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Show ARIZONA. Spin'' Slitl Hiiinliliii;. Ul'llpliic Hcsri'ii(iuii of thej Cumitry Dunn Tliurc. MOW-A-VAII-IIK, YAVAI'l Coi'NTY, April 'Jth, 187ii, About a monlli no I nturii'iil from a long trip over the country. I visited tho good country along lb' Little Colorudu river (or Flax river); went over ami partly around the Nu-vah-tu-mio (San Frnnci-ico niounliiin) and partly tliruugli tho grc.it forihtn of timber. Tho road from bore leads oll'to the southwest to Flax river. In this desert wo had sttvuro wind atorms, which, I am told, prevail through tho spring and until the middle of June, when TI1K HA IN Y hKASON sets iu and lasts through July, ruining ruin-ing nearly every day and sometime coming down by tho "ocean full" that's now, but good. Afl-:r thin unil during these raina the k''"3 comes up anew, fresh and green, as it docti in qnrinLr liniH in ntlwr rnn nl r'u-t Vhn dreary waste of land is what sickened tho furmer emigrants and fanned them to go murmuring home in inch a hurry, especially when they came to Klai river or Little Colorado and found it nearly dry sunk in the saiuh as the Platte sometimes does and what water tiieru was was salt an I bad, bee. lining adulterated with the Alkalies Iroui the sands through vine- tin 7 li.iwcd. I'.i- 'lug ever t!iP:e bad land, we vrre "rivaled" (good word) with KKAUm. hfOllMn OV WIND ANU fASD. We could not face them. The drilling sands would cover up in u few minutes min-utes our ei. tiro camu tuipae,e. A eoat or a blanket leit on the ground in a short time would uiMiine the appearance ap-pearance of a pile ol' taud . Dor eves, hair, mouth and card were full of -i Wy wore furliinately going v;i!i t!i' eurrenl. Wo could up;r, c! i'e th.-dreadful th.-dreadful horrors of a sun o:i nr typhoon ty-phoon on tho great desert ( S ih ir t, wliero whole trains, camels nnd .nl, would perih beneuth llir mhhI -i. Wc could realize how a poor m iu or animal, becoming weak nud exhau-st-rd from fatigue, hunger and thirst, blinded by the sharp eni'ds that pierce his eyes and fuee, would full to tho ground overcome by exhaustion, exhaus-tion, nuver to rise again, to find a: ready-made grave, where only thej Omniscience- could find him, or the trumpet ol LJabriel or somo other big horn awaken him. Wo arrive at tiie Little Colorado at a point about silly iniUa above itsl mmitli, on tne Pysishaweo or Bit: i 4lor.niii. wliieb inin.t wliern the Tin'1 Colorado breaks its cham-channel through liio Kibah iiuninlaius, divid ing it into the liuekskin mountains on the north and tne Coahauiny mountains on tho south. We also strike the Little Gilurado about forty miks from the N'u-vat a-kub-be mountain (or San Francisco peak), i'u is forty milea is a high, upland llano or plateau, covered with rich grass thafeeda herds of antelopo and deer. Wa saw MILLIONS OK TRACKS, but only cne live, veritable antelope, but "nary" turkey aud we hkej turkey, too. ; About thirty milca up tho Little : Colorado from twhere the road inter-! sects it arc l!;e Black fahs, where the1 stream runs over a ridge of plutonir roi-k ulnnit twenty feet high, and where the entire river can be taken out to water the lauds bcluw. Tnis thirty miles along the river is very like much of tho Platte river below Denver, a great deal of sand and blcas, barren country, yet lhoLH.ini.'s of acres of land that lie lewl and can bp watered without a foot ot leveling or a day's ue of the scraper, the entire river can also be taken out at many places, below this, adjacent to many gKd tracts of land. Tuero are also large groves, in fact FuUEsTS OF LAKGE COTTOSWOODjJ along the river, with au abundance of cithire on the high plateau toward the mountains, with the great forests at tne mountains aim nunureas oi nines of rich grass in every direction. Twelve miles above tho B.aek falls the stream ruiiB over a ridge, forming fails and cataracts from fifty to sixty feet high, and along this twelve miles is more good laud with easy access of water. Htre begin the large grease-wood, grease-wood, rabbit hush aud wild sunflower, that grow higher than one's horse, showing it to be rich land and plenty of it, with groater abundance of cot-1 ion woods and cedars, and only about twenty-five miles from the great pine torestd. Above this, from twenty to forty miles, the little streams coming down out of the forests of pine unite and form the Little Colorado, and here is THE BEST POKTIOS OF TIIE COUSTRY; abundance of rich land, good, clear water, plenty of cotton woods and .cedars, oceans of grass, and the great pine forests"on!y fifteen miles away." Hoop la! The San Francisco or Xu-vah-tu que peak is a single peak that crowus the divide between the Gila and Little