Weekly journal-miner., 1918-06-19
FEW PENETRATE GRAND CANYON
 RECESSES
INADEQUACY OF TRAILS AND ACCOMMODATIONS IS
 CAUSE OF MOST TOUR ISTS GIVING PLACE BUT SUPERFICIAL ATTENTION
CFrom Sundays Daily.)

Most visitors to the Grand Can yon see it only from the rim; a small proportion take the extra day to descend to the river, and still fewer the two days necessary to spend a night in its depths. But 1t is neces- sary to see the canyon from within if one is to have even a superficial idea of it. The rim view is noble in the extreme: 1t is inspiring, to some even terrifying; to all it affords an emotional experience whose mem- ory remains for lifetime. But, after all, 1t presents only one aspect of very many, for the great gulf of fers sensations of infinite variety.
 For this reason there is probably no great place in the world seen by SO many and known to so few. The supremacy of the Grand Canyon in the worlds scenic gallery is univcr- sally acknowledged. Not far from hundred thousand persons visit 1t an nually The boundaries proposed for the national park which congress is now considering inclosc about d thousand square miles of q magnii ccnce which phrase and photograph fail even to suggest.
 The fact that so few who visit the Grand Canyon really see 1t grows out of the public disposition to consider it a side trip Of the transcontinental journey. People planning to spend weeks or months at the Pacific re- sorts accept the popular misconcep- tion that the canyon can be done in a day or two" en route. Many leave t with some realization that they have merely looked in through a crack in the fence, but, with pre- arranged reservations, they naturally hold to their programs; besides, they argue, nobody else stays more than a day or two, so, in spite of appear anccs, that must be all it is worth; besides, hotel, carriage, and trail ac- commodations are organized on the idea that the stay will be brief. Thus the greatest spectacle of its kind, and many think of any kind, in the whole world has become a side show to a western vacation.
 This colossal blunder naturally would cure itself in good time if the Grand Canyon could only be made as comfortable to live in as it is to stop in, and if its innumerable details were made comfortably accessible. Many visitors eat breakfast on the .rain coming and spend the succeed ing night on the train going; they have seen" the Grand Canyon in be- tween. The excellent hotel, so charming to live in, if people would only live in ii, almost suggests the hurry of a crowded street, so rushed is it with the visitors Of single night
 But, alter all, there are two good reasons why the visiting public should not be charged with lack of apprecia- ton. One is this general prcconccp- ton that the Grand Canyon is a one or two days spectacle. The other IS that the private interests which have built the trails and otherwise planned the manner in which the public shall see it have adopted the same idea; 1t Is natural that they should not in vest more money in roads and trails than just enough to take care of the business that naturally offers. \ man who, after he has spent one day on that part of the rim which is de- vcloped and one day going to the bot tom of the canyon, finds that further exploration involves expensive spec ial equipment and special guides, and that the canyon floor Is unprovidcd with good lateral trails or more thaG the one camp; in other words, who plans an undertaking which resembles an expedition, must possess cnthu- Siasm and pockCtbook beyond the usual
 Artists and lcisurcly travellers sometimes do this, but it is out of the question for the great body of busy Americans. Their turn will come when the Grand Canyon be- comes national park and IS studied and developed for the special pur- pose of making its infinite treasures comfortably accessible to all. Mean while 1t Is unreasonable to expect private interests to do more for the public than they ind profitable.
 Those who have lived with rather than glanced at the Grand Canyon Dt one lltItdSlhSlA moved DN llS glorics It has inspired more litera- ture and art than all the other scenic places oi America combined. It Is the center of steadily increasing T.l"rimagc Of painters. Ii perhaps r-ay be said that the Grand Canyon and the region of which it is the climax inspire the highest as well as certainly the most extensive eNpres- sion of landscape art in America today.
 An interesting example of the way the Grand Canyon gets" those who live a little with it is found in the technical, and to most of Us the in- comprchcusiblc, reports of the gov crnmcnt topoeraphcrs and gcologists who studied t for years. Apparently in spite of themselves, these men to whom rocks and canyons are the grim business of life. often inter ruut their dry technical pages by br,oi bursts of enthusiasm not in spired in the least by science, but by the pure emotion of sublinity.
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