South fifty miles from a little des- 
ert station called Grant’s, just on the 
Arizona line, is a wonderful historic 
sight, the rocks where the first com- 
ers into America wrote their history. 
Very few white men have ever seen 
these historic rocks. A man at the 
station told me it was money thrown 
away to make the trip and it would 
wear a man out. “In thirty minutes 
you have seen it all and you will not 
have known what you saw. You can't 
read or understand them.” 
But I had read them and under- 
stood them long before I ever saw 
them, and I had read every scrap of 
history I could find of the venture- 
some men who wrote their names and 
missions there. They were written in 
Spanish by the early Spaniards who 
cut their way through this wilderness 
from Mexico to the Rio Grande. And 
they did not know there was a Rio 
Grande; what there was ahead of 
them, or whether they could ever 
come back, Just appreciate that Cor- 
onado, at the head of a band of ad- 
venturers, lured on by mysterious 
legends of gold, marched from the 
gulf of California to Missouri in 
1540. 
The great autograph cliff is called 
Inscripton Rock. There is a spring 
there, the first in many miles, and 
nearly all pioneers passed it and 
camped there. 
There are dates there that go back 
1580, and there are the names of 
Ornate and other men who made 
early history, but I looked in vain for 
the name of famous Coronado. 
Whether he missed this camping 
place, or whether he was too busy to 
write, I do not know. But there are 
scores of names of early heroes 
there, and some have written de- 
scriptive letters. 
One can’t write of such a place and 
make it interesting, but he will never 
forget the album rocks, Once seen. 
And it DOES seem as if our govern- 
ment should protect this wonder 
spot. 
There is another great wonder of 
the far dim days of our country, and 
one easily seen, in fact it is in plain 
sight of the Santa Fe railroad for 
several mles, near McCarthy’s, a lit- 
tle telegraph station just over the 
New Mexican line in Arizona. 
This is the stone river, once a river 
of molten lava but now a river that 
wil! never flow. In ancient days it 
poured out of Zuni mountain and 
flowed for forty miles across the 
country—a literal river of fire. As 
it cooled it rose higher and higher 
and ‘today it lays there from ten to 
twenty feet above the land. It fill- 
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ed low spots, made lakes and formed 
its path for forty miles. It is now 
eternal stone—black, glass-like lava. 
I never saw its source, but I was 
told it was a wonderful sight to see, 
that it tore out the side of a great 
mountain by its force and weight, 