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 CAPTAIN IOHN HANCE, 
 The well-known Guidi ol the Grand Canon oi the Colorado River.
 
 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Grand ganon of the Colorado River 
 
 NEAR FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA 
 
 AS SEEN THROUGH NEARLY TWO THOUSAND EYES, AND 
 
 WRITTEN IN THE PRIVATE VISITORS' BOOK 
 
 OF THE WORLD-FAMOUS GUIDE 
 
 CAPT. JOHN HANCE 
 
 GUIDE, STORY-TELLER, AND PATH-FINDER 
 
 COLLECTED AND COMPILED BY 
 
 G. K. WOODS 
 
 Published for G. K. Woods, Flagstaff, Arizona Tf.rritorv 
 
 by 
 
 THE WHITAKER & RAY COMPANY 
 
 SAN FRANCISCO 
 
 1899 

 
 Copyright, 1S99, by 
 ('.. K. WOODS. 
 
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 DEDICATION 
 
 TO THE PATRONS OF THIS WORK 
 
 / "T~ V HIS work is respectfully dedicated the many- 
 writers who have enabled me to present to 
 the world ideas of what this great masterpiece of 
 nature looks like (by their gratuitous contributions 
 of the impression made upon their minds after 
 viewing this stupendous canon), and I sincerely 
 hope that the many tourists, pleasure-seekers, and 
 L_ students of nature who in the future visit this 
 grand work of nature will bestow on those who 
 have herein contributed to the enlightenment of 
 the people at large full measure for their expressions. 
 
 Respectfully yours, 
 
 G. K. WOODS. 
 
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 I. Wll BUH TIIURBUK 

 
 PREFACE. 
 
 To the Patrons of this Volume: This is not 
 a descriptive writing on the Grand Canon of the 
 Colorado River, but a record of the impressions creat- 
 ed upon the minds of individual visitors, at various 
 times and under different circumstances, and written 
 in the private visitors' book of Capt. John Hance, 
 the famous Grand Canon guide. It covers a period 
 of ten years, and partially describes the trip by stage 
 from Flagstaff, Arizona, and return, under the man- 
 agement of G. K. Woods, General Manager of the 
 Grand Canon stage line, owned and operated by 
 
 J. Wilbur Thurbur. 
 
 G. K. WOODS. 
 
 Flagstaff, A. T., March i, 1899.
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 Pack 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona J 5 
 
 To the Traveling Public '9 
 
 The Grand Canon of the Colorado River (by J. Curtis Wasson) 23 
 
 Notice to the Reader 2 9 
 
 Personal Impressions of the Grand Canon of the Colorado River 31 
 
 Poem: The Grand Canon of the Colorado (by C. R. Pattee) 129 
 
 The Stalactite Caves of the Grand Canon (by J. Curtis Wasson) 133 
 
 "The World Is Cleft" — (" Fitz-Mac" on the Wonders of the Grand Canon) . 137 
 
 The Grand Canon Cavern T 49 
 
 An Enthusiastic Description (by G. Wharton James) 155 
 
 The Grand Canon l6: 
 
 How to Get There l6 3
 
 ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 Frontispiece (Capt. John I lance) page 
 
 J. Wilbur Thurbur 6 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona 14 
 
 G. K. Woods 18 
 
 Colorado River — Foot of Grand View Trail 22 
 
 Grandeur Ridge — on the Grand View Trail 28 
 
 San Francisco Mountains 35 
 
 Cottonwood Caiion 4 1 
 
 Horseshoe Point — Grand View Trail 47 
 
 Mode of Travel in the Grand Canon 53 
 
 Scene on the Grand View Trail 58 
 
 Colorado River — Looking up from Grand View Trail 67 
 
 Water Train — Grand View Trail 75 
 
 A Resting-Place — Head of Grand View Trail 83 
 
 A Commodious Tent — Grand Canon 9 1 
 
 Chimney Rock — Grand Caiion 99 
 
 Scene from Hotel Point — Grand Caiion 107 
 
 Waterfall — Grand Caiion 115 
 
 Original Hance Cabin, 1885 123 
 
 Head of Cottonwood Caiion — Grand View Trail 12S 
 
 Scene in the Stalactite Caves 13 2 
 
 Hance Falls — Grand Caiion 136 
 
 Coconino Cycle Club 14 1 
 
 Hotel and Tents — Grand Canon 148 
 
 Going to the Grand Canon 154 
 
 Scene on the Hance Trail 160 
 
 Grand Caiion Stages at Flagstaff 162
 
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 FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA. 
 
 THE GATEWAY TO THE GRAND CANON OF THE COLORADO RIVER. 
 
 Nestling at the base of the San Francisco Mountains, and pro- 
 tected from Boreas's biting blasts by vast forests of pines, is Flag- 
 staff, the county seat of Coconino County, or, as it has been very 
 appropriately termed, " The Skylight City." It is a thriving town 
 of about three thousand inhabitants, situated on the main line of 
 the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad, which runs in connection with the 
 Great Santa Fe system, whose branches reach out in every direction 
 from the Eastern States to the Pacific Coast. 
 
 15
 
 G. K. WOODS, 
 
 The gentlemanly Manager of the Grand Canon Stage Line, to whom all 
 
 letters for information on the Grand Canon — stage and hotel 
 
 rates, etc. — are respectfully referred.
 
 TO THE TRAVELING PUBLIC. 
 
 The following compilation, taken from the Visitor's Book of 
 Captain John Hance, the famous guide of the Grand Canon, covers 
 a period of ten years. It is put into book form under the imme- 
 diate supervision of G. K. Woods, General Manager of the Grand 
 Canon Stage Line, and is now on sale at his office in Flagstaff, 
 Arizona. It is not written by G. K. Woods, but is made up from 
 the actual sentiments of a few of the many visitors to the Grand 
 Canon in the past ten years. These expressions, the reader will 
 readily understand, are the ideas of the visitors, impressed upon 
 their minds after viewing the Grand Canon, and written by them 
 individually in the Visitor's Book, from which these data are taken. 
 No well-known European or American writer could under any 
 circumstance give as vivid a description of the grandeur of the 
 panoramic scenery of the Grand Canon as is furnished by G. K. 
 Woods's book, set forth by the hands of hundreds of visitors from 
 all parts of the United States and Europe. Many of the names 
 the reader will readily recognize. Further than what the following 
 pages furnish nothing need be said of this region of the Grand 
 Canon. Tourists on a transcontinental tour, besides enjoying the 
 many comforts and privileges granted by the Atchison, Topeka & 
 Santa Fe Railroad Company, are allowed stop-over privileges at 
 Flagstaff, Arizona, giving ample opportunity to take in the beauties 
 of the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the panoramic frontier 
 scenery of the country from Flagstaff to that wonderful region. 
 The trip can be made by the latest mode of transportation, — " The 
 Auto-Mobile Carriage," — or by the well-tried and thoroughly 
 reliable Concord coach, which is the chief equipment of J. Wilbur 
 Thurbur's Grand Canon Stage Line. 
 
 After five years of careful observation from many points of the 
 Grand Canon, I dedicate this work to the traveling public, with the 
 assurance that the original expressions exist; and it will give me 
 pleasure to produce them at any time they may be called fo at 
 Flagstaff, Arizona Territory. G. K. Woods. 
 
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 COLORADO RIVER — FOOT OF GRAND VIEW TRAIL.
 
 THE GRAND CANON OF THE COLORADO RIVER. 
 
 By J. Curtis Wasson. 
 
 From Flagstaff, the point at which tourists leave the Santa Fe 
 system, for the Grand Canon of the Colorado, at 7 a.m., our stage 
 and six goes out within the folds of the towering pines of the great 
 Coconino Forest, driving through parks lately made verdant by the 
 summer showers, until we have belted the base of the great San 
 Francisco Mountains — the highest and most picturesque of all the 
 ranges in the Southwest — mountains upon whose summits may be 
 seen the perpetual snows, and from whose heights may be had the 
 most extensive view in the West, and the most beautiful in all the 
 ranges of the Rockies — most extensive, because of the atmospheric 
 conditions, as attested by the establishment of the Lowell Observa- 
 tory here — most beautiful, on account of the varied coloring in the 
 geological formations. 
 
 Arriving at Little Springs Station, where a new relay of horses 
 is added, we make haste until the half-way station is reached, 
 passing through a fine unbroken forest of Pinus ponderosa, quaking 
 aspen, balsam fir, and spruce. The clear, open forest, the waving 
 grasses, the gorgeously colored mountain flowers, the occasional 
 chirp of the forest songsters, the clear, ice-cold springs traversing 
 our smooth compact road, the peaks, clear-cut, cold, and massive, 
 towering up nearly 14,000 feet into the blue above, with now and 
 then a band of mountain deer bounding speedily around some 
 curve, like enchanted sprites from fairyland, the low rumbling of 
 our great Concord stage, the sound of two dozen hoofs, the sharp 
 crack of the driver's whip, the clear, cold, bracing atmosphere, 
 every breath of which seems to stimulate, the indescribably beautiful 
 Painted Desert outstretching for a hundred miles to our right, — 
 amid such environments as these one may revel in the wonders of 
 Nature and feel the magic touch of her hand divine — for here 
 
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 24 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 indeed is a drive ideal, amid scenes real, grandly austere, yet 
 inspiringly touched by the sweetest of her graces. 
 
 One fain would linger on scenes like these but we have 
 arrived at Cedar Station, and after partaking of a very refreshing 
 luncheon we are given a new relay of horses and hasten over the 
 desert portion of our ride to Moqui Station, where another relay is 
 provided, which takes us to the Canon Hotel, at the rim of the 
 canon, where we arrive at 7 o'clock p. M. 
 
 Leaving our Concord stage, giving our grips to the porter, not 
 even waiting for " facial ablutions," we hasten across the yard and 
 up to the rim of the canon, when, looking over — the Chasm of the 
 Creator, the Gulf of God, the Erosion of the Ages, lies in all its 
 awfulness before us, — awful, yet grand; appalling, yet attractive; 
 awe inspiring, yet fascinating in its greetings. 
 
 To speak of its dimensions as being 240 miles long, 12 to 15 
 miles wide, and 6,000 feet in depth, conveys no idea of the Grand 
 Canon. One must read to enjoy, see to appreciate, and examine 
 to realize this, the greatest scenic attraction in the world. 
 
 But little is absolute, much is relative, and for this reason extent 
 can not be appreciated in the Grand Canon. When we are told 
 that the opposite rim, which seems but a pistol-shot away, is over 
 fifteen miles from where we are standing, we are amazed. When we 
 are told that down a little to our left, where may be outlined but 
 dimly a small mound, our eyes behold a mountain over 1,600 feet 
 hicfh; when we are told that the white sheet of water to be seen far 
 down the canon, seemingly but a mere brook over which one might 
 step with ease, is nearly 600 feet in width; when we are told that 
 yon two pedestals which barely jut out above the basic Cliff are over 
 600 feet in height; when we are told these truths and many more 
 which might be added, no wonder that our eyes seem to apologize, 
 and our judgment is "relegated for repairs," — no wonder that we 
 are awed by the enormous proportions, and the mighty magnitude 
 of this Awful Abyss! 
 
 Although our eyes and judgment may need to be readjusted
 
 GRAND CANON OF THE COLORADO RIVER. 25 
 
 that we may appreciate the extent of this " erosive entity," yet the 
 soul never fails to respond to the entrancing charm and fascinating 
 beauty of this scene of scenes, this phenomenon of phenomena. 
 
 There is a triune strata of the canon, ranging from the limestone 
 formation above, with all its graduated colors, variegated from a 
 mottled sable to an ermine white, the dark juttings being grim 
 imaginary statues typical of Pluto's realm, but counterbalanced 
 by the statues standing here and there, lapped and overlapped, by 
 the soft white folds left by the erosion of centuries, and typical of 
 the heraldry of a summer clime and a kindlier kin, extending into 
 the ruddy sandstone beneath, whose granulated formation invites 
 that sculptor of the ages — Erosion — who wields her wand o'er her 
 handmaids of wind and water, and asks naught for the execution of 
 her mandates but cycles- — cycles of time — and her wish is granted. 
 
 This sandstone formation continues down to the granite, whose 
 massive solidity seems a typical base upon which to rest a mile of 
 statuary — peaks, promontories, and mountains. 
 
 Upon all this fancy the added beauty of the immortal glory of a 
 sunset glow, whose variegated colors, hues, and tints resolve one 
 into another, playing, dancing, reveling in the scenic harvest like 
 fairies whose setting sun must sound their knell of doom, now 
 growing bolder, keener, deeper, richer, only to again retreat to be 
 combined once more. 
 
 The sun sinks in the west, when the colors, bidding each other 
 good-night, whirl as if in courtesy, and recede from sight. Their 
 going has left us the poorer. Whom did they enrich ? None, 
 save the fantasies of memory. 
 
 Lost in revelry, we do not notice that the moon, whose beams 
 even now, using each projecting butte as a dim lantern from which 
 to reflect its glimmering, quivering light, has risen in the east. 
 
 We then return to the Grand Canon Hotel, built upon its rim, 
 and after enjoying its luxurious service, alternated by various trips 
 down the several trails, we go back to Flagstaff, by the Grand 
 Canon stage route, which, I am free to say, gives the swiftest and 
 best service of any route in the Southwest.
 
 GRANDEUR RIDGE — ON THE GRAND VIEW TRAIL.
 
 NOTICE TO THE READER 
 
 The pages which follow contain the ideas of a 
 few of the many hundreds of visitors who have visited 
 the Grand Canon over the Atchison, Topeka & Santa 
 Fe Route, via Flagstaff, Arizona. The reader will 
 note that some of the writers reside in Arizona, but 
 most of the visitors are from other portions of the 
 United States and from Europe. Many of the tourists 
 who have herein expressed themselves are well-known 
 pleasure-seekers and admirers of Nature in her grand- 
 est forms. They have visited such points of interest 
 as the Alps in Switzerland, the various attractions in 
 Germany, the Highlands of Scotland, have seen the 
 sparkling waters of the Thames, England, the Giant's 
 Causeway in Ireland, — but have not kissed the blarney- 
 stone. They concede that while America, from a 
 scenic standpoint, has many beauties — the great 
 Niagara Falls, the Yellowstone Park in Montana, 
 the Natural Bridge in Virginia, the Yosemite Valley 
 in California, with its Mirror Lake and grand peaks — 
 all these sink into insignificance when compared with 
 Nature's greatest attraction, the Grand Canon of the 
 Colorado.
 
 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS 
 
 OF THB 
 
 GRAND CANON OF THE COLORADO RIVER. 
 
 April 16-20, 1891. 
 
 QIFFORD PINCHOB, 
 
 New York. 
 
 Went to the river. Time from head of 
 trail to river and back to head of trail, 
 9 hours and 55 minutes. 
 
 April 20, 1891. 
 
 J. M. SIMPSON, 
 
 The world hath many sights for the 
 tourist and recreation seeker to look 
 upon, but none therein contained, begin 
 to compare with the Grand Canon of the 
 Colorado River, as seen seventy miles 
 north of Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 CHARLES Q. THOMAS, 
 AND WIFE, Chicago, 111. 
 
 Arrived May 15, 1891; remained two 
 days. 
 
 H. P. ALDRICH AND WIFE, 
 
 Albuquerque, N. M. 
 
 Arrived May 15, 1891; remained two 
 days. 
 
 May is, 1891. 
 
 M. J. KEYS, Correspondent, 
 
 St. Joseph (no.) Gazette. 
 
 Went to the river. Time from head of 
 trail, 9 hours, 26 minutes. 
 
 M. H. POST, M. D. 
 
 St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 Arrived May 16th, left 18th; went to 
 cabin in Canon 17th. 
 
 May 18, 189 1. 
 
 E. S. WILCOX, Flagstaff, 
 
 Arizona. 
 
 May 20, 1891. 
 
 CHARLEY GREENLAW, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 May 20, 1 89 1. 
 
 rirs. GEO. T. DORNLIFF, 
 
 Illinois. 
 
 I can cheerfully say that this, the Grand 
 Canon of the Colorado River, is the grand- 
 est sight of my life —as I noticed in this 
 little book of Capt. John Hance, a great 
 many people say indescribable. I can 
 say nothing more. It is beyond reason 
 to think of describing it in any way. You 
 must see it to appreciate it. 'A grand 
 sight of this kind and so few people 
 know of it. By accident I formed the 
 acquaintance of two ladies en route to 
 the Grand Canon. I joined them. We 
 have enjoyed our trip; the stage ride 
 from Flagstaff to the Grand Canon is 
 grand. Good horses, competent and 
 accommodating drivers. I have seen the 
 Yosemite, have visited California several 
 different times, in fact seen all the prin- 
 cipal points of interest in the United 
 States, but the most wonderful, awe-in- 
 spiring piece of Nature's own work is this, 
 the Grand Canon of the Colorado River. 
 
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 32 
 
 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 May 20, i8gi. 
 
 JOHN DONAHUE, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 May 20, iSgr. 
 
 H. HELLER, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 May 22, 1891. 
 
 E. RANDOLPH, 
 
 Red Horse, Arizona. 
 
 May 22, 1891. 
 
 F. L. ARHSTRONG, 
 
 Red Horse, Arizona. 
 
 JOHN C. FURflAN, 
 
 New York. 
 
 ROBERT GRAWSHAY, 
 
 London, England. 
 
 Arrived May 23; left 24, 1S91; and very 
 sorry to have so little time. 
 
 LAWRENCE FERRIER, 
 (Yia New York,) 
 
 Edinburgh, Scotland. 
 
 A. C. HORSE, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 J. A. HARRISON, 
 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 May 24, 1891. 
 
 JAHES S. CRAWFORD, 
 
 Ayr, Scotland. 
 
 May 25, 189T. 
 
 CHARLES W. MERRILL 
 
 AND WIFE, Indianapolis. 
 
 May 25, 189 r. 
 
 HERI1AN D. OLESON, 
 
 Sweden. 
 
 I travel thousands of miles every year, 
 and think I have seen all the sights of 
 the world. I have been traveling for the 
 past ten years. The Grand Canon of the 
 Colorado River is the most wonderful 
 piece of work I have ever seen. Myself 
 and Capt. John Hance have been going 
 for two days. Into the canon the first 
 day, the rim the second. The most beau- 
 tiful view I think is from Moran Point. 
 Let me advise all to take one of the 
 Captain's horses in going to the river. 
 Thanking the good people at this hotel 
 and Capt. Hance, I bid you all good-by. 
 
 O. J. HODGE, 
 
 VIRGINIA SHEDD HODGE, 
 
 Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 Arrived May 27; departed May 29, 1891. 
 We have seen the Yosemite, the Yellow- 
 stone, Mt. Hood, Mt. Blanc, and traveled 
 through Alaska, but never saw anything 
 so grand, so sublime, and so marvelous 
 as the Grand Canon of the Colorado 
 River from this point. God bless our 
 friend John Hance !
 
 GRAND CANON OF THE COLORADO RIVER. 
 
 33 
 
 May 29, 1891. 
 ALFRED L. DICKENSON, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 June 1, 1891. 
 
 r\rs. D. ROBERTS, 
 
 New York. 
 
 My trip has been a pleasant one to the 
 Grand Canon. The canon itself is beauti- 
 ful. The immensity and grandeur of this 
 canon cannot be appreciated unless you 
 see it. No one has any idea of its great- 
 ness till once you stand on the rim and 
 look down upon this wonderful piece of 
 Nature's own work. 
 
 June 3, 1891. 
 
 HARRY L. YOUNG, 
 HAY J. YOUNG, 
 
 Shamokin, Pa. 
 
 GEO. A. CLARK, 
 
 flinneapolis, Minn. 
 
 Arrived June 2; left June 4, 1891. 
 
 J. B. SMITH, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 Arrived June 2; departed June 4, 1891. 
 
 JtDie 10, 1891. 
 
 Mrs. J. C. STREETER, 
 
 Boston. 
 
 Nature's own work is most beautiful. 
 I can scarcely believe my own eyes. I 
 can say nothing. The Grand Canon is 
 
 here. Come and see it for yourself. You 
 cannot be disappointed. So far beyond 
 my expectations. Captain John Hance 
 is here, too. He will interest you if the 
 canon doesn't. 
 
 Thursday, Ju?ie 11, 1891. 
 
 JULES BAUMANN, Artist, 
 
 Prescott, Arizona. 
 
 D. T. McDOUGLE, U. S., 
 Botanist, 
 
 La Fayette, Ind. 
 
 Thursday, June 11, 1891. 
 JAMES L. STONE, 
 
 Missouri. 
 
 CAL. OSBON, 
 
 Born Nov. 20, 1849, in Indiana; went 
 to California in 1S74; then to Oregon; 
 1877, back to California, 18S4; went to 
 Tucson, Arizona, landed in Flagstaff, 
 Arizona, 1891. I make views as a spec- 
 ialty of Arizona. I have views all down 
 the trail to the falls. 
 
 Mr. and firs. J. EUGENE 
 BROWNING, 
 
 78 Cotton Exchange, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 Arrived June 16; left June iS, 1S91. 
 
 June 18, 1891. 
 N. J. CAMERON, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona.
 
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 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 June 24, iSgi . 
 J. M. CLARK, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 June 24, i8gi. 
 
 W. R. WORTH, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 T. A. PARSONS, 
 J. n. PARSONS, 
 CHAS. PARSONS, 
 
 All of St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 1891. 
 
 WALTER DOUGLASS, 
 
 99 John St., N. Y. 
 
 ALEX. nACKENZIE, 
 
 11 Clift St., N. Y. 
 
 Commercial Mining Company. 
 
 1891. 
 
 AUGUST J. BOWIE, 
 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 July 18, 1891. 
 
 J. H. WRIGHT, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 F. N. BARRETT, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 CHAS. E. PICKERSON, 
 
 New York. 
 
 JAMES M. FARRAR, 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 CORA A. SniTH, 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 Went down into cation July 19, 1891. 
 
 DAISY SIMPSON, 
 
 Montreal, Canada. 
 
 Went down into canon July 19, 189*. 
 
 CELIN JEANNETTE BARRETT, 
 
 New York. 
 
 Down into the canon July 19 and 20, 
 1891. 
 
 LEWIS D. BOUCHER, 
 
 Sherbrooke, P. Q., Canada. 
 
 1 89 1. 
 
 GEO. W. McADAMS, 
 
 Ellington Lake. 
 
 July 21, 1891. 
 
 CHAS. COLLINS, 
 
 Springfield, flo. 
 
 CHAS. L. RICKERSON, July 21, 1891. 
 
 Arizona. PABLO A. GARCIA.
 
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 Over the falls at midnight. 
 The lost, strayed, or stolen party. 
 Arrived on July 21, 1891; left on July 
 24, 1891. 
 
 L. H. WRIGHT, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 MARY KELLAM, 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 ARLETTA ERODE, 
 
 Buda, III. 
 
 LAURA HOXWORTH, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 IRENE HOXWORTH, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 S. N. PECK, 
 
 Phcenix, Arizona. 
 
 J. R. LOCKETT, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 E. A. SLIKER, 
 
 Cincinnati, O. 
 
 Chaperoned by Mrs. J. F. DAQQS, 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 Oh, what fun at the last falls ! Ask any 
 of the party about it. 
 
 A. NELSON, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 August 9, i8gi. 
 
 D. P. HOOKER, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 WM. MERRELL, 
 
 Leavenworth, Kan. 
 
 Went down in canon with D. P. Hooker, 
 August 10, 1891, to cabin, and returned 
 same day. Mr. Merrell's age is eighty 
 years. 
 
 F. FAIRCHILDS, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 August 16, 1891. 
 
 THEO. F. HOLDEN, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 August 16, 1 8 9 1. 
 
 OEO. B. JOHNSON, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 August 16, 1 891. 
 
 HELENA JOHNSON, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 August 16, 1891. 
 
 ELIZABETH HOLDEN, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 August 76, 1891. 
 W. F. HULL. 
 
