What to see in America . ^ the reddishcinders with which it is tipped. The crater on top is twohundred feet deep and half a mile across. In the depths ofthe crater are caves where ice is found in the hottest part ofsummer. About forty miles east of Flagstaff is CraterMound, perhaps the most mysterious geologic feature inthe West. It is a circular ridge from one hundred to onehundred and fifty feet above the level of the plain, and thisridge, which consists of loose fragments of rock and sand,incloses a great hole six hundred feet deep and four thousandfeet across. Some persons have thought tha
What to see in America . ^ the reddishcinders with which it is tipped. The crater on top is twohundred feet deep and half a mile across. In the depths ofthe crater are caves where ice is found in the hottest part ofsummer. About forty miles east of Flagstaff is CraterMound, perhaps the most mysterious geologic feature inthe West. It is a circular ridge from one hundred to onehundred and fifty feet above the level of the plain, and thisridge, which consists of loose fragments of rock and sand,incloses a great hole six hundred feet deep and four thousandfeet across. Some persons have thought that the hole wasmade by the impact of a great meteor, and a mining companywas organized to find and work the huge mass of meteoric Arizona 449. Natural Bh u THE Haystack Rocks iron supposed to be buried in the hole. However, a boringone thousand feet deep failed to reveal a trace of themeteor. Prob-ably the hole isthe result of anexplosion ofsteam from vol-canic forces be-low. Thirty-fivemiles west ofFlatstaff is Wil-liams, near whichis the Bill Wil-liams Mountain, over 9000 feet high. The mountain wasnamed after a famous scout who was killed by the Indiansfifty miles to the south. It can be ascended by an easybridle path. From Williams a branch railway runs nearlydue north sixty-four miles to the Grand Canyon. In thedepths of the canyon flows the Colorado River, which, withits tributaries, gathers the waters of 300,000 square miles. In Arizona it flows through a thousand-mile series of twentyvast canyons, most ofwhich have only ashort break Grand Canyon,monarch of all, is thethird, counting up-stream. It is anenormous gulf insolid rock, two hundred miles long, four thousand to sixthousand feet deep, and with a wi
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