F 788 .H633 Copy 1 7/n. r^ OpTfl& RIVER ■» .», ARIZONA- GRAND CANON COLOEADO EIYEE, ARIZONA. C. A. HIGGINS. With Original Illustrations by Thomas Moean. H. F. Fakny and F. H. Lung KEN. PASf^ENOER DEPARTMENT. SAXTA FE ROUTE. CHICAGO, 1S"j:. 70007 {l>«.IV..lON.,.t.^(l^ I. TIIIC C.'oloraJu i< i_>iie of tliu j^iv.it liverr^ i>( Xuith Auieriua. Foriia-d in .suulliuni Utah by tlie confluence of the Green and Grand, it intersects the nortli western cornerof Arizona, and, Ijeconiing the ea?:tern boundary of Nevada and California, flows southward until it reaches tidewater in the Gulf of California, ;Mexico. It drains a territory of :!00,000 square miles, and, traced back to the rise of its princijial source, is 2,001) miles long. At two i)oints, the Needles and Yuina on the California boundary, it is crossed by a raih-oad. Elsewhere its c'ourse lies far from Caucasian settlements and far from the routes of common travel, in the heart of a vast region fenced on the one hand by arid plains and on the other by formidable mountains. The early Spanish explorers iivt^t reported it to tlic civilized world in 1.540, two sejiarate expeditions becoming acquainteil with the river for a comparatively short distance above its mouth, and another, journeying from the JMoqui Pueblos northwestward acro.ss the desert, obtaining the lirst view of the Big Cation, failing in every effort to descend the canon wall, and spying the river only from afar. Again, in 1776, a Spanish jiriest traveling southward through Utah struck ofl' from the Mrgen River to the southeast and found a practicable crossing at a jjoint that still bears the name " Vado de los Padres." For more than eighty years thereafter the Big Cation remained unvisited, except by the Indian, the Mormon herds- man and the trapper, although the Sitgreaves expedition of IS.jl, journeying westward, struck the Colorailo about one hundred and lifty miles above Yuma, and Lieutenant \Vhipi)le in 1S54 made a survey for a practicable railroad route along the thirty-flfth parallel, where the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad has since been constructed. The establishment of military posts in New Mexico and T'tah having made desirable the use of a water-way for the cheap trans- portation of supplies, in l.So7 the War Department ilispatched an expedition in charge of Lieutenant Ives to explore the Colorado as far from its mouth as navigation should be found practicable. Ives ascended the river in a specially constructed steandraat to the head of Black Canon, a few miles below the confluence of the Virgen River in Nevada, where further navi- gation became iinpossilde; then, returning to the Needles, lie set ofl" across the country toward the northeast. He reached the Big Canon at Diamond Creek and at Cataract ('reck in the spring of IS.kS, and from the latter point made a wide southward detour aiouiul tlie San Francisco peaks, thence northeastward to the Moqui Pueblos, thence eastward to Fort Dcliauce and so back to civilization. That is the Iiistory of the esci)loi\itioiis of the Colorado up to twenty-live years ago. Its exact cour.-^e was unknown for many hundred miles, even its origin in the junction of the Grand and Green Rivers being a matter of conjecture, it being dilticult to approach within a distance of two or three miles from tlie channel, while descent to the river's edge could be hazarded only at wide intervals, inasmuch as it lay in an a|)palliiig fissure at the foot of seemingly impassable clirt" terraces that led d(nvii from the Ijordering plateau; and an attempt at its navigation would have lieen courting death. It was known in a genenil wav that the entire channel between Nevada and Utah was of the same titanic character, reaching its culmination nearly midway in its course through Arizona. In 1869 Maj. J. W. Powell under- took the exploration of the river with nine men and four boats, starting from Green River City, on the Green River, in Utah. The project met with the most urgent remonstrance from those who were best acquainted witli the region, including the Indians, who maintained that boats could not possibly live in any one of a score of rapids and falls known to them, to say nothing of the vast unknown stretches in which at any moment a Niagara might be disclosed. It was also currently believed that for hundreds of miles the river disappeared wholly beneath the surface of the earth. Powell launched liis flotilla on Ma}' 24, and on August 30 landed at the mouth of the Virgen River, more than one thousand miles by the river channel from the place of .