Show A BRIDGE OF AGATE A petrified tree spans a chasm chaim in far away arizona A mining expert sent to investigate some rome arizona properties for denver capitalists recently returned and and re ports the finding of a most remarkable natural bridge formed by a tree of agati zed wood spanning a canyon forty five feet in wid width th says the jewelers circular the tree had at some remote time fallen when it became im bedded in m the silt of some great inland sea or in mighty water overflow the silt became in time sandstone and the wood gradually passed through the stages of until it is now a wonderful tree of solid agate in after years water washed and ate away the sandstone until a canyon forty five feet in width has been formed the flinty like substance of the a agati sized zed wood having resisted the erosion of the water flow pulla fulla fifty feet of the tree gestson rests on one side and can be traced but how far its other end lies buried in the sandstone cannot be determined without blasting away the rock the trunk visible above the canyon varies in size from four feet to three feet in diameter where the bark has been broken and torn away the characteristic te colors of jar jasper per and agate are seen to the naked eye the wood is beautiful under a microscope or miners magnifying glass the brilliancy of the colorings are clearly brought out in all their wondrous beauty M |