Show THE GRAND CAM A Railroad Through it is Said to be Feasible TH ADMISSION OF WYOMING The house Passes the Bill f Let Her into the Union Eeclproclty with the Argentine Argen-tine Republic DENVER Colo March 27ChIef Engineer Robert B Stanton who left here with corps last November to make a preliminary survey for the Denver Colorado Cafiou Pacific railway rail-way from Grand Junction to the Gulf of California Califor-nia through the Grand cafion of the Colorado river returned home today from Needles Cal for a couple of weeks rest Mr Stanton and his party are the first men who have passed through this dangerous canon since Major Powell Pow-ell made the trip in lfcf9 In conversation tonight to-night he said the construction of a railway through the canon was perfectly feasible and that from Grand Junction Colo to Needles a distance of 900 miles thegrade need not in any place exceed twenty feet per milo and for the greater part of the distance would not be more than from five to ten feet per mile while the curvature contrary to general expectation will bo very light were results much better than he i anticipated Mr Stanton has gathered considerable data I upon the resources of the country adjacent to m aN I ru r h td the cnfion but < as yet the greater part is undeveloped unde-veloped and it is a difficult matter to put them into any definite shape Between the head of the Colorado river and the end of the Grand cafion he passed over live hundred and twenty rapids He graphically describes his passage over rapid No 405 below Peach springs during which one of his boats was damaged by collision with rocks and he was washed overooard by a wave thrown into a whirlpool and sucked ana drawn downward into what seemed a bottom less river He llnally came to the surface fifty feet from where he went down and was rescued by his men These rapids are many times more dangerous than the one where President Brown and two men lost their lives last summer but on account of the present party being supplied with life preservers the men during the whole trip have been in no danger of drowning He considers this cafion from Peach Springs to tho Grand wash to be the grandest and most wonderful won-derful of the whole canon the scenery surpass = I ing anything American even the Grand cafion of the Arkansas and the Black cafion of the Gunnison He spoke in the highest terms of the bravery and faithfulness of the men who accompanied ac-companied him In this dangerous journey Stanton returns to the Needles In two weeks to complete fornia the trip from there to the Gulf of Cal |