notice whites behind a
number of the counters or booths.
And TO get ahead of the story a
little, down at the San Francisco
fair, we saw this same pueblo cliff
building house reproduced and the
same curlos, blankets etc. being sod
and there M effort was made to
withhold the fact that it was under
the auspices of the Sante Fe RAIL
raid.
In fact one has been at Grand
Canyon but long enough to get round
over the whole capoodle-sif it might
be so-called perched asst is on the
fiat top of that cliff to see that ho-
tells. lunch house. curiO- shops. in