Show + DOWN TIIK CANYONS THROUGH THE OOROBB OF THE COLOIIADO > taut In a e IreiynMii nn 1 III No 11 lirillnc Ipertenee In Ih IIAII 501 MIlMllrl In hire torso lu I rlrn he feats feat-s PuJ J UK Ilev Dnvlil Utter of Halt lAke City accompanied by his Uyenr old 1 ran lint month r accomplished the l remarkable feat of f iontlng down olle of Iho moat dangerous dan-gerous parta of the tJ Colorado Canyon on n raft It li I the Cent time that sera a trip wm over made Few white men In fact have ever dareil to brave the rapids shoal and eddle of the treacherous Colorado even when provided with stanch bent 1 end all powlble convenience Major Iowrll when making n Unlt il States urte of the can on In UC8 went down ttirotiRh the ranyona from Oreen lllver to Iran W8Ih He was accompanied by several other ablebodied men and furnished with toots built especially for the purple Although the party emerged from the canyon oventually In safety they ee > eral dune narrowly escaped dntructlon by bring ilinhcd to piece on the rocks or overwhelmed In the rapid The Itev Mr Utter began his trip at n point tome distance below that ni which Iho Powell expedition abtndono I the canyon lie rnmo out nt a pin o called I the Needle two hundred niut fltty mite further aoutli on the bond r between Arlionn nUll California The Colorado Ilher li I formed by the Jtiirtion of the Irani and the lrcn riven In Ibo routhwoBtern part of Utah The Green Illver In larger than the linn and la I the upper contlnui lion of the Colorado Including this nil er the whole length of the I luau I about ito thoiiMnd mlles The r > Uoi drained h > the Colorado and lit trllni torte I about eight hundred mill < In length and varle from three hundr to flie hundred nil I MI In width mikltm an area of about three hundred thou and square mile vvhlrh II I Inrpr than til the New England nnd Mldda State with Maryland and MrRlnli added The river enters Arlona at n point on Iti northern border about tHrnty tumbles rant of time middle Nearly Near-ly I all of limo remainder of the rour n He through lie remarknblo inn oaa which lave undo tho Colorado a very wide < and n very attlft rher It la l ext ex-t outward until It suddenly enmo to nn end There won no oppoHlto shore the river Pimply ended by fall log o > er thin ergo of n tremendous abyaa Townrdi this ab > H thin cur to enter the eanron Yneiv ago there wa a great and wise chief who mourned th death nf hla wife and 1 I would not be comforted until Ta Twmt one uf the Indian god came to him and told him ehe was In a happier hap-pier land and offered to take him there If upon his return he would ceate to mourn The greet chief premlavd Then Tivwoat made B trail through the mountain that Intervene between Hint bmnllful land the balmy llowery aweetanelllng region of the Wt California and thin the desert home of the poor Indian Arltona Thl trail of eoiirw wa the canyon i ftirg of th Colorado Through U holed fII led him I sail when they returned the I deity exacted from the chief a protnUe that he would toll no one of tile Joy of I that land beet through dlacontent with the elrciimatanc of Ihln world they I ahould dlre to go to heaven I Then he rolled a river Into the gorge a mad raging stream that ahould engulf en-gulf any who might attempt to enter I thereby Thl story la tnluable to hlilory na containing the Drat mention of a paa ago of the Colorado canyon There were other itorlea told nmonc the while of parllwi entrrloi the gorge In boat and being carried down with fearful fear-ful velocity blip whirlpool I where all were overwhelmed In tuba ebya of t tj r 1 7r1 ii t r c t aylt 7 cy r y ftAj i > 3 tf 8IIOOTINC1 Tim DANaKKOUS RAPIDS rents of the rher mocd and they llowod more awlftly us they retreated I from the ahoro It Will bclloeil that any ono who should l venture no far from tho land ns to loon control of his bolt and bo thrown on tho mercy of ono of theio current would surely bo tarried on farter and faster to the edge of tho preclplco nnd meet n mloernblo deoth by being iUshed down through Interminable Inter-minable depths It Is perhaps need lee I to 51 > that the perfect crodullty with which this story was received b > hut untutored nnclmls nnntnl them to lo cry cautious mariner They seldom 1 sel-dom went out of sight of land and thon only by nocldint Tlio simple Indian tribe that dwelt along the walla ono cannot say shore of the Colorado Itlvcr had n omowlmt similar superstition regarding regard-ing thin vast Rorgea nnd rnn > ons through which the river wind its wnj To them thli extraordinary work of mi turn was entirely too mnnilous to ml mlt of n natural explanation And no In accordance with n line of reatonlng which II I generally observed nil the world 1 oven by IIIval mlndi they lui mill late Y net to work to account for the canona on supernatural grounds Aiirtnu the different tribe different I trsjlltiont prevail but they nro nil iireeU In ono rl > ect that any one who had any concern whatever for hla mortal welfare would be ailing wlwiy to > uy away from the Colorado Ither The poor Indian who should inluro dovp tlmt awful precipice 1000 2000 and often 3 000 fret In height and embark em-bark nn the lUrcc gurgling torrent wboee roar could bo heard oven at those great depth would better flrt nuke Ids penra wllh the intuit lather ills friends would never see him ngalu Tho rher never ran backward unit onto down In that narrow cravle be l Hn sheer smooth walla halt n mile hljto hero was no poitlblllt of OI I capL I And It was dliolMdlente to tho Rode walcra of underground passives for the great river Into which boils had I pasted never to ho seen again It was currently bellaed that thin rher was lost under tho rock for several hundred hun-dred miles There were other accounts of groat falls whono roaring muilo could he heard on thin dlitnnt moun lain sum mlt and of parties wandering on Iho brink of thin canyon aluly endeavoring lo reach the water below and ptrlihlng with thirst nt lat In sight 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