. In & around the Grand Canyon; the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona . ve the neces-sary pumps for forcing water from the Inner Gorgeto the rim, an inexhaustible supply would be theresult, and this, undoubtedly, will some day bedone. But some day, may be for years, or itmay be half a century; and in the mean time thewater problem must be more readily solved. Thewater used at the Grand View Hotel is hauled adistance of thirty-eight miles. There is practicallyno water on the rim. As Mr. Bass years agopointed out, the maps of the Geological Survey donot indicate the facts — or, if th
. In & around the Grand Canyon; the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona . ve the neces-sary pumps for forcing water from the Inner Gorgeto the rim, an inexhaustible supply would be theresult, and this, undoubtedly, will some day bedone. But some day, may be for years, or itmay be half a century; and in the mean time thewater problem must be more readily solved. Thewater used at the Grand View Hotel is hauled adistance of thirty-eight miles. There is practicallyno water on the rim. As Mr. Bass years agopointed out, the maps of the Geological Survey donot indicate the facts — or, if they do, the tyro atmap-reading does not realize it — that, with theexceptions of the Little Colorado River, Havasu(Cataract) Creek, and Diamond Creek, the wholeWatershed of the south wall of the Canyon slopes THE GRAND CANYON 119 away from the Canyon instead of towards it. Hencethe singular and almost abnormal phenomenon of ariver draining a country with the water which fallson each side of its banks flowing azvay from it in-stead of into it. To the prospector or unacquainted. Copyright by George Vvhartofi James. Vishnu Temple from Upper Plateau, Grand ViewTrail. traveller in the district this strange state of affairsoften brings danger, and even a near approach todeath throus^h thirst; and to those who have theresponsibility before them of supplying the needsof thousands of tourists each year who are accus-tomed to an unrestricted use of water, the problemis both vexatious and expensive. Personally, I see no other immediate way out of I20 IN AND AROUND the difficulty than that which Mr. Basss indefati-gability and indomitable energy have hewn out forhim at the head of the Mystic Spring Trail. With-out waiting for the opinion of scientific experts andengineers, or for capital to pump water up fromthe river, he has taken drill and hammer, brain andmuscle, and by an ingenious combination of themall, assisted by powder and dynamite, and, later, bycement, has blasted out and mad
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