What to see in America . the Sum- mit of the last is ahorizontal line of white rock which the Indians say marksthe height reached by the waters of an ancient flood thatcovered almost the entire world. One of the strangedrought-resisting growths along the way is the weird giantcactus. It sometimes stands singly, and sometimes ingroves that spread over plain and mountain side. Thirtyfeet is no uncommon height for it to attain, and somerise more than fifty feet. From the spiny fluted trunksissue branches which almost equal the trunk itself in diam-eter. This monstrous cactus brings forth a brilli
What to see in America . the Sum- mit of the last is ahorizontal line of white rock which the Indians say marksthe height reached by the waters of an ancient flood thatcovered almost the entire world. One of the strangedrought-resisting growths along the way is the weird giantcactus. It sometimes stands singly, and sometimes ingroves that spread over plain and mountain side. Thirtyfeet is no uncommon height for it to attain, and somerise more than fifty feet. From the spiny fluted trunksissue branches which almost equal the trunk itself in diam-eter. This monstrous cactus brings forth a brilliant redwaxen flower of singular beauty — the state flower of Ari-zona. You will see various other cacti, and the Spanishbayonet or yucca, the mesquite, and the cats-claw growingin dense profusion. After every refreshing shower therespring up short-lived flowering plants that carpet the desertwith a mass of color. • Indeed, the desert is like a wizardsgarden in its mingling of the grotesque and beautiful. Arizona 445. Eagle Rock Monument About twenty-fivemiles southeast of Phoenixis the Casa Grande RuinReservation. Here is themost important prehis-toric Indian ruin of itstype in the hundred rooms withplazas and surroundingwalls have thus far near the Santa Fe Railroad, not far from the NewMexico line, are several petrified forests. They containvast deposits of petrified wood varying in size from tinyfragments to trees more than six feet in diameter and twohundred feet in length, and they cover thousands of of these forests is only six miles from the railway stationof Adamana. It is noted for the brilliant colors of the petri-fied wood and for its Natural Log Bridge. This bridgespans a chasm sixty feet wide with its jasper and agate neighboring petrified forest in which the colors compriseevery possible tint is called the Rainbow Forest. Another isknown as the BlueForest on account ofthe blue tint of itstrees. These forestscan
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