. General Information Regarding the National Monuments . n. The saguaro is that variety of cactus which grows in acylindrical form to a height of 30 or 35 feet, with from one to adozen branches of the same character from the main stalk, generallynear the top. There are also within the tract prehistoric pictographswhich are found upon the faces of the rocks, adding to the interestof the reservation and to its ethnological and archaeological the center of the tract, running northwest and southeast, is a 37 ridge of low hills rising from the flat desert to a height of 150 to 200feet
. General Information Regarding the National Monuments . n. The saguaro is that variety of cactus which grows in acylindrical form to a height of 30 or 35 feet, with from one to adozen branches of the same character from the main stalk, generallynear the top. There are also within the tract prehistoric pictographswhich are found upon the faces of the rocks, adding to the interestof the reservation and to its ethnological and archaeological the center of the tract, running northwest and southeast, is a 37 ridge of low hills rising from the flat desert to a height of 150 to 200feet/ The rocks in the ridge have been worn considerably by the ele-ments, resulting in numerous caves and a few openings extendingentirely through the rocks. One of these openings, known locally asHole-in-the-rock, is an aperture some 15 feet high and 25 feet longwith an amphitheater approach to the hole on each side. Theseapproach rooms are about 30 feet square, with the overhanging rockfor a roof in each case. The monument is visited by several thousand. ////////////////////a Boundary of Monument Papago Saguaro National Monument, Ariz., embracing the SE. \ of sec. 33, ,; W. \ of W. \sec. 3 all sec. 4, NE. * and E. * of SE. \, sec. 5, W. £ and W. \ SE. \ sec. 10, N. J N. * SE. \ and NE. \of S \V. \ sec. 9, T. 1 N., It. 4 E., all east of Gila and Salt River meridian, containing 2, acres. people each year as a picnic ground, as it is readily reached by auto-mobile or team, over good roads, from Phoenix or Tempe, Ariz.,distant respectively 9 and 3 miles. Phoenix is reached by rail by theSanta Fe, rrescott & Phoenix Railroad, a branch of the main line ofthe Santa Fe Railway from Ash Fork, Ariz. Phoenix and Tempeare also reached by the Arizona & Eastern Railroad, which branchesfrom the main line of the Southern Pacific Railway at Maricopa,Ariz. The monument is well located to be viewed in connection witha trip over the great irrigation system of the Salt River Valley,
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