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with ropes and brought back such portions of the camera equipment 

 as were intact. 



These were spread upon a canvass, where we could take account 

 of stock and see if anything at all had been rescued. Strangely enough, 

 while the machines were total wrecks, the several lenses were un- 

 harmed. 



As we were gathered about "the remains," as shown in figure 88, 

 we were treated to a typical tourist's question. We had heard many 

 of these questions recounted and had thought them exaggerated, but 

 after this experience, were ready to believe any of the guides' stories 

 concerning foolish questions asked by greenhorn visitors to the canyon. 

 A gentleman, answering in all respects to this description, came rush- 

 ing breathlessly up: 



"I understand you lost a mule over the cliff there yesterday." 



"Yes." 



"How far did he fall." 



"About four hundred feet." 



"Did it hurt the mule any." 



He was informed that the mule had sustained a fractured ankle 

 and that it had been necessary to put him out of his misery. 



Imagine a mule or any other living thing plunging headlong four 

 hundred feet to a bed of great jagged boulders and still surviving! 



Our photographic work was, for a time at least, effectually at an 

 end, for Skedoo had taken with him over the cliff, not only the motion 

 picture camera, but the large view camera and until these could be 

 replaced, we were obliged to devote our efforts to other types of in- 

 vestigation. 



However, we returned to Milwaukee with an excellent series of 

 still pictures and a large footage of motion picture films. 



A VISIT TO THE PETRIFIED FORESTS OF ARIZONA 



By Ira Edwards" 



While petrified wood is of common occurrence in many parts of 

 northeastern Arizona, the region where it is sufficiently abundant to 

 form petrified forests, is confined to a district in the vicinity of Ada- 

 mana, lying along the boundary line between Navajo and Apache 

 counties. Here are six of these forests, four of which have been set 

 aside as a National Monument and are under the protection of the 

 National Park Service. They begin about five miles directly south 



"Curator of Geology, Milwaukee Public Museum. 



