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Show ARIZONA'S FROZEN FOREST Theory Which May Account for tho , Wonderful Fetrefac- tions. In the long forgotten ages, perhaps before primeval in-., tct foot upon the Bands of earth, n. om were growing in Arizona, just .i-. ill home parts thoy aru growing to-day, says O. J. Muhlbacker, In the Arizona Magazine, lint, by presumably pre-sumably volcanic action upon ttio earth'H crust, they were laid prostrate, and over thorn swept tho seething, rushing rush-ing waters of n'n lmmenso Inland sea. Again, this region, sunk below tho sea level, wus upheaved so high the mighty waters found no footing. Again a partial par-tial depression mado It a vast repository reposi-tory of rivers that drained the high let els, nnd these great trees were burled deep beneath tho sand and silt, which tlmo burdened to rock. Hut tho up-heavel up-heavel of ages after tevered this process, and the outgoing wuters In their maddened iubIi ronstnntly boro awny this earthen cou-rlnir, returning to tho world the long burled forests of the ancient ages. Hut lo! the sybaritic chemistry of nnturo, tho alchemy of tho-ages, tho-ages, had transformed themN Into crystnU of hardest Rtone, sparkling In vnrlegated color tints. Thus, to-day, tho "Potrlflcd Forest" Is one of tho wonders of Arizona. |