-starting, minus two boats and four men. One of the men had left the expedition by way of an Indian reservation agency before reaching Arizona, and three, after holding out against unprecedented terrors for many weeks, had finally become daunted, choosing to encounter the perils of an unknown desert rather than to brave any longer the frightful menaces of that Stygian torrent. These three, unfortunately making their ajjpearance on the plateau at a time when a recent depredation was colorably chargeable upon them, were killed by Indians, their story of having come thus far down the river in boats being wholly dis- credited by their captors. Powell's journal of the trip is a fascinating tale, written in a compact and modest style, which, in spite of its reticence, tells an epic story of purest heroism. It definitely estal>lislied the scene of his e.xploration as the most wonderful geological and spec- tacular phenomenon known to mankind, and justified the name which had been bestowed upon it — The Grand ('aSox — sublimest of gorges; Titan of chasms. Many .scientists have since visited it, and, in the aggregate, a considerable number of unprofessional lovers of nature; but until a few years ago no adequate facilities were provided for the general sightseer, and the world's most stupendous panorama was known principally through report, by reason of the discomforts and ditficuUies of the trip, which deterred all except the most indefatigable enthusiasts. Even its geographical location has been the subject of widespread misapprehension. As stated by Captain Button, in his admirable " Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District," its title has been pirated for application to relatively insignificant canons in di.stant parts of the country, and thousands of touri.sts have been led to believe that they were viewing the Grand Canon when, in fact, they looked upon a totally dift'erent scene, between which and the real (irand Canon there is no more compaiiscm "than there is between the Alleghanies or Trosachs and the Himalayas." There is but one Grand Cauon. Nowhere in the worlil has its like Ijcen found. II. IT lies wholly in the northern part of Arizona. It is accessible from the north only at the cost of weeks of arduous travel, necessitating a special expedition with camp outfit and jiack animals. From the south it is easily reached in a single day's journey by stage from the town of Flagstaff, an important station on the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad, which is a divisi(jn of the Santa Fe Route. There is no otlier railmad within a distance of several hundred ndles. In 1802 a tri-weekly stage line was permanently established between Flagstaft and the Grand Canon. The entire distance is sixty-five miles, and it is covered in eleven hours, by the aid of three relays. The route is nearly level, traversing the platform district which, taking name from the river, is known as the Colorado Plateau. Tlie excellence of the roadwav needs ■VvN ■ ■*- I? no other ti^timony tli:in tlu' fact that tlie jounu'y coii^-iiines so hitle tinu>. Fur long strctrlies it is as hard ami smooth as a houlevard. Tlie stage leaves Flafrstatf in the murning, reaches a comfortable dinner station at noon, and deposits its passengers at a jiermanent camp on the rim of the most impressive jiortion of the Canon before nightfall. The Canon ean)p is a tiny tent village, pictures! inely located in a park of tall jiines. Each tent is floored, and furnished with bed, talde, chairs and other articles of comfoi-t. l'"xcellent meals are provided. Elevated more than 7,000 feet above sea-level, the air is pure and exhilarating, and the health-giving climate that is characteristic of the region, together with the charming' invironment of the pine forest, would make a week's stay at the Canon camp a cleliglitful and pn.litable outing, even were there no tirand Canon at hand. The stage returns from the Canon to Flagstalf every other day. If it is necessary to be