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Buttinski Mine Shaft 



Near the point where this automobile spur leaves Grand View 

 Road, and at one corner of the Tusayan Garden, is the still open 

 shaft of an unworked mine. It is hoped and expected that the 

 mining claim will soon be invalidated; but it would be a wise con- 

 servation of "local color" if the old shaft could be preserved. 



Attractions Westward 



Visitors should also be encouraged to perambulate the rim to 

 the westward. Two specific attractions already exist in the ' ' Look- 

 out" on the railway property and the Kolb Bros.' studio. 



The head of Bright Angel Trail also serves as a mild interest to 

 some visitors, and might be made still more attractive by simple 

 means. 



In part to emphasize the Bright Angel Trail and in part to pro- 

 vide a permanent public right of way between it and the present 

 highway, I have recommended in my plan the reservation of a 

 strip, to be called Bright Angel Lane, approximately 50 feet wide, 

 running along the western line of the railway property from Ash 

 Fork Road to the head of the trail on the canyon rim. This land 

 lies in the present Cape Horn claim, which claim it is hoped soon 

 to extinguish in favor of the United States. By a small amount of 

 work the Bright Angel Trail can be brought up over the rim at this 

 point and its approach shifted to the proposed Bright Angel Lane. 



The whole idea of the Bright Angel Trail is alluring in the ex- 

 treme. The reputation of the trail is widely spread, and visitors 

 knowing of it come to the canyon with their imaginations full of 

 poetry, romance, and adventure* Unfortunately the present 

 approach to the trail is a rude shock to these valuable pre- 

 possessions. Nothing could be less poetic or romantic than the 

 path meandering between corrals, farm machinery, blackened 

 incinerators, outbuildings, and through back yards. 



