<h2><SPAN name="c4">INFORMATION FOR TOURISTS</SPAN></h2>
<h3>Preliminary</h3>
<p>There is only one way by which to directly reach the Grand Canyon of
Arizona, and that is via the Santa Fe (The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
System).</p>
<p>There are three ways of reaching the Canyon from the Santa Fe—rail
from Williams, private conveyance from Flagstaff and Peach Springs.</p>
<p>The route from Flagstaff is not available in winter. The Peach Springs
route is open in winter, but now little used. The bulk of the travel is via
Williams, sixty-five miles north to Bright Angel—open all the year.</p>
<h3>Three Gateways</h3>
<p>There are but three points from which an easy descent may be made of
the south wall to the granite gorge of the Grand Canyon:</p>
<p>1. At Grand View, down Berry’s (Grand View) or Hance’s (Red Canyon)
trails.</p>
<p>2. At Bright Angel, down Bright Angel Trail.</p>
<p>3. At Bass’ Camp, down Mystic Spring Trail.</p>
<p>While the canyon may be reached over trails at other places outside of
the district named (such as Lee’s Ferry Trail, by wagon from Winslow; Moki
Indian Trail, by way of Little Colorado Canyon; and Diamond Creek road to
Colorado River from Peach Springs station), most tourists prefer the Bright
Angel, Grand View, and Bass’ Camp routes, because of the superior facilities
and views there offered. The Peach Springs route is the only other one now
used by the public to any extent.</p>
<p>It is near Grand View that Marble Canyon ends and the Grand Canyon
proper begins. Northward, a few miles away, is the mouth of the Little Colorado
Canyon. Here the granite gorge is first seen.</p>
<p>Bright Angel is approximately in the center, and Bass’ Camp at the
western end of the granite gorge. By wagon road it is eighteen miles from
Bright Angel east to Grand View, and twenty-three miles west to Bass’ Camp.</p>
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<p>In a nutshell, the Grand Canyon at Grand View is accounted most sublime—a
scene of wide outlooks and brilliant hues; at Bright Angel, deepest and
most impressive—a scene that awakens the profoundest emotions; at Bass’
Camp, the most varied—a scene of striking contrasts in form and color.</p>
<p>Each locality has its special charm. All three should be visited, if time
permits, as only by long observation can one gain even a superficial knowledge
of what the Grand Canyon is. To know it intimately requires a longer stay
and more careful study.</p>
<h3>The Ride from Williams</h3>
<p>Because of recent improvements in service the Grand Canyon of Arizona
may now be visited, either in summer or winter, with reasonable comfort and
without any hardship. No one need be deterred by fear of inclement weather
or a tedious stage ride. The trip is entirely feasible for the average traveler
every day in the year.</p>
<p>Leaving the Santa Fe transcontinental train at Williams, Arizona, passengers
change in same depot to a local train of the Grand Canyon Railway, which
leaves Williams daily, and arrives at destination after a three hours’ run.</p>
<p>Williams is a busy town of 1,500 inhabitants, 378 miles west of Albuquerque,
on the Santa Fe. Here are located large sawmills, smelters, numerous well-stocked
stores, and railroad division buildings. Prior to the disastrous fire in
July, 1901, there were several excellent hotels. The one not destroyed affords
good accommodations; it has been recently enlarged and otherwise improved.</p>
<p>There is usually ample time at Williams, between trains, for the ascent of
Bill Williams Mountain, which rises near the town to a height of 9,000 feet.
Tourists will find the trip thoroughly enjoyable. It can be made in five hours
on horseback in perfect safety. The trail is an easy one, first leading through
a gently sloping path of pines, then steeply up to the wind-swept summit alongside
a pretty stream bordered by thickets of quaking aspens. Chimney Rock,
with its eagle’s nest, is a noteworthy rock formation. On the summit is buried
the historic pioneer scout, Bill Williams. From his resting-place there is a wide
outlook, embracing, on clear days, the wall of the Grand Canyon, Verde River,
Chino Valley, Jerome, Hell Canyon, Seligman, Ash Fork, and many neighboring
peaks.</p>
<p>The railroad track to the canyon is remarkably smooth for a new line. It
is built across a slightly rolling mesa, in places thickly wooded, in others open.