satisfied with a few hours' inspection, one may return the following morning after arrival, and thus seethe Cirand Canon in but two days' ab.sence from Flagstaff. AV'hile so superficial a view will reveal oidy a fraction of its protean splendors, it will jirove an everlasting menuiry. fottery ; past hare mountains of black cinder striped with red slag ; over broad ranges where sheep and cattle browse and the tents of the herders gleam from the hillside where the infrequent spring pours out its flow; threading the notches of .slopes regularly set with cedar and pinon ; across gentle divides from whose summits the faint rosy hues of the Painted Desert may be seen in the northeast, and in the north the black jagged lines of mountain ranges indefinitely far away; then once more into the pines and down a short, steep descent to the terndnus in a roman- tic glen near John Hance's caliin, some fifteen miles west of the confluence of the Little Colorado with the main river. In all tlie journey nothing has been encountered that could prepare the mind for tran- scendent scenery, save that in the last half mile two or three glimpses of what were guessed to be pinkish cliffs far to right and left were shadowed faintly through the trees. And certainly there is nothing that portends the heroic in tlie sylvan scene where at last the traveler (luits the stage. Small herbage and flowers of every hue grow at the foot of the pines, among pretty rock frag-' ments of variegated color. Save for a single crag, whose gray crest barely tops the northward slope of the glen, a hundred yards away, there is no hint of any presence foreign to the peaceful air of a woodland glade, denizened by birds and squirrels, innocent even of the rumor of such a thing as the Grand Canon. Tlie visitor, smitten with a sudden fear of bitter disappointment in store, strides eagerly up the slope to put the vaunted Canon to the test. Without an instant's warning he finds himself upon the verge of an unearthly spectacle that stretches beneath his feet to the far horizon. Stolid indeed is he if he can front that awful scene without quaking knee or tremulous breath. IV. i\ inferno, swathed in soft celestial tires; a whole chaotic under-world, just emptierink of a fearful chasm in the plateau whose opposite shore is thirteen miles away. A labyrintli of huge architectural forms, endlessly varied in design, fretted with ornamental devices, festooned with lace-like webs formed of talus from the upper clitfs and painted with every color known to the palette in pure transparent tones of marvelous delicacy. Never was picture more harmonious, never flower more exquisitely beautiful. It flashes instant communication of all that architecture and painting and music for a thousand years have grop- ingly striven to express. It is the soul of Michael Angelo and of Beethoven. A canon, truly, but not after tlie acceirted type. An intricate system of cahons, rather, each subordinate to the river channel in the midst, which in its turn is subordinate to the total eflect. That river channel, the profoundest depth, and actually more than six thousand feet l)elow the point of view, is in seeming a rather insignificant trench, attracting the eye more by reason of its sond)er tone and mysterious suggestion than by any appreciable characteristic of a chasm. It is nearly five miles distant in a straight line, and its npiiermo-st rims are 3,000 feet l)eneath the observer, whose measuring capacity is entirely inadequate to the demand made by such magnitudes. One cannot believe the distance to be more than a mile as the crow flies, before descending the wall or attempting some other form of actual measurement. Mere brain knowledge counts for little against the illusion under which the organ of vision is here doomed to labor. That red cliff upon your right, darkening from white to gray, yellow and brown as j'our glance descends, is taller than the Washington monument. The Auditorium in Chicagn would not cover one-half its perpendicular span. Yet it docs not greatly impress you. You idly toss a pebble toward it, ami are surprised to note how far the missile falls short. Subsequently you learn that the cliff is a good half mile distant. If you care for an abiding sense of its true proportions, go over to the trail that begins beside its summit and clamber down to its base and back. You will return some hours later, and with a decided respect for a small Grand Canon clilT. Kelativelv it is insigniticant ; in tluit sense vour first estimate J)ru. It falls sheer the height of a church or an ICillel Tower, according yi.