A NEW SURVEY OF THE GRAND wonderful features of liia unique eca ion to be khyva c a new tops graphic its true for the FiSt inoc itoc accurately determined ter mined y the demand from Klentis ts and tourists for an find gnp of the camou canyon of tin ta w thi unique regain by alir tate ff eo logical urca ur cv aaker tlc alc chary of te 1 SI atthe topographer the grand camon cam on connerly fon reached only by stage owr a lart country has v feta fet a made accede ibl ly 0 branch lift aft tic santa fe route from will mina nd during taic aiu year eliat thia road has wen in operation the canyon afis been visited by thousands of tourist in HIP of its ald alie gran deur of its can yon lidi fair to rival both alio yellow htone park alie valley alic L ni tod geological survey expects to publish a acrie of atlas sheets covering the entire extent of thu canyon proper and consider ahle areas ot he high plate aua 01 cither hide the first of these sheets to be known is ilie blight angel i neaily completed and vill be availably avail abl to th c public tonic time next it includes almost all of the scenery visible from ilip angel hotel faini liar to every the colorado river traversa trave rsM from east to we the quadrangle represented by thi and divides it almost symmetrically ri tho diew map will be on i scale of ono mile to the inch and contour interval will be 50 feet will show every pinnacle spur and pully in its true proportions and cadi line of cliffs and terraces may be traced along the canyon walls the dimensions odthe grand canyon have ibsen the subject of much disca sion ever diac e it iwas first explored it may therefore be of interest to giat some figures taken from this new survey the average from mil t rim does not exceed 10 miles throughout the kaibab or widest lection ol 01 the canyon and frequently narrows down to 8 miles alio river does no occupy lie middle of the gigantic trough but hows at a distance varying between 1 and 3 miles from the south side practically all of the magnificently sculptured pinnacles anil mesas taic so called temples lie north of the river and at distances of from 5 to miles from alie view points usual visited by tourists the depth of the grand canyon in ono way has beer overstated in another understated measured from the south rim the total depth is considerably less than a mile arm the rim at the bright anga hotel where die altitude w cogg feet above sea level 10 lo the mark of the river at the foot of the tourist trail the drop ih feet alic 1 digh cst point on the south rim atthe at the grand view hotel h feet about feet above alie river prom the north side however the drop to the water level averages considerably over a mile and in many places even exceeds feet it may be 1 gene al way that coith rim is from 1000 to 1200 feet higher alian alie south alius producing that high cheu sky line so striking ir all obtainable by the tourist hio fiura fi giorc given are laca on spirit aw in tin trap vore they arc the arst that nin to the li ottoni of he chasm anil alie eliiah of nt curacy vill rn iio to la authora anat t