Seeing America first : with the Berry brothers . ns found several trails leading into the canyon, but they did not tell their secret tothe pale-face. However, when the white men did discover the trails, they spread the good newsand now you can go to the very rim of the canyon in a Pullman car, can stay at a splendid hotel,and can make the descent to the bottom of the canyon in perfect safety, for there are guides tolead the way and sure-footed little donkeys to carry you. The hurricane deck of one of thesemules is not the most comfortable place to spend a day, but the views one gets on the tri
Seeing America first : with the Berry brothers . ns found several trails leading into the canyon, but they did not tell their secret tothe pale-face. However, when the white men did discover the trails, they spread the good newsand now you can go to the very rim of the canyon in a Pullman car, can stay at a splendid hotel,and can make the descent to the bottom of the canyon in perfect safety, for there are guides tolead the way and sure-footed little donkeys to carry you. The hurricane deck of one of thesemules is not the most comfortable place to spend a day, but the views one gets on the trip areworth all the trouble. These pictures can only give you a faint idea of the wonders of the GrandCanyon. It would be foolish for us to try to describe the scenery because grown-ups have tried it andfailed, but we would like to tell about the Hopi Indians who live in their funny little huts nearthe hotel and who may be seen weaving baskets, making jewelry and pottery, and dancing theirqueer dances, but this page will not hold any more Openfn^ a Gu-rher It must have been a pretty dark old world before people found out about making kerosenefrom petroleum, for candles and queer little lamps burning lard, sperm-oil, or camphine, furnishedall the light there was at night. All that time there were great lakes of petroleum down deep inthe earth, but when it oozed out to the surface, people thought it was a nuisance and often aban-doned their greasy farms. Later these same farms were worth a fortune. It was a Pennsylvania man who first decided to bore for oil, and people thought him a littlebit flighty to do such an unheard-of thing. When his oil well began to spurt out 35 barrels of oila day, and people learned how valuable this oil was, the whole country got excited and in almostevery neighborhood someone bored for oil. Of course in many states they were disappointed,but vast fortunes have been made from the oil wells of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio,Indiana, Kansas, O
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