. In & around the Grand Canyon; the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona . e all the trails from the Little Colo-rado River to Havasu (Cataract) Canyon — wasused first long ages ago by the Havasupai Indians,and, in the heart of the side canyon down whichthe trail s^oes, are still to be seen the rude irrigratins:canals which conveyed the large volume of water thatflows from a near-by spring to the so-called IndianGarden, the richness of whose verdure is one of thegreat attractions to the tourist who gazes down fromthe rim. Recently a new upper section of trail, well engi-neered and of
. In & around the Grand Canyon; the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona . e all the trails from the Little Colo-rado River to Havasu (Cataract) Canyon — wasused first long ages ago by the Havasupai Indians,and, in the heart of the side canyon down whichthe trail s^oes, are still to be seen the rude irrigratins:canals which conveyed the large volume of water thatflows from a near-by spring to the so-called IndianGarden, the richness of whose verdure is one of thegreat attractions to the tourist who gazes down fromthe rim. Recently a new upper section of trail, well engi-neered and of easy grade, was constructed from theBright Angel Hotel for over a mile. Leaving the hotel, the trail drops westward forthree-quarters of a mile, zigzagging back and forthuntil the top of the cross-bedded sandstone is THE GRAND CANYON I ^i 3 reached. Here, even the non-geological observercan see the faulting of the rocks, which has sobroken and shattered the strata as to make a trailpossible down these precipitous walls. The sign-board calls attention to the drop or rise of the. Copy ri^ht by F H Maude. Battleship Iowa on Bright Angel Trail. sandstone, for, opposite us, the cap of this stratumis one hundred and fifty to two hundred feet higherthan the same cap upon which we now stand. C. Bicknell, the geological expert of the Anitamines, states that all the copper mines of the regionare found on a line almost due south from this fault,and his theory is that the copper was ejected duringthe time of the faulting. Down about a mile the line of separation betweenthe cross-bedded sandstone and upper red sandstoneis very clearly shown to the left of the trail. 132 IN AND AROUND Immediately before us to the left is a majesticpile of the red sandstone, capping the red walllimestone. This is so much like a battleship thatit has been called the Battleship Iowa. A few feet farther and the cross-bedded sandstonemay be seen far below to the right, showing per-fectly the fault before
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