 First entered the canon June 22, 18S4; 
 June 26, 1884, commenced surveying road 
 from canon to Cedar Ranch, in company 
 with Silas Ruggles and John Hance. First 
 visit to the canon in February, 1S80. 
 
 I. O. O. F., K. of P., F. A. M. 
 
 August 77, 1 891. 
 
 GEO. R. DECAflP. 
 
 This is the greatest sight on earth. I 
 have seen almost everything in the way 
 of canons, but this beats them all. You 
 will have to see it; no one can tell you 
 about it. 
 
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 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 August iS, iSqi. 
 
 D. E. 1SABELLE, 
 
 E. n. 1SABELLE, 
 Hrs. M. W. HALL, 
 
 All of Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 August ip, iSgr. 
 n. F. GENNINGS. 
 
 Hiss HARRIETT COLTON, 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 FLORENCE N. DUKES, 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 EMHA SPALDING, 
 
 Prescott, Arizona. 
 
 ALICE METZ, 
 
 Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 Lieut. Q. H. HORGAN, U. S. A. 
 Late of Texas. 
 
 nrs. WM. CARROLL, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 JOHN DONOVON, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 C. E. HOWARD, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 P. H. HOLT, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 August IQ, 1 891. 
 
 rir. and Mrs. G. W. MEYLERT, 
 Mr. and ITrs. A. A. KEEN, 
 Hrs. ANDREW SHITH, 
 Hiss LILLIAN HIRST, 
 
 Albuquerque. 
 
 Hrs. T. J. WOODSIDE, 
 
 El Paso. 
 r\rs. S. S. PRATT, 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 L. M. LATTA, 
 
 Bluewater, N. Y. 
 H. PERKINS, 
 
 Holbrook, Arizona. 
 
 Chaperoned by 
 
 Hrs. G. W. /TEYLERT. 
 
 Left for Flagstaff on the morning of 
 August 2i, 1891. 
 
 August 21, 1S91. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. G. T. HAYES. 
 
 We have enjoyed our trip. It is worth 
 seeing. Wish we could stay a week. The 
 grandest sight of our lives.
 
 GRAND CANON OF THE COLORADO RIVKR. 
 
 39 
 
 AllgUSt 21, 1 89I. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. F. FAIRCHILDS 
 AND FAMILY, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 J. C. GRIM, 
 Mrs. J. C. GRIM, 
 FRED GRIM, 
 BURTON GRIM, 
 CLARA GRIM, 
 LILLIE JONES, 
 
 AH of Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 August jo, 1801. 
 
 geo. Mccormick, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 A. J. COOPER, 
 
 GEO. SMITH, 
 
 D. K. TRIPP, 
 
 All of Chicago, 111. 
 
 August jo, 1 891. 
 
 J. W. WATSON, 
 
 1st Lieut. 10th Cavalry, 
 
 Ft. Bayard, N. M. 
 
 August jo, 1 89 1. 
 
 J. W. HEARDY, 
 
 First Lieut. 3d U. S. Cavalry, 
 San Antonio, Texas. 
 
 August jo, 1891. 
 
 F. G. IRWIN, 
 
 First Lieut. Second U. S. Cavalry, 
 Fort Bowie, Arizona. 
 
 August j 1, 1 89 1. 
 
 M. R. PETERSON, 
 
 Second Lieut. Tenth Infantry, 
 
 Fort Wingate, N. M. 
 
 August ji, 1891. 
 
 EUGENE HARLOW, 
 
 From Johnnie Bull's Islands. 
 
 Visited the canon and all trails, in com- 
 pany with Captain Hance. Very grand, 
 and I think I shall show my good sense 
 not trying to descend this unique canon of 
 the earth. 
 
 J. W. POWERS, 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 D. M. RIORDAN, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 September 26, 1891. 
 
 MARY CAROLINE HUGHES, 
 
 Cambridge, Eng. 
 
 Dr. FRITZ FRECH, 
 
 Berlin, Germany. 
 
 Dr. WRIFINZ, 
 
 Tubingen, Germany. 
 
 Dr. D. MARCHAND, 
 
 Photo Artist London "Graphic." 
 Dr. Baron SIBNEY WOHRMANN 
 
 HOLHEN, 
 
 Livonia, Germany. 
 
 Dr. A. BOTPLETZ, 
 
 Municha, Germany.
 
 4o 
 
 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THK 
 
 Dr. H. CREDNER. 
 
 Leipzig, Germany. 
 
 Dr. JOHANNES WALTHER, 
 
 Feria, Germany. 
 
 Dr. RUDOLF CRIDNER, 
 
 Germany. 
 Dr. A. ULR1CH, 
 
 Strasburg, Deutchland. 
 
 H. M. CADELL, 
 
 Grange Boness, Scotland. 
 
 WILLARD D. JOHNSON, 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 ALFRED HARKER, 
 WM. KERNEY HUGHES, 
 
 Cambridge, England. 
 
 Dr. AUG. STRENG, 
 
 Professor from Giessen, Ger. 
 
 Dr. D. J. BRANNEN, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 Dr. JOHN R. HAYNES, 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 Dr. GEO. V. J. BERINE, 
 
 Halle A. L., Germany. 
 
 F. PLIENINGER, 
 
 KAYSER, 
 
 Marburg, Germany. 
 
 I. ROM BURG, 
 
 Berlin, Germany. 
 
 Dr. CARL DIERMER, 
 
 Yienna, Austria. 
 H. TOLLIEZ, 
 
 Professor University Lausanne, 
 Switzerland. 
 
 ERNEST YANDEN BROEK, 
 
 Buinelles, Belgieque. 
 
 MORZ LOHERTSIEGE, 
 
 Belgieque. 
 
 Dr. Y. ZITTEL, 
 
 Municha, Germany. 
 
 E. DeMARGERIE, 
 
 Paris, France. 
 Dr. BURGEART, 
 
 "Mente et Malleo," 
 
 Munchen, Bayern. 
 
 The above parties belonging to the In- 
 ternational Geological Congress. 
 
 Dr. GEO. H. POWERS, 
 CORNELIA C. POWERS, 
 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 Mrs. A. D. MARCHAND, 
 Mr. A. D. MARCHAND, 
 
 268 S. Main Street, 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 September, i8gi. 
 E. R. HERMAN, 
 
 California. 
 
 By all means visit the Grand Canon of 
 the Colorado River, in Arizona. See 
 1 lance, too. 
 
 October 3, i8gi. 
 
 Mrs. GEO. WINFIELD ROOPE, 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 October j, 1891. 
 
 C. C. HITCHCOCK, 
 M. E. HITCHCOCK, 
 
 Ware, Mass. 
 
 We repeat the sentiment expressed by 
 O.J. Hodge, that "we have visited the 
 Yosemite, the Yellowstone, Mt. Hood, 
 Mt. Blanc, and traveled through Alaska,
 
 COTTONWOOD CANON — LOOKING NORTH ON GRAND VIEW TRAIL
 
 GRAND CANON OK THK COLORADO RIVKR. 
 
 43 
 
 but never saw anything so grand, so sub- 
 lime, and so marvelous as the Grand 
 Canon of the Colorado, from this point. 
 God bless our friend John Hance." 
 
 October ij, i8gi. 
 O. S. GARNER, 
 
 A. H. SMUTZ, 
 
 Fresno, Cal. 
 
 October j, i8gi. 
 C. C. HITCHCOCK. 
 
 Left head of trail for river at 6:40 a.m., 
 reached Hance's cabin, 7:55 A.M.; arrived 
 at Colorado River, 10 a.m.; started on re- 
 turn trip, 10:35 a.m.; arrived at cabin; 
 12:55 p.m.; left cabin, 1:15 p.m.; arrived 
 at head of trail 4:22 p.m. Time, nine 
 hours and forty-two minutes. 
 
 October j, i8gi. 
 G. E. TUTTLE. 
 
 Talk about holes in the ground, — well, 
 this is one of them. I have been in the 
 canon to-day. Don't intend to go in any 
 more. I am completely out of anything 
 to say. Come and see it for yourselves. 
 No one can tell you about it. I have seen 
 the world, but had not seen near all of it, 
 until I saw this canon. Farewell, Captain; 
 am coming again. Will bring a party with 
 me next time. Thanks for your kind- 
 ness, etc. 
 
 October ij, 1891. 
 
 JOHN T. WALLACE, 
 
 Monte Vista, Colo. 
 
 Massachusetts. 
 
 Of all the sights in the world this is the 
 greatest sight I ever have seen. Words 
 cannot tell the grandeur, beauty, im- 
 mensity, and sublimity of this wonderful 
 production of Nature's own work. I 
 would advise all tourists to visit this 
 canon. You cannot be disappointed. 
 The beautiful forests we travel through 
 going to the canon is worth the trip 
 alone. I am coming again to stop here 
 for a month. I have visited many places, 
 but this beats them all. Good-by. O. S. G. 
 
 November 7, 1891. 
 
 Mr. F. J. HOCHDERFFER, 
 Mrs. F. J. HOCHDERFFER, 
 ROSE HOCHDERFFER, 
 EMMA HOCHDERFFER, 
 ROCK HOCHDERFFER, 
 CLEVELAND HOCHDERFFER, 
 Of Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 April <?, 1892. 
 
 First of the Season. 
 
 HORACE C. HOVEY, 
 
 Middletown, Conn. 
 
 Intended to come last fall with Geo- 
 logical Congress, but am contented to 
 open the ball for 1892, " Mente et Mal- 
 leo," as special correspondent of Scie?itific 
 American. Went down Hance trail with 
 Mr. Boucher, and stayed over night, re- 
 turning next day; enjoyed it immensely. 
 Found the trail in excellent order, and 
 made the trip comfortably.
 
 44 
 
 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 Ipril p, iSg2. 
 JOHN J. TRILTON 
 
 New Mexico. 
 
 Arrived here all O. K. Went up to the 
 "rim of canon ; was far beyond my expecta- 
 tions. Of all the grand sights in the world 
 Ihis is one of them. I have visited in 
 Europe, Alaska, have seen the Yellow- 
 stone, all the different places in Califor- 
 nia, but nothing comes up to this. No 
 one could tell you of it. No language 
 could ever tell you the grandeur, the 
 beauty, the immensity of this wonderful 
 canon. I would like to have all my 
 friends here at this hour to view this, 
 Nature's own work, with me. Farewell, 
 Captain; I hope to see you again. 
 
 April 14, /8p2. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. MARSHALL, 
 Miss F. E. MARSHALL, 
 C. M. MARSHALL, 
 
 All of Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 April JJ, 1892. 
 
 T. A. RIORDAN, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 April 75, 1S92. 
 
 T. R. GABLE, 
 
 Albuquerque, N. M. 
 
 April 18, /8g2. 
 
 The John D. Hoff Abestos Co. 
 
 By JOHN D. HOFF, 
 
 Of San Diego, Cal. 
 
 JOHN I. McCOOK, 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 
 ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER, 
 
 New York. 
 
 MAITLAND ALEXANDER, 
 
 New York, N. Y. 
 
 C. CHARMLEY, 
 
 Chicago, III. 
 
 SAMUEL COLMAN, 
 
 Newport, Rhode Island. 
 
 JOHN J. LARKIN, 
 
 St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 LOUIS SPEARS, 
 I. F. WHEELER, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona 
 
 May 12, 18Q2. 
 
 WM. CAREY, 
 
 Colonel H. B. M., Royal Artillery, 
 "Retired" (Cox & Co.) 
 
 London, England. 
 
 May 17, l8p2. 
 
 T. G. DANIELLS, 
 
 F. W. VAN SICKLEN, 
 W. A. BISSEL, 
 
 G. P. REYNOLDS, 
 
 All of Alameda, Cal.
 
 GRAND CANON OF THE COLORADO RIVER. 
 
 45 
 
 May //, 1892. 
 
 J. H. HOSKINS, Jr., 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 May 21, i8g2. 
 
 HERMAN WESTERMAN, 
 
 Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 J. S. BUNNELL, 
 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 W. F. CLARKE, 
 
 New York. 
 
 CHAS. F. LUMMIS, 
 
 Is I eta, N. fl. 
 
 May 24, 1892. 
 W. H. JACKSON, 
 
 Denver, Colo. 
 
 May 24, 1892. 
 T. MORAN, 
 
 May 24, 1892. 
 C. A. H1GGINS, 
 
 May 24, 1892. 
 
 PAUL N. MORAN, 
 
 New York. 
 
 Chicago, III. 
 
 New York. 
 
 May 24, 1892. 
 
 SAM C. TAYLOR, 
 
 Denver, Colo. 
 
 ALBERT MAGEE AND WIFE, 
 I. R. BAXLEY AND WIFE, 
 
 All of Santa Barbara, Cal. 
 
 I could hope that those who come to 
 the canon would get Hance to show them 
 something of what he knows, and that is 
 more than can be suspected simply on the 
 first outlook. Much of my intense pleas- 
 ure I owe to him. I. R. B. 
 
 J. GARNETT AND DAUGHTERS, 
 HAROLD ECCLER, 
 
 London, England. 
 
 E. B. REYNOLDS, 
 E. A. REYNOLDS, 
 
 South Bend, Indiana. 
 
 Arrived June 10; left June 12, 1892. 
 
 June 14, 1892. 
 I. S. GOFORTH, 
 
 Georgetown, N. M. 
 
 June 14, 1892. 
 G. B. INGRAM, 
 
 Fayetteville, Arkansas. 
 
 June 16, 1892. 
 
 GEO. PRIME, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona.
 
 46 
 
 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 June / ,\ iSq2. 
 
 H. H. VV ATKINS, 
 Mrs. H. H. WATKINS, 
 
 Kingman, Ariz. 
 
 June ij, 1892. 
 
 S. T. ELLIOTT, 
 Mrs. S. T. ELLIOTT, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 June ij, 1892. 
 
 J. n. riARSHALL, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 June ij, 1892. 
 
 Mrs. A. T. CORNISH, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 June ij, 1892. 
 
 A. A. ALLESTER, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 June 13, 1892. 
 ANNIE L. ROSS, 
 
 Flagstaff, Ariz. 
 
 June 1 j, 1S92. 
 
 S. L. ROUSH, 
 
 Eldon, Iowa. 
 
 Jinn /j, 1892. 
 
 ROBERT McCANN, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 June 1 j, 1892. 
 
 SAMUEL BAXTER, 
 
 Flagstaff, Ariz. 
 
 June /y, iScj2. 
 
 ALICE WAINWRIGHT, 
 
 St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 RUSSELL H. MONRO, 
 EMLIE MONRO, 
 
 Market Harboro, England. 
 WM. B. DOWD, 
 CHAS. T. WING, 
 
 New York City. 
 All with the AI cattle outfit. 
 
 June /j, 1892. 
 
 R. C. DRYDEN, 
 
 Winslow, Ariz. 
 
 June is, 1892. 
 F. W. SMITH, 
 
 Winslow, Ariz. 
 
 C. C. TILLSON, 
 
 WM. SHROYER, 
 
 Pueblo, Colo. 
 
 Flagstaff, Ariz. 
 
 GEO. K. SMITH, 
 
 Phoenix, Arizona. 
 
 FRED GOODRICH, 
 
 Phoenix, Arizona.
 
 •-^t%fe 
 
 
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 ■ 4i fy 
 
 HORSESHOE POINT — ON THE GRAND VIEW TRAIL, NORTH
 
 GRAND CANON OF THE COLORADO RIVER. 
 
 49 
 
 VIC. E. HANNY, 
 
 Phoenix, Arizona. 
 
 June 28, 1S92. 
 
 GEO. MARSHALL, 
 
 Syracuse, N. Y. 
 
 I arrived at Flagstaff on the 25th of 
 June, 1892, from Syracuse, N. Y., and 
 started on the 26th of June for the Grand 
 Canon of the Colorado by stage line. 
 After riding all day through some of the 
 largest forests of pines, and the most 
 beautiful valleys that I have everseen, I ar- 
 rived at the canon just when the sun was 
 setting. On the morning of June 27th, 
 myself and several others were guided 
 over the trail and into the canon by 
 Captain John Hance. After winding 
 around here and there over the trail for 
 several miles, we reached the river, which 
 is a grand sight. After resting an hour, 
 and a plunge in the river, we started for 
 the rim, arriving about dusk. I have 
 traveled over the United States, have 
 seen about all the sights, but I have 
 never seen such a wonderful and mar- 
 velous piece of nature's own work as 
 this, the Grand Canon of the Colorado 
 River. 
 
 June 28, 1892. 
 
 Rev. N. F. NORTON, 
 
 Rev. E. G. POOLER AND WIFE. 
 
 June jo, 1892. 
 ©. K. TRIPP, 
 
 Chicago, HI. 
 
 June jo, 1892. 
 JAMES KASSON, 
 
 St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 June jo, 1802. 
 
 R. C. JEFFERSON, 
 
 St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 July 5, 1892. 
 A. NEALON. 
 
 Ju'y 5, 1892. 
 E. CAMPBELL. 
 
 HAL C. VVYflAN, 
 GLADYS WYHAN. 
 
 Detroit, Hich. 
 
 JOS. B. VERKAMP, 
 
 Cincinnati. 
 
 W. BABBITT, 
 
 July 8, 1892. 
 H. T. SMITH, 
 
 Flagstaff, A. T. 
 
 Prescott, A. T. 
 
 Miss MADIE CHRISMAN, 
 
 Portland, Or. 
 
 Come June 22, 1892, Summer at Grand 
 Canon.
 
 5o 
 
 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 July 9, 1892. 
 
 r\rs. JOHN Z. T. VARMER. 
 
 I have never witnessed anything like 
 this. It scares me to even try to look 
 down into it. My God, I am afraid the 
 whole country will fall into this great hole 
 in the ground. 
 
 July /o, l8Q2. 
 
 Rev. ROBERT COLTMAN, 
 
 Pastor 1st Presbyterian church, 
 M. J. COLTTIAN, 
 JENNIE R. COLTHAN, 
 
 Flagstaff, A. T. 
 
 July 10, 1892. 
 BLANCH METZ, 
 
 (uly 10, log 2. 
 J. C. SANCHEZ, 
 
 July io, 1892. 
 JOHN H. HICKS, 
 
 Cincinnati, O. 
 
 JTilton, A. T. 
 
 Milton, A. T. 
 
 July 10, 1892. 
 
 MOF LIE CLEflMENTS, 
 
 Baltimore, fid. 
 
 A. WALGREEN, 
 
 Lapland, Sweden. 
 
 J. W. TOUriEY, 
 
 E. O. WOOTON, Botanist, 
 
 Botanical and Entomological party, 
 from experiment stations at Tucson, 
 Ariz., and Las Cruces, N. M. 
 
 H. H. SWARTHOUT, 
 
 Anderson, Mich. 
 
 R. R. LARKINS, 
 
 Las Cruces, N. M. 
 
 CLAWRENCE T. HAGERTY, 
 
 Las Cruces, N. M. 
 
 C. H. TYLER TOWNSEND, 
 
 Entomologist exper. stn. 
 
 Las Cruces, N. n. 
 
 A. B. CORDLEY, 
 
 Asst. U. S. Entomologist, 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 July 12, 1892. 
 
 GERTRUDE B. STEVENS. 
 
 This is a warm place. I fainted when 
 I saw this awful looking canon. I never 
 wanted a drink so bad in my life. Captain, 
 I won't forget you for bringing me the 
 oyster-can full of water. Good-by. 
 
 Mrs. JOHN T. CHARrlER. 
 
 The grandest, the most wonderful, the 
 greatest sight on earth. I can never for- 
 get it. Visit the Grand Canon of the 
 Colorado River.
 
 GRAND CANON OF THE COLORADO RIVKR. 
 
 51 
 
 E. S. CiOSNEY, 
 
 Flagstaff, A. T. 
 
 Wfl. WINCUP AND WIFE, 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 M. S. NORriAN AND WIFE, 
 Miss JESSIE NORMAN, 
 
 St. Joe, Mo. 
 
 C. W. NOYES AND WIFE, 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 Miss R. J. HACY, 
 
 Los Angeles. 
 
 C. E. HOLLAND, 
 
 Phoenix, A. T. 
 
 O. A. TURNER, 
 
 fladison, now of Phoenix. 
 
 BEN DONEY, 
 Mrs. DONEY, 
 BENNIE DONEY, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 MARY QUINN, 
 
 JOHN WESLEY LEANDDER, 
 
 Texas. 
 
 C. W. HARDY, 
 
 Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 R. H. CRAWFORD, 
 
 Toronto, Ont., C. 
 
 July, 1892. 
 
 HENRY B. THORN. 
 
 Hurrah for the Canon and John Hance. 
 
 July ij, 1892. 
 
 OLIVER S. WESTCOTT, 
 
 Principal North Division High School, 
 Chicago. 
 
 Mrs. ELIONER O. WESTCOTT, 
 
 Chicago. 
 
 J. W. FLANDERS, 
 
 Traveler for J. C. Ayer & Co. 
 
 F. B. HIQGINS, 
 
 Flagstaff, A. T, 
 
 Greenville, S. C. 
 
 J. B. STEINMETZ, 
 
 New Paris, Ind. 
 
 July 14, 1892. 
 
 HENRY R. WADE. 
 
 By Joe ! this canon takes the whole 
 shooting-match.
 
 52 
 
 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 July rf, 1S92. 
 
 Mrs. G. P. PETERS. 
 
 I have visited the whole world. I 
 travel nine months in the year. I have 
 never seen anything so grand as a sunset 
 view of the Grand Canon of the Colorado 
 River. 
 
 July 16, 1892. 
 
 C. M. FUNSTON, 
 
 Editor Coconino Sun, 
 Mrs. C. n. FUNSTON, 
 MARY FUNSTON, 
 HELEN FUNSTON, 
 HANNAH FUNSTON, 
 
 All of Flagstaff, Ariz. 
 
 HELIE E. LOWRY, 
 
 Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 MARY SMITH. 
 
 Our crowd, ladies and all, made trip 
 from cabin to river, back to cabin and up 
 to head of trail in one day. According 
 to Mr. Hance, beating the record made 
 by ladies. 
 
 M. M. CROCKER, M. D., 
 Mrs. M. M. CROCKER, 
 
 Ft. flojave, Arizona. 
 
 LUCY STILLWELL, 
 
 Ft. riojave, Ariz. 
 
 JULIA STILLWELL, 
 
 Cuba, Ho. 
 
 July 20, 1892. 
 
 Mrs. AMANDA LOCKETT, 
 
 69 yrs. old. 
 H. C. LOCKETT, 
 Miss ROSA CLARK, 
 
 Mrs. E. F. GREENLAW, 
 
 Four of us and no more of us. 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 J. J. WEIMER, 
 
 Winslow, A. T. 
 
 MINNIE VANPELT, 
 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 VIOLA F. STEKEY, 
 
 Greenfield, O. 
 
 F. A. GULLY AND WIFE, 
 
 Tucson, Ariz. 
 
 C. B. COLLINGWOOD, 
 
 Tucson, Ariz. 
 
 July 22, 1892. 
 
 H. T. WARDEN. 
 
 This is the spot of all spots on earth. 
 I would like to locate on this spot for 
 about a year.
 
 " /;' J '^_ ^* 
 
 
 THE MODE OF TRAVEL IN THE GRAND CANON.
 
 GRAND CANON OF THE COLORADO RIVER. 
 
 55 
 
 July 24., 1892. 
 
 EDITH ALVORD, 
 BELL SWITZER, 
 LULA GRAHAM, 
 Mrs. W. A. SWITZER, 
 W. H. SWITZER. 
 BURT CAMERON, 
 H. J. RAND, 
 STANLEY SYKES, 
 
 All of Flagstaff, Ariz. 
 
 July 29, 1892. 
 