The snow-covered San Francisco Peaks are on the eastern horizon. Kendricks,
Sitgreaves, and Williams mountains are also visible. Red Butte, thirty miles
distant, is a prominent local landmark. Before the terminus is reached the train
climbs a long, high ridge and enters Coconino Forest, which resembles a natural
park. The route here is amid fragrant pines, over low hills, and along occasional
gulches and “washes.” Taken under the favorable conditions which generally
prevail at this high altitude, the journey is a novelty and a delight.</p>
<h3>At Destination</h3>
<p>The hotel at head of Bright Angel Trail is reached early in the evening.
The tourist then finds himself on the verge of a high precipice, from which is
obtained by moonlight a magnificent view of the opposite wall and of the intervening
crags, towers, and slopes. The suddenness, the surprise, the revelation
come as a fitting climax to a unique trip. After nightfall the air becomes cold,
for here you are 7,000 feet above the sea; yet the absence of humidity, peculiar
to these high altitudes, makes the chill less penetrating than on lower levels. By
day, in the sunshine, there is usually a genial warmth—then overcoats, gloves,
and wraps are laid aside.</p>
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<h3>Bright Angel Hotel</h3>
<p>The Bright Angel Hotel is managed by Mr. M. Buggeln, who also controls
the stage line, trail stock, guides, etc. The hotel comprises a combination log
and frame structure of eight rooms, with three frame annexes containing forty-six
sleeping rooms, and (for summer use) several rows of tents, all clustered on
the rim and surrounded by pines and spruces. Each room in the annexes has
one or two beds, a stove, dressing table, and Navajo rugs. In the log-cabin
part of the main edifice are two large rooms. One is used for reception purposes,
being warmed by means of an old-fashioned fireplace and tastefully carpeted
with Indian rugs, also furnished with capacious rocking chairs and a piano; the
other of these two rooms is for the office.</p>
<p>Good meals are prepared by expert cooks and served in a pleasant dining-room.
In a word, the hotel facilities are good, far better than one might expect
to find for the reasonable rate charged. There is no “roughing it”; everything
is homelike and comfortable. One must not, however, expect all the city
luxuries. A telephone and telegraph line directly connects the hotel with the
outer world at Williams.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><span class="sc">Note.</span>—A fine modern hotel of fifty rooms, with cottage annexes, to be known as Bright
Angel Tavern, will be built in this vicinity during 1903 and managed by Mr. Fred Harvey.
It will be a permanent affair and will provide all the latest conveniences.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>While one ought to remain at least a week, a stop-over of three days from
the transcontinental trip will allow practically two days at the canyon. One
full day should be devoted to an excursion down Bright Angel Trail, and the
other to walks and drives along the rim. Another day on the rim—making
a four-days’ stop-over in all—will enable visitors to get more satisfactory views
of this stupendous wonder.</p>
<h3>Down Bright Angel Trail</h3>
<p>The trail here is perfectly safe and is generally open the year round. In
midwinter it is liable to be closed for a few days at the top by snow, but such
blockade is only temporary. It reaches from the hotel four miles to the top
of the granite wall immediately overlooking the Colorado River. At this point
the river is 1,200 feet below, while the hotel on the rim is 4,300 feet above.
The trip is commonly made on horseback, accompanied by a guide; charges
for trail stock and services of guide are moderate. A strong person, accustomed
to mountain climbing, can make the round trip on foot in one day, by
starting early enough; but the average traveler will soon discover that a horse
is a necessity, especially for the upward climb.</p>
<p>Eight hours are required for going down and coming back, allowing two
hours for lunch, rest, and sight-seeing. Those wishing to reach the river leave
the main trail at Indian Garden Spring and follow the downward course of
Willow and Pipe creeks. Owing to the abrupt descent from this point, part of
the side trail must be traversed on foot. Provision is made for those wishing
to camp out at night on the river’s edge.</p>
<p>The famous guide, John Hance, is now located at Bright Angel.</p>
<h3>What to Bring</h3>
<p>If much tramping is done, stout, thick shoes should be provided. Ladies
will find that short walking skirts are a convenience; divided skirts are preferable,
but not essential, for the horseback journey down the zigzag trail.
