Show ARIZONA RELICS there are a good many natural curiosities to be seen in arizona in deed in places the country seems to bo be a vast museum of the antique and unusual in nature this not only as to geological features but in many places am to the flora and fauna also lt it is not generally known hereabout but is given out as a fact that one of the most curious and interesting arms eions in rook rock in the world is to be seen a ak short distance east of the stage road between tucson and Oracle and stands on oua knoll several feet above the surrounding sand hills when first seen we are told the effect ia 13 startling and the he mind has to get over a shook before the peculiar object can be comprehended it to Is a most perfect representation of a camel and is formed of one alece of granite this curiosity is of ool isal elzbut perfectly proportioned it is about sixty feet huh and is ia very white and smooth there are very edw fissures on the surface avid and they oft angely tr are in the proper places to form features the only real win tion from the surface is exactly placed for an eyebrow the two humps hump 4 are plainly to be seen and the neck is 18 curved beautifully the trouble is that we could not prove that the figure came from the brove aund nd of nature which to is usually more haphazard hap bap bazard hazard in iii iti manner of doing things than to put wrinkles and eyebrows in their proper places perhaps ome gome of the first discoverers of th the te sphinx in modern times attributed 1 its 8 authorship to an upheaval of the earths crust but everybody in this As medieval man age ge knows know better bas been bee n traced to alizna ariz na and his hid methods and implements discovered sherein in profusion why should we say may ahat every curious formation bearing the image of some beast or other thing was not bis big work a thousand years or more ago |