Show Canyon Worthily Rank Ranks as aa Marvel of Nature To understand the immensity of ot the Grand canyon it Is necessary to know something of the Colorado river which incidentally must be he Included among the great rivers ricers of ot North America It is formed In la southern Utah by the confluence of the Green and the Grand rivers It enters Arizona Arl- Arl zona at the northwestern corner and flows southward to the Gulf of Cali Cali- fornia It drains nn an area orea of square miles Only at three points Is It crossed by a railroad The Spaniards were the first tint white men to view the great wonder of na na- ture Spanish explorers first reported report report- ed seeing It as early as 88 1540 and ond in 1770 1776 a Spanish priest found a cro crossIng crossing cross cross- s' s sIng Ing that still bears his hla name The first man to make anything like Uke a I complete sur survey sur ey of the river and the canon canyon through which It flows was MaJ John Wesley Powell a geologist and a school teacher a one armed veteran of the Civil war With a crew of men and boats boat he traversed the river from Us its source to It Us Its II mouth month in isca The Grand Grund canyon canon has bas long been beena a ha haven haen en for geologists It furnishes them with an Ideal setting to study the earths earth's strata And It Is III no less lessa a haven for tor tourists |