What to see in America . Salt Ki\kk Pkoject Canal of swallows swarming about their nests, but sometimes scat-tering wildly before the rush of great vultures that swoopdown from the crags. The dam was completed in until four years later, however, did the reservoir fill,thus creating one of the largest artificial bodies of water inthe world. The lake is thirty miles long, four miles wide atits broadest, and is completely walled in by water that the reservoir contains when full could prob- 442 What to See in America. Apache Indian Camp ably be depended onto irrigate all the
What to see in America . Salt Ki\kk Pkoject Canal of swallows swarming about their nests, but sometimes scat-tering wildly before the rush of great vultures that swoopdown from the crags. The dam was completed in until four years later, however, did the reservoir fill,thus creating one of the largest artificial bodies of water inthe world. The lake is thirty miles long, four miles wide atits broadest, and is completely walled in by water that the reservoir contains when full could prob- 442 What to See in America. Apache Indian Camp ably be depended onto irrigate all thefarms in the valleyfor five years even ifno drop of rain shouldfall. One of the mostinteresting excursionsthat can be made inArizona is the onehundred and twenty-mile automobile tripover the ApacheTrail. The easternterminus is the cop-per town of Globe where you leave the Southern PacificRailroad, and the western terminus is Phoenix. Just beforereaching Globe the train passes through San Carlos, thepresent home of the Apaches, where can be seen the pictur-esque red men on horseback and on foot, wrapped in bril-liant-colored blankets, and the women selling handmadebaskets. The several hands number in all about 5000 persons. Theirhouses are of alow oval formmade of polescovered with in-terlaced grassesand canvas. Hereare the WhiteMountains, aland of clearstreams, pines,The Roosevelt Dam meadows, and a
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