Show GO TO MONUMENT monday night morgan mckay ar thur brown ana and frank S Beckwi tn were returning from Ilaw bush where re they had been hunting ducks ju just it nor h of mccornick they noticed a beautiful mirage on the far distant hills north northwest welt of joy the hills were greatly enlarged and magnified and the coloring was wag beautiful A small gap which may be seen near tatow batow was distorted by this mirage into an enormous cleft cutting the range to its core the mountains or either side were piled up in towering masses sharp clean cut and thrown into a riot of pires and pinnacles which are non existent reproducing the grandeur of monument valley on a much larg er scale the mountains mirrored in the mirage moved as we moved speed ng north along the sky line keeping pace with our movement i anally after changing shapes several times the entire illusion disappeared quick ly leaving the familiar low hills in that region in their normal shape the mirage took place just after sundown and over the delta flat from which warm air may have been then rising the distance from the observers to the wet hills was some thing like sixty miles it was very wonderful and abaz ng with a beauty lidded to it JE aug interest in so novel a dis play |