DELLENBAUGH] MEMORIAL TO JOHN WESLEY POWELL 436 
a surviving sister of Major Powell’s, Mrs. Juliet Powell Rice, came 
on from California, and also Mrs. L. W. Field, who was. living with 
her husband at Green River station when Major Powell started, 
and who served the party their last civilized breakfast before they 
turned their prows down the stream. 
The ceremonies were arranged by Manager Brant of El Tovar 
and began at two in the afternoon of May 20, 1918, by an invocation 
by Bishop Atwood of Phoenix. This was followed by the placing 
of a wreath of wild flowers on the monument by a company of 
young girls dressed in white. A libation of water from the Colo- 
rado was next poured by Mrs. Field. Then Governor George W. 
P. Hunt, of Arizona, made an address, William Farnum the emi- 
nent actor recited, and finally Secretary Lane concluded the exer- 
cises by these remarks: 
Major Powell throughout his life was the incarnation of the inquisitive and 
courageous spirit of the American. He wanted to know and he was willing to 
risk his life that he might know. This was the spirit that he showed in making 
the hazard of his life in exploring the Colorado River canyon. Mystery did not 
daunt him. It was a challenge to his intrepid spirit. From boyhood he was a 
soldier, not merely in the brave days of his army life, but in the equally brave 
days of his civil life. If, as some one has said, life is a great experience and only 
the adventurous succeed, Powell’s life was a success. His name is forever linked 
with the romance of the conquest of the American continent. This monument 
will stand for the centuries to his honor, but there should be, and there will be, 
a greater monument to him, erected to him by the people of the United States. 
For these waters will be turned upon millions of acres of desert lands to make them 
fruitful. The soldiers returning from our great war across the ocean will, I trust, 
be put to work storing and training and leading out these waters upon the great 
plains below, and the homes that during the centuries to come will dot what now 
is waste land, will be the real monument to Major Powell. 
Considering that Major Powell was one of the first to urge the 
reclamation of the arid lands of the United States, the Secretary’s 
remarks were truly apropos. . 
But nothing, no matter how big, can express more eloquently 
the absolute identity of Major Powell with the spirit of the wonder- 
ful river than this simple pyramid, overlooking the most difficult 
portion of the torrent and the deepest and most magnificent part 
of the whole series of great canyons. 
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NEw York City. 