>ur position, and explodes like a bomb on a projecting ledge. If, hapjiily, any consideraljle fragments remain, they bound onward like ela.stic balls, leaping in wil.l parabola fr. trees like straws, bursting, crash- ing, thundering down until they make a last plunge over the Ijrink of a void, and then there comes languidly up the clitl'siiles a faint, distant roar, and your bowlder that had withstood the butiets of centuries lies scattered as wide a- WyclitTe's ashes, although the fin;il fragment has lodged only a little way, so to speak, below the rim. Such performances are frequentl>' given in these amphitheatres with out human aid, bj- the mere un dernnning of the rain, or perhajis it is here that Sisyphus reheursi - his unending task. Often in th silence of night a tremendous frag- ment may be heard crashing from terrace to terrace like shocks of thunder ]ieal. The spectacle is so symmet- rical, and so completely excludes the outside world and its accus- tomed standards, it is with dilli- culty one can acquire any notion of its immensity. Were it half as dee)), half as broad, it would be no less liewildering, so utterly docs it batiie Imman grasp. Some- thing may be gleaned from the account given by geologists. What is known to them as the (irand (anon Hisuict lies prin- cipally in northwestern Arizona, its h-ngth fiom northwest to southeast in a straight line lieing about ISO miles, its width 125 nnles, ami its total area some 1-5,000 scjuare miles. Its northerly beginning, at the high plateaus in southern I'tah, is a series of terraces, many miles broad, drojiping like a stairway step liy stej) to succe.ssively lower geological fornuitions, until in Arizona the i>latforni is reached which liorders the real cliasui and extends southward beyond far into the central part of that territory. It is the theory of gc.jlogi>ts that 10,01)0 feet of strata have been swept by erosion from the surface of this entire platform, whose present uppermost Furuif. THE STAGE TERMINUS. formation is the Carboniferous; tlie deiluctioii being based upon tlie faot that the missing Per- mian, Mesozoic and Tertiary formations, whicli belong above tliis Carboniferous in the series, are found in tlieir place at the beginning of the northern terraces referred to. The theory is fortified by many evidences supplied by examination of the district, where, more than anywhere else, mother earth has laid bare the secrets of her girlhood. The climax in this extraordinary example of erosion is, of course, the chasm of the Grand CaiJon proper, which, were the missing strata restored to the adjacent plateau, would be 16,000 feet deep. The layman is apt to stigmatize such an assertion as a vagary of theorists, and until the argument has Ijeen heard it does seem incredible that water should have carved such a trough in solid rock. It is easier for the imagination to conceive it as a work of violence, a sudden rending of earth's crust in some huge volcanic fury; but it appears to be true that the whole region was repeat- edly lifted and submerged, both under the ocean and under a fresh-water sea, and that during the period of the last upheaval the river cut its gorge. Existing as the drainage system of a vast territory, it had the riglit of way, and as the plateau deliberately rose before the pressure of the internal forces, slowly, as grind the mills of the gods, through a period to be measured by thousands of centuries, the river kept its bed worn down to the level of erosion; sawed its channel free, as the saw cuts the log that is thrust against it. Tributaries, traceable now only by dry lateral gorges, and the gradual Imt no less efl'ective proce.ss of weathering, did the rest. Beginning on the plateau level on the Canon's brink, the order of the rock formations above the river, according to Captain Dutton, is as follows: I. Cherty limestone. 240 feet. i''. Keii Wiill limestone. l.otK) (eet. ■Z. Upper Aubrey limestone, 320 feet. 7- I^ower Carboniferous sandstone. 