Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico, with a foreword by Owen Wister;new edition with (72 plates) from photographs by the author and his brother . es and date-palms, with frozen dateshanging on the branches, one effect of the coldest winterthey had seen in this section. The rancher told us he could not sell us anything thathad to be brought in, for it was seventy miles to therailroad, but we could look over such supplies as he ended by his selling us a chicken, two dozen eggs,five pounds of honey, and ten pounds of flour, — all for# We did not leave until the next mornin
Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico, with a foreword by Owen Wister;new edition with (72 plates) from photographs by the author and his brother . es and date-palms, with frozen dateshanging on the branches, one effect of the coldest winterthey had seen in this section. The rancher told us he could not sell us anything thathad to be brought in, for it was seventy miles to therailroad, but we could look over such supplies as he ended by his selling us a chicken, two dozen eggs,five pounds of honey, and ten pounds of flour, — all for# We did not leave until the next morning, thenbought another jar of honey, for we had no sugar, and two-thirds of the first jar was eaten before we left the ferry. We pulled away in such a hurry the next morningthat we forgot an axe that had been carried with us forthe entire journey. A five-hour run brought us to themouth of the Virgin River, a sand-bar a mile wide, andwith a red-coloured stream little larger than CataractCreek winding through it. We had once seen this streamnear its head waters, a beautiful mountain creek, thatseemed to bear no relation to this repulsive-looking stream. MOONEY l KLLS: HA \ \ SU CANYON THE LAST PORTAGE AND THE LAST RAPIDS 275 that entered from the north. A large, flat-topped, adobebuilding, apparently deserted, stood of! at one side of thestream. This was the head of navigation for flat-bottomed steamboats that once plied between hereand the towns on the lower end of the river. Theycarried supplies for small mines scattered through themountains and took out cargoes of ore, and of rock saltwhich was mined back in Nevada. It was here at the Virgin River that Major Powellconcluded his original voyage of exploration. Some ofhis men took the boats on down to Fort Mojave, a fewmiles above Needles; afterwards two of the party con-tinued on to the Gulf. The country below the Vir-gin River had been explored by several parties, but pre-vious to this time nothing definite was known of thego
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