South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-20
Local Physician Tells Interesting Story
of Trip Through WeSt-Early History is
Interesting Factor-ViSitS Son Charles

10 turbulent muddy stream-al along we're irri-
cation bitches alfalfa fields. truck firms, meadows
orchards
When we woke IN the morning we were out
on the desert We had passed Gallup. Adamana and
Holbrook in the night Gallup there is a wonder
ful and well preserved pueblo containing 1900
rooms. from Adamana and Holbrook, Ariz takes !
trips the Petred Forest and northwest to the
Hop and Navajo reservations and the Painted Desert
our destination Flagstaff Ariz-. at the foot OF
the Francisco peaks. From Winslow Ariz' where
We had breakfast. these snow-capped mountains were
constantly within view. standing like huge sentinels
the desert-they seemed but few miles away, yet
We rode fully hours before reached the
station.
This although generally known Is the most
extensive volcanic region in the United states, II mo-
n the world. For from 50 10 %
miles from the base OF the peaks no visible sud'heu
rock be seen. The mountain itsel1 Is I5 49,
feet high and before It's final eruption must nave
been : 600 feet high From geological standpoint
Il seems TO a Of gigantic rock lava ana
cinders. Here Pluto for a time reigned supreme,
hurting defiance at superintendent oceans OF
vapor which descended ever and again TO exungulsn
the subterranean furnaces which long before Ike
advent on planet-perhaps millions or billions OF
years kept this little earth of ours seeming eIUO
OF fire All about the main volcanic peaks are sraIier
individual mountains. termed "ctnder cones rev
sharp in contour, but most of them round WIN ne
and there depressions the top forming vast basins
which IL lined hold billions of gallons OF water
The precipitation at Flagstaff is 20 plus inches per
wear in the mountains it is estimated as high As 80
inches
The first startling observation of even the tender,
DOT. is nowhere
peaks is a mountain stream to be found one "ou'u
expect great rushing down and watering the
surrounding country, yet all is dry on the Slopes anu
adjacent plains, nothing but pines and
and desert grass and loco weed the hauh's Oh INC
antelope deer and coyote.
! RECOVERING THE LOST WATERS.
Let me explain what the problem is which the Ari-
IONA Cattle sheep Co. is solving. and the eS-
tent the proposition which this company is de1eop
ing Under the guidance Of c. II. Spencer was
given an insight secrets of the Lost waters
of San Francisco mountains" and the methods OF
recovering them by pipe bitches and dams
and tunnels filling natural reservoirs thence 10 DC
distributed by pipe the surrounding country
supplying so and 60 miles distant towns with water
for domestic purposes carrying water to the desert
plains refreshing $4,000 heads Of cattle where today
no steer or COW can live. Water. and only water is
all that is needed 10 region of Arizona a
veritable farms and orchards realizing
10 the owner the second year $1,000 an acre
onions berries and potatoesand even more from
fruit. Today pay all the way from $3.50
to SIP per 1000 gallons for water Tor domestic Pur
poses and must haul II themselves from I'VE TO 10
miles. BY deep planting and dry farming the soil
is exceedingly productive and even at thls almost
prohibtve price of water, farming is profitable
SOURCE OF SUPPLY.
! Now whence this seemingly unlimited water supply
for an unlimited territory:
1 walked and rode up gulches and canyons which
at the start were bone dry: at an altitude of 1000
feet saw pools rils; 5000 feet streams
and stl higher veritabe torrents delivering
hundreds Of millions OF gallons day. 1t is estl
mated that CT billion gallons yearly contained IN
the mountains-nne billions approximately can be re-
gained; three craters available with reservoir
of from 10 four billion gallons annually.
All this water is visible and obtanable at an altitude
5000 At this altitude billions of gallons
below this altitude negligible quantity and that only
part the year. What becomes of the water at
altitude 5000 feet? All the from the 5000
feet above this point impervious
lava strata which holds the water disntegrates and
permits become lost because Of the hetro-
geneous formation Of rock and cnders and the
absence Of all strata of sedimentary formation.
All the consumed for all purposes at FL
Tovar the hotel the rim of the Grand Cayon.
be there from a distance of 81 miles by
Of tank the Santa Fe railroad In the
will be delivered directly to this
playground OF the nation by pipe lne-water the
purest known, 9S percent pure pure that
tourists can US It TO refill their batteries and that
/ you know in country calls for distilled
THE GRAND CANYON.
OF visited the Grand Canyon of the Colo
RADIO, OF the wonders of the world All descrip-
tions pale beside the actually. The first impression
is of Undesirable and overwh Ginning wonder.
You just look and look, glued to the spot fascinated
by its incomprehensive immensely. To appreciate
fully should spend weeks. to study II, not weeks
but months Naturally the first question which pre-
itself is.-What caused Il? And the booklets
and autographs by biologists will tell YOU il was
water erosion. ore geologist repeats what another
has said I have known physicians with
craving for publicity but with personal investga-
ton Whatsoever simply repeated what authors
had written. I shall attempt to give YOU n long
explanation but this l may say-it water
erosion primarily and only in remotely. but a
crack in the eartns surface Intimately associated AT
the same time in the remote with volcanic
upheava-s which PREVALENT volc lnc area
NJ period when the Son Francesca peaks We. active
volcanoes.
You have read descriptions of the canyon ry emIn
ent prose writers have paintings by c7iin mt
artists. and Thomas Moran probably the most noted
(the painting the stairway the public library in
South Bend is good reproduction of viewpoinO
ana poets nave called upon the muses. pant in
words this nlightest chasm of the world and then
you have but a faint conception OF this incompre-
hensble handiwOrl through nature, Of Almighty God
the Great Architect OF the Universe You must see
II yourself.
J. b BERTEL1NG