550 feet. :!. Cross-bedded sandstone, 380 feet. S. Quartzite base of Carboniferous. 180 feet. 4. Lower Aubrey sandstone. SI50 feet. 9. Arehiean. 5. Upper Red Wall sandstone. -100 feet. The total vertical clepth is more tlian a mile. V. ONLY by descending into the Canon may one arrive at anything like comprehension of its jiroportions, and the descent cannot be too urgently commended to every visitor who is feutlicieiitly robust to bear a reasonable amount of fatigue. But few practicable paths down the Canon wall exist throughout its entire length. One of these, the old Hance trail, begins within half a inile of the stage terminus. The new trail is distant only half a mile farther; and three miles away is the Cameron trail. The location of the Caiion camp thus affords magnificent vidws from the rim and convenient ways of access to the Canon depths and the river. Tlie first mentioned trail has been practically superseded ; the others may be traversed nearly all the way on horseback in safety; but the following notes of a descent of the old Hance trail when there was no other may serve to indicate the nature of such an experience liefore its asperities were softened ; "For the first two miles it is a sort of Jacoli's ladder, zigzagging at an unrelenting pitch down a steep and nearly uniform decline caused by a sli/••" liitlr.ti htj 'ilionuts Mofiln, tinies the height of Hunkrr Hill MimiiiiK'iit. Loukiii',' hack fidin llii- level tlie hui;e pic- turesque towers tliat horcier the rim shrink to pi-juiies and .eautiful as a mosaic. (!)bstjicles are encountered in the form of steeji interposing crags, past which the brook has found a way, but over which the pedestrian must clamber. After these lesser diiliculties come sheer ted roar of waters. When at last tins is reached, over a linal downward clamber, the traveler stands upon a sandy rift confronted by nearly vertical walls many hundreil feet high, at whose base a black torrent pitches in a giddying onward slide that gives him momentarily tlie sensation of sli]iping into an abyss. '■ With so little labor may one come to the Colorado Hiver in the heart of its most tremendous i-bannel, and gaze upon a sight that heretofore has had fewer witnesses than have the wilds of .\frica. r>warfed l)y such prodigious mountain shores, which ri,se immediately from the water at 17 RESTING PLACE. an angle tli.it xvoulii deny footing to a n.ountain ^heep, it is not easy to estimate confidently the width and volnme of the river. Choljed by the stnbborn granite at this point, its width is prob- ably between two hundred and fifty and tliree hnndred feet, its veloeity fifteen miles an hour, and its Volume and turmoil equal to the Whirlpool Kapids of Niagara. Its I'ise in time of heavy rain is rapid and appalling, for the walls shed almost instantly all the water that falls upon them. Drift is lodged in the crevices thirty feet overhead. For only a few hundi-ed yards is the tortuous stream visible, but its effect upon the senses is jierhaps the greater for that reason. Issuing as from a mountain side, it slides with oily smoothness fur a space and suddeidy breaks into violent waves that comb back against the current and shoot une.xpecfedly here and there, while the volume sways tide-like fr.im side to side, and long curling breakers form and hold their outline lengthwise of the shore, despite the seemingly irresistible velocity of the water. The river is laden with drift, huge tree trunks, which it tosses like chips in its terrible plav. "Standing upion that shore one can l:)arely credit Powell's achievement, in spite of its alisolute authenticity. Never was a more magnificent scH'-reliance displayed than by the man who not only undertook the passage of Colorado River but won his way. And after viewing a fraction of the scene at close range, one cannot hold it to the discredit of "three of his companions that they abandoned the undertaking not far below this |>oint. The fact that these who jiersisted got through alive is hardly more astonishing than that anv should have had the hardihood to persist. For it could not have l)een alone the privation, the infinite toil, the unending suspen.se in constant menace of death that assaulted their courage; these they had looked for; it was rather the unlifted