Colorado. It is a peak surrounded by bench lands, covered with pine limber. From tho peak the divide runs off to the west on ono side aud to the southeast on the other, with an accasional rouud, low hill at intervals in both directions. On the Gila side, j lo the west, are Bill Williams' valley 1 nud other valleys now being settled by immiyratiou from Prescott, On the Gila Bide to the southeast are more good lands, BEING SETTLED BY TUB MEXICANS, who now have a very large herd of sheep there. This country will also be settled by immigration from Utah, At tho point where the head waters of the Little Colorado unite to from the river will become an important point, and perhaps a good-sized town will soon spring up there. On the mountains (Nu-vah-tu-que) we found an abundance of snow, so deep that we could Dot get our animals ani-mals through it and were compelled to turn back. All this country around these mountains where the pine timber tim-ber grows is one continuous area of lava scoria and volcanic stone and earth, on which the limber grows It wai so soft and dry, like ashes, that our animals would sink in to their fetlocks. Black, soft, ppjngy and dry, it let all the water from the enows and rains through to bed rock or a harder foundation below where it was held to furnish moisture aud sustenance to the heavy timber that grows upou it. Passing over, or rather between, these mountains, we crossed over a VOLCANO CRATER. It lies to the southeast of Nu vah-tu-que aud between that and two Inrge, round hills of lava scoria volcanic rock, forming a great basin or deep sink, having the appearance of being caused by the surroundings and high ground sinking or falling down by the bowels below being vomited out by the volcano. We could see the great walls that once Blood guard around the mouth of the crator and where Ibey had eruinbled and fallen into and lllled up the chasm. This craL-r was about threci miles long, varying in width from a few roils to nearly a mile. It was one great field of slag, jinn slag, put hko such as makes up tl jo dump of every niiieltintf funiueciii Utah, ami looked as bright and flush as any slag iu your territory; in lad, we touched it with misgivings, for feur it was still hot. It was rough, cnig-poiuted and sharp-edged, so that it was difficult diffi-cult Ui walk over it, and utterly impolitic, im-politic, to lead our animals over it. It Intd the. ch ar ring of iron slag, and as wo walked over it it gave onto deep, soltiun, hollow Bound, its if still hollow below and might sink down to the depths beneath, FA It 1HHVN INTO A HEKTI I INcJ HF.I.L in the hi.woU of tho earth. Wo walked upon it with awo. It was cut ui all direeti mi by deep yawning eraeks or chat-inn and seemed to shake and tremhlu beneath our feet. All around ui on the great hills and over all i!ie, vallevs for many miles wac Ibo great coaling or covering of lava and cinder ihat has one day been cast out white hot from this volcano, even to a distance ol forty miles away. Mere upon thm great crater, black, ringing-hollow and ragged-edged, ragged-edged, we tread with awe anil wonder, won-der, looking up at tho masses of scoria and pit: ton io rock that wan once belched forth from this terrible spot, and looking down into tho narrow, nar-row, crooked chasms which once cast up the lurid, seething, dense MAKLSntOM OF F1UE AND DEriT RUCTION. The formation of tho San Francisco Fran-cisco mountain (Nu-vah-tu-que) is , under the suuria and pluUmic ruck, that ( solid granite, mostly of the j quality the temple, is being built of. l'lie higher pe.tkti are of this kind aud all of the snow peaks properaroofi the same quality ul white granite, with the sides or exposed burlacea i toWAid the great crater much burned and fused by tho heat that once en-j viroued them. I alr.o noticed along the Colorado, iu the deep places, that a grey limestone lime-stone underhi-B the red stone, and when down in the deep chasm near the mculh of Him Little Gdorado, I noticed that I be red e.wid.itone was about l,5u0 fn I thick, (the samo in i-ther phu e-j on Hie Big Colorado) then coniu narrow strata of limestone and liifii a thick Hau of sicnite and oiln-r grnintic rocks, then comes pure wlnt.f quartz for a hundred feet or more, and ibis made up tho entire bottom or haso wherever we were, ami such I believe to be HIS TIU'E GEOLOGICAL CoN.-TUULTIOS j of the entire country: first, red j oandflone for about 1,000 to 1 .5u0 1 fiol, then about 50 to 100 feet thick of , grey cnlcito rock, tnen alxiut Sod feet ot Miieious rock-, then quartz. It is i a'so noticed thai in many places there 15 a thick strata of limestone rock on tup of the highest hills, and that whiiu limestone crops out in many pl.uvs. Sl'ICER. , |