Arizona republican., 1916-01-09

life work it celebrates, and so admir- ably located, will be formally dedi- cated early next summer Secretary Lanes purpose is to make the event one of impressive importance If. as is expected, congress meantime, makes the Grand Canyon a national park cir Is national monument now). the two dedications will take place together making celebration altogether nota ble in the history of national parks.
 Devotional Fires on the Altar
 This memorial, embodying to a re- markable degree the essential spirit of the Grand Canyon, is planned to be- come the scene of perhaps daily cere- mohlals Of a mos Interesting charac- ter. reviving the spirit and to some ex- ten the practice of the ancient re- ligious forms in vogue among the orig inal Indian tribes of the neighborhood Devotional fires. will blaze upon this altar.
 John Wesley Powell was born at Mount Morris, N. Y, March 24. 1894 of English parents. He taught school in illinois till the Civil War. which ne entered as private and came out Of 2s lieutenant colonel. But he was always called major"
 He lost his right arm at the Battle of Shiloh.
 At the close of the war Major Powell became professor of geology in the Illinois Normal University. An habit- uaI wanderer in wild places, he led a small party of students and natural ists in 1867 ipto the mountains of Colorado. His incidental exploration or two small canyons of the Grand rIVer kindled the purpose which fG af
 explore the canyons of the Grand and Green rivers and of the then mvsteri- ous Colorado river which their union forms
 The following summer he organized
 his expedition, proceeded down tba Gfand river and across the mountains | to the White river Where from his wlner camp ne Elado extensive studies CT the rivers and their canyons. and perfected plans for his dangerous mas 1 sage of the unknown Colorado. Ills great adventure, the passage of
 the Grand Canyon of the Colorado 1 was made in the summer of 1869 sI-p- III then 1t was unknown. Yet enouob ] had been seen to fOment rumOr' he
 wrote in his report to the Smithsonian institution, and many wonderful stories have been told in the hunters
 cdplh ana proSpecter's camp. Stories
 were related of parties entering the SorSe m boats and being carried down Wlth fearful velocity into whirlpooIs
 where all were overwhelmed in the abyss Of waters others. of under- ground passages for the great river
 into which boats had passed never to pc seen again. It was currently he
 lleVed that the river was lost undar the rocks for several hundred miles | Ihere were other accounts of great
 1alls, whose roaring music could he | heard on the distant mountain srno | mits."
 Into the Great Unknown The start into the Great Unknown"
 was made on August l3. The nart,,
 consisting of 10 men in four boats. had
 been afloat since their start from Green River City on May 24. Two of lhe boats were decked forming water 1 tight compartments
 oW' after three months of labori-
 ous battle with rapids, and waterfalls
 and the still more laborious explora 1 tion of innumerable side canyons they
 had reached with scant provisions. the
 supreme test of strength and coura ge. What falls there are" says his | diary, we know not; what rocks be set the channels we know not; what walls rise on the river, we Know not. ! An, well. we may conjecture many l things The men talk as cheerfully as ever; jests are banded about freely
 this morning; but to me the cheer is
 somber and the tests are ghastly."
 The following day comes the first
 of many tests. The diary goes on: | First of Many Upsets
 About II o'clock we hear a great
 roar ahead, and approach it very cau- 1 tiously. The sound grows lolder and
 louder as We run. aud at last we find