 M. M. KIRKMAN AND PARTY. 
 
 Mr. M. W. KIRK, 
 
 Dr. W. J. HAWKS, 
 
 Mr. ARCHIBALD HcNEAL, 
 
 Jlr. A. T. HcCORMICK, 
 
 The unsuspecting profit. 
 flaster A. T. KIRKHAN, 
 master fl. J. KIRKMAN. 
 
 July 29, 1892. 
 
 F. F. JAQUES, 
 
 Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 Sunday, July 30, 1892. 
 
 E. P. S. ANDREWS AND WIFE, 
 Mrs. H. P. HINE, 
 JERRY MILLAY AND WIFE, 
 LEON BOUVIER, 
 
 All of Phoenix, Arizona. 
 
 ALEX LEE MARCHANT, B. A., 
 London, England. 
 
 August 1, 1892. 
 W. E. THORNE, 
 
 Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 August 4, 1892. 
 
 HARRY E. WOOD, 
 
 Kansas City, f\o. 
 
 August 4, 1892. 
 
 n. b. Mcdowell, 
 
 Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 FRANK RUMSEY, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 August 4, 1892. 
 JAMES E. LAVELLE, 
 
 Albuquerque, N. M. 
 
 August 4, 1892. 
 
 CKAS. B. BARKER, 
 
 The Grand Canon is the most wonder- 
 ful thing I ever looked at. Surely worth 
 seeing. 
 
 August 5, 1892. 
 
 J. C. HERNDON, 
 
 Prescott, Ariz. 
 
 T. Q. NORRIS, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 CHAS. W. HERNDON, 
 
 Prescott, Arizona.
 
 56 
 
 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 August j, 1S92. 
 
 The champion athletic pedestrian vis- 
 itors, under the auspices of 
 
 WM. McINTIRE, 
 
 Bellemont, Arizona. 
 
 Mrs. T. J. GRACE, 
 Miss GRACE L. GRACE, 
 Miss MARY PRIME, 
 Mr. J. WESBY, 
 
 All of Bellemont, A. T. 
 
 Miss HATTIE J. HOPSON, 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 Hiss MARTHA McINTIRE, 
 
 Clay Center, Kansas. 
 
 August 12, 1892. 
 C. H. SPEERS, 
 
 Asst. G. P. A. A. & P. R. R. 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 August 12, 1892. 
 
 E. P. GRAY, C. V. R. R., 
 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 August 12, 1892. 
 
 A. E. riARCHAND, 
 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 August 12, 1892. 
 
 john f. McCarthy, 
 
 Formerly of Cincinnati, now of San 
 Francisco, Cal. Wabash R. R. 
 
 August 12, 1892. 
 
 H. S. VAN SLYCK, 
 A. & P. R. R. 
 
 Albuquerque, N. 1*1. 
 
 August 12, 1892. 
 
 r\r. and Mrs. H. G. PATTERSON, 
 St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 GEO. D. HOOPER, 
 
 Captain, I wish I were in your place to 
 view this great canon every day. One 
 would never get tired of it. What a grand 
 sight. 
 
 August 1 J, 1892. 
 
 J. I. THORNTON, 
 
 Mrs. GEO. F. THORNTON, 
 
 Williams. 
 
 August ij, 1892. 
 
 Hiss HAY ANDERSON, 
 
 Alabama. 
 
 Augvst 13, 1892. 
 
 Miss PERRIN, 
 
 Hiss HELEN PERRIN, 
 
 E. B. PERRIN, Jr., 
 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 August 14, 1892. 
 E. L. NORRIS, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 August 14, 1892. 
 
 C. LEWIS, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona.
 
 GRAND CANON OF THE COLORADO RIVER. 
 
 57 
 
 August 14, 1892. 
 
 ED. T. GALE, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 August 15, 1892. 
 I*lr. and Jlrs. JOSEPH B. CROSBY, 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 Arrived at John Hance's summer ranch 
 7:05 p.m.; leave6:3o a.m., August 18, 1892. 
 
 August 75, 1882. 
 
 Hrs. JOHN R. BARTLETT, 
 
 Providence, R. I. 
 
 August 18, 1892. 
 
 BEN SKINNER, 
 WI*1. PATTON, 
 
 Both of Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 August 18, 1892. 
 
 nrs. W. H. YANCEY, 
 Miss STELLA YANCEY, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 Miss SUE RLT1SEY, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 I*lr. ROBERT FREIDLINE, 
 
 August 19, 1892. 
 L. H. MASS1E, 
 
 Phoenix, Arizona. 
 
 August 19, 1892. 
 LOY J. BROWN, 
 
 flartinsburg, Audran Co., Mo. 
 
 August 19, 1S92 
 
 Col. FRANK HULL, Jr., 
 
 The Grand Canon is so far more won- 
 derful than Yosemite Valley or Yellow- 
 stone Park or any interesting points in 
 the world. It is so grand and beautiful 
 that no pen of any living author can de- 
 scribe it. 
 
 August 20, 1892. 
 WM. FRANCIS HULL, 
 ALICE GERTRUDE HULL, 
 
 Both of San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 August 20, 1892. 
 
 SUSIE E. BUSH, 
 
 Albuquerque, N. 1*1. 
 
 August 20 , 1892. 
 
 Hrs. LISSIE riORRELL, 
 
 Williams, Arizona. 
 
 August 20, 1892. 
 
 Mrs. KATE JOHNSTON, 
 
 Williams, Arizona. 
 
 August 20, 1892. 
 
 Hiss MAUD DICKENSON, 
 
 Williams, Arizona. 
 
 August 20, 1892. 
 
 niss nAUD HILL, 
 
 Albuquerque, N. 1*1.
 
 5S 
 
 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 JOHN WOOD, 
 
 Williams, Arizona. 
 
 HENRY C. CORBIN, 
 
 U. S. Army. 
 
 August 20, 1892. 
 
 NORMAN S. BRIDGE, 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 August 20, 1892. 
 
 WALTER S. HAINES, 
 
 Chicago, HI. 
 
 August 21, 1892. 
 
 Mrs. WM. POWELL AND CHIL- 
 DREN, 
 
 Misses EVA DUTTON, 
 
 ETTA POWELL, 
 DELLA POWELL, 
 JENNIE COLTMAN, 
 LEONA POWELL, 
 
 Mrs. Dr. FRANCIS, 
 
 HISS EMMA POWELL, 
 
 W. M. FISHER, 
 
 CHAS. CLARK, 
 
 WM. POWELL, 
 
 V. A. POWELL, 
 
 HENRY AVER1TS, 
 
 DEMPSEY POWELL, 
 
 All of Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 August 23, 1892. 
 ALFRED AVERYT, 
 
 Shelby, Alabama. 
 
 August 2 J, 1892. 
 Mrs. R. M. FRANCIS, 
 
 Chillicotho, Missouri. 
 
 August 2 j, J 892. 
 
 Miss JENNIE R. COLTMAN, 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 August 23, 1892. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. H. F. STEVENS, 
 St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 August 23, 1892. 
 
 rirs. J. H. HOSKINS, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 August 23, 1892. 
 
 Miss M. E. BECKW1TH, 
 
 Baltimore, Md. 
 
 August 23, 1892. 
 
 C. E. HOWARD, 
 
 Flagstaff, Ariz. 
 
 August 23, 1892. 
 
 J. J. TAYLOR AND WIFE, 
 
 El Paso, Texas. 
 
 Went to the river and back; too tired 
 to write any more.
 
 SCENE ON THE GRAND VIEW TRAIL
 
 X
 
 GRAND CASON OF THE COLORADO RIVER. 
 
 61 
 
 Augtist 27, 18Q2. 
 
 MARY L. STRIGHT, 
 
 Jemez Hot Springs, 
 
 Archuleta P. O., N. M. 
 
 Went to the rock cabin the afternoon 
 of August 25th. The next day went from 
 there to the river and back, and arrived 
 at the rim this morning (August 27th) at 
 half-past ten o'clock. 
 
 August 28, 1892. 
 
 ALEX. McDERMID AND WIFE, 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 August 28, 1892. 
 
 J. WOODBRIDGE, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 August 29, 1892. 
 
 Captain W. HOFFMAN, WIFE, 
 AND CHILD, 
 
 U. S. Army, 
 
 September 4, 1892. 
 J. W. WILSON, 
 
 September 4, 1892. 
 STEPHEN FANCY, 
 
 Denver, Colo. 
 
 Aspen, Colo. 
 
 September 4, 1892. 
 AUGUST REISHEL, 
 
 September 4, 1892. 
 SCHUYLER CASE, 
 
 Turkey. 
 
 Denver, Colo. 
 
 September 7, 1892. 
 
 WM. H. ALLEY AND WIFE, 
 
 Chicago. 
 
 Visited Moran Point and Grand View 
 Point; went down Hance Trail to river. 
 All should be visited, if strength and time 
 permits. 
 
 September 8, 1892. 
 
 Dr. GEO. H. POWERS, 
 firs. CORELIA C. POWERS, 
 RUTH POWERS, 
 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 September 8, 1892. 
 
 Mrs. J. D. HOOKER, 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 September 8, 1892. 
 JOHN H. HICKS, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 September 12, 1892. 
 
 Mrs. J. D. DeRUSSY, 
 J. DALE DeRUSSY, 
 
 Col. nth Inf. U. S. Army. 
 Mrs. B. F. POPE, 
 
 All of Whipple Barracks, A. T. 
 
 September 12, 1892. 
 
 I. G. C. LEE, 
 
 B. V. T. Lieut. Col. U. S. Army. 
 Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 The grandeur of the views of this day 
 must surely leave a life-long impression. 
 They repay for all the fatigue. I predict 
 that this canon will become one of the 
 most noted and visited spots of our 
 country. It should be made a great 
 national park.
 
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 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 September fj, 1892. 
 
 Col. FRANK HULL, Jr., 
 
 New York. 
 
 After having visited all the noted places 
 in both Europe and America, I have seen 
 nothing to compare with the sublimity of 
 the Grand Canon. I should advise all 
 Americans to see the most splendid sight 
 of their own country before going abroad. 
 I spent several days fishing in the cation, 
 and caught many large salmon. I also 
 looked at several of the rich mines, and 
 found to my utter amazement that they 
 were laden with valuable treasures. It 
 will only be a short time until these mines 
 will be opened up and the ore exported 
 to all parts of the world. 
 
 September 15, 1892. 
 
 WM. W. MITCHELL, 
 ELLA MITCHELL, 
 
 Cadillac, Mich. 
 
 September, 15, 1892. 
 
 EDWARD F. HOBART, 
 MARION C. HOBART, 
 
 Santa Fe, N. M. 
 
 September 75, 1892. 
 
 LEVI DAVIS, 
 
 Lima, Adams County, III. 
 
 September 15, 1892. 
 
 WALTER E. HALL, M. D., 
 Mrs. MARY H. HALL, 
 
 Burlington, N. J. 
 
 September ij, 1892. 
 
 JESSIE and CHAS. EVERETTE, 
 
 This canon is simply immense — too 
 big to look at. 
 
 September 25, 1892. 
 
 C. W. WOODIN, 
 
 Lancaster, Ohio. 
 
 September 28, 1892. 
 
 J. C. BROWN, 
 
 East Saginaw, Mich. 
 
 September 28, 1892. 
 S. B. HILL, 
 
 Chicago. 
 
 September JO, 1 892. 
 
 J. A. LAMPORT, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 September jo, 1892. 
 
 C. H. FANCHER, 
 
 Albuquerque, N. M. 
 
 September 30, 1892. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. E. L. HOLHES, 
 
 The grandest, the greatest, the most 
 wonderful sight in the world. No one 
 can tell the immensity of this grand 
 canon. 
 
 October j, 1892. 
 
 LOWISE BIGLOW TYLER, 
 
 North Adams, Mass.
 
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 October ij, 1892. 
 
 S. W. HIBBEN, 
 H. CLEMENT, 
 
 Los Angeles, CaL 
 
 D. MITCHELL, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 We left rim at 8 o'clock a.m., arrived 
 at cabin at 9.45 a.m.; arrived at river, 
 12:10 P.M.; back to rim, 5:10 p.m. Time 
 for entire trip, nine hours and ten min- 
 utes, thus beating the world's record. 
 
 John Hance will verify 
 
 October 15, 1892. 
 
 ARTHUR LITTLEJOHN, 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 October 30, 1892. 
 
 JOHN H. BOWMAN, 
 Mrs. J. H. BOWMAN, 
 
 Holbrook, Arizona. 
 
 October 30, 1892. 
 
 A. E. NETTLETON, 
 
 Syracuse, N. Y. 
 
 October 30, 1892. 
 
 JAMES W. UPSON, 
 
 Mrs. LILLIAN B. UPSON, 
 
 Baldwinsville, N. Y. 
 
 This party all went to the river without 
 a guide. They rated it very grand, and all 
 that has been claimed. However, if future 
 parties of camping ladies intend going 
 down, would advise them to employ the 
 
 guide, and go prepared for roughing it. 
 The ladies should wear very short wide 
 skirts, and have Hance's burros to help 
 them up from the cabin. 
 
 A T ov ember 14, 1892. 
 
 W. F. CODY (Buffalo Bill), 
 
 GEO. P. EVERHART, 
 
 Chicago, III. 
 JAMES T. WELLS, 
 
 Salt Lake City. 
 ALLISON NAILOR, 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 FRANK D. BALDWIN, 
 JOHN M. BURKE, 
 
 U. S. Army. 
 H. S. BOAL, 
 
 North Platte, Neb. 
 WM. D. DOWD, 
 
 Flagstaff, A. T. 
 R. H. HASLAM, 1 
 
 Chicago, III. 
 
 Piper Heidsieck. 
 
 E. C. BRADFORD, 
 
 Denver, Colo. 
 W. HENRY J1ACKINNON, 
 
 England. 
 W. H. BROACH, 
 
 North Platte, Neb. 
 DANIEL SEEGMILLER, 
 
 MERRITT S. INGRAHM, 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 Buffalo Bill Expedition to Grand 
 Canon of Colorado. 
 
 Universal comment is that it is too 
 sublime for expression, too wonderful to 
 behold, without awe, and beyond all 
 power of mortal description.
 
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 November 14, 1892. 
 
 EDWARD B. RUSSELL, 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 November 14, 1892. 
 
 HERBERT EARLSCLIFFE, 
 
 Close of the visiting record for the 
 year 1892. 
 
 January 25, 189 3. 
 WM, O. O'NEILL, 
 
 God made the canon, John Hance the 
 trails. Without the other, neither would 
 be complete. 
 
 [The above name, Wm.O.O'Neill (better 
 known in Arizona as " Buckey " O'Neill), 
 who has written his name in this private 
 visitors' book, was killed while defend- 
 ing his country, between the hours of 10 
 and n a.m., July 1, 1898, near Santiago 
 deCuba. He was made Captain of Troop 
 A, 1st U. S. Volunteer Cavalry, and was 
 making ready for the charge on San Juan 
 Hill, Santiago de Cuba, when he was 
 struck by a Mauser bullet and killed. 
 
 Captain O'Neill was carried from the 
 front about two hundred yards back from 
 where he fell, on what is known as 
 " Bloody Ford," on San Juan Creek, and 
 buried by Chaplain Brown, Corporal C. 
 C. Jackson (of Flagstaff, Arizona), Pri- 
 vates Robt. Wren, Teddy Burke, and 
 Vansicklin.] 
 
 January 25, 189 ,\ 
 JOHN riARSHALL, 
 
 Good luck for 1893. 
 
 Easter Sunday, April 2, 1893. 
 
 Trusting you will have an enjoyable 
 season, we are yours truly, — 
 
 JOHN M. WHITMAN, 
 
 Chicago, HI. 
 
 HOMER M. WILLIArlS AND 
 WIFE, 
 
 firs. E. W. DOWLING, 
 
 New York. 
 
 DANIEL RUTTER AND WIFE. 
 
 P. S. — We are reported the first visitors 
 of the season, and cannot find words to 
 express our admiration and astonish- 
 ment of the Grand Canon. 
 
 J. LOGAN SAflPLE, 
 
 Pittsburg, Pa. 
 
 JAilES A. PITTS, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 M. M. FISHER, 
 
 Flagstaff, A. T. 
 
 Dr. C. B. PENROSE, 
 Mrs. PENROSE, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 . \p>ril //, 1893. 
 
 J. A. OBER AND WIFE, 
 
 Milford, N. H.
 
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 April 18, 1893. 
 
 T0MM1E ASHURST, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 April 18, 1893. 
 Miss CHRISMAN, 
 
 Flagstaff, A. T. 
 
 April 20, 1893. 
 
 Miss L. BALLAD, 
 
 Portland, Maine. 
 
 April 20, 1893. 
 
 Miss IRENE HUNT, 
 
 Newport, R. 1. 
 
 JNO. M. CLARK, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 Arrived the 18th; left the 21st of April, 
 iS 9 3- 
 
 April, 1893. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. WOLSELEY, 
 
 British Guiana. 
 
 April, 1893. 
 H. H. RAQAN, 
 
 Syracuse, N. Y. 
 
 April, 1893. 
 M. Q. HEINEY, 
 
 Jacksonville, III. 
 
 April, 1893. 
 J. S. HYDE, 
 
 Titusville, Pa. 
 
 May 10, 1893. 
 
 April, 7893. J ' W ' A * N0TT ' 
 
 Dr. and Mrs. HERBERT L. BUR= BeV6r,ey ' ^^^ 
 
 RELL, Arrived May 15th; descended into the 
 
 Boston, Mass. canon this day. 
 
 April, 1893. 
 
 PAUL C. OSCANYAN, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 JAMES I. MANSON, 
 
 Hoqui, Ariz. 
 
 April, 1893. 
 J. T. HERNDON, 
 
 Franklin, Ky.
 
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 PKRSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 May i j, 1893. 
 
 B. W. CLOWD, 
 
 Woodbury, N. J. 
 
 Arrived May 16th; descended partway 
 into canon; met Mr. John Hance and Mr. 
 Arnott returning. Ascended with them, 
 and had a pleasant conversation for an 
 hour in Mr. Hance's cottage. Exchanged 
 a five dollar gold piece for an English 
 sovereign at a point where man never 
 before passed money. 
 
 May, 1893. 
 
 H. H. WATKINS, 
 
 May, 1893. 
 L. WATKINS, 
 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 Chicago. 
 
 WM. VERNON BOOTH, 
 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 WILL1AH B. DOWD, 
 
 New York. 
 
 May 18, 1893. 
 
 MARSHALL H. HALLORY, 
 ROLLAND HALLORY, 
 
 New York. 
 
 May 20, 1893. 
 
 J. W. DOUBLEDAY, 
 
 Jamestown, New York. 
 
 May 20, 1893. 
 
 C. WALLIS, 
 
 Edgbasten, England. 
 
 May 20, 1893. 
 
 C. WALLIS. 
 
 Having visited the principal points of 
 interest in Europe, as well as in America, 
 I would say that I have seen nothing like 
 the Grand Canon of the Colorado for 
 grandeur and for its unique views. 
 
 May 20, 1893. 
 J. W. DOUBLEDAY. 
 
 Having gone down the canon to the 
 winter cabin of Mr. Hance, I must say 
 that the canon changes to the view at 
 every few hundred feet, and the small 
 hillocks that open from the rim change to 
 mountains as you go down. 
 
 May 21, 1893. 
 
 HUGO LANQEWITZ RIGA, 
 
 Russland, Russia. 
 
 June 2, 1893. 
 
 HENRY T. FINCK AND WIFE. 
 
 Doubtless the most unique sight in the 
 world, and the greatest possible surprise 
 is to walk up from these tents to the edge 
 of the canon to realize the full depth of 
 the canon. The visitor should look at it 
 from the rim on the point just this side of 
 Point Bissell. The morning light is best 
 from that position, while from the station 
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 June 8, 1893. 
 
 J. W. FLAVELLE, 
 
 To river and BisselPs Point. 
 
 London. 
 
 June 11, 1893. 
 
 FREDERICK DIRNBURG, 
 
 Berliner Tageblatt, 
 Berlin, Germany. 
 
 Dr. ERNEST H. VON HALLE, 
 
 Hamburg, Germany. 
 BERNHARD DERBURG, 
 
 Berlin, Germany. 
 Dr. PHIL ALWIN VICTOR, 
 
 Germany. 
 
 riAX TELIGER, 
 
 Berlin, Germany. 
 HANS TELIGER, 
 
 Berlin, Germany. 
 
 Party of German Editors and Artists. 
 
 June 14, 1893. 
 
 J. H. TOLFREE, 
 Mrs. J. H. TOLFREE, 
 
 flojave, Cal. 
 
 June 17, 1893. 
 
 W. S. BARTLETT, 
 
 Santa Ana, Cal. 
 
 The grandeur of the Grand Canon of 
 the Colorado River rivals, if it does not 
 exceed, that of the Yosemite Valley. 
 
 June iS, 1893. 
 
 S. L. COX AND WIFE, 
 
 Webb City, Mo. 
 C. F. COX, 
 
 Carthage, Ho. 
 
 W. J. GREGG AND WIFE, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 WM. SAWYER, 
 
 Flagstaff, Ariz. 
 
 All went to river on the 17th. Spent 
 night at cabin, and returned to rim morn- 
 ing of 18th. 
 
 June 2j, 1893. 
 
 Rev. SELAH BROWN. 
 
 Left July i, 1893. 
 
 July 1, 1893. 
 
 HERMAN JOHANSSON, 
 
 Stockholm, Sweden. 
 
 The greatest sight I have ever seen. 
 
 July 4, 1893. 
 
 Mrs. J. H. TOLFREE. 
 
 July 4, 1893. 
 
 L. E. CHITTENDEN, 
 
 flojave, Cal. 
 
 Went to the river July 4th; returned 
 July 5th. Had a most glorious time. 
 Will never forget my Fourth of July in 
 the canon. It is one of the grandest 
 sights in the world.
 
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 July 5, 1893. 
 
 J. J. SHAUH, 
 
 i744 Market St., 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 I fully agree with the above, and desire 
 to register this statement that a pleasant 
 lady adds much to the enjoyment of the 
 trip. 
 
 July 5, i8 g3 . 
 
 L. E. CHITTENDEN, 
 
 Mojave, Cal. 
 
 After ascending from the winter cabin 
 this a.m., Mr. Hance returned, leaving 
 the rim at 10:40, and reaching the winter 
 cabin 11:05, making the descent of 3,300 
 feet — three miles — in twenty-eight min- 
 utes. He immediately returned to the 
 rim, arriving at 12:10, being sixty-two 
 minutes for the ascent, and one hour and 
 thirty minutes for the entire trip. Con- 
 sidering the ground over which this six 
 miles extend, it was a wonderful trip. I 
 timed and witnessed the descent and 
 ascent from the rim. 
 
 July 5, 1893. 
 wn. SATORI, 
 
 Yankton, Dakota. 
 
 July J, 1893. 
 
 BEN P. HOOKE, Jr. 
 
 Logsville, Pa. 
 
 July 6, 1893. 
 
 GEO. WHITFIELD, 
 
 Wimbledon, England. 
 
 Arrived July 5th; left July nth. Bathed 
 in the Colorado River July 6th. 
 
 July 10, 1893. 
 
 Mr. and firs. WM. DOWNS, 
 
 Brooklyn, New York. 
 
 Enjoyed very much the visit. Went 
 down to the river, which, under Hance's 
 lead, is well worth the labor. 
 
 July 11, 1893. 
 
 Dr. GUSTAV BRUHL, 
 
 Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 July 11, 1893. 
 
 JOS. B. VERCAHP, 
 
 Mrs. JOSEPH B. VERCAMP, 
 
 Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 July 11, 1893. 
 
 firs. D. BABBITT, 
 RAYnOND BABBITT, 
 
 Flagstaff, Ariz. 
 
 July 14, 1893. 
 
 J. A. LEONARD, 
 
 Youngstown, Ohio. 
 
 The Grand Canon,— a great gulf of pale 
 blue transparent ether in which is sub- 
 merged unspeakable sublimity and inde- 
 scribable beauty.
 