gloom of thuse tartarean depths, the unspeakable horrors of an endless valley of the shadow of death, in which every step was irrevocable. " Returning to the spot wiiere the animals were aliandoned,camp is made for the night. Next morning the way is retraced. Not the most fervid pictures of a poet's fancy could transcend the glories then revealed in the depths of the Canon; inky shadows, pale gildings of lofty spires, golden splendors of sun l)eating full on facades of red and yellow, obscurations of distant peaks by veils of transient shower, glimpses of white towers half drowned in purple haze, suffusions of rosy light blended in reflection from a humlred tinted walls. Caught up to exalted emotional heights the beholder becomes unmindful of fatigue. He mounts on w ings. He drives the chariot of the sun." VI. HAVING returned to the pilateau, it will he found that the descent into the Canon has bestowed a sense of intimacy that almost amounts to a mental grasp of the scene. The imposing Temple of Sett will be recognized after close scrutiny in a just determinable penstroke of detail. A memorably gorgeous 01ynii>ian height that dominated everything for the space of a mile will be seen to be nothing more than the jierpendicular front of the Red Wall limestone, topped up and away by retreating summits, hidden from below, that reduce it now to the unimportance of a mere girdle. The verdant, flowered expanse of notable niggedness below the Rock Cabin will be discoverable in a small smooth patch of marly hue. The terrific deeps that part the walls of hundreds of castles and turrets of mountainous bulk will be apprehended mainly through the memory of ujiward looks from the bottom, while towers and obstructions an the Canon sinks into mysterious purple shadow, the far Shinumn Altar is lipped with a golden ray, and against a leaden horizon the long line of the Echo Clifl's reflects a soft brilliance of inde- scribable beauty, a light that, elsewhere, surely never was on sea or land. Then darkness frills, and should there be a moon, the sci'ue in part revives in silver light, a thousand specti'al forms projected from inscrutable gloom; dreams of mountains, as in their sleep tliey broml on things eternal. Then iiuickly ■'f/ni Inj 11. F. I-'iinnj. ON THE TRAIL. Drawn hij F. H. Lnngren. AN EVENING AT THE CANON CAMP. L. of Q CLIFF DWELLINGS. At several iiointsupon tlio rimoftliel iraniK'anon, botli east and west of tlie stage tenniiuis, tlie razed walls of aneient stone dwell- iiiirs may be seen. They are situated upon the verae of the preci]ni'e, in one in- stance erowniiiu;- an out- standing tower that is con- nected with tlie main wall by onl}- a narrow saddle, and ])rot<>cted on evei'v other hand by the per- pendicular dcjiths of the Canon. Tlie worlil does not contain anotlier fortress su triumphantly invulnerable to primitive warfare, nnr a dwelling-place that can equal it in sublimity. It ■will be found upun onent the salients of Point ^[oran. Si-attered southward over the platea\i, other ruins of similar character have I)een fouml. Perfect specimens of ])0ttery and other domestic utensils luive been exhumed in small number, and the rich and varied arclweological collections that have so recently rewarded systematic examination of prehistoric ruins in other parts of the country, 'wliose treasures were thought to liave been exliausted, would seem to warrant careful .«earch of this region, where the known ruins have been but superficially examined, and doulitless many more await discovery. Tlie most famous group, and the largest aggregation, is (nund in Walnut Caiion, eight miles southeast from Flagstatl'. This caiion is several hundred feet deep and some three miles long, with steep terraced walls of limestone. Along the shelving terraces, nmlrr beetling jirojertions of the strata, arc scores of these quaint abodes. The larger are divided into four or five comparlmcnts by cemented walls, many jiarts of which are still intact. It i< lu^lieved that these ancient i>eople customarilv dwelt upon the plateau above, retiriii<_' ti> their f irlilicatimis wlicu attackcil bv an enemv. CAVE DWELLINGS. Nine miles from Flagstaff, and only half a mile fnun the stage road to tlie Grand Caiion, these remarkable ruins are to be seen, upon the summit and