. In & around the Grand Canyon; the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona . o THE GRAND CANYON 239 CHAPTER XXII THE OLD HOPI SALT TRAIL ABOUT eight miles from the mouth of theLittle Colorado is located this old and his-toric trail, long used by Hopituh, Paiutis, andNavahos. It leads to a salt ledge, extending fromthe lower end of the Little Colorado, some eight ornine miles, towards the Tanner-French Trail of theGrand Canyon. Owing to the cheapness of salt,and the superior quality of the article purchased ofthe Indian traders, the aborigines have ceasedfetching salt from this ledge; he
. In & around the Grand Canyon; the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona . o THE GRAND CANYON 239 CHAPTER XXII THE OLD HOPI SALT TRAIL ABOUT eight miles from the mouth of theLittle Colorado is located this old and his-toric trail, long used by Hopituh, Paiutis, andNavahos. It leads to a salt ledge, extending fromthe lower end of the Little Colorado, some eight ornine miles, towards the Tanner-French Trail of theGrand Canyon. Owing to the cheapness of salt,and the superior quality of the article purchased ofthe Indian traders, the aborigines have ceasedfetching salt from this ledge; hence the trail israpidly becoming impassable, and unless somethingis speedily done to it, not even the agile Hopi andtheir fearless ponies will be able to use it. When Cardenas and his band desired to see thegreat river to the north — the Colorado — of whichthey had heard so much, it would have been an easymatter for the Hopi to have guided them to thistrail and to the point where the waters of the LittleColorado join those of the Colorado Grande. Butfearful that the stranger
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