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 July 74, 1893. 
 
 DIETRICH KREfllCRLT, 
 
 Augsburg, Germany. 
 C. GRAF BLUCHER, 
 
 Berlin, Germany. 
 
 All went to the river. 
 
 July 24, 1893. 
 
 EUGENE A. HILL, 
 
 Wichita, Kan. 
 
 July 25, 1893. 
 
 MATHIAS YOST, 
 
 Santa Ana, Orange County, 
 California. 
 
 July 25, 1893. 
 
 F. H. LUNGREEN, 
 
 U. S. 
 
 July 25, 1893. 
 
 J. H. HICKS, 
 
 N. M. 
 
 July 25, 1893. 
 
 GERTRUDE KETCHUM, 
 FRANCIS KETCHUfl, 
 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 July 25, 1893. 
 
 WALLACE FORD, 
 
 July 25, 1893. 
 
 I*lr. and Mrs. FRANK H. SCOTT, 
 BERTRAM DELAFIELD SCOTT, 
 HARION STURGES SCOTT, 
 
 Chicago, III. 
 
 C. J. SPELLHIRE, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 DANIEL DONAVAN, 
 
 Chicago, III. 
 
 J. E. EDWARDS, 
 
 N. C. 
 
 Dallas, Texas. 
 
 KATHARINE EDWARDS, 
 
 California. 
 
 CHAS. EDWARDS, 
 MAUD M. EDWARDS, 
 
 Santa Ana, Cal. 
 
 Hrs. A. H. SPELLMIRE, 
 
 K. C, Mo. 
 
 ALPHONSO SPELLMIRE, 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 ELEANOR SPELLHIRE, 
 
 Cincinnati, Ohio.
 
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 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 July, 1S93. 
 
 JAMES HAUXHURST, 
 ELLA E. HAUXHURST, 
 ADELE HAUXHURST, 
 C. W. S1RCH, 
 
 Phoenix, A. T. 
 
 Mr. and firs. JOHN DAVIS, 
 
 Camp Verde, Ariz. 
 
 SHARLOT M. HALL, 
 
 Lynx Creek, Ariz. 
 
 July, 1893. 
 
 V. E. MESSINGER, 
 
 Phoenix, Arizona. 
 
 July, 1893. 
 
 ROBERT F. GARNETT, 
 Cor. Van Buran and Pinal Sts., 
 Phoenix, Arizona. 
 
 August 2, 1893. 
 A. BRUCE, 
 
 England. 
 
 August 2, 1893. 
 
 ARTHUR RICHERSCHIER, 
 
 Hunchen, Bavaria. 
 
 August 2, 1893. 
 
 KAREL L. DORDRECHT, 
 
 Holland. 
 
 August 2, 1893. 
 
 A. V. STOLK, 
 
 Rotterdam. 
 
 August 2, 1893. 
 Q. ELPEN, 
 
 Munchen, Bavaria. 
 
 August 2, 1893. 
 
 C. TAUFKIRCHEN, 
 
 Munchen, Bavaria. 
 
 Prof. T. SINGER, 
 
 Vienna, Austria. 
 
 Dr. KARHER, 
 
 Germany. 
 
 B. BUISSON, 
 
 France. 
 
 W. M. CLAYPOOL, 
 
 El Paso, Texas.
 
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 J. W. WOOD, 
 
 Los Angeles Times. 
 
 Almighty Jove, Thy wondrous hand 
 hath carved with skill this canon grand. 
 
 WH. H. BANKS, 
 
 England. 
 
 JOHN H. DAWSON, 
 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 J. S. HUTCHISON, 
 niss K. T. HUTCHISON, 
 E. C. HUTCHISON, 
 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 LINCOLN HUTCHISON, 
 JAMES S. HUTCHISON, 
 
 Harvard. 
 Made to canon and back in 12 hours. 
 
 September, 1893. 
 
 MATTISON W. CHASE, 
 
 Ogdensburg, New York. 
 
 Nature's masterpiece is what I call the 
 Grand Canon of the Colorado. Why 
 Americans will go to Europe and around 
 the world, where they can see nothing to 
 equal it, before they have looked upon 
 this marvelous spectacle in their own 
 land, I cannot imagine. On September 
 1 2th I made the trip, with guide, from the 
 rim down Hance trail to the river, and 
 returned, in eleven hours; but I would 
 advise any one else of average strength 
 and endurance to take the usual two days 
 for the trip. 
 
 L. WATTS AND WIFE, 
 A. WATTS, 
 
 London. 
 
 Had a most enjoyable trip. Mr. Hance 
 is most anxious I should mention the fact 
 that we all went to the river. Slept two 
 nights at the rock cabin. 
 
 Mrs. W. A. CLARK, 
 nrs. K. L. CLARK, 
 
 New York City. 
 C. W. CLARK, 
 
 Butte, Montana. 
 
 We enjoyed the beautiful scenery from 
 Bissell's Point as well as from the river's 
 banks. It is an enjoyable trip. 
 
 O. Q. SONECK, 
 
 New York. 
 
 Dr. BERYERDAY, 
 
 Hanover, Germany. 
 
 October 1, 1893. 
 
 Rev. Father ALFRED QUETU, 
 
 Parish Priest. 
 
 Prescott, A. T. 
 
 October j, 1893. 
 
 Rev. Father FELIX DILLY, 
 
 Parish Priest, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona.
 
 74 
 
 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 October i, 1803. 
 
 Rev. THOS. C. MOFFETT, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 October i, 1803. 
 
 Hon. E. G. F. HORN, 
 
 Prescott, Arizona. 
 
 October 1, i£pj. 
 
 M. J. DORAN, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 October 7, iSpj. 
 
 A. H. SPELLIRE, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 October 2, 1803. 
 
 rirs. WALLACE, 
 WM. WALLACE, 
 MARGARET WALLACE, 
 LORA BELL WALLACE, 
 CORA LOVELL, 
 LILLIE LOVELL, 
 CLARA CALKINS, 
 A. JOHNSTON, 
 W. H. ASHURST, 
 M. M. ASHURST, 
 E. J. ASHURST, 
 ANDREW ASHURST, 
 CHAS. ASHURST, 
 
 All of Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 October 4, 1893. 
 
 J. CLAUD BILLINGSLEA, 
 
 Chicago, III. 
 
 October 4, 1893. 
 
 J. H. MEANS, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 October 4, 1893. 
 
 IVAN QUILK, 
 
 Budapest, Hungary. 
 
 October 4, J893. 
 
 LORDISLAS DE FOGER, 
 
 Budapest, Hungary. 
 
 October 4, 1S93. 
 
 BARO B. GASTAS, 
 
 Hungary. 
 
 October 4, 1S93. 
 
 MIRR BERG, 
 
 Hungary. 
 
 October 4, 1893. 
 JULIA C. PATTERSON, 
 
 London.
 
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 October 4, 1893. 
 
 CHAS. W. K. LEOSER, 
 
 New York. 
 
 October 4, 1893. 
 
 BYRAN E. WOODCOCK, 
 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 October 4, iSgJ. 
 
 CHAS. B. HcCOY, 
 
 Needles, Cal. 
 
 October 10, iSgj. 
 
 J. EDWARD BLAVEL, 
 
 Alameda, Cal. 
 
 The World's Fair at Chicago is the 
 greatest wonder of the age. The Grand 
 Canon of the Colorado the greatest won- 
 der of all ages. 
 
 October 10, i8gj. 
 
 R. W. SCHOPPER, 
 
 Zerlenroda, Russia. 
 
 October 10, iSpj. 
 
 JOHN COLSHURN, 
 
 Langenberg. 
 
 October 26, iSgj. 
 
 L. de BUYGENON, 
 
 Liege, Belgique. 
 
 After having visited the Yellowstone 
 Park, seen Oregon State and Washington 
 
 State, Cascade Range, Mt. Tacoma, Mt. 
 Bather, Mt. Shasta, and Sierra Nevada 
 Mountains, California, and the lovely 
 Yosemite Valley, I declare I did not see 
 in America a scenery more or as strik- 
 ingly wonderful and impressive and sub- 
 lime as the Grand Canon of the Colorado. 
 In Europe, I do not remember I have 
 ever seen anything by which I have been 
 as impressed except, perhaps, by the 
 splendid White Mount at Chamoise, when 
 I saw it for the first time fifteen years 
 ago. 
 
 October 31, 1893. 
 
 L. H. TOLFREE, 
 Mrs. L. H. TOLFREE, 
 EDITH M. TOLFREE, 
 GERTRUDE TOLFREE, 
 
 All of Flagstaff, Ariz. 
 
 Departed from canon October 31, 1893. 
 
 November 25, 1893. 
 
 Left New York City, November 15th, 
 en route to California, but my suspicion 
 of the grandeur of the country compelled 
 me to stop off at Flagstaff. The time of 
 the year for a trip to the canon was any- 
 thing but safe, considering the lateness of 
 the year, cold weather, and idea of being 
 snowed in, but, nevertheless, our trip was 
 without events of any mention until the 
 night of our arrival at Captain John 
 Hance's, when a terrific snow-storm set 
 in. It lasted until morning. The wind 
 at the present time is blowing a gale, and 
 how we will find it on our return is a 
 question. Must trust to Providence for 
 a safe return. The kind hospitality shown 
 us by Captain John Hance will never be
 
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 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 forgotten. During this writing we are all 
 sitting around the fire. To compare the 
 grandeur of this canon is beyond my 
 power. I can hardly believe my eyes, 
 and must say every one that goes sight- 
 seeing should never forget the Grand 
 Canon of the Colorado. 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 E. T. PAHMENBERG, New York. 
 
 Close of visiting record for year 
 1893. 
 
 April j, i8 9 4. 
 
 WM. C. WILKINSON, 
 
 Prof, of Poetry. 
 
 University, Chicago. 
 
 April 6, 1894. 
 
 THOS. BOYNTON, F. S. A. 
 
 Bridlington Quay, England. 
 
 Indescribably grand. 
 
 April 8, /S94. 
 
 L. B. HICKOK, 
 
 Troy Grove, La Salle Co., III. 
 
 Words will not describe the Grand 
 Canon. 
 
 AprilS, 1894. 
 
 GEO. W. HANCE, 
 
 Yavapai County, Ariz. 
 
 April 24, 1894. 
 
 HERBERT B. TURNER, 
 Mrs. HERBERT B. TURNER, 
 ANNE TRACY TURNER, 
 HARY BEACH TURNER, 
 
 April 24, 1894. 
 
 ROSALIE DELAFIELD FLOYD, 
 22 Williams St., 
 New York City. 
 
 April 24, 1894. 
 
 WALTER H. CRITTENDEN, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 D. 0. WICKHAM AND WIFE, 
 No. I Broadway, 
 New York. 
 
 April 26, 1S94. 
 
 HERBERT M. TOLFREE, 
 
 Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 . Ipril 26, 1894. 
 
 A. G. HUBBARD AND WIFE, 
 
 Redlands, Cal. 
 
 Left May 5, 1894. 
 
 May 2, 1894. 
 
 Mrs. EDnON WRIGHT, 
 Miss BESSIE WRIGHT, 
 JOHN CASTLE WRIGHT.
 
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 May 2, 1894. 
 
 GEO. D. B. DARBY, 
 
 Philadelphia, Penn. 
 
 May 5, 1894. 
 
 WILLIAM G. DeWITT, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 One of the greatest wonders of the 
 canon is thecliff called "Hance's Leap," 
 not generally known. The mountain-sheep 
 got away and crossed the Colorado. Un- 
 cle John will give all details, as he is the 
 sole survivor in these parts. 
 
 May 7, 1894. 
 Miss GERTIE KETCHUM. 
 
 May 7, 1894. 
 ROBERT CURTIS. 
 
 May 7, 1894. 
 
 EUGENE A. SLIKER. 
 
 May 11, 1894. 
 
 JOHN H. TRENT, 
 
 Brooklyn, New York. 
 
 May 11, 1894. 
 
 Dr. ELBERT WING, 
 
 Chicago. 
 
 May 11, 1S94. 
 
 FRANK H. SCOTT, 
 BERTRAM SCOTT, 
 
 Chicago. 
 
 May 11, 1894. 
 
 Miss ELIZA V. RUMSEY, 
 
 Chicago. 
 
 May ii, 1894. 
 
 Miss MARY D. STURGES, 
 Miss ROSALIE STURGES, 
 GEO. STURGES, 
 
 Chicago. 
 
 May 11, 1894. 
 
 W. F. DUMMER, 
 Mrs. W. F. DUMMER, 
 
 Chicago. 
 
 May 11, 1894. 
 
 F. H. LUNGREEN, 
 
 Cincinnati. 
 
 May 11, 1 8 94. 
 
 JOHN H. HICKS, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 May 11, 1894. 
 
 GERTIE KETCHUH, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona.
 
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 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 May ii, 1894. 
 
 F. C. REID, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 May II, 1894. 
 
 STANTON CURTIS, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 May 11, 1 8 94. 
 
 Hiss BLANCH METZ, 
 
 Cincinnati. 
 
 May 11, 1894. 
 
 Miss VERKAMP, 
 
 Cincinnati. 
 
 May 11, 1894. 
 
 WM. BABBITT, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 May 11, 1894. 
 
 N. A. CAHERON, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 May 11, 1894. 
 
 JOHN TOLER, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 May 11, 1894. 
 
 WALLACE FORD, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 May 11, 1894. 
 
 FRANK KETCHUil, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 May 11, 1894. 
 
 E. A. SLIKER, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 May 12, 1894. 
 
 Mrs. W. H. STEVENS, 
 MARY n. STEVENS, 
 
 Both of Detroit. Mich. 
 
 May 12, 18Q4. 
 
 PERCIVAL HENDERSON, 
 
 EI Paso, Texas. 
 
 May 12, 1894. 
 
 JAMES SUYDAM, 
 LAMBERT SUYDAM, 
 
 JED. FRYE, 
 
 All of New York City. 
 
 May, 1894. 
 
 CHAS. W. PALMIE. 
 
 May, 1894. 
 
 HEINRICH VOGEL, 
 
 Dresden, Oermany.
 
 c;kand canon ok the Colorado river. 
 
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 June i, 1894. 
 
 Mrs. SUMNER BABCOCK, 
 SUHNER BABCOCK. 
 
 Arrived June 1st at Moran's Point; 
 Sunset, June 2d; June 3d, down the 
 Grand Canon to the river, by the way of 
 Red Canon and Lauras Gorge. Time 
 from river to rim, three and a half hours. 
 No language can describe the grandeur of 
 the trip. June 5th, en route to the Yo- 
 semite Valley and Yellowstone Park. 
 
 June 4, 1894. 
 
 SAM HUBBARD, Jr., 
 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 Where Alph, the sacred river, ran through 
 
 caverns measureless to man, 
 Down to a sunless sea, 
 Take the wild imagination of Coleridge, 
 Take the wonderful masterpieces of Dore, 
 Yet, neither poet nor painter has ever con- 
 ceived this sublime reality. 
 
 June 20, 1894.. 
 
 C. L. BINQHAM, 
 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 June 23, 1894. 
 
 J. M. CONNELL, 
 Mrs. J. M. CONNELL, 
 Master RAYMOND CONNELL, 
 FRANCIS CONNELL, 
 
 Chicago. 
 
 June 23, 1894. 
 
 Hiss EDITH LOCKELT, 
 
 Chicago. 
 
 June 2 j, 1894. 
 
 E. WELLS KILOUG, 
 
 Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 
 
 June 23, 1S94. 
 
 W. H. PICKERING, 
 
 Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 June 23, 1894. 
 
 A. E. DOUGLASS, 
 
 Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 June 23, 1894. 
 
 CHAS. G. SLACK, 
 
 Marietta, Ohio. 
 
 July 18, 1894. 
 
 B. C. HOCK, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 July 18, 1894. 
 
 GEO. H. SICREST, 
 
 Phoenix, A. T.
 
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 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 July 18, 1894. 
 
 BERRY J. BOSTWICK, 
 
 Phoenix, A. T. 
 
 July iS, 1894. 
 J. H. POLITZER, 
 
 Phoenix, A. T. 
 
 July 18, 1S94. 
 J. S. BURTON, 
 
 Phoenix, A. T. 
 
 July 18, 1894. 
 
 J. T. SPANGLER, 
 
 Phoenix, A. T. 
 
 August 9, 1894. 
 P. B. McCABE, 
 
 Phoenix, A. T. 
 
 Words are inadequate to describe the 
 sublimity of a sunset view of the Grand 
 Canon of the Colorado, and should be 
 counted among the Seven Wonders of 
 the world. 
 
 September 9, 1894. 
 J. DOYLE. 
 
 New York. 
 
 September 9, J 8 94 
 C. S. SARGENT, 
 
 September 9, 1S94. 
 J. W. TOURMEY, 
 
 Tucson, A. T. 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 September 15, 1894. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. D. R. GOUCHER, 
 Carthage, Ho. 
 
 September 21, 1894. 
 
 Mrs. E. H. CHASE, 
 
 New York City, N. Y. 
 
 September 21, 1894. 
 
 Dr. A. I. BOUFFLEUR, 
 
 Miss GRACE F. BOUFFLEUR, 
 
 Chicago. 
 
 September 21, 1894. 
 
 C. H. FANCHER, 
 
 Land Agt. A. 1\ R. R. 
 HATTIE W. FANCHER, 
 GRACE FANCHER, 
 WARD FANCHER, 
 
 Albuq , N. M. 
 
 We all went down the new trail on 
 September 21st to the river, starting 
 about S a.m., and returned about 7 p.m., 
 riding horseback nearly all the way. 
 
 September 28, 1894. 
 
 B. N. FREEMAN, 
 Mrs. B. N. FREEMAN, 
 Miss HELEN FREEMAN, 
 
 Denver, Colorado.
 
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 September 28, 1894. 
 
 W. 0. COLE, 
 
 Miss BLANCH E. COLE, 
 
 Chicago, III. 
 
 September 28, 1894. 
 fliss FORD, 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 October 7, 1894. 
 
 S. F. J1EQUIRE, 
 
 Mrs. S. F. flEGUIRE, 
 
 ALVIE ilEGUIRE, 
 
 Little FRANKIE MEQUIRE, 
 
 WH. Q. BAILEY, 
 
 niss LEOTIA STONE, 
 
 Jerome, Ariz. 
 
 Visited Grand Canon via Hance's new 
 trail. 
 
 November 8, 1894. 
 
 D. T. BRAINARD, 
 
 First Lieut. 2d Cavalry, U. S. 
 Army. 
 
 November 12, 1894. 
 
 D. K. FITZHUQH, 
 
 Special Examiner Pension Bureau, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 To Grand Canon and back this day, on 
 foot, and I will never forget it. Went to 
 river, via Hance's New Trail. The grand- 
 est sight in the world. 
 
 November 16, 1S94. 
 J. H. STEVENSON. 
 
 My only regret is that John Hance and 
 I can't make a longer stop at the boss 
 ditch of the world. 
 
 March 19, 1893. 
 R. K. WILLIS, 
 
 Lewis Centre, Delaware Co., 
 Ohio. 
 
 I wish to say that I have seen a good 
 deal of this great and beautiful land of 
 ours, and calling on the great God that 
 made all these beautiful sights, I wish 
 to say that right here on the ranch owned 
 by John Hance is the greatest sight in 
 the world, and I want all my friends on 
 earth to come and enjoy the sights and 
 his open heart and hospitality. 
 
 March 19, 1893. 
 
 NEWTON CHALKER, 
 
 Akron, Ohio. 
 
 I have spent two days very pleasantly 
 visiting the Grand Canon of the Colorado, 
 and enjoying the accommodations at the 
 inn of John Hance, and enjoyed both 
 hugely. 
 
 April 18, 189s. 
 
 JAS. N. BETHUNE, 
 
 Los Angeles.
 
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 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 April 18, 1S95. 
 HUGH J. LEE, 
 E. P. T0B1E, Jr., 
 
 Pawtucket, R. I. 
 
 We, Us and Company went from 
 Hance's cabin to the river and returned 
 in four and a quarter hours. 
 
 April 27, 1895. 
 H. P. SPENCER, 
 
 Denver, Colo. 
 
 Simply indescribable. 
 
 April 27, 1S95. 
 
 C. 0. HALL, 
 
 Conway, Iowa. 
 
 Editor Journal. 
 
 After a two days' visit to the Grand 
 Canon of the Colorado is all that it is 
 represented to be, and more, too. No 
 language can fully describe, no artist 
 paint the beauty, grandeur, immensity 
 and sublimity of this most wonderful pro- 
 duction of Nature's great architect. It 
 must be seen to be appreciated. 
 
 April jo, 1895. 
 
 W. WEST DURANT, 
 
 New York. 
 
 It is presumption to attempt to express 
 in mere words the impression made upon 
 one by the Grand Canon of the Colorado, 
 even after viewing it more than once. It 
 must be seen to be understood and even 
 in part appreciated. 
 
 April JO, 1895. 
 L. N. STOTT, 
 
 Stottville, N. M. 
 
 The only part of the canon I feel I have 
 seen is Mr. Hance's trail. Any one who 
 does not take the trip down into the canon 
 misses the grandest part of that little part, 
 which you can see in three days' time. 
 
 May 7, 1805. 
 
 TILLIE VERKAMP. 
 
 May 7, 1893. 
 
 CLARA WESSEL. 
 
 May 7, 1895. 
 I. H. W. 
 
 Drink Condit and Mercur's Orange 
 Cider. 
 
 May 20, 1S95 . 
 
 CLARENCE M. SMITH, 
 
 54 Wall St., N. Y. 
 
 The Grand Cafion is simply sublime. 
 A trip should be made down Captain 
 Hance's trail to the river, but the traveler 
 must keep his helm hard-a-port. My 
 personal experience in a jaunt to the 
 river and returning in one day, bids me 
 quote Virgil's description of a visit to 
 Hades, of which he says: Facilis Avertio 
 descensus est ; Sed reddere. (That 's the 
 rub.)
 
 GRAND CANON OF THE COLORAIJO KIVER. 
 
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 May 31, 1895. 
 
 Miss WHITLOCK, 
 Mrs. WHITLOCK. 
 
 You may talk of this and that point and 
 view, but give us the Hance Point, with 
 shifting clouds and sun playing at hide- 
 and-seek over Santa F6 Temple. 
 
 Grand Ca?ion, June 5, 1895. 
 
 Mrs. MARY E. HART, M. D., 
 
 Los Angeles. 
 
 There is a certain malady, commonly 
 termed "big head," with which a large 
 number of otherwise healthy people are 
 afflicted. 
 
 Prescription: Stand upon the brink of 
 the Grand Canon, gaze down, and still 
 further down, into its awful depths, and 
 realize for the first time your own utter 
 insignificance. 
 
 June 9, 18Q5. 
 
 W. B. THOMAS, 
 
 Los Angeles. 
 
 I have seen what is without doubt the 
 grandest natural wonder in the world, the 
 Grand Canon of the Colorado, and I have 
 also seen enough to convince me that no 
 man or woman should attempt to make 
 the trip to the river a-foot. If you can't 
 go on a horse, don't go. 
 
 June 9, 1S95. 
 
 T. S. VAN DYKE, 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 All it is said to be, and the trail one of 
 the safest I have ever seen. 
 
 June it, 1895. 
 
 J. H. TOLFREE, 
 
 If the mountains of the earth were 
 leveled off and dumped into the Grand 
 Canon of the Colorado at this point, 
 there would not be a trail wide enough 
 for a thoroughbred Indian to cross upon. 
 
 June 12, 1895. 
 
 TESSA L. KELSO, 
 
 A better thing than writing in John 
 Hance's book is riding down John 
 Hance's trail to the river. 
 
 June 14, 1895. 
 
 RUE H. HARDENBERG, 
 
 Magnificent, and much else also in 
 addition besides. 
 
 June 14, 1893. 
 
 ALFRED P. GRIFFITH, 
 
 Azusa, Cal. 
 
