Show THE STONE FOREST the he wonders ot of the earth on which we live and ay iy abat portion which we are call america are intensely interesting the forest turned to stone in apache county arizona Is otio of the natural wonders of america ica congress so BO concluded at the same game time putting to enil end the malicious acts of hogg who were 0 jl lios to the preservation of its treasures when in fit 1000 it passed an net act for the preservation of american ties es president roosevelt placed the forest under the hie protection of the government ern ment designating it the petrified forest national monument for tile the perpetual enjoying enjoyment i ent of of the people here at tin an elevation of about one mile above sea level lying in tile the open rind and over thousands of and in nil all conceivable positions Is a profus profusion lon of millions of tons of fallen trees turned to jasper alie ithe most bill llant rig aggregation gregat ion of jewels on the he globe the ing feature 1 ls s a jittu natural ral bridge formed by a pe petrified trifled trunk of 0 agate and jaa per which aris a GO CO foot wide canyon how come the solution of that question hns puzzled the greatest students of bf the structure of our earth the physical changes which it line has undergone der gone and the causes which have operated to produce these 03 changes anges the general supposition seems to be that in time tar far beyond the reach of record re corda a million or more years ago a giant woodland nourished flourished here some great catastrophe most likely an earthquake mowed it down and la in the reshaping of the earths crust an inland lake or sea was formed above this flits sunken forest seepage depage from springs of salt sulphur and other mineral content penetrated every fiber of this flits wood the prolonged period of saturation gradually pickling the WOW wood to stone at length another age was waa ushered in an upheaval as ae tremendous as it was mysterious awakened tills flits alc p ing this ibis forgotten forest und and jt it wits was belched up to the top lot of the earth again to a place in tile arizona sun there tire ire three divisions of this forest the first brut famous for its bright colors colas Is six bix miles from Adai nann the second Is two anil and one half miles farther on here the trens trees are largely intact many of them highly colored bredl the third Is ten and one half miles farther southwest and byren by reason volf of the striking colors fins earned locally uio ue name of rainbow forest |