Show PETRIFIED FOREST POPULAR RESORT tho ho fascination which draws scores of thousands to Ari zonas petrified for forests ats every year la is of that peculiar variety found in much of natures handiwork which wrought with infinite patience through the ages agea leaves man speechless with the realization of his own they speak cie eloquently of some distant age aee when this great area was waa a vast sea and tantalize tho the imagination into visualizing the endless process which made possible these thes e sione tombs of once giant forests I 1 the three separate tb forests foresta reached biorn holbrook arizona on the santa fe or old trolls trails highway and out from aiom adamana adamand station have been combined into the petrified forest nation al monument which judging from the number of sightseers who journey there Is among the most moat popular of 0 all national monuments it la Is thought by most geologists that the great pine trees which must mu st have grown to heights ol of two and three hundred teat foot wore part of a for est existing hundreds of nilles miles north or of where they now lie and that some soma great upheaval ot of nature perhaps a flood carried thorn them to this region reelon where they floated in a vas until of their weight they sank to the ocean oceal tied bed here by extreme pressure and the minerals in the water the trees were turned to stone and when a great 0 it the land caused the sea to recede following cons cona of the elements laid millions of tons of the broken forest bare to the sun tor for the edification of man the beauty of these trees lies iles in their exquisite coloring which shade from purple car nellon and yellow to sort soft rose and orchid glis glistening fening in tho the sun like precious jewels in the so bo called first second and third forest erosion has haa created a difference in coloring which makes them all borth visiting to marvel at the contrasts the first forest consists of sections aria and fragments of logs orico burled buried in the illo upper strata of sandstone of which the most famous Is the natural bridge the crumbling of the sandstone around this huge log about 1001 feet long has dug an arroyo under it giving the bridge a span of about fifty feet the second forest about two miles south contains some soma well vell preserved logs which are of a yellowish grey color in sharp contrast t to 0 themore the moro vivid specimens of tho the first forest F orest six miles south and andrest vest west of tho the first F arst orest forest P lies iles the third or rain bow forest which far surpasses the others in brilliance of color and in the size and number of logs preserved many logs are over feet in length while so great has been the force of the elements that others other s are broken into bits and lie upon the ground in a profusion ot of scintillating color A program of improvement begun last fall fali will greatly facilitate sightseeing 8 in thet the petrified forests by the building of roads roada through the three sections section sand and a new house to take care of special pe fal exhibits ex alb 1 t 8 while in the petrified forest country other see arizona trips suggested by the arizona industrial congress include the navajo and hopi hop country to the north where native arizonans Arlzo Arizo nans are arc ining picturesquely much as they did before tho the advent of tho the white man tho the ilott villages lie on the top ot 0 three sharp mesas of their reservation mhd most moat important being hole ville and with a government station and indian school at a polacca the annual religious festival of 0 these indians indiana known as the snake dance brings thousands of curious tra travelers to this section where they the copl or peaceful people have lived for centuries and worshipped wor shipped nature after the maenner of ot their ancestors ce some of 0 the houses are arb built lu stories where tho the only entrance is by means of ladders as this was considered most efficacious in times of war A deeply religious people the hopi hop built their homes and their lives around their conception of the gods and their kivas alvas and ceremonial chambers are hewn out of the solid stone of the it Is in the open patios between the buildings that ile cermon lal dances are held in the tha navajo land to the west and east cast of the iloni reservation live nother type of ofIn IndIan dlan and on tho the journey to canyons de chelly and del huerto muerto in the eastern te reservation much of their life la Is seen ever a nomadic race they have raised flocks and built their temporary homes wherever water was vas to bo be had in these rudely constructed hogans hogana the squaws weave veave their famous rugs and the bucks fashion the turquoise studded jewelry so typical of this colorful tribe and of native arizona itself coconino sun |