 The grandest sight of my life, and far 
 above possible anticipation, but Captain 
 Hance's double-breasted tea can't be 
 surpassed. 
 
 June 14, 1893 . 
 
 EFFIE B. GRIFFITH, 
 
 Rushville, III. 
 
 My first horseback ride or any stage. 
 I took the canon trip on Captain Hance's 
 horse Dick, and am alive to tell the tale. 
 I can never forget what I have seen.
 
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 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 Grand Canon, June 16, i8g§. 
 
 HARRY T. CORY, C. E., 
 
 Columbia, Mo. 
 
 Yesterday I went with Captain Hance 
 to the river. It certainly was the ex- 
 perience of my life. One really has 
 never seen the canon until he has gone 
 down the trail to the river. After that 
 trip he will certainly agree with me that 
 the canon is the most awful, horrible 
 thing ever conceived of, and for heaven's 
 sake don't go alone nor walk. To save 
 money by walking, or going alone, is the 
 worst way of saving money I can con- 
 ceive of. If you do save money (falsely, 
 so called,) just read this when you get 
 back, and remember that I told you so. 
 
 July 17, 1895. 
 
 JOHN W. SEARGEAINT, 
 
 Mrs. W. F. SEARGEANT AND 
 CHILDREN, 
 
 Marshall, Ho. 
 
 July 25, 1895. 
 
 ED. B. CULLINAM, 
 
 372 W. Seventh, St. 
 Cincinnati, 0. 
 
 EZRA J. WARNER, Jr., 
 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 JOSEPH E. Z. HUNT, 
 
 Honolulu, 
 
 Hawaiian Islands. 
 
 JOHN HUNTER STEARNS, 
 
 Chicago, III. 
 
 July. 29, 1895. 
 
 H. H. PRUGH, 
 CARRIE M. PRUGH, 
 
 Dayton, Ohio. 
 
 This is our fourth day here. Have 
 been down the new trail with John 
 Hance, and made various excursions 
 along the rim. We feel that we have 
 only commenced to realize the unspeak- 
 able sublimity of the canon, and hope to 
 come again when the railroad is built 
 from Flagstaff. 
 
 July 31, 1895. 
 
 ALDACE F. WALKER, 
 KATHARINE WALKER, 
 S. F. GILBERT, 
 ROBERT WALKER, 
 HAROLD WALKER, 
 
 All of Chicago. 
 
 August 7, 1895. 
 
 L. W. JOHNSON, 
 
 GEO. BURGESS, 
 
 W. E. GRAVES, 
 
 CHAS. BURKHART, 
 
 G. A. ilcCLAFLIN, 
 
 R. S. McCLAFLIN, 
 
 J. G. AXLING, 
 
 Mrs. R. S. McCLAFLIN, 
 
 firs. GEO. IRWIN, 
 
 Miss ORA RUFFCORN,
 
 GRAND CANON OK THE COLORADO KIVER. 
 
 89 
 
 Miss ANNIE STUMP, 
 Miss LYDIA MORRIS, 
 Miss MAGGIE TYNAN, 
 
 Winslow, A. T. 
 
 August /, 1895 . 
 
 CHAS E. BURKHART. 
 
 Cooked for the Winslow party. 
 
 Grand Cation, August ip, 1895. 
 
 G. A. NEEFF. 
 
 We have enjoyed everything, — the 
 faces, the characters, the meals, this 
 book; last, but not least, ah! the canon. 
 We have seen its faces,— oh, so varied, 
 somber, smiling, meditatingly, growling, 
 ecstatic. To have seen the faces of the 
 mountains and the depths is to have 
 studied the thousand characters, and yet 
 but to catch an inkling of its true worth. 
 It is a book, this canon is, to the poetic 
 soul, and with such convivial spirit about 
 these venerable trees and kind, smiling 
 faces at the camp, it is one of the most 
 restful places imaginable. The canon 
 itself is a picture of eternal rest. May the 
 time soon come when many will enjoy the 
 beauties of these God-given festivities. 
 
 August 21 ', 1895. 
 
 CHAS. A. BALEY, 
 
 Oakland, Cal. 
 
 WM. C. VAUGHAN, 
 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 We made this day the ascent of Ayer's 
 Peak. A flag was placed on the northern 
 peak, one on the southern, and a monu- 
 
 ment reared on the middle one. Ayer '^ 
 Peak occupies a central position in the 
 Grand Canon, from which are revealed 
 such a touch of immensity and grandeur 
 as to produce an indellible impression. 
 
 August 22, 1895. 
 
 CAROLINE HADLEY 
 
 (Aged nine years). 
 
 We have been to Moran Point, and we 
 would like to go to the river, but I do not 
 think we can. I think it is very, very deep, 
 and grand, and that it must have taken ;i 
 very long time to make it. I would like 
 to stay here forever, it is so beautiful. 
 
 Grand Canon, August 25, 1893. 
 
 C. H. COBLE, 
 L. L. FERRAL, 
 T. B. BELL, 
 F. D. MYERS, 
 J. M. AITKEN. 
 
 Bicycle party. 
 
 Bell, Myers and Aitken made the trip 
 over the Hance trail on foot. Time, from 
 head of trail to river, two hours and 
 twenty-five minutes; rested two hours, 
 and made the head of the trail in four 
 hours and fifteen minutes. 
 
 August jo, 1893. 
 
 I. T. WHITTEnORE, 
 
 Florence, Arizona. 
 
 The longings of my heart have been 
 gratified. My anticipations and expecta- 
 tions more than realized. I look in won-
 
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 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 der, love, and admiration at this mightiest 
 of God's created works, but never have I 
 felt so small, and God so great, as while 
 standing, awe-struck and overwhelmed, 
 as in gazing on this, the greatest of all 
 earthly wonders. I cannot leave, how- 
 ever, without leaving my testimony of 
 respect for the man who made the trail, 
 and made it possible for all sight-seers to 
 see the canon from crest to base. All 
 honor to friend John Hance. 
 
 Grand Canon, August 31, 1895. 
 
 EDITH MANSFIELD. 
 
 Doubtless, God might have made some- 
 thing more wonderful or more magnifi- 
 cent, but, doubtless, he never did. Amer- 
 ica for Americans. I am glad to add my 
 meed, respect, and admiration for the 
 enterprise and determination which made 
 the trail possible. 
 
 August 31, 1895. 
 
 MARIAN SCOTT FRANKLIN. 
 
 A vision of what God has prepared for 
 us in the New Jerusalem. 
 
 August 3/, 1895. 
 
 HOWARD MARINE, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 Views from Moran's and Bissell's 
 Points are the finest you will see, and go 
 down the trail, and you will know the 
 depth of the canon by experience. 
 
 A?tg?tst jf, 1895. 
 
 Miss HAYBEL MYERS, 
 
 Phoenix, Arizona. 
 
 August 31, 1895. 
 
 Miss HARY SMITH, 
 
 Phoenix, A. T. 
 
 August 31, 1895. 
 
 JOHN Y. T. SMITH. 
 
 Phoenix, Arizona. 
 
 To Mr. John Hance: — 
 
 My Old Friend: I am delighted to meet 
 you on the rim of the Grand Canon of the 
 Colorado River, after a score or more of 
 years since our last meeting. 
 
 August 31, 1895. 
 
 Miss WINIFRED SMITH, 
 
 Phoenix, A. T. 
 
 August 31, 1895. 
 
 EDWIN E. CARROLL, 
 
 Lawrence, Kan. 
 
 September 19, 1895. 
 
 R. F. GOBLE, 
 B. D. GOBLE, 
 O. K. CUSHING. 
 
 The canon is here to show for itself, and 
 Captain Hance will show it to you.
 
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 September, 19, 1895. 
 
 Dr. ARTHUR KORN, 
 
 Munich, Germany. 
 
 September 20, 1895. 
 
 Mrs. J. M. AITKIN, 
 
 J. A. EVERTS, 
 
 Q. A. DUTCHER, 
 
 E. W. DUTCHER, M. D. 
 
 All of Whipple Barracks, Arizona. 
 
 Beautiful Grand Canon. 
 
 September 20, 1895. 
 HUGO FROMHOLZ, 
 
 Berlin, Germany. 
 
 Visited the canon, went only half way 
 down the trail, but was fully satisfied of 
 that. Point Moran pleased me best. 
 
 September 25, 1895. 
 W. E. PEDRICK, 
 
 Denver, Colo. 
 
 On the trail to the river, about half an 
 hour's march from a point opposite Point 
 Moran to the right of the trail among 
 cedars, and about one hundred yards 
 distant from the trail, rises a projecting 
 rock, upon whose side I noticed to-day 
 what appeared from the trail upon the 
 face of the rock to be some kind of rep- 
 tile, coiled in circles, over a space about 
 four feet long. I had no time to visit it 
 to-day, and hope some geological stu- 
 dent will make a close examination, and 
 hope a classification may be arrived at. 
 
 September 26, 1895. 
 Dr. G. SOHWATHE, 
 
 Germany. 
 
 September 2j, 1895 '. 
 
 WM. MARTIA AIKEN, 
 
 Supervising Architect, 
 Treasury Department, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 October 1, 1895. 
 
 FRED J. MADDEN, 
 
 Clinton, Iowa. 
 
 EDITH M. TOLFREE, 
 
 GERTRUDE TOLFREE, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 PORTER FLEMING, 
 
 Phoenix, A. T. 
 
 CHAS. S. FLEMillNG, 
 
 Stanford University. 
 
 Grand Canon survey party. 
 
 We all expect to see the Grand Canon 
 from the windows of a palace-car next 
 year. "Dude," the jack-rabbit police- 
 dog, kept us in game. 
 
 October 1, 1895. 
 
 WILL B. HUNTER, 
 
 Chicago. 
 
 Wonderful canon, 
 
 Child of the seas, 
 
 No man knows thy history, 
 
 None can solve thy mystery; 
 
 God-given glimpse of eternity 
 
 To weak humanity.
 
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 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 October 7, 1S95. 
 
 Dr. P. G. CORNISH, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 F. H. NEWHAN, 
 W. B. HUNTER, 
 W. F. TALIAFERRO, 
 
 Albuquerque, N. M. 
 
 E. A. SLIKER, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 Captain C. E. HOWARD 
 
 Cycling party. 
 
 October 7, 1895. 
 
 The Arizona Mission Conference of the 
 M. E. Church, by arrangements of Rev. 
 B. M. Danforth, Pastor of the M. E. 
 Church at Flagstaff, visited the Grand 
 Canon. All agreed that the trip was the 
 event of a lifetime. The party was com- 
 posed of the following persons: — 
 
 Bishop HENRY W. WARREN, 
 
 Denver, Colo. 
 
 G. F. BOVARD, 
 
 Supt. Arizona Mission. 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 C. J. CHASE AND WIFE, 
 
 Pastor at Phoenix, A. T. 
 
 Q. F. PIERENAUD, 
 
 Pastor at Prescott, A. T. 
 
 ED. DEARBORN AND WIFE, 
 
 Pastor at Alhambra, A. T. 
 
 DAVID ROBERTS, 
 
 Pastor Tombstone, A. T. 
 
 B M. DANFORTH, 
 
 Pastor Flagstaff, A. T. 
 
 Mrs. HUNT, 
 
 Glendale, Arizona. 
 
 The flisses AMY and DAISY DAN= 
 
 FORTH, 
 WILL DANFORTH, 
 
 Family of the pastor at Flagstaff. 
 
 We all agree that the Grand Canon is 
 the greatest thing on earth of its kind, 
 and heartily endorse the entire manage- 
 ment, including the Grand Canon Stage 
 Company, the hotel management, and 
 will not soon forget our guide, Captain 
 John Hance. 
 
 Friday, October 25, 1895. 
 
 CHAS. P. BOND, 
 
 Boston, Mass., and 
 Waltham, Mass. 
 
 A single day has given me only a 
 glimpse of this marvelous creation of 
 Nature. That glimpse has, however, 
 been a revelation to me. I have seen all 
 the wonders of the New World that com- 
 mand the admiration of man, but I regard 
 this Grand Canon of the Colorado River 
 as the grandest of them all. One of God's 
 masterpieces, — its grandeur, its marvel- 
 ous groupings of Nature's pinnacles, and 
 its vast extent, — is beyond the grasp of 
 human intellect to comprehend, and be- 
 yond the power of human language to 
 accurately picture. No pen or pencil can 
 portray its awful grandeur. It is a kaleido- 
 scope ©f Nature's greatest beauties, fur- 
 nishing new surprises and new wonders 
 from every point of view. It well de- 
 serves a place in the galaxy of the great 
 wonders of the world; climate, country, 
 people, and surroundings, all combine, 
 to make this Grand Canon of the Colo- 
 rado River one of the ideal spots on the 
 American Continent. A place where one 
 must always love to come, and from
 
 GRAND CANON OF THE COLORADO RIVER. 
 
 95 
 
 which he goes with much reluctance. It 
 is a place where man must feel, if he 
 never felt it before, the existence of a 
 Creator, in whose presence he is as 
 nothing, and whose ways are past 
 understanding. 
 
 Beginning of the season, April 
 1896. 
 
 April /J, 1896. 
 
 E. A. SLIKER, 
 
 C. H. COBLE, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 The Coconino Cycling Club. 
 
 The first cyclers of the season. We all 
 expect to see the canon from the seat of a 
 flat or hand-car next year. 
 
 Lovingly yours, 
 
 E. A. SLIKER. 
 
 April 23, 1S96. 
 
 Mr. and rirs. W. D. ELLIS, 
 
 New York City, N. Y, 
 
 April 29, 1896. 
 
 HARRY FIRVE, 
 
 Albuquerque, N. H. 
 
 I have been here two days, and never 
 had so much fun since I had the measles. 
 
 May 12, 1896. 
 
 J. M. CASSIN, 
 
 Santa Rosa, Cal. 
 
 If to see the Grand Canon for a day or 
 
 two is so great a pleasure, what must it 
 be to view it daily for years ? John Hance 
 alone can tell. 
 
 May 12, 1896. 
 
 ARTHUR l. SHOLL, 
 
 General Office, P. R. R., 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 I made the trip over the new trail be- 
 tween the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 P.M., 
 spending an hour at the river. The most 
 magnificent walk of my life; but I wish 
 to say to others who may wish to walk, 
 take our respected friend's advice, — a 
 word to the wise is sufficient. 
 
 May 12, 1896. 
 
 Dr. S. A. KNOPF. 
 
 To Mr. Hance I wish a few gold- 
 mines and many years of health and 
 happiness besides. 
 
 June 19, 1896. — 9 p.m. 
 
 CHAS. WM. SIRCH, 
 
 JTilwaukee, Wis. 
 
 Left morning 23d of June 1896. 
 
 impression 1. 
 
 After the drive, a view, a 
 
 Sight of the Canon grande\ 
 Regrets of the wearisome drive 
 
 To this corner of the land ;— 
 The scene I admit is rugged, 
 
 But should I seek the course, 
 When around me are beautiful moun- 
 tains, 
 
 Already I feel remorse,
 
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 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 'T is not half so big as I expected. 
 
 Oh thoroughly I despise 
 The travelers who exaggerate, 
 
 Especially as to size. 
 
 IMPRESSION II. 
 
 A supper, well-served and hot, 
 
 Quite cures a man of the blues, 
 A sleep in a cool, sweet cot 
 
 Full many regrets subdues. 
 A breakfast, two burros, a guide, 
 
 A descent from the canon's rim, 
 I cared not to explore the canon, 
 
 But just to be company to him, 
 My friend, the Professor, from Kansas. 
 
 Afoot I descend the trail. 
 
 IMPRESSION III. 
 
 At eight we are found well-started; 
 
 At ten we did not fail 
 To drink at the old stone cabin; 
 
 At eleven the ladders descend; 
 At twelve we have reached the river, 
 
 Down at the canon's end. 
 
 IMPRESSION IV. 
 
 A rest and a plunge in the river, 
 
 And experience in quicksand. 
 We felt of the current in places, 
 
 'T would most take off one's hand; 
 At three we prepared for the ascent; 
 
 Scaled falls by ladders and ropes; 
 I had walked seven miles to the river, 
 
 But returning was most beyond hopes. 
 
 impression v. 
 I can solve most difficult problems 
 
 Theorems obscure can pass, 
 But I frankly acknowledge in high arts 
 
 Is vastly superior the ass. 
 
 impression VI. 
 On I struggled, e'er seeking the higher; 
 Anon I stopped in fright. 
 
 An inch to the left, an inch to the right, 
 
 And this page I 'd not indite. 
 To appreciate, Oh traveler, 
 
 This canon's awful height, 
 You must ascend without burro, 
 
 With your own strong brawn and might; 
 For where theie is no unit of measure 
 
 To calculate the size, 
 To man the extent of the labor 
 Will atone for the failure of eyes. 
 
 IMPRESSION VII. 
 
 " Carpe diem," and do not fail 
 
 To visit Moran's view, 
 For though quite weary grows the trail, 
 
 The grandeur will ne'er be forgotten by 
 you. 
 
 IMPRESSION VIII. 
 
 Beautiful was the trip we made 
 Down Cameron's trail and through the 
 
 caves. 
 Impressions of stratas and stalagmites 
 
 will cling to my memory, and more 
 
 I crave. 
 
 June jy, i8y6. 
 
 J. CURTIS WASSOIN, A. B. 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 Came to Grand Canon Hotel; got out 
 of stage; walked over to rim of canon; 
 looked out, and Oh!!! June 20th, went 
 down Hance's trail to river, took a bath 
 in river, and returned. June 21st, went 
 to Moran's Point. June 22d, went down 
 Cameron's trail; visited mines, and ex- 
 plored three caves. 
 
 Cha^m of the Creator, 
 
 Handiwork of His hand, 
 And of His works none greater 
 
 Is found in all the land.
 
 GRAND CANON OF THE COLORADO RIVER. 
 
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 Great, massive, awful abyss, 
 
 Delving Pluto's artifice, 
 To keep his realm obscure within, 
 
 From upper worlds of wayward men. 
 
 And to our host and hostess kind, 
 And daughters fairest of mankind, 
 
 Who added to our joy, 
 We, friend Sirch and I 
 
 Now say good-by, 
 And hail our stage, ahoy! 
 
 May heaven's pleasure, 
 
 Without measure, 
 E'er your way betide, 
 
 That others coming, 
 In the gloaming, 
 
 May e'er in you confide. 
 
 August 12, 1896. 
 
 S. SOPHIA FRIEDLBY, 
 
 Morristown, Pa. 
 
 August 12 , 1896. 
 ROBERT P. SHICK, 
 
 Reading, Pa. 
 
 August 12, i8y6. 
 
 Wil. H. BEAN, 
 First Lieut., Second Cavalry, U. S. A- 
 
 August j 2, 1896. 
 
 WM. STOWE DERVOL, 
 
 University of Arizona, 
 
 Tucson, Arizona. 
 
 It is a chasm to afford a place wherein 
 the soul may seek repose, and which may 
 prompt the deepest emotions to great 
 activity, and lift man above himself. 
 
 August 12, i8g6. 
 
 I1ARY C. STINSON, 
 
 flcrristown, Pa. 
 
 August 12, 1896. 
 
 GERTRUDE HENDERSON, 
 
 Montgomery, Pa. 
 
 August 12, 1896. 
 
 KATHARINE P. FRANCISCENS, 
 Lewistown, Pa. 
 
 September 3, 1896. 
 
 Rev. ULYSSES Q. B. PIERCE, 
 
 Pomona, Cal. 
 
 September 3, 1896. 
 
 Mrs. WM. F. LEWIS, 
 
 Fart Apache, A. T. 
 
 September 14, 1896. 
 
 HELEN A. RIORDAN, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona.
 
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 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 September 22, 1896. 
 
 V. H. EDMUNDSON, M. D. 
 
 Gallup, N. M. 
 
 September 22, 1896. 
 
 HARRIETTE F. CODWISE, 
 
 Kingston, N. Y. 
 
 September 22, 1896. 
 Maj. and Mrs. W. M. WALLACE. 
 
 September jo, 1896. 
 
 I. W. RAND, 
 
 First Lieut. Asst. Surgeon, U. S. A. 
 Fort Apache, A. T. 
 
 October 23, 1896. 
 
 WM. AUGUST BARROIS, 
 
 Lile, France. 
 
 October 23, 1896. 
 L. BERKER. 
 
 October 30, 1896. 
 
 KATHARINE ARMS, 
 Mrs. CHAS. D. ARMS, 
 
 CAROLYN WICK ARMS, 
 
 Youngstown, Ohio. 
 
 November 15, 1896. 
 
 GEO. E. WHITE, 
 MINNIE A. WHITE, 
 
 Prescott, Arizona. 
 
 November 13, 1896. 
 
 N. 0. flURPHY, 
 NELLIE MURPHY, 
 
 Prescott, Arizona. 
 
 November 28, 1896. 
 
 HERHAN KOBBE, 
 
 Good luck to Captain Hance on his 
 prospecting tour, and may he strike a 
 bonanza. 
 
 November 28, 1896. 
 
 MAGNUS C. MYER, 
 
 Chicago, III. 
 
 Many a land has seen my eyes, many 
 a mountain crossed my foot, but never 
 seen such wonderful creations as this, — 
 the Grand Canon of the Colorado. 
 
 Close of the visiting record for the 
 year 1896. 
 
 Monday, ^Ipril 19, 189J. 
 
 The Opening of the Season. 
 
 JAMES G. DUNCAN, 
 
 Mt. Yernon, N. Y. 
 
 Miss A. ENDICOTT, 
 
 flartin, N. Y.
 
 CHIMNEY ROCK. GRAND CANON.
 
 GRAND CANON OF THE COLORADO RIVER. 
 
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 J. ALEXANDER MOONE, M. D., 
 Helena, Montana. 
 
 We all visited Moran and Bissell's 
 Point. A grand sight. 
 
 April 24, 1897. 
 RUDOLF FBACH, 
 
 Barmen, Germany. 
 
 April 26, 1897. 
 
 P. C. BICKNELL, 
 
 Phoenix, Arizona. 
 
 May 1, 1897. 
 
 fir. and Mrs. W. H. WOOL WORTH. 
 
 Niagara Falls, N. Y. 
 
 Visited Moran's Point, Bissell's Point, 
 and walked part way down John Hance's 
 trail. Language seems weak and inade- 
 quate to the task of describing the gran- 
 deur of the Grand Canon of the Colorado 
 River. 
 
 May 5, 1897. 
 
 Rev. ULYSSES Q. B. PIERCE, 
 
 First Unitarian Church. 
 
 FLORENCE LONSBURY PIERCE, 
 
 Pomona, Cal. 
 
 Log Hotel dedicated August 6, 1896. 
 
 May J, 1897. 
 JAMES PRINGLE, 
 
 Edinburgh, Scotland. 
 
 Since leaving my native land of Scot- 
 
 land I have traveled upwards of thirty 
 thousand miles,— over three fourths of 
 this globe, — but have nowhere seen so 
 awe-inspiring a sight as the Grand Canon 
 of the Colorado River, said to be une- 
 qualed in the world. I believe no artist 
 lias yet been born who can adequately 
 portray it, nor any word-painter can do 
 justice to so majestic a theme. It is, to 
 my mind, a humbling sight, and the main 
 lesson it teaches us is the littleness of 
 man. What is man, that thou art mind- 
 ful of him ? 
 
 Mays, 1897. 
 
 Miss JONES, 
 E. A. JONES, 
 
 Both of Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 May 13, 1897. 
 
 F. W. MORRIS, Jr., 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 May ij, 1897. 
 
 GEO. S. GERHARD, M. D. 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 May 14, 1897. 
 
 R. S. HAYES, 
 ANN N. HAYES, 
 
 Both of New York. 
 
 The biggest thing on earth.
 
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 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 May ij, 1897. 
 
 CORLEIA R. BEAN, 
 BLANCH BEAN. 
 
