Show RESEARCH MATERIAL ROM UTAH mah ER i W V PA 0 stupendous walls of jasper hued cna crannied chann chan nied led by a maghy ivr A river sinuous and tra treacherous berous as a snake that has lured rn mn n down its frothy white water to their de si st ruction and death such is the colorado ma ala or john desiay VEsi ay poa coaell ell i s n of the region reveals the sene which met hi eye when he made his first jour ney down the white water in 1809 1859 and gazed upon a brange sr ange weird grand region the lan landscape everywhere away from the river is of rock dills of rock tables of rock pla flauaus traus of rok terraces of rock crags of ro rok k ten thousand strangely carved f forms rocks everywhere and no vegetation no soil no sand A whole land of naked rock with giant forms carved on it cathedral shaped buttes towering hundreds or thousands of feet cliffs that cannot be scaled and canyon canyon walls that shrink the river into insignificance with vast hollow domes and tall pinnacles and shafts se sei on the verge overhead eve and all highly colored buff gray red brown and chocolate never not moss covered but bare and oft n poliE polished hed shooting the rapids of the colorado cannot easily be compared with a similar feat performed along rivers in the north woods country because the incredible country through which the colorado ra do runs is so very different obstacles presented are many submerged boulders as bid as a house wait to trip the eager boatman and the treacherous current carries him along alon smoothly deceiving ceivia 9 his trusting eye utterly until he may find too late his ad venure turned ino di disaster major john wes ecsey ey powell made jwj assaults on the river the first seventy two years ago and the second in 1871 this one armed adventurer and explorer nearly lost his life in split rock canyon during the first trip and accidents en masse visited the journey shivwits Shiv wits indians killed three of powells men who had become discouraged cou raged and left the party much I 1 dissension arose in the party during the second attempt to run the rapids for the major evidently took this expedition somewhat i lightly and failed to meet his men at designated places failed to send supplies and kept the men waiting in coffin confining ing canyons for days while he went scouting with jacob hamlin mormon missionary to the indians nevertheless powell porte pioneered ered the course of ruh the rapids and contributed vivid ind and graphic accounts of his trips which paved the way for mevi men who followed him not only in time but his course through the tha canyons of the colorado the star antares one of the largest our astronomers have discovered c d is Is 1 miles in diar diameter it is million times as large as our sun and billion times as large as our earth |