fartlu'r side of an extinct crater whose slopes are buried deep in black and red gravel-like cinder. The Caves, so-called, were the vent holes of the volcano in the time of the eruptions of lava and ashes that have so plentifully covered the region for many miles about — countless ragged caverns opening directly underfoot and leading by murky windings to unknown deeps in the earth's crust. Many are simple pot holes a few yards in depth, their suliterranean leads choked up and coticealed. Others yawn black, like burrows of huge beasts of prey. In many instances they are surrounded by loose stone walls, parts of which are standing just as when their singular inhabitants peered through their crevices at an approaching foe. Broken pottery abounds, scattered in small frag- ments like a talus to the very foot of the hill. The character of the pottery is similar to that found in the Cliff Dwellings, and it is probal)le that the Cave Pwellers and the Cliff" Dwellers were the same people. The coarser vessels are sini])ly glazed, or roughly corrugated ; the smaller ones are decorated by regular indentations, in imitation of the scales of the rattlesnake, or painted in black and white geometrical designs. Inferentially, these mysterious people, like the Cliff' L'wellers, were of the same stock as the Pueblo Indians of our day. How long ago they dwelt here cannot he surmised, save roughly from the appearance of extreme age that characterizes many of the rains, and the absence of native traditions concerning them. Their age has been estimated at from six to eight hundred years. CAVE DWELLING, NEAR FLAGSTAFF. -X ■ViV- !'rnix, many lakes, and far glimpses over a wiile circle. COST OF A TRIP TO THE GRAND CANON, STAGE SCHEDULE, HOTELS, ETC. Tiie stage fare from Flagstaff' to the Grand Canon and return is $1.5.0U. Stage tickets may be purchased on arrival at Flagstaff', or special railmad tickets, bearing stage coupons, may be obtained by the tourist. The stage leaves Flagstaff" for the Grand Canon after breakfast every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning, except during the winter months, returning Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings. The office of ,1. W. Thurbur, manager of the Grand Caiion Stage Line Company, is conveniently situated on the depot platform, and visitors will find it to their advantage to apjily to liim immediately upon arrival and secure stage acconnnodations. The cost to Grand Canon visitors of hotel accommodations, at l-'lagstatf, tlie Canon and tlie nndway lunch station at Cedar Ranch, is about {!;!.()() per day. Camping outfits, pack animals, saddle horses, guides, rough clothing, stout shoes and general supplies can be procured at the Canon camp by parties who desire to descend the trails or make excursions along the rim. There are several hotels in Flagstaff', and visitors who i-hance to arrive in town between the regular stage runs, as scheduled above, will have no difficulty in spending time agreeably in the interim. In addition to the .San Francisco Peaks and the Cliff and Cave Dwellings, Fisher's Tanks may be readied by a short and agreeable drive, and liflcen miles to the south, in Oak Creek Canon, there is really excellent trout tishing. COLORADO PbATEiX^ SANTA FE PACirjC si^^^'fiE^ Ro^i» Jfl%«).of■''^Ai«i/• ~\ ^ Flagstaff is situiitn' on the S;uit;i IV Pacific Railroad, a ilivisi(jii of the thicjuj;!! C'alifoniia line of the Santa Fe Route. Special tickets tci the (jranil Canon, containing stage coupon, are sold at reduced rates hy agents of the ."^anta Fe Koute, and l^y agents nf connecting lines, in the principal cities of the United States. Inquiries as to cost of tickets, time nf trains, etc., may he addres.'-ed to any agent of the Santa Fe Route, or to the undersigned, as may Ije most convenient. W. J. BL.\CK, C. A. H!<.(iI.\S, General Passenger Agent, A. T. & S. F. li'y, As^^t. ( ieneral Passenger Agent, A. T. & S. F. H'y, ToPF.KA, K.AX. Ciiir.voo. '■ '■ ^^'^^^^ W. S. KKKX.^N, General Passenger Agent, So. Cal. R'y and Santa Fe Pac. R. P., General Passenger Agent, (i. (_'. A S. F. R'y, Los Angeles. G.\LVEsrox, Tex. ,1X0. L. TRUSLOW, General .\gent, Passenger Dept, Santa Fe Pac. R. P., S.\N Fu.\X(is(> CO L. -M c CO en CO a o c o o < x: LIBRPRY OF CONGRESS 017 063 155 9