 Long live the canon. May its grandeur 
 never grow less. 
 
 ALDACE F. WALKER. 
 
 A. T. & S. F. R. R. 
 
 Endorsement guaranteed. 
 
 May 14, 1897. 
 
 HENRY J. CAMGAN, 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 May 16, 1897. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. THOS. GOFFERY, 
 
 Liverpool. 
 
 Went down the canon, under the guid- 
 ance of Captain John Hance, and would 
 advise every one else to do likewise, as 
 no proper conception of the canon can be 
 gained from above. 
 
 May 19, 1897. 
 
 W. E. NELSON, 
 
 Quincy, III. 
 
 May 20, 1 8 97. 
 
 ARTHUR DIXON, 
 
 Illinois. 
 
 May 21, 1897. 
 
 r\rs. E. L. REYNOLDS, 
 
 South Bend, Ind. 
 
 What are the pyramids of Egypt, works 
 of man, compared to the works of the 
 Almighty. 
 
 May 22, 1897. 
 
 AGNES FARRAND, 
 
 South Bend, Ind. 
 
 May 22, 1897. 
 
 CATHARINE C. E. SMAY, 
 
 South Bend, Ind. 
 
 May 22, 1897. 
 
 EDWARD EVERTT SER, 
 
 riontgomery City, Mo. 
 
 In testimony of Captain Hance's idea 
 of truth. 
 
 May 22, 1897. 
 
 Dr. MONS CARL MULLER, 
 
 Prag, Austria. 
 
 RUDOLF de HALEN, 
 
 Hanover, Germany.
 
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 May 24., 1897. 
 
 JAHES H. flcCLINTOCK, 
 
 Phoenix, Arizona. 
 
 In his way, Hance is as great as the 
 canon. 
 
 May 25, 1S97. 
 
 JOHN A. BECKWITH, 
 
 Oakland, Cal. 
 
 If Dickens had only been John Hance, 
 what a book he could have written. As 
 for the canon, it is undoubtedly the most 
 wonderful thing of its kind on this earth. 
 The crater of Kilauea, in violent action," 
 is possibly the more impressive of the 
 two. 
 
 May 27, 1897- 
 
 PREBIN A. LAURING. 
 
 May 28, 1897. 
 
 GEO. W. REEVE, 
 ARCHIE REEVE, 
 
 Jlontreal. 
 
 May 28, 1897. 
 
 JOHN ADAMS LOWELL, 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 May 28, 1897. 
 
 L. MACDONALD, 
 
 Montreal, Canada. 
 
 May j/, 1897 . 
 
 KANSAS TOURISTS. 
 
 We hope when next 
 
 We visit the canons, 
 To find John and 
 . Peck dearer companions. 
 
 May she put on a dress, 
 
 To cover her pants, 
 And change her name 
 
 To Mrs. John Hance. 
 
 May they be supplied 
 With plenty of bedding, 
 
 When we all come to dance, 
 At the Hance-Peck wedding. 
 
 John, if ever inclined 
 
 To go on a tipple, 
 Just go to the canon, 
 
 And behold Peck's nipple. 
 
 May 31, 1897. 
 
 J. P. CAMPBELL, 
 
 Ashland, Kans. 
 
 Next to the Grand Canon, Captain John 
 Hance and his trail are two of the great- 
 est wonders of the world. The half was 
 never told. 
 
 June r, 1897. 
 
 ROBERT W. PARK, 
 
 Stockyards, 
 
 Kansas City, flo.
 
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 June I, 1897. 
 
 F. MOULTON BARRETT, 
 
 Devon, England. 
 
 During our stay at the Grand Canon, 
 we were much indebted to Captain Hance 
 for his excellent arrangements, courtesy, 
 and his wonderful information. 
 
 June I, 1897. 
 
 GILBERT DAVIDSON, 
 
 Devon, England. 
 
 I heartily endorse all my friend has 
 said. 
 
 June I, 1897. 
 
 n. C. CAMPBELL, 
 
 Wichita, Kans. 
 
 El Canon Grande" de la Colorado is, in 
 my judgment, one of the greatest wonders 
 of the world. Captain Hance, the mod- 
 ern path-finder, well deserving the title. 
 
 June 1, 1897. 
 
 H. RIEDHAN, 
 
 Hamburg, Germany. 
 
 Heartily endorsing everything said 
 above. 
 
 June 1, 1897. 
 
 JOS. TANGERNAN, 
 
 Newport- Ky. 
 
 June 1, 1897. 
 
 G. W. MEAD, Jr., 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 June 6, 1897. 
 
 Hr. and Mrs. ERNEST de SASSE= 
 VILLE, 
 
 Denver, Colo. 
 
 June 10, 1897. 
 
 FRANK J. HAHN, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 The kindness of Captain Hance and 
 Mr. Clayton have made our stay a very 
 *pleasant one. 
 
 June 10, 1897. 
 
 EMILIE F. HAHN. 
 
 In testimony of the courtesy and kind- 
 ness of Captain John Hance and Mr. 
 Clayton. 
 
 June if, 1897. 
 
 R. W. DANA. 
 
 Delighted with everything, even the 
 mules. 
 
 June 1 J, 1897. 
 
 CHAS. STANFORD. 
 
 Vastly pleased with the whole trip.
 
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 Jiine 1 j, 1897. 
 
 P. E. KIPP. 
 
 Marvelous are Thy works, and that my 
 soul knoweth right well. 
 
 June 18, 1897. 
 
 WALTER Q. BENTLEY, 
 
 200 Randolph St., 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 While memory holds a seat in this dis- 
 tracted orb shall I forget the impression 
 made by this short acquaintance with the 
 greatest of all natural wonders. It is a 
 great pleasure to be able to vouch for 
 Captain John Hance, as guide and friend, 
 without whom tourists would be deprived 
 of the most impressive part of their visit, 
 a trip down the trail to the river. After 
 a trip down the trail and back yesterday, 
 and a visit to Points Moran and Bissell 
 to-day, under the Hance guidance, would 
 certainly urge every visitor to avail him- 
 self of Mr. Hance's trail, thereby assuring 
 to himself the very best condition for get- 
 ting the most value out of his visit. 
 
 June 23, 1897. 
 
 IRA D. HAVEN, WIFE and DAUGH 
 TER, 
 
 Oakland, Cal. 
 
 Jime 26, 1897. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. JOHN R. VOSKAMP, 
 Pittsburg, Pa. 
 
 June 14 to July 1, 1897. 
 
 AMELIA B. HOLLENBACK, 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 Thank Captain Hance and the canon 
 for the happiest two weeks any one ever 
 s-pent. 
 
 June 14 to July 1, 1897. 
 
 JOSEPHINE W. HOLLENBACK, 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 Our expectations for years have beet* 
 fully and more than happily realized dur- 
 ing the last two weeks. To Captain John 
 Hance we are deeply- indebted for his 
 untiring courtesy and kindness, which 
 have helped to make our visit at the 
 Grand Canon all that it has been to us. 
 
 July 2, 1897. 
 
 THOS. R. LATTA, 
 WM. JACK LATTA, 
 riAMIE LESH LATTA, 
 
 Goshen, Ind. 
 
 July 2, 1897. 
 
 Mrs. MARY E. LESH, 
 
 Goshen, Ind. 
 
 July 2, 1897. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. J. A. TAYLOR, 
 Arrowsmith, III. 
 
 Words are inadequate to express the 
 awful sublimity and grandeur of the 
 Grand Canon. Many thanks to Captain 
 John Hance for his kindness.
 
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 Ju'y 2, 1897. 
 
 H. C. McCLURE AND WIFE, 
 
 Qileson City, III. 
 
 Whilst lie lasts we can never forget 
 the generous kindness and humane hos- 
 pitality of our friend, Captain John Hance. 
 May he have long life in his well-doing. 
 
 July 2, 1897. 
 
 T. C. POLING, 
 
 Quincy, HI. 
 
 Any one who comes to the Grand 
 Canon, and fails to meet Captain John 
 Hance, will miss half the show. I can 
 certify that he can tell the truth, though 
 it is claimed by his friends that he is not 
 exactly like the Rev. Geo. W. in that 
 particular, as he can do the other thing 
 when necessary to make a story sound 
 right. Long live Captain Hance. 
 
 July 7, 1897. ■ 
 
 W. A. HALL, 
 
 Whitewater, Wis. 
 
 For the Lord is a Great God. In His 
 hand are the deep places of the earth.— 
 Psalms, xcv:3, 4. 
 
 July 7, 1897. 
 
 nr. and Hrs. F. A. PATTEE, 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 Had an out-of-sight time. Words fail 
 to express our delight and satisfaction 
 with all we have seen. 
 
 July 7, 1897. 
 
 F. A. PATTEE. 
 
 My Dear Captain: — 
 
 You may build trails into it, up it, and 
 around it; you may ever take a few more 
 of those celebrated horseback -jumps over 
 its crest, but you can never catch up with 
 it. Yours, in the world where they lie 
 still some day. 
 
 July 10, 1S9J. 
 
 LEE DOYLE, 
 CHESTER BLACK, 
 JOHNIE DOYLE, 
 GEORGE BLACK, 
 JIITMIE SMITH, 
 BURT DOYLE, 
 
 All of Flagstaff, Ariz. 
 
 July is, 1897. 
 
 S. G. BAYNE, 
 
 New York. 
 
 July 16, 1S97. 
 
 Dr. B. WALLA, 
 
 Budapest, Hungary. 
 
 July 16, 1897. 
 
 KALHOIN SAXLETHER, 
 
 Budapest, Hungary.
 
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 July 24, 1897. 
 
 WM. J. McCLURE, 
 
 Stapleton, N. Y. 
 
 Traversed the rim of the Grand Canon 
 of the Colorado River July 24, 1897, and 
 descended to the Colorado River, in 
 company with C. E. Shaver and Captain 
 John Hance, the guide, July 25th. We 
 had, therefore, the double pleasure of a 
 downward and upward view of the glo- 
 rious Grand Canon. 
 
 July 24, 1897. 
 
 C. E. SHAVER, 
 
 Phoenix, A. T. 
 
 To the river and back from the hotel 
 in eight hours, in company with Father 
 McClure and Captain John Hance. 
 
 July 29, 1897. 
 
 Mrs. LEAH D. SCANDRETT. 
 
 Spent the 30th on the rim near hotel. 
 August 1st, went to Moran's Point. 
 Viewed from any place on the rim, and 
 especially Moran's Point, the canon is the 
 most sublime and awe-inspiring sight one 
 may ever hope to see on this earth. 
 
 July 29, 1897. 
 
 H. V. SCANDRETT, 
 
 Spearville, Kan. 
 
 There are few subjects too large for a 
 Kansasan to tackle, but to express my- 
 self on this wonderful masterpiece is to 
 me the exception that proves the rule. 
 Am afraid I shall not be able to tell my 
 friends anything about it, without endan- 
 gering my standing for truthfulness. 
 
 August 7, 1897. 
 
 DAVID W. FAHS. 
 
 Great and marvelous are Thy works, 
 O Lord. In wisdom hast Thou made 
 them all. 
 
 August 10, 1897. 
 THOS. Q. FROST AND WIFE, 
 
 Minneapolis. 
 
 August 11, 1897. 
 
 G. W. PURSELL, 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 To-day, in company with Captain John 
 Hance, I discovered and explored the first 
 great prominences beyond Fort Hollen- 
 beck, and named the same " Point Die- 
 waido." 
 
 Atigust 11, 1897. 
 RUBY E. COBB, 
 
 Denver, Colo. 
 
 JAS. S. NIES, 
 
 Brooklyn, N. V. 
 
 Full many a song and dance I 've heard, 
 
 Upon the vaudeville stage, 
 But none can beat the yarns you '11 get 
 
 From Capt. John Hance, I wage. 
 
 The woman fat, between the rocks, 
 
 By giant-powder saved 
 The mare who jumped two thousand feet, 
 
 And other dangers braved.
 
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 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 But to appreciate him best, 
 Just hear him for yourself, 
 
 And let him guide you o'er the trail, 
 And don't you spare yourself. 
 
 August 18, 1897. 
 
 Mrs. ROBERT MURRAY, 
 
 London, Ontario. 
 
 August 19, 1897. 
 
 MAGGIE J. MURRAY, 
 
 London, Ontario. 
 
 August 19, 1897. 
 
 Dr. W. FREUVENTHAL, 
 
 New York City, N. Y. 
 
 August 19, 1897. 
 
 Mrs. D. J. BRANNEN, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 The sublimity of the scene forbids all 
 other thoughts except those of reverence 
 and awe. 
 
 August 27, 1897. 
 
 C. J. BABBITT, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 August 27, 1897. 
 
 PAUL H. VERKAMP, 
 
 Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 August 27, 1897. 
 Mrs. ROBERT C. MORRIS, 
 ROBERT C. MORRIS, 
 
 Both of New York City, N. Y, 
 
 Augtist 27, 1897. 
 
 D. L. E. BRAINARD, 
 
 Captain C. S., U. S. A. 
 
 August 29, 1897. 
 
 Dr. T. F. ALLEN, 
 
 New York City, N. Y. 
 
 August 29, 1897. 
 Hiss EVELYN H. NORDHOFF, 
 New York City, N. Y. 
 
 August 29, 1897. 
 
 Mrs. CHAS. NORDHOFF, 
 
 Coronado Beach, Cal. 
 
 August 29, 1897. 
 
 AARON GOLDBURG, 
 Miss A. GOLDBURG, 
 
 Both of Phoenix, A. T. 
 
 September 14, 1897. 
 
 Mme. ROUNSEVILLE, 
 
 Chicago, HI.
 
 GRAND CANON OF THE COLORADO RIVER. 
 
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 September 14, 1897. 
 
 HARQUERITE SHONTS. 
 
 Pleased with everything, even Captain 
 John Hance. 
 
 September 16, 1897. 
 A. REICLING, 
 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 September 25, 1897. 
 
 E. W. BOYD, 
 
 Pittsburg, Pa. 
 
 Persons visiting the Grand Canon, 
 without taking the trail to the river, have 
 failed to see the beauty of the place. 
 The trail is perfectly safe. I rode from 
 top to bottom. Enjoyed it hugely. As 
 to John Hance, he is very gentlemanly, 
 but a curiosity of the rarest type. 
 
 September 26, 1897. 
 J. F. JACKSON, 
 
 nilwaukee, Wis. 
 
 The canon is all right. 
 
 September 29, 1897 . 
 
 J. D. CROISSANT, 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 I cheerfully record my name in this 
 book as among those who fully appre- 
 ciate the grandeur of this great canon. 
 I have stood upon the brink, and looked 
 down into the mouth of seething Vesu- 
 vius; have looked down upon Switzer- 
 
 land's charming lakes from Regi; have 
 climbed to the top of Mt. Washington and 
 Pike's Peak, and have just come from a 
 week's stay in charming Yosemite, and I 
 freely record my opinion that there is 
 nothing on earth that will ever compete 
 with this Grand Canon. Captain John 
 Hance, our faithful guide, is quite as 
 unique in his way as the canon itself. 
 
 September 29, 1897. 
 
 DEWITT CLINTON CROISSANT, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 Everything surpasses what it has been 
 cracked up to be; only be sure when 
 ordering a lunch to have them put in an 
 extra sandwich. Captain Hance, with all 
 his lies, is a most trustworthy individual. 
 
 September 29, 1897. 
 DAVID FORBES, 
 
 New York City, N. Y. 
 
 Glorious, laborious. Glad I went. 
 Thankful it's over. Special thanks to 
 Captain Hance. Splendid guide, in spite 
 of his economy of the truth. 
 
 September 29, 1897. 
 
 GUY L. FRAZER, 
 
 Highlands, Cal. 
 
 September 29, 1897. 
 
 J. A. HOLMES, 
 
 U. S. Geological Survey. 
 
 Chapel Hill, N. C.
 
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 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 October 6, 1897. 
 H. CARPENTER, 
 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 October 12, 1897. 
 ANNIE J. QARLIDE. 
 
 Oh my! Oh my! Oh my! The half 
 was never told. Good luck to Captain 
 Hance and all the good people at the 
 Grand Canon Hotel. 
 
 October 16, 189/. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. J. L. MOSS. 
 
 John Hance is half and the Grand 
 Canon is the other half. 
 
 ANNA M. FLEMING, 
 F. S. HAFFORD, 
 ITARY L. WHITE, 
 riARY ncGILL, 
 STANLY WINDES, 
 C. RUTH OPDYKE, 
 
 Prescott, A. T. 
 
 She strode along with a manly stroke, 
 Till the puckering string of her bloom- 
 ers broke. 
 
 October 23, 1897. 
 
 MABEL A. GARLAND, 
 
 Pomona, Cal. 
 
 October 24, 1897. 
 
 A. JUDSON BALL, 
 MARY H. BALL, 
 
 Mt. Vernon, Ohio. 
 
 The half never has been nor never 
 can be told. 
 
 THE CANON. 
 
 Born in an earthquake's shock, 
 And carved by the roaring flood, 
 
 Ye mighty piles of rock, 
 Great handiwork of God. 
 
 November 4, 1897. 
 
 F. n. LIVERMORE, 
 Mrs. F. M. LIVERMORE, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 November 4, 1897. 
 
 D. M. FRANCIS, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 November 4, 1897. 
 
 Miss S. L. PHILLIPS, 
 
 Denver, Colo. 
 
 Close of season 1897. 
 
 April 25, 1898. 
 
 J. J. LONERGAN, 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal.
 
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 April 25, 1898. 
 
 JOHN MARSHALL, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 April 25, 1898. 
 
 J. M. SIMPSON, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 Crossed the river below rapids, at foot 
 of Hance's trail, April 27th. Very rough, 
 and high water; 26th, down trail; 27th, 
 across river; 28th, up; 29th, Cameron & 
 Berry mine; 30th, at hotel; May 1st, re- 
 turned home. 
 
 April 26, i8g8. 
 
 DENNY BRERETON. 
 
 I went to the river with Captain John 
 Hance last Saturday, and I think it 
 enables one to much better appreciate 
 the magnitude and wonders of this great 
 canon. 
 
 May 2, 18Q8. 
 
 C. H. VEEDER, 
 
 Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Snow twelve inches deep. 
 
 May 3, 1898. 
 
 EDWIN O. STANARD, Jr. 
 
 Went around the rim in a snow-storm. 
 May 4th, started down to the river. Snow 
 and rain all day. Roughest passage Cap- 
 
 tain Hance ever made (so he says). 
 Weather cleared several times during 
 the day. Trip greatly enjoyed. Would 
 do it again in similar weather, if neces- 
 sary. Better in a snow-storm than not at 
 all. Time to river, two hours and thirty 
 minutes; back, three hours and thirty 
 minutes. 
 
 May 5, 1898. 
 
 H. Q. REIST, 
 
 Schenectady, New York. 
 
 May J, 1898. 
 
 CAROLINE CARPENTER, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 To take a ride with Capt. Hance, 
 On his dead-level trail, 
 
 Is sure to fill one's soul with joy, 
 Whatever else may fail. 
 
 May 10, 1898. 
 
 E. S. HEERS, 
 
 White Hall, Mich. 
 
 Self and daughter descended to the 
 river this day on foot, except that my 
 daughter rode up. Captain Hance was 
 very kind and attentive. 
 
 May 10, 1898. 
 
 L. A. HEINER, 
 
 Redwood City, Cal. 
 
 The Grand Canon, Nature's crowning 
 work.
 
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 May 19, 1898. 
 W. R. WEAVER, 
 
 Bradford, Pa. 
 
 May 19, 1898. 
 
 Mrs. L. E. HAHSHEAR, 
 Mr. L. E. HAMSHEAR, 
 
 Bradford, Pa. 
 
 May 19, 1898. 
 
 C. P. COLLINS, 
 BURT COLLINS, 
 
 Bradford, Pa. 
 
 May 19, 1898. 
 
 WALDA HARDISON, 
 
 Bradford, Pa. 
 
 May 19, 1898. 
 J. R. LEONARD, 
 
 Beaver, Pa. 
 
 May 19, 1898. 
 
 GEO. W. CRAWFORD, 
 
 Emiinton, Pa. 
 
 May 19, 1898. 
 
 HARRY HEASLEY, 
 
 Emiinton, Pa. 
 
 May jo, 1898. 
 
 firs. GEO. P. BOWLER. 
 
 May jo, 1898. 
 Miss A. HUNT. 
 
 May jo, 1898. 
 
 DAVID WILLCOSC. 
 
 May jo, 1898. 
 
 VICTOR HORAHETZ. 
 
 June 2, 1898. 
 JAS. M. HIXON, 
 
 Lacrosse, Wis. 
 
 June 4, 1898. 
 
 MAURICE LONGENECKER, 
 
 Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 June 4, 1898. 
 
 E. R. WEBSTER, 
 
 Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 Junes, 1898. 
 
 E. BURTON HOLMES, 
 
 Chicago, 111.
 
 WATERFALL, GRAND CANON.
 
 GRAND CANON OF THE COLORADO RIVKR. 
 
 117 
 
 June 5, 1898. 
 
 OSCAR B. DEPUE, 
 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 June 7, 1898. 
 
 J1ARY V. WORSTELL, 
 
 New York City, N. Y. 
 
 Drummond, to the contrary, the great- 
 est thing in the world is the Grand Canon 
 of the Colorado. 
 
 June 12, 1898. 
 
 JAMES N. SUYDAfl, 
 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 June 22, 1898. 
 
 Mrs. JAMES QAYLER, 
 
 Ridgewood, N. J. 
 
 June 24., 1898. 
 
 C. P. WILSON, 
 Pastor M. E. Church, Flagstaff. 
 
 June 24, 1898. 
 
 Mrs. W. S. ROBINSON, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 June 24., 1898. 
 
 ANNETTE P. WARD, 
 
 Columbus, Ohio. 
 
 July 5, 18 9 8. 
 
 C. D. STEWART. 
 
 Four of us left hotel at 5:30 a.m., and 
 
 went to the river and back on foot. We 
 were five hours descending. Coming 
 back, two of us got up before dark; one 
 was brought up on a horse at 9:30, and 
 one stayed all night in the cafion. The 
 moral of this is that one must be a moun- 
 taineer in experience and in perfect form 
 for tramping, if he will walk down to the 
 river and back the same day. The heat 
 is intense and overpowering on the lower 
 levels, because the rocks are bare of 
 foliage, and when they become heated 
 by the sun the trail is like a baker's oven. 
 By all means go to the river. The ex- 
 perience alone is worth the trip; but take 
 a horse, or mule even, if you do not take 
 a guide. The trail is as good a mountain 
 trail as is often found, and the Captain's 
 stock are well-selected animals, and are 
 good ones, as one of the four mentioned 
 above. 
 
 Julys, i$9 8 - 
 
 SHURLEY C. WALKER, 
 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 I enjoyed the experience immensely, 
 more on account of its success as a 
 pedestrian trip than because I reached 
 the river. Result, fifteen hours' work, 
 one gallon water, gain in muscle, loss in 
 flesh, plenty of experience. Hoping to 
 be indorsed by all the other three com- 
 panions, I remain, Yours. 
 
 July 6, 189S. 
 
 EDWARD N. BUTT. 
 
 I have had much experience in moun- 
 tain-climbing, and German professors also 
 do much good work in that way, but I 
 shall never forget the forlorn appearance
 
 nS 
 
 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 of Herr Dr. , Professor of Geography, 
 
 who, when our party were descending to 
 the river to-day, we discovered lying on 
 the ground, in the shade of a tree, at 9 
 a.m., about an hour down from the rim. 
 He had then been two hours in the great 
 gulf of the Grand Canon; was utterly ex- 
 hausted, and had been without food or 
 water for many long, weary hours. Moral. 
 Do not attempt to descend or ascend the 
 Grand Canon on foot, but take one of 
 Captain Hance's mules. 
 
 July 5, 1898. 
 
