Williams news. [microfilm reel], October 19, 1901, Image 1

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The Williams News
VTTTTAMS, ARIZ.
Population. 2,500
Eratloo. 6.7S0
RESOURCES
fombttlng Mining
Stock ralring
THE NEVS JOB
PRINTING
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RAILROADS
Santa Fe Pacific
Santa Fa U. Grand
Canyon
Saginaw Southern
VoLJO WILLIAMS, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, J 901 No. 12
ANOTHER
WRITE-UP
On the Wonders and Beauty of
the Grand Canyon The
Tourists Dream
AN INEXHAUSTIBLE SUBJECT
A Description by the Editor of the
Whittier. CI.. News, of Ml
Trip-. Extracts From the
Santa Fe's Booklet.
In company with Dr. L. D. Hock
ett the News scribe left Whittier on
September 4 for a ten days outing
in the Grand Canyon of Arizona.
We traveled via the Santa Fe to
within eight miles of Bright Angel
trail. The last eight miles was
done by Btage and brought us to
Bright Angel hotel and its genial
proprietor, Martin Buggeln, who
made us very comfortable. The
Santa Fe company is now running
trains through to the rim, so the
trip can be made much more com
fortably. For several years it had been the
wish of both to this wonderful
freak of nature, and the opportun
ity was grasped with avidity. We
were prepared for a wonder but
not for what we saw. For miles all
about the canyon the country re
sembles a natural park; pine trees
cover a beautiful rolling country
and this condition exists up to the
very rim of the canyon so that the
view breaks upon one without prev
ious preparation. The remarks of
different people as they first step
out on the rim would form inter
esting reading. It is something
too stupendous to describe in
words a vast chasm before which
one etands with neither speech nor
language.
We made a side trip to the old
Hance trail; had the pleasure of
meeting John Hance and hearing
from his lips the story of the dis
appearance of rattlesnakes from
the canyon. Uncle John is a char
acter and enjoys the proud dis
tinction of being the most artistic
liar in the territory.
At Williams we met F. R. Nellis,
a brother-in-law of Marshall See,
of this city, who, on learning that
we were from Whittier, left his
business and with the whole-souled
hospitality of Arizona, went out to
the canyon with us. Mr. Nellis
has lived in Arizona for over 20
years and is prominent as a mining
and stock man in that part of the
country and added greatly to the
pleasure of the trip.
O'Neill's Point, named for the
famous Bucky, who lost bis life at
San Juan Hill, Moran Point,
Rowe's Point and all along the
rim afford fine views that are con
stantly changing. The coloring
varies with each hour's light and
is indescribably beautiful. It is
worth all the expense of the trip
for one single hour to look at this
wonder of nature.
The following descriptive matter
taken from "The Grand Canyon of
Arizona, a booklet published by
the Santa Fe, gives some interest
ing facts concerning it:
The Colorado is one of the
great rivers of North America.
Formed in southern Utah by the
confluence of the Green and Grand,
it intersects the northwestern
corner of Arizona, and becoming
the eastern boundary of Nevada
and California, flows southward
until it reaches tidewater in the
Gulf of California, Mexico. It
drains a territory of 300,000 square
miles, and when traced back to the
rise of its principal source, is 2,000
miles long. At two points, the
Needles and Yuma, on the Cali
fornia boundary, it is crossed by a
railroad. Elsewhere its course 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 formid
able mountains.
The early Spanish explorers first
reported it to the civilized world in
1540, two separate expeditions be
coming acquainted with the river
for a comparatively short distance
above the mouth, and another,
journeying from the Mold Pueblos
northward across the desert, obtain
ing the first view of the Big Canyon,
failing in every effort to descend the
canyon wall and spying the river
only from afar. Again, in 1776, a
Spanish priest traveling southward
found a practical crossing at a point
that still bears the name, "Vadode
los Padres." For more than eighty
years thereafter the Big Canyon
remained unvisited, except by In
dians, the Mormon herdsman and
the trapper, although the Sitgreaves
expedition of 1851, journeying west
ward, struck the- Colorado about
150 miles above Yuma, and Lieu
tenant nipple in ioo4 made a
survey for a practical railroad
route along the thirty-fifth parallel,
where the Santa Fe Pacific railroad
has since been constructed.
The vastness of this big jagged
hole in the ground appeals very
strangely to one when Been from
the rim, but when one goes down
into it then he begins to wonder
that it did not look bigger. The
trail winds down the face of preci
pices to the mesa, about 2,000 feet
above the river and 3,200 feet be
low the rim, so far away that the
naked eye can hardly distinguish
the men and animals although the
view is unobstructed and apparent
ly at your very feet.
There are many points of inter
est which one wishes to visit: Cata
ract Canyon, Little Colorado Can
yon, and many lesser places.
Enjoying; the Prosperity.
Surely the Los Angeles Herald
is enjoying its share of the general
prosperity, judging from the way
it is being improved and enlarged
from time to time.
The Herald, as a newspaper, ranks
with the best in the whole country,
and every Sunday it issues a maga
zine which is a marvel of excellence.
For five cents a person can get
more good reading in The Sunday
Herald than could be found in any
publication for twice the money.
The Sunday Herald is also doing
a grand work for Southern Cali
fornia and the whole southwest
through the publication of illustrat
ed write-ups of the principal indus
tries, and the points of interest.
You eet the best lob nrintine at
the News office.
AGAINST
ARIZONA
The Los Angeles Times Opposes
Statehood of Territory for
Political Reasons.
VOTERS MUST BE REPUBLICAN
The Following; Article Is Taken From
the BIsbee Review and Show
the Attitude of the Times
Concerning Statehood.
Tuesday's issue of the Los Ange
les Times, under the caption of
"Arizona's Ambition," opposes the
admission of this territory to state
hood forsooth because Arizona
in the past has steadfastly held to
the principles of the democratic
party and refused to send republi
can delegates to congress.
To quote from the Times:
Just as soon as the territory of
Arizona is prepared to show proof
that a majority of the citizens are
politically in sympathy with the
controlling power at Washington,
which represents a majority of the
American people, will its request
for admission into the family of
states be likely to be granted by
the American congress, and not
sooner. In other words, Arizona
must either show a republican ma
jority, or else wait till there is a
democratic majority in congress.
We should strongly advise the for
mer alternative, as life is short and
the territory is growing rapidly.
By this declaration the Times
has joined forces with the Philadel
phia Telegraph and has repudiated
the national republican platform,
adopted at Philadelphia, which de
clared for the early admission of
Arizona, New Mexico and Okla
homa, and now lays down a new
republican doctrine, to-wit: "Vote
the republican ticket straight or
stay where you are."
The Times in the same article
acknowledges that Arizona is in
every way fitted for statehood, and
says:
Arizona has made remarkable
rozresa dnrintr the njt derade.
io longer distinctively the "Land
of Sunshine and Silver," it is now
the land of copper and gold and
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