Show sail stan sn juan see ae S FIFTH installment WHAT THE TOURIST MAY SEE WHILE VISITING THE SAN JUAN NATURAL WONDERS south of the san juan river is the home of the red men their pole and mud hogans and their leafy sun albors bors dot the countryside wherever 4 RUN 1 i N K X w 4 FA AX alt 0 r 0 4 A IT x XV R 6 amin I 1 1 1 t it THE NEEDLES M N W 1 X P K J 1 4 ELEPHANT S TOES ep irps or water hole makes hu human in in vo I 1 A a able alt I 1 it PO fo viry very prior the navajo jn lire are arc self supporting anam alee a meagre living raising in d attle btttle they weave beautiful ful rugs rug I 1 ironi from their home V grown wool the wo who do tho the weaving carry the he pattern in their heads native silversmiths beat the white metal into bracelets rings and ornaments for belts and clothing often they set or other semiprecious semi precious stones in their jewelry the deeper canyons which rut fill the desert floor contain many clit house ruins attesting to the fact t that hat this barren tho beautiful land was once much more thickly settled than at ly re tent no one kawi what became of ct alp ancient inhabitants perhaps legend there i dere 1 is sabini ibm 1 ti nt to 0 ilia ill indian that the navajo conquered ed os 02 sst diw 1 1 SCENIC SAN JUAN SCENES from page 1 I j 77 t r 6 a 5 44 t al 4 ask i RUIN NEAR KAYENTA a ia 1 6 A T 1 g THE MITTEN the cliff dwellers and threw them into the san juan river where they became fish the older navajos cavajos will not cat at fish kayenta kayetta Ka yenta one ot of the larger trading posts pests is situated in the midst of a country of startling grandeur some of the largest and best preserved cliff dwellings are to be found nearby amog them the lamous famous keet seel ruin which nestles upon a shelf of rock nearly a thousand feet long of which the stone building occupies a greater portion the monument valley abounds in tall spires and pillars which rise to great heights to pierce the jagged skyline these are not upheavals of molten rock but are remnants 0 of a higher surface level of the earths crust which has all but eroded away some of these curious shaped natural monuments have been named and are called according to the suggestiveness gesti S veness ot of their shape such as the elephants toes the needles and the mitten from kayenta kayetta one may visit that r most beautiful of monuments the R rainbow natural bridge which rises to a height of more than three hundred feet into the air in a graceful I 1 arch which spans a small stream A road leads in a southeasterly I 1 direction to gallup new Ar mexico exico an other winds southwest to tuba city and thence to flagstaff and the south rim of the grand canyon or if 0 or turns to the north at tuba city the highway will lead them across the great marble canyon bridge which spans the mighty chasm of the colorado near lees ferry thence thru the forest where deer gi graze aze in herds like cattle and on to tile north rim of the grand canyon or northward to the national parks ot of southern utah wherever one may go from the san juan wonderland however the haunting beauty and gripping grandeur of the solitudes of south eastern utah will often claim attention when brings to view the scenes of bygone days |