 ROBERT L. STEPHENSON, 
 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 Our pleasures here have been enhanced 
 by chivalrous, daring, entertaining, and 
 ever-obliging Captain Hance. Hence, 
 it gives us pleasure second only to that of 
 viewing the canon, to attest to his faithful, 
 careful, and vigilant guidance at all times 
 and to all places. 
 
 MARY ASCHERER, 
 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 ELIZABETH F. BARTLETT, 
 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 J. SELBY HANNA, 
 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 GEO. M. SMITH, 
 
 Anheuser Wells, Ariz. 
 
 EDWARD BUTT, 
 
 London, England. 
 
 SARAH C. SCOFIELD, 
 
 San Antonia, Texas. 
 
 EMEUAL D. CALLAGHAN, 
 W. F. CALLAGHAN, 
 
 England. 
 
 July 75, 1898. 
 C. P. HICKS. 
 
 July 15, 1898. 
 
 J. L. SIMMONS, 
 
 Prescott, A. T. 
 
 July jo, 1808. 
 
 EVA ESTELLA MARTIN. 
 
 Our party took in what is called the 
 "rim view" yesterday. No words can 
 in any way describe it. There are hun- 
 dreds and hundreds of canons and great 
 ducal palaces put into one great, vast 
 canon. After all is said the trip is made 
 very much pleasanter by the companion- 
 ship of Captain Hance. Some one really 
 ought to write a book all about the 
 Captain. 
 
 July jo, 1808. 
 
 EMMA and GEO. F. HARRING- 
 TON, 
 
 Crown King, Ariz. 
 
 Had the author of the creation viewed
 
 GRAND CANON OF THE COLORADO RIVER. 
 
 119 
 
 this majestic scene what wonderful sym- 
 phonies would have been composed by 
 this Master of Choral Composition. The 
 marvelous work, behold, amazed, comes 
 to one's mind constantly while viewing 
 the Grand Canon. I shall not attempt to 
 describe the sight, but shall urge my 
 friends to go and see for themselves, and 
 the guidance and companionship of Cap- 
 tain Hance is invaluable. No visitor of 
 the Grand Canon can afford to make the 
 mistake of failing to appreciate his rugged 
 humor and great kindness of heart. 
 
 July jo, i8 9 8. 
 
 BELL MARTIN, 
 
 Webster, 
 Westmoreland Co., Pa. 
 
 We stood and gazed on the Grand 
 Canon with feelings of reverence and 
 awe, and involuntarily exclaimed, "How 
 marvelous are Thy works, Oh Lord ! 
 In wisdom hast Thou made them all." 
 Our trip around the rim, under the careful 
 guidance of Captain John Hance, was most 
 delightful, but words fail when one attempts 
 to describe it. 
 
 July jo, 1898. 
 
 FLORA DUNCAN, 
 
 Mt. Pleasant, Penn. 
 
 Alex and Kitty are the ones. Get Alex 
 for the trip around the rim, Kitty for the 
 trip down in the canon. The Captain is 
 an excellent guide. The going down in 
 the canon is easy. I don't think the same 
 about coming out. 
 
 July JO, 1898. 
 
 EDNA FAY MARTIN, 
 
 Prescott, A. T. 
 
 The Captain calls me the "Prescott 
 Kid." 
 
 July jo, 1898. 
 
 GEO. M. SMITH, 
 
 Kas. City, Mo. 
 
 After seventy days' search, I fail to find 
 words with which to express my thoughts 
 of the Grand Canon, — of its immensity, 
 its grandeur, and beauty. I cannot believe 
 that man can describe it. Many thanks to 
 the famous Captain John Grand Canon 
 Hance, for his many kindnesses during 
 my stay. 
 
 July jo, 1898. 
 
 E. T. HUTCH1NS, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 Our Captain deserves great credit in 
 being able to build such a wonderful trail. 
 
 August 10, 1S9S. 
 
 M. P. FREEHAN, 
 
 Tucson, Ariz. 
 
 Captain John Hance, old man, you are 
 a "brick" in every sense of the word. 
 Your company has added much to the 
 pleasure of my stay. I shall not forget 
 you.
 
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 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 n. C. HAST AND WIFE. 
 
 We made the trip down the canon in 
 fine shape, due to our good guide and 
 companion, Captain John Hance. Long 
 may he live. 
 
 Augtist 12, 1898. 
 
 E. BURTON HOLHES, 
 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 August 12, 1898. 
 
 ARTHUR STUDD, 
 
 London, England, 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 August 12, i8p8. 
 
 R. N. RIPLEY, 
 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 August 12, 1898. 
 
 ORCAR B. DEPUE, 
 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 Aug2iSt 12, I89S. 
 
 Mrs. J. M. HENDERSON, 
 Miss J. F. HENDERSON, 
 CHAS. A. HENDERSON, 
 H. H. HENDERSON, 
 F. B. HENDERSON, 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 August 12, 189S. 
 EflMA KERR, 
 
 Watsonville, Cal. 
 
 August 16, 1898. 
 
 RICHARD E. SLOAN, 
 Mrs. R. SLOAN, 
 Mrs. R. S. STOCKTON, 
 RICHARD S. STOCKTON, 
 ELEANOR SLOAN, 
 RICHARD SLOAN, Jr., 
 
 All of Prescott, Ariz. 
 
 August 16, 1898. 
 
 Miss BELLA CASSIN, 
 
 Watsonville, Cal. 
 
 August 16, 1898. 
 
 C. H. CALKVEN, 
 
 Amsterdam, Holland. 
 
 August 2 j, 1898. 
 
 FRANCES O. FISHER, 
 
 Prescott, Ariz. 
 
 August 2 j, 1898. 
 
 Miss BLANCH FERRINGTON, 
 
 Phoenix, A. T.
 
 c;kand canon of the Colorado river. 
 
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 August 23, 1898. 
 
 Mrs. J. W. FRANCIS, 
 LeNORE FRANCIS, 
 FRANK BEAL, 
 ALLEN DAVISON, 
 
 All of Flagstaff, A. T. 
 
 THEO. L. SCHULTZ, 
 firs. THEO. L. SCHULTZ, 
 
 Tempe, A. T. 
 
 August 23, 1898. 
 
 Miss FANNIE HICKETHIER, 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 August 24, 1898. 
 
 Mrs. JOHN Y. T. SMITH, 
 
 Phoenix, A. T. 
 
 Augtist 24, 1898. 
 
 Mrs. T. L. SHULTZ, 
 
 Tempe, Ariz. 
 
 August 23, _r8p8. 
 
 Miss AONES B. TODD, 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 August 26, 1898. 
 
 CHESTER P. DORLAND, 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 Captain John Hance, — a genius, a phi- 
 losopher, and a poet, the possessor of a 
 
 fund of information vastly important,— if 
 true. He laughs with the giddy, yarns to 
 the gullible, talks sense to the sedate, and 
 is a most excellent judge of scenery, human 
 nature, and pie. To see the canon only, 
 and not to see Captain John Hance, is to 
 miss half the show. 
 
 August 27, i8p8. 
 
 P. MINOR AND WIFE, 
 
 Phoenix, A. T. 
 
 August 2/, i8q8. 
 
 E. T. STIMSON AND WIFE, 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal. 
 
 September J ', 1898. 
 
 KATE L. BASSETT, 
 
 Phoenix, A. T. 
 
 September 5, 1898. 
 
 Mrs. R. B. BURNS, 
 
 Williams, A. T. 
 
 September 5, 1898. 
 
 SAn R. BETTS, 
 
 New York City. 
 
 September 5, 1S98. 
 
 Q. W. PHELCO, 
 
 Tucson, A. T.
 
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 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE 
 
 September 5, 1S98. 
 FRED WETZLER. 
 
 September 5, 1898. 
 
 JENNIE EDETH GRAY, 
 
 Lyndon, Vermont. 
 
 Five days long to be remembered. 
 
 September 7, i8g8. 
 
 J. K. HARE, 
 
 New York City, N. Y. 
 
 Captain Hance's birthday, forty-eight 
 years old. May his years to come be as 
 many as the tales he tells; but this, we 
 are afraid, would prolong his life far into 
 the millennium. 
 
 September 7 , 1898. 
 
 J. F. FLAGG, 
 Miss FLAGG. 
 
 September, 7, i8g8. 
 
 R. B. WILLIAMSON, 
 
 Los Angeles, Cat. 
 
 September 12, 1898. 
 
 ARTHUR R. REYNOLDS, 
 
 Chicago, III. 
 
 I believe all the Captain's stories to be 
 true, and if any one in the future should 
 doubt, send him to me that I may do bat- 
 tle with him. To Captain John Hance, 
 Grand Canon of the Colorado. 
 
 September 13, 1898. 
 
 JAMES SMITH, 
 
 Flagstaff, Arizona. 
 
 It is unfortunate that the words grand, 
 sublime, and awful have been so over- 
 worked. These words, which otherwise 
 might have been useful in expressing 
 one's thoughts of the Grand CaSon, John 
 Hance, etc., have so lost their meaning 
 that English fails to express my thoughts. 
 All that I can do is to say that this, the 
 Grand Canon of the Colorado River, is 
 the grandest sight on earth. 
 
 September 15, 1S98. 
 
 C. F. GUNTHER, 
 
 Chicago, III. 
 
 September 19, 1898. 
 EDMUND J. BART. 
 
 It 's a ditch of all the ditches. That 's all. 
 
 September 19, 1898. 
 
 EDMOND CARLETON, 
 
 New York City, N. Y. 
 
 With sincere admiration for Captain 
 John Hance, the faithful custodian of the 
 greatest natural curiosity and most sublime 
 formation in the world. 
 
 September 19, 1898. 
 
 nrs. NORiTAN W. CUTTER, 
 
 San Jose, Cal.
 
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 WM. BRIDHAM. 
 
 See the Grand Canon, and know Cap- 
 tain Hance, you will never forget them, 
 sure thing. 
 
 September 21, 1898. 
 
 Mr. and Mr. C. n. BERQSTRES- 
 SER, 
 
 New York City, N. Y. 
 
 This is Mr. John Hance's book, and no 
 record of a trip through the canon without 
 reference to Mr. Hance, his company as a 
 guide, is good, to say the least. His 
 knowledge of the canon is extensive, and 
 his trail has passed into history as one of 
 the most famous in the canon. His genial 
 nature, and his anecdotes and Indian tales, 
 add much to the pleasure of doing the 
 canon. 
 
 September 21 , 1898. 
 
 CHAS. H. TOWNSEND. 
 
 U. S. Fish Commissioner. 
 
 To Captain John Hance, of the Grand 
 Canon: Good-by; and may it be many a 
 year before you take the trail to the camp 
 from which no one comes back. 
 
 September 23, 1898. 
 
 JNO. J. VALENTINE. 
 
 My Dear Captain Hance: Hoping that 
 the dear Lord may be good to you, and 
 not call for you too soon. 
 
 September 23, 1898. 
 
 Miss M. J. VALENTINE. 
 
 Many good wishes for a long and pros- 
 perous life is my wish for you, Captain. 
 
 September 23, 1898. 
 
 MARY E. PRIDHAH. 
 
 Captain Hance, I hope to hear of your 
 finding that fish-hook. 
 
 September 23, 1898. 
 
 ETHEL VALENTINE. 
 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 Many appreciations to Captain John 
 Hance for adding greatly to the pleasure 
 of my trip to the Grand Cation. A comedy 
 without the comedian is not fully enjoyed; 
 the canon, without Captain Hance, is not 
 complete. 
 
 Septe?nber 23, 1898. 
 
 WM. H. ZINN. 
 
 The thing I most admire about Captain 
 John Hance is his conscientious truthful- 
 ness. I have perfect faith in all of the 
 Tories he has told me. 
 
 September 26, 1898. 
 
 EDWIN A. BECK. 
 
 Shall hope some day to return and ride 
 Cape Horn with you, and take one more 
 ride to the river.
 
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 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE GRAND CANON. 
 
 September 26, i8g8. 
 EARL C. ANTHONY. 
 
 Hope to return again and take some 
 more photographs, with Captain Hance's 
 able assistance. 
 
 September 26, 1898. 
 
 CHAS. E. ANTHONY. 
 
 My trip with you has been glorious, and 
 my only regret is that I did not take the 
 trip to the river with you. Hope to come 
 again some time, Captain, simply for that 
 ride. 
 
 October 1, i8g8. 
 
 R. and E. E. F. SKEEL. 
 
 Farewell to the gorge, 
 And to Captain John Hance, 
 Whose mendacious inventions outdo all 
 
 romance. 
 With his fibs he can charm, with his yarns 
 
 he enchants; 
 And as if these great gifts to still further 
 
 enhance, 
 With a bolster he is going to learn how to 
 
 dance. 
 Oh may we return, by some rare, happy 
 
 chance, 
 To this spot, and he welcomed by Captain 
 
 John Hance. 
 
 October 6, i8p8. 
 
 LOTTIE SHERWOOD, 
 riAUD SHERWOOD, 
 
 Winslow, A. T. 
 
 FRANK C. REID. 
 
 The Grand Canon is an expression of 
 God's mightiest thought, and is not trans- 
 ferable into terms of human speech, — one 
 of the things " not possible to be uttered." 
 
 ANNETTE P. WARD. 
 
 Since seeing that great wonder, the 
 Grand Canon, I never hear a bit of beau- 
 tiful, soul-stirring music but that the canon 
 rises before my inner vision. Listening to 
 the exquisite strains of harmony, 1 gaze 
 into that indescribable beauty of coloring 
 which enwraps those awful, weird, mys- 
 terious depths, and like a soft accom- 
 paniment to the music, I hear the sighing 
 of the pines; and the harmony of the 
 music and the harmony of the enchanting 
 beauties of the scene are blended into one 
 perfect whole,— a veritable feast for the 
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 What wrought this wonder? 
 Unique, stupendous, weird and grand! 
 How came it here — at whose command? 
 Not Jove with all his bolts of thunder 
 Could blast and tear these rocks asunder, 
 And leave them where they stand. 
 
 What monster dart, 
 
 Or blade, did angry demons wield 
 
 To smite earth's breast, is not revealed; — 
 
 Nor why they tore the wound apart; — 
 
 As if to find her bleeding heart — 
 
 So that it never healed. 
 
 The thought dismiss. 
 The fiercest blast — the rudest shock 
 From Pluto's fiery realm, but mock 
 The mighty power which fashioned this 
 Yawning gulf, — this vast abyss: — 
 These battlements of rock! 
 
 Perchance we may 
 Let sage and hoary Neptune tell 
 How, by their own erodic spell, 
 The ocean currents wore away 
 These rocks, in some far distant day, 
 And carved these forms so well. 
 
 We stand aghast 
 
 Upon this brink! nor hear the flow, 
 By which this desert stream, we know, 
 Still fights its way — as in the past — 
 Six thousand feet below. 
 
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 PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE GRAND CANON. 
 
 Here silence reigns, 
 
 And here, where science too is mute, 
 
 We leave to fools the vain dispute. 
 
 We call! — no voice an answer deigns: — 
 
 These awful depths but mock our pains:- 
 
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 Perhaps the destined single attraction of the Grand Canon is the 
 new Stalactite Caves, lately discovered about 3,000 feet below the 
 rim. The formations within the caves are something wonderful. 
 Passing in through an aperture some eight feet in diameter, a large 
 avenue of limestone leads you on until you are suddenly surprised 
 to find yourself standing in a large rotunda with a great high 
 ceiling, suspended from which are long stalactite formations, some 
 so long in fact that they almost reach the stalagmite formations 
 protruding from the floor beneath. 
 
 Winding in and out, up and down, through long cavernous 
 recesses, now through a tunnel leading to greater and longer 
 tunnels, which in turn act as a vestry, making an entrance to other 
 large domes, which, having avenues after avenues leading out to 
 other domes, halls, recesses, avenues, etc., until the feet becoming 
 weary we, candles in hand, sit down upon some snowy formation 
 beneath, and while the candles flicker, as if offering a faint murmur 
 against the impenetrable darkness, which feign would obscure our 
 vision with its itensity, the awful stillness seems to bear down upon 
 all mental activity and bid it relegate all thought to the rear. 
 
 But as if in defiance of that awful foreboding which seems to 
 come when the fall of a footstep, the breaking away of a formation, 
 or the sound of a voice finds the sequel in the echo and re-echoing 
 of each cavern, dome, avenue, and pit in that great subterranean 
 cavern where King Phantom may reign supreme with a retinue of 
 fairies, imps, and hobgoblins to go at his bidding, — in defiance of 
 this our mind unconsciously lingers on the uniqueness of the 
 situation. 
 
 Our lights having been extinguished, we await the awful still- 
 ness which a place thus isolated alone can give, — so intense in fact 
 
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 that the darkness of a Plutonian Shore becomes a veritable light- 
 house. 
 
 Our heart-beats becoming audible, and the darkness becoming 
 depressing with its intensity, it is with great relief that we again 
 relight our candles, doubling the number. 
 
 Looking directly in front some twenty feet, we see towering 
 upward a great massive artificial edifice made by the constant 
 dripping of ages. Bearing as it did such a strong resemblance to 
 another great historic edifice we (as our eyes were first to see this 
 the Second Cave discovered) called it the " Hanging Garden of 
 Babylon." 
 
 The fantastic forms, the enormous dimensions, the variegated 
 coloring, from a pure white to a rich creamy hue, the graduated 
 blending of one form, texture, color into another quite different, 
 but none the less beautiful, the soft, velvety-cushioned floor, the 
 disintegrated dust of the ages, the musical tones varying in pitch 
 given off by the stalactite formations as they varied in length, — all 
 these tend to make this — Babylon's Cave — atypical cave, more 
 beautiful than the Mammoth, but whose extent is as yet unknown.
 
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 Fitz-Mac Has Been Viewing the Wonders of the Grand Canon of the 
 Colorado, and Tells What lie Saw and What Was Too Big for 
 Him to Fully See. 
 
 [From the Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colo.] 
 
 Shrive yourself, O gabbling and exclamatory seeker of wonders! 
 Shrive yourselves, O wearied and wearisome trotters of the round 
 and whirling globe! If hither you are coming to bathe your fretted 
 spirits in the red and yellow silences of this abysmal scene, shrive 
 yourselves ere you approach, of all your little vain conceits, of all 
 your petty, gabbling rhetorical formulas of exclamatory ecstasy. 
 They have served you well enough, no doubt, to voice the whole 
 gamut of your delight, surprise, and amazement in the presence of 
 such noble and pleasing wonders as Niagara, Yosemite, Yellow- 
 stone, or even the Alps, but such safe and well-authorized exclama- 
 tions as "Magnificent!" "Grand!" "Sublime!" have only a 
 remote and altogether inadequate relation to the emotions that will 
 be stirred within you by the appalling grandeurs of this stupendous 
 chasm. They do very well for Niagara, or Yosemite, or the Alps, 
 where the emotions you experience though unusual are not unique. 
 But here they do not fit. They do not half go round the girth of 
 your amazement. They are altogether inadequate, and to utter 
 them would be like offering the jacket of a schoolboy to clothe the 
 shoulders of a giant. And if you do utter them, they will sound, 
 even to your own ears, petty and almost meaningless — unless, 
 indeed, you be one of those inexorable egotists whose sturdy self- 
 complacency no emotion can subordinate, in which case, of course, 
 anything you could say would seem to yourself to dignify the occa- 
 sion and the scene. 
 
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 But if you be only the amiable, chattering, inquisitive, common- 
 place globe-trotter and searcher-out of wonders, shrive yourself, 1 
 say, of all your little, shallow affectations of delight; of all those 
 petty formulas of rhetorical ecstasy which elsewhere very well 
 conceal the hungry poverty of your feelings, for they would not 
 serve you in this tragic and stupendous presence, but only shame 
 you by their inadequacy. 
 
 Pause as you approach, and remove the sandals from your feet, 
 as one who hath sinned goeth up unto the holy places of the Lord 
 seeking absolution. For thou hast sinned, O gushing and exclam- 
 atory globe-trotter! thou hast sinned against the majesty and the 
 power of Nature by rashly exclaiming in the presence of great 
 Niagara, " Ne plus ultra! this is greatest!" — or in the sublime 
 shades of deep Yosemite by crying out, " There is nothing else 
 so grand ! " — or perchance, gazing entranced upon the sky-piercing 
 majesty of the Alps thou hast said conclusively: " This is greater 
 than all besides ! here Nature hath done her uttermost ! " 
 
 But your rash conclusiveness has betrayed you, O shallow 
 chatterer, into denying the power of Nature to surprise, to astonish, 
 to amaze, to thrill, to overawe, to subdue and reduce, to silence 
 your puerile, self-deceiving, exclamatory egotism by the tragic 
 anguish of devastation immeasurable and the bewildering mystery 
 of splendors unique, resistless, and overwhelming here presented. 
 Here you might lose a hundred Yosemites and never be able to find 
 them again. Here a dozen Niagaras would form but details in the 
 stupendous scene. You might scatter the whole mass of the Alps 
 through the 700 miles of this abysmal chasm without filling it up. 
 
 It behooves you to come humbly and with bared feet into the 
 presence of a wonder that dwarfs all other wonders of the world — 
 for it is here and not elsewhere that Nature hath done her uttermost; 
 here a world's sublimest tragedy was enacted — is still enacting 
 with all scenes set; the tableau vivant of an immortal anguish, a 
 glorified despair; pride and strength laid low and beauty bleeding; 
 the triumph of chaos and devastation; a petrified woe, yet not
 
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 ghastly and forbidding, strange to say, but fascinating, for this 
 imperial tragedy of Nature is not set amidst ignoble and plebeian 
 scenes, but is draped and curtained with every charm of color, with 
 all the massive and imposing dignity of Pompeiian reds and 
 yellows, with all the imperial magnificence of the Tyrian purple; 
 with all the gorgeous splendors of orange hues and violet that go 
 with a tropical sunset; with all the pensive beguilement of tender 
 amber-greenish lights that belong to the creeping break of dawn — 
 and all these, the massive, the gorgeous, the magnificent, the sen- 
 suous, the brilliant, the mellow, the tender, swept and swirled by 
 great Nature's unerring brush into a ravishing, harmonious, chro- 
 matic maze that bursts upon the view with an effect as if the skies 
 had opened and all the choirs of heaven had broken into a grand 
 and joyful overture, an allegro through which runs a penetrating 
 minor chord of tragic sadness. 
 
 And it is so, somewhat, if you have the impressional delicacy 
 to feel it. Otherwise of course it is not so at all to you. For it is 
 true — or else the sympathy of one sense with another beguiles the 
 reason — that the colors in this ravishing chromatic maze are 
 endued with the magic of melody and odor. 
 
 But this is something incommunicable. It is probably not a 
 thing to be insisted upon as a fact. Either you feel it or it is not 
 so — for you. 
 
 I met a beautiful girl from Chicago out on " the rim " — locally 
 here they call the verge of the chasm the rim — the other morning 
 before sunrise, who was profoundly affected by it. She was a lovely 
 and sensitive creature, just graduated from a fashionable boarding- 
 school, and she was eating caramels and sobbing like a lost child. 
 
 Anybody not quite as stolid and unimpressionable as the ox is 
 pretty sure to have a sobbing spell here, especially if one gets off 
 alone and yields himself up to the stupendous impressions of the 
 scene, the sensation is so unique, so penetrating, so irresistible. It 
 is really something of a pain — a sweet discomfort, a miserable 
 bliss — like being in love, sadly and tearfully in love, with a girl
 
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 who is going to marry another fellow — like but not the same. 
 The inexorable most always affects us somewhat like that, and the 
 unique beauty of this scene is of the inexorable sort. You may 
 enjoy it, but you cannot possess it. You can add nothing to it by 
 praise, take nothing from it by detraction. It is not the matchless 
 immensity of it, I think, that overcomes you, but that your senses 
 cannot quite encompass and analyze its unique and elusive quality. 
 At first it is more or less appalling, I think, to everybody — but 
 only just at first, as an elephant would be to a little child. Pres- 
 ently, like the child with the elephant, finding it docs not crush 
 you, you desire to become familiar with it, to patronize it, to make 
 it feel that your intentions are entirely friendly. And then the 
 elephantine impassiveness of the thing begins to irritate you, and 
 yet to fascinate. Next you know you are in love with it. You 
 want to remain forever; you want to leave at once; you don't 
 know what you want. 
 
