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The Williams News VTTTTAMS, ARIZ. Population. 2,500 Eratloo. 6.7S0 RESOURCES fombttlng Mining Stock ralring THE NEVS JOB PRINTING IS UNEXCELLED 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 S