A MIND'S-EYE MAP OE AMERICA 



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Photograph by Kolb Brothers 



MOONEY FALLS, A CATARACT .WHOSE NAME PERPETUATES THE MEMORY OF A 



DARING MINER, WHO TOST HIS LIFE WHILE BEING LOWERED 



TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PRECIPICE, l8o FEET 



The Indians have given the name of Havasu to this canyon, and they call themselves the 

 Havasupai — the People of the Blue Water. The Havasu is one of the most beautiful of the 

 lateral canyons of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. 



canyon in colors like those of pastel. I 

 hope we shall soon turn this into another 

 of our national parks. 



Just below this spot is the Colorado 

 River, where we already have the Grand 

 Canyon National Park. And some day 

 some one will put a stick of dynamite 

 into the bank of the Colorado River and 

 blow it out and throw a dam across and 

 store those waters, and then we shall 



have power enough to run the railroads 

 of that section and power enough to lift 

 the waters of that river up on to the 

 mesa lands and turn that desert into 

 orchard. 



Those are the things that fill your mind 

 when you are in that Western country: 

 A mountain in Utah being cut down at 

 the rate of 50,000 tons a day, and every 

 ton of it yielding copper ; going out in the 