 It is thus love always begins, thus always proceeds — at least as 
 far as I know anything about it. If you could only quarrel with 
 this stupendous thing, and fling back at its feet all the beautiful 
 things it has given you, then burst into tears and kiss and make up, 
 it would be perfect. But you can't do it, you know. This great 
 thing that frightens you by its appalling immensity, that enthralls 
 you by the magic of its matchless beauty, that bewilders and mysti- 
 fies your senses by the vague, odoriferous minor tones of its melo- 
 dious purples, and by the vast, echoless silences of its Pompeiian 
 reds and yellows, is inexorable to your puny emotions. That is 
 what irritates you, what makes you sob unconsciously as you gaze 
 off into the illimitable chromatic maze. 
 
 Hither, to this point, long ago came Thomas Moran, the 
 painter, and painted for the people of the United States that great 
 scene which hangs in the capitol, and which, no doubt, has damaged 
 his reputation with many people who regard it as a hysterical exag- 
 geration, a sort of beautiful chromatic nightmare. 
 
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 when they see the grand chasm for themselves, and learn what 
 broad concessions he made to the public incredulity regarding the 
 scene. 
 
 But for a truth the finest effects here are incommunicable by 
 brush or pen. They give themselves up only to the personal pres- 
 ence, and no painter nor writer can do more than suggest what 
 they are by presenting something which they are a little like. You 
 cannot paint a silence, nor a sound, nor an odor, nor an emotion, 
 nor a sob. If you are skillful, you may suggest them to the imag- 
 ination by some symbol understood, and Moran's fine picture does 
 this admirably. It gives one sublime glimpse of those abysmal 
 depths, one irresistible suggestion of those vast and sublime sil- 
 ences, one momentary flash of that marvelous scheme of color 
 suggesting melody and fragrance — but only suggesting. Yet that 
 is all which human skill can do with brush or pen. There are not 
 colors for the brush, there are not symbols for the pen to convey 
 the full impression of the immensity of the scene, its innumerable 
 and measureless grandeurs. The scene in its stupendous ensemble 
 is too vast for art. It is indeed almost too much for human nature. 
 You cannot behold it for the first time without a gasp, however 
 blase your spirits may have become by globe-trotting, because the 
 spectacle is unique, and the impression is therefore unique too. 
 
 There is a sublime pathos in it all which no art I think can 
 touch — or scarcely touch, for on reflection, I am not sure but 
 Moran's noble picture does vaguely suggest it. It is this that 
 presses the unconscious sob from your breast, that draws the pen- 
 sive tears to your eyes, you know not why, as you gaze — that is, if 
 you happen to be gazing alone. It is as if you dreamed that God 
 had died, and this deep chasm were the gorgeous and sublime sep- 
 ulchre in which He was to be laid — but of course if you are a 
 natural insensate or a busy, gabbling, inquisitive, wearisome won- 
 der-seeker, shallow of heart and shallow of head, you will be 
 troubled by none of that vague, unique anguish about the death of 
 God, or that equally vague and equally unique joy about the dis-
 
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 covery of melody and fragrance in those massive and gorgeous 
 colors that give enchantment to the scene. You are altogether too 
 practical and conclusive a being to think of getting any spiritual 
 growth from the innumerable and incommunicable sublimities of 
 this place. All that you want is facts — facts and statistics of 
 measurement to write down in that detestable note-book you are 
 carrying around in your hand. You have no time for vague and 
 nebulous impressions about fragrant and melodious colors swathing 
 the sepulchre of God. You are not rendered blissfully miserable 
 by the strange emotions which the splendors and the immensity of 
 the spectacle arouse within you. You don't want any vague, 
 nebulous, incommunicable, soul-broadening sentimentality in yours 
 — not if you know yourself. What you want is something to 
 gabble about after you leave — measurements, facts, and figures. 
 
 Do I know how many thousand feet it is down to the bottom of 
 the chasm where we catch, here and there, a glimpse of a little 
 ribbon of water ? Do I think it is really nearly 7,000 feet in the 
 perpendicular and about three miles in the slant — five by the trail ? 
 Is the trail safe ? Is it dangerous ? Does it really take two days to 
 go down and back ? Can it be possible ? Do I think that it is really 
 and truly thirteen miles across to the opposite rim of the chasm ? 
 Why it looks as if one might call to a person over there. Can it be 
 possible that this chasm is 700 miles long ? Do I believe it ? Is n't it 
 incredible that we can be standing here on this rim in the very center 
 of the whole geological series of the earth's crust, with that yawning 
 abyss reaching more than a mile deeper, and the river running in the 
 archean granite ? How can they know that the geological horizon 
 in which we are standing here on this rim is the upper carboniferous ? 
 By this cherty limestone? Is cherty spelled c-h-u-r-t-y or c-h-i-r ? 
 Do I believe the Government really paid Moran $i8,OOOfor a 
 picture ? 
 
 Sir, or madam, whichever your sex may be, you are no doubt a 
 perfectly respectable and worthy person, but to me, at this time and 
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 your note-book, an insufferable bore. Pray address your questions 
 to somebody interested in the mensurations and the geology of this 
 overwhelming spectacle. I am only concerned with the impressions 
 
 it makes upon my senses, and I don't care a whether it is 7,000 
 
 feet or 7,000 miles down to the bottom of the chasm. To me it is 
 just as far as it seems, and I don't care what the figures are. It is 
 the deepest, the most stupendous, the most appalling, the most 
 mystically beautiful, the most sublimely pathetic — in a word, the 
 most moving and irresistible tragedy I have ever beheld or ever 
 expect to, and I wish you would leave me to enjoy my own im- 
 pressions. As you are unable to share them, I beg that you will be 
 so good as not to interrupt them with questions in mensuration and 
 kindergarten geology. I don't know whether cherty is spelled with 
 
 u or i or an ox-yoke, and I don't care a . All that you ask, 
 
 and a thousand times more, you will find authoritatively stated in 
 the reports of several scientific surveys made by the Government 
 and printed as public documents. 
 
 They will be found in any public library worthy of the name in 
 the United States. Ask the librarian to let you see the Report on 
 the Expedition of Lieutenant Whipple, in 1853-4; the Expedition 
 of Lieutenant Ives, in 1858; that of Major Powell, about 1868; that 
 by Lieutenant Wheeler, published in 1875, vol. Ill, and whatever 
 else has followed. If you have not easy access to a large public 
 library, send to " The Bureau of Scientific Surveys, Washington," 
 (this is not the exact title, but it will do,) and ask for a catalogue of 
 the publications bearing on the Grand Canon of the Colorado. 
 From this you can select what you want, and perhaps obtain it free 
 through your Member of Congress; if not, the cost is but a trifle. 
 
 Major Powell's book is the thing you should get. 
 
 The railroad does not come within sixty-five miles of the Grand 
 Canon. You leave the cars at Flagstaff, Arizona, and come out by 
 the daily stage. It is an easy and delightful ride of ten or eleven 
 hours, most of the way through the beautiful, park-like Coconino 
 pine forest and " The National Grand Canon Reserve," which con-
 
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 tains about 2,000,000 acres. The road lies along the base of the 
 beautiful San Francisco Mountains, and you are whirled along at 
 breezy speed, in an easy coach, behind a champing four-in-hand team, 
 through a charming succession of sylvan scenes, in a crisp and 
 bracing atmosphere that comes to your lungs laden with homely 
 odor of pine and the bewitching fragrance of wild flowers. The 
 horses are changed four times on the way and so are always fresh, 
 and there is none of the old, dusty, thumping stage-coach sensation 
 of dragging along. 
 
 Come to see it. There is no hardship in the journey. You 
 must not conclude that because it is in Arizona it will be found hot. 
 The altitude prevents. All the way from Flagstaff " to the rim " it 
 is about 7,000 feet. 
 
 Come and see it. The trip will be a grand episode in your life. 
 The matchless spectacle will become a noble and deathless memory. 
 
 Come and behold the marvelous vision where silence has dimen- 
 sion and color; where color has melody and fragrance. 
 
 Come and dream of the gorgeous and appalling sepulchre of 
 God and then you will realize how inadequately I have, in this hasty 
 sketch, suggested to your imagination its stupendous glories and its 
 sublime pathos. Fitz-Mac.
 
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 THE GRAND CANON CAVERN. 
 
 I From the Coconino Sun, Flagstaff, Arizona.] 
 
 To a cook named Joseph Gildner, employed in the mining camp 
 of Messrs. Cameron & Berry in the Grand Canon of the Colorado 
 near Flagstaff, Arizona, belongs the honor of discovering what 
 savants had looked for in vain, although they had every reason to 
 presume that what they sought was in existence, and what geologists 
 have long desired to find, in the hope that some further light might 
 be thrown upon some matters connected with the geological forma- 
 tion of the Grand Canon, which hitherto could only be conjectured. 
 It has long been contended that if caves could only be discovered 
 some more definite information could be gleaned of the many thou- 
 sands of feet of strata which it is claimed by geologists have been 
 swept away by erosion from the surface of this platform. Several 
 of the caves have lately been discovered, but only one so far has 
 been partially explored, and that is the one located by the man 
 Gildner. 
 
 Standing on Clear Creek Canon, a mile below the plateau on 
 which the camp and mines are situated, and looking up at the en- 
 trance to this cave, one is filled with vague horror and amazement 
 at the mere thought of any one venturing to climb along the pre- 
 cipitous face of the mountain to explore its depths. Even with the 
 aid of a powerful glass it does not seem possible that a chamois or 
 mountain goat could find a foothold there. How the man ever 
 got there in the first instance without a rope or any other assistance 
 and escaped falling down and being dashed to pieces at the base of 
 the rock, a precipitous descent of over 1,000 feet, is a mystery. 
 But certain it is he got there and found two entrances to the cave, 
 through one of which he was barely able to drag his body, but the 
 vision he there beheld in the dim, imperfect light made him quickly 
 withdraw and acquaint the manager and active partner of the 
 mine, Mr. P. D. Berry, with his discovery. 
 
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 The cliff in which this cave was discovered rises almost abruptly 
 from the plateau on which the camp is situated, and frowns down 
 menacingly on the canon below. It is truly a very forbidding 
 object, composed of a dirty reddish limestone formation, and seems 
 to warn the venturesome that death awaits him who would pry too 
 closely into the secrets that Nature has so closely guarded in her im- 
 penetrable bosom. But such considerations have but little weight 
 with the men who establish the frontier settlements, and next morning 
 Mr. Berry had a gang of men employed digging a trail from the 
 summit of the plateau to the mouth of the cave. The work was 
 arduous, but the persistent labor of the men was amply rewarded, 
 and now they have got a trail that any one can walk along without 
 danger, a splendid platform at the mouth of the cave about six feet 
 wide, and the entrance has been enlarged until a man can almost 
 walk into it erect. 
 
 To describe it as a cave is not literally correct. It is rather an 
 intricate series of caves branching out one from the other, and ex- 
 tending in every direction under the mountains. The first cave or 
 compartment is fully 300 feet long and of varying height, extend- 
 ing from about ten feet in some places to eighty or ninety feet in 
 others, and the view presented to the beholder is almost sufficient to 
 take one's breath away. Pendent from the ceiling and the sides of 
 the cave are the most beautiful formations of stalactite, and the 
 reflection from these as the light of candles or torches is thrown on 
 them is dazzling in its brilliancy. But while the glance is momen- 
 tarily riveted on the scene here exposed to view, attention is almost 
 insensibly drawn to the floor beneath. There a view is presented 
 that beggars description. At first glance it would seem as if the 
 bottom of the Indian Ocean had been suddenly transplanted for the 
 benefit of the visitors to this cave. Mountain after mountain of 
 coral, pink and white, appear in rapid succession, while sea ane- 
 mones of every conceivable hue and color seem to float around in 
 endless variety. There are parterres and rows of flowers arranged 
 in such order that it would put any landscape painter to the blush,
 
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 while the bowers and grottoes that abound might have served as a 
 resting-place for Queen Mab and her fairy satellites. 
 
 The second cave is of about the same dimensions as the first, but 
 much higher, and the columns of stalactite are very much larger 
 and more diversified in shape. Here large pieces of stalactite have 
 fallen from the roof and sides of the cave, pressed down by the 
 superincumbent weight, and been shattered to atoms on the floor 
 below, while vast sheets hang from the walls with scarcely any 
 perceptible support, revealing almost every form of animate or 
 inanimate nature, grotesque at times, 'tis true, but always with a 
 sufficiently strong resemblance. Here may be found the jaws of 
 leviathan sharks, the serrated rows of teeth looking as ugly as if the 
 monster were springing from the deep to tear down its victim who 
 was being hoisted on board a vessel; there the deadly swordfish, with 
 its cruel, sharp weapon, ever in readiness for attack or defense; 
 while in the most inconceivable places may be found saws of every 
 description, from the tiniest to the big cross-cut. 
 
 But the most wonderful sight of all is what is called the " White 
 Cave." Shortly after entering, the visitor is confronted with a lion 
 rampant on a pedestal about eighteen inches long. The figure 
 stands about a foot high and is as nearly perfect in detail as any- 
 thing that ever left the sculptor's or molder's hands. A few feet 
 from there stands a Burmese pagoda which, when a candle is placed 
 in rear of it, seems to be lighted up as if for service, while the 
 sacred elephant stands out in bold relief in dazzling whiteness, a 
 piece of crystallized lime forming the eye which, with the glare of 
 the candle upon it, seems to flash out luridly and angrily at having 
 been disturbed after ages of repose. 
 
 It would be impossible to describe the various compartments the 
 writer went through in a journey of about four hours. Many of them 
 are of such enormous height that the flare of the candles or torches 
 serves. to reveal nothing but impenetrable blackness up above, while 
 the sides in all cases are lined with the most fantastic and grotesque 
 shapes. In one place is to be found a bay window, the curtains and
 
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 window blinds arranged in the most artistic manner, while every- 
 where you can select your own chime of bells and discourse sweet 
 music with cymbals thrown in. 
 
 A peculiar feature about this cave is, that whereas most of the 
 stalactite is formed by white limestone, there is none of that sub- 
 stance now forming the rock, the upper strata being composed of 
 the red limestone, and it will be a question for geologists to deter- 
 mine what period of time has elapsed since this stalactite, whiter 
 than alabaster, was formed. Moreover, everything in the cave at 
 the present time is as dry as tinder, and it would seem as if 
 centuries had elapsed since any water percolated through. A 
 bathroom there is of enormous dimensions, but no trace of water, 
 nor is there any evidence of animal life beyond the nests made by 
 some rats. 
 
 The cave varies from about ten feet high at the entrance to where 
 you cannot see the top. Its width is from sixty to seventy feet, but 
 its length has not yet been determined on, and it is simply a matter 
 of conjecture as to where it leads. About ioo feet from the en- 
 trance the visitor is confronted with a regular forest of trees from 
 eight to ten feet in height, the branches and leaves being almost as 
 perfect as in a natural forest. And yet these are all formed of stal- 
 agmite of dazzling whiteness. 
 
 The cave also abounds in grotesque forms pendant from the roof 
 and sides, and any one visiting the Grand Canon of the Colorado 
 will miss one of the principal attractions if they omit to see them.
 
 OOINO TO THE liRAN'l) CANON.
 
 AN ENTHUSIASTIC DESCRIPTION. 
 
 BY G. WHARTON JAMES, PASADENA, CM.. 
 
 The Grand Canon! God's stupendous masterpiece on earth! 
 A mountain chain turned upside down and thrust into the world's 
 crust, with all its ravines, crests, gorges, ridges, detached pea 
 and forests, and at the lowest point of the V, made the bed of an 
 immense river. A chaos of color such as no mountain range on 
 earth ever resembled, for, while there are forests, there are hundreds 
 of square miles of bare, barren, solid rock in all the colors, shades 
 and tints of the rainbow, a striking red being the dominant note in 
 this novel harmony of colors. A wilderness of architectural forms 
 such as no other wilderness affords, or dream of earth's paltry 
 builders ever conceived, for here are suggestions for new styles of 
 architecture when Assyrian, Egyptian, Hindoo, Greek, Roman, 
 Tartarian, Gothic, Florentine, Elizabethan, and more modern styles 
 are relegated to the lumber-piles of the ages. Towers, domes, 
 obelisks, palaces, cathedrals, castles innumerable, stupendous in 
 size, grand and majestic in ensemble, harmonious in proportion, 
 novel in architecture. With cunning skill the chisels of the ages, 
 the enawine forces of Nature, have molded and shaped the slowly- 
 yielding rock to suit the mind of the Master Architect, and man, 
 astounded, bewildered, delighted, gazes at the results in cntrance- 
 
 ment. 
 
 Reached from Flagstaff and other points on the great transcon- 
 tinental line of the Santa Fe Railway, that traveler affords himself 
 a scenic banquet, incomparable and unique, who visits this 
 unequaled "Water-way of the Gods.'' According to the concep- 
 tions of the localized aborigines, this vast chasm was made by their 
 most powerful gods, and to prevent weak, puny, curious man from 
 following them to the abodes of deity, they turned the vast stream 
 
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 of the Colorado River into its depths. But " in the days when the 
 world will be aged" the course of the stream will be diverted, and 
 the gods will come again to earth. And, slightly to the left of 
 Grand View Point, at the head of the Grand View trail, reached 
 from Flagstaff, three-fourths of the way across the canon can be 
 seen the giant, rocky gateway through which the new-coming gods 
 will make their descent. 
 
 Directly across is the vast wall of the great Kaibab plateau, one 
 of the highest portions of the whole rim of the canon. Slightly to 
 the right, the most imposing of all the towers of this gloriously 
 carved region is one named "Powell's Temple," dedicated to that 
 indefatigable and daring explorer, Major J. W. Powell, formerly 
 director of the United States Geological Survey and the Bureau of 
 Ethnology, and to whose endeavors the exploration of the long and 
 dangerous depths of the canons of the Colorado was due. 
 
 On the south side of the canon are the Three Castles, on a 
 tilting stratum of rock, and a little beyond is "Ayer's Peak," so 
 named from Mrs. E. E. Ayer, of Chicago, the first white woman 
 who is known to have made the descent to the river at this point. 
 
 Several miles to the east, still on the south side, its summit 
 crowned and shaded by a portion of the vast Coconino Forest, is 
 Moran's Point, on which the great artist made his noted painting of 
 the canon, and, a few miles beyond, is Bissel's Point, from which 
 an extended view is had of the sculptured forms made by the influx 
 of the Little Colorado River, and the open space in the canon 
 through which the Colorado Grande winds its tortuous way towards 
 the sea. Across from Bissel's Point is Cape Final, the last great 
 cape of the Kaibab plateau. 
 
 It is from just above this point the real Grand Canon begins. 
 While Marble, Glen, and a score of other canons higher up the river 
 are stupendous, marvelous, grand, it is only when the river reaches 
 the primeval rock, the granite, of which the foundations of the world 
 are formed, that the sublime depths of this unique waterway are 
 disclosed. For a distance of some two hundred and seventeen
 
 GRAND CANON OF THE COLORADO RIVKR. 157 
 
 miles the river rages and dashes and roars, pouring its tremendous 
 flood headlong to the passage it has cut through the sandy deserts 
 of Eastern California, and this two hundred and seventeen miles 
 only is known distinctively as The Grand Canon. No other canon in 
 the world should be known by that name, no matter how qualified. 
 Just as it seems irreverent to use the name of the Deity to designate- 
 false gods, so is it to use the name of this solitary piece of divinely 
 wrought grandeur for any inferior work. 
 
 For over a decade I have been closely studying it, wandering 
 along its rim for hundreds of miles, exploring its side canons in 
 every direction, and seeking to penetrate to the secrets of its lowest 
 depths. Months and months of familiar study have not lessened its 
 attractions, nor lowered the profound feelings of awe with which it 
 has always impressed me. I return to it constantly as a lover to 
 his mistress, a student to his books, a chemist to the mysteries he 
 would solve, a prospector to the gold he would discover, and ever 
 and always do I find in it new treasures of sublime grandeur, new 
 glories of stupendous carving, new enhancements of gorgeous 
 coloring, all declaring in their own unmistakable language, — 
 
 "The hand that made us is Divine."
 
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 [From the Coconino Sun, Flagstaff, Arizona.] 
 
 The Grand Canon is the most wonderful geological and spec- 
 tacular phenomenon known to mankind. It was no exaggeration 
 to call it the sublimest of gorges, the Titan of chasms. There is 
 but one Grand Canon, and nowhere on earth can its like be found. 
 Language is too faint and weak to convey any adequate idea of the 
 sublimity and grandeur of this most awe-inspiring of Nature's 
 wondrous works. It must be seen to be appreciated, and even then 
 humanity stands aghast, oppressed with an indefinable sense of 
 terror, while at the same time all the senses are charmed with the 
 indescribable beauties that are opened up to the vision. An 
 eminent writer in describing it defined it as " An inferno, swathed 
 in soft celestial fires; a whole chaotic under-world, just emptied of 
 primeval floods and waiting for a new creative world; a boding, 
 terrible thing, unflinchingly real, yet spectral as a dream, eluding 
 all sense of perspective or dimension; outstretching the faculty of 
 measurement, overlapping the confines of definite apprehension." 
 
 This stupendous panorama is situated wholly in the northern 
 part of Arizona. Correctly speaking, it is not a canon, but rather 
 an intricate system of canons, all subordinate to the river channel. 
 and forming a whole that is fully one thousand square miles in 
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 HOW TO GET THERE. 
 
 To those to whom the Grand Canon of the Colorado is a terra 
 incognito a few words may not be amiss as to how to get there. 
 Starting from any point where the Santa Fe railroad has either a 
 direct line of communication, Albuquerque, N. M., is easily reached, 
 and from thence on to Flagstaff, Ariz., the traveler is carried oil 
 through some of the most beautiful and diversified scenery of the 
 Rockies. Arriving at Flagstaff a stagecoach is taken to the Grand 
 Canon. Then the drive is sixty-five miles long, which is easily 
 accomplished in ten hours, there being four relays of horses for the 
 journey, so that the animajs are always fresh, and the road being a 
 solid mountain road free from any obstructions, jars and jolts .ire 
 almost unknown. The course is along what is perhaps the most 
 beautiful scenery in Arizona or elsewhere. For the first twenty 
 miles it lies through a beautiful forest of pine trees, dotted here and 
 there with parks, circling the base of the far-famed San Francisco 
 Mountains, past the pre-historic cave dwellings and away out into 
 the open prairie, relieved by tracts of scrub cedar and pinyon tr 
 the home of the prairie-dog and antelope. An excellent lunch can 
 be procured at Cedar Ranch, thirty-four miles from Flagstaff, and 
 thence once more away across the prairie through Cottontail Canon, 
 where geologists can find much to interest them, one side of the 
 canon, which is only about fifty feet wide, being composed of lime- 
 stone formation while the opposite side is malapai. Then bounding 
 over the prairie again until Moqui is reached, and a few miles 
 further when the road again lies through the lordly Coconino forest 
 interspersed with sylvan glades and fragrant meadows for about 
 twelve miles. 
 
 The caves, which now form one of the principal of the many 
 attractions of the Grand Canon, can only be reached by the 
 Cameron or Grand View trail. 
 
 G. K. Woods, 
 
 General Manager Grand Canon Stage Line. 
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 "POR any further information in regard to the 
 Grand Canon of the Colorado River in 
 Arizona, or this volume, address, 
 
 G. K. WOODS, 
 
 General Manager Grand Canon Stage Line 
 Flagstaff, Arizona Ter. 
 
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