THE MONUMENT TO MAJOR POWELL ERECTED ON THE BRINK OF 
THE GRAND CANYON OF THE COLORADO 
The 60th Congress appropriated $5,000.00 
to be expended under the Interior Department in the 
erection of a monument to Major J. W. Powell, to be 
placed on the km of the Grama Gadven of the Colorado. 
A number of designs were prepared and one of these of 
commendable artistic merit was approved by Secretary 
Ballinger, but when completed it was set aside for 
the reason that assurance could not be given by the 
Committee that the cost would come within the $5,000. 
provided. 
Other aagucee were prepared which did not 
meet with the approval of the Art Commission to which 
body they were submitted. Finally, however, the 
design for the granite seat, afterwards built and 
illustrated on the accompanying page, was passed upon 
favorably by the Commission. 
Monument Committee: 
W. H. Holmes, Chairman 
Jd. R. Marshall, Architect 
May 1913. 
