| Show Trip from to or Cliff Macos Cola Feb trip tram to Mancos Is au Interesting one About twenty miles up the river holy holyoak oak is Here the Methodist church has a mission nod are ing a to educate the Navajo In tHan whose reservatIon Is just Over th river and all the south southsIde sIde of tho aa Juan river their shacks and farms can be seen A large adobe building is being erected by the deth mission here From bere the road goes up the which was a dry trash but since the construction Of the canal bringing from tIle river into the valley there baa been quite a stream of mm that valley This has been by the and now there are some cx ranches and fIne on tha On every tda can be seen evidenceS of cliff dwellers At one place had cut steve in the rock to reach the itt another lilacs a largo wits built n the to of the cliff tt point tan out like a promontory and the plaCe Was almost Inaccessible The up the weird and picturesque At One 01 great sandstone shaft tiva feet and looks lIke a great sentinel guarding the way The head ot the brings uS into the valley which Is watered by a canal rena tho river that is oVer the mountains and a tunnel is the town of Cones and the Is taken to the town In a great flume tb ut three mIles long and at quite It Is a piece of work There are Im ranches In the of wheat and other 15 There has been a I to Irrigate the Cast ido of this which when completed will bring Un cultivation a vast amount of good goodland land An has been rondo to get the government to construct a large canal here woUld carry the over the ridge to a large open country In the Indian reservation and re redeem deem ft vast tract now desert From Cortes the road is good over rolling country so to the sand we havo passed through |