Traveling caps and (in summer) broad-brimmed straw hats are useful toilet
adjuncts. Otherwise ordinary clothing will suffice. A good field glass and
camera should be brought along.</p>
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<div class="fig"><ANTIMG src="images/p012.jpg" alt="" width-obs="800" height-obs="487" /> <p class="caption">Bright Angel Hotel.</p> </div>
<p>The round-trip ticket rate, Williams to Grand Canyon and return, is only
$6.50. Adding $6 for two days’ stay at Canyon Hotel, $1 for part of a day
at hotel in Williams, $1.50 for probable proportion of cost of guide, $3 for trail
stock, and the total necessary expense of the three days’ stop-over is about $18
for one person; each additional day only adds $3 to the cost for hotel.</p>
<p>Stop-overs will be granted at Williams on railroad and Pullman tickets if
advance application is made to train and Pullman conductors. Trunks may
be stored in the station at Williams free of charge by arrangement with ticket
agent.</p>
<h3>Grand View</h3>
<p>Grand View (previously mentioned) may be reached in summer by private
conveyance from Flagstaff, a distance of seventy-five miles; or at any time of
the year by stage from Bright Angel, sixteen miles along the rim. The rate
for round trip, Bright Angel to Grand View, is $2.50 to $5 each person,
according to size of party. While Flagstaff is an interesting place to visit—with
its near-by cliff and cave dwellings and San Francisco Peaks—and the
trip thence to the Grand Canyon is a novel one, distance and time are such
that most travelers prefer to go in by railroad from Williams.</p>
<p>Grand View Hotel is a large, rustic structure, built near the head of
Berry’s Trail and about three miles from Hance’s Trail, in the midst of tall
pines and overlooking the mighty bend of the Colorado. This is the point to
which visitors were conducted in the days of the old stage line from Flagstaff.</p>
<p>It is noted for its wide views of the Coconino Forest and Painted Desert, as
well as for the beautiful forms and color of the canyon itself. A favorite trip
here is to go down one trail and up the other. The hotel accommodations are
quite good; capacity, forty guests; rate, $3 per day.</p>
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<h3>Bass’ Camp</h3>
<p>At the western end of the granite gorge is Mystic Spring Trail, an easy
route down to the Colorado River and up the other side to Dutton’s Point and
Powell’s Plateau. The magnificent panorama eastward from Havasupai Point
takes in fifty miles of the canyon, while westward is the unique, table-like
formation which characterizes the lower reaches of the river. The views from
both rims are pronounced by noted artists and explorers to be unequaled.</p>
<p>Present accommodations at Havasupai Hotel (Bass’ Camp), near head of this
trail, are fairly good, consisting of a cabin, several tents, and good trail stock;
wholesome meals are served in comfortable style. A new hotel is to be built
here during 1903. Bass’ Camp is now reached by stage from Coconino, a
station on the Grand Canyon Railway, or one may take a team direct from
Bright Angel.</p>
<p>A visit should be made to the Havasupai Indian village in Cataract Canyon.
Any bona fide tourist can procure an introductory letter from the railroad
agent at Williams or Grand Canyon. On presenting same to the U. S. Indian
agent at Supai, permission will be granted to enter the reservation. This is an
unique trip of about forty miles, first by wagon across a timbered plateau, then
on horseback down precipitous Topocobya Trail, along the rocky floors of
Topocobya and Cataract canyons, deep in the earth, to a place of gushing springs,
green fields, and enchanting waterfalls. Here live the Havasupai Indians, one
of the most interesting tribes in Arizona. The round trip from Bright Angel
or Bass’ Camp is made in three or four days at an expense of $35 to $50 each
for a party of three persons.</p>
<h3>Peach Springs Route</h3>
<p>The trip in winter from Peach Springs station down to the Colorado River,
through Diamond Creek Canyon, is most enjoyable. Owing to the low altitude
here (4,780 feet at Peach Springs and approximately 2,000 feet at the river)
the air is usually balmy from November to April; in summer the heat is a
considerable drawback.</p>
<p>A journey of but twelve miles leads you through a miniature Grand Canyon
with scenery increasingly sublime. On either side are abrupt walls and wonderfully
suggestive formations—castles, domes, minarets. On your left, glancing
backward, is an exact reproduction of Westminster Abbey.</p>
<p>This comparatively easy jaunt brings you by team to the very brink of the
swift-rolling Colorado, whereas by the other Grand Canyon gateways you are
landed on the rim and must go down thousands of feet by a steep trail. The
outlook here is restricted to the river itself and the great walls rising precipitously
from its banks—a scene well worth while, but not so impressive as the
wide sweep of the canyon visible from the rim.</p>
<p>Following Diamond Creek to its source you may walk along the bed of the
stream between walls thousands of feet high and glistening in the white sunlight
as if varnished. The upper part of Diamond Creek is a veritable terrace
of fern bowers, luxuriant vegetation, crystal cascades, and sequestered meadow
parks.</p>
<h3>Flagstaff and Vicinity</h3>
<p>The town itself is an interesting place, prettily situated in the heart of the
San Francisco uplift and surrounded by a pine forest.</p>
<p>Its hotels, business houses, lumber mills, and residences denote thrift. On
a neighboring hill is the Lowell Observatory, noted for its many contributions
to astronomical science.</p>
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<div class="fig"><ANTIMG src="images/p013.jpg" alt="" width-obs="800" height-obs="495" /> <p class="caption">San Francisco Peaks.</p> </div>
<p>Eight miles southwest from Flagstaff—reached by a pleasant drive along a
level road through tall pines—is Walnut Canyon, a rent in the earth several
hundred feet deep and three miles long, with steep terraced walls of limestone.
Along the shelving terraces, under beetling projections of the strata, are scores
of quaint cliff dwellings, the most famous group of its kind in this region.
The larger abodes are divided into several compartments by cemented walls,
many parts of which are still intact. It is believed that these cliff dwellers
were of the same stock as the Pueblo Indians of to-day and that they lived here
about 800 years ago.</p>
<p>Nine miles from Flagstaff and only half a mile from the old stage road to
the Grand Canyon, upon the summit of an extinct crater, the remarkable ruins
of the cave-dwellers may be seen.</p>
<p>The magnificent San Francisco Peaks, visible from every part of the
country within a radius of a hundred miles, lie just north of Flagstaff. There
are three peaks which form one mountain. From Flagstaff a road has been
constructed up Humphrey’s Peak, whose summit is 12,750 feet above sea level.
It is a good mountain road, and the entire distance from Flagstaff is only about
ten miles. The trip to the summit and back is easily made in one day.</p>
<h3>Announcement</h3>
<p>The Santa Fe has published a new and beautiful book on the Grand Canyon.
It contains articles by Hamlin Garland, Harriet Monroe, Robert Brewster
Stanton, Chas. S. Gleed, John L. Stoddard, Charles Dudley Warner, R. D. Salisbury,
“Fitz Mac,” Nat M. Brigham, Joaquin Miller, Edwin Burritt Smith, David
Starr Jordan, C. E. Beecher, Henry P. Ewing, and Thomas Moran, as well as
the authors represented in this pamphlet. The book has more than a hundred
pages, illustrated with half-tones and portraits; the cover is from a painting of
the Canyon by Thomas Moran, and is lithographed in seven colors. It will be
forwarded on receipt of fifty cents.</p>
<p>A beautiful and unique color picture of the Grand Canyon, mounted to
show all its colors as in nature, may be had for twenty-five cents.</p>
<p class="center">Address W. J. BLACK,
<br/>Gen’l Passenger Agent, A., T. & S. F. Ry., CHICAGO.</p>
<p class="center">Ad. 71—2-3-03. <span class="hst">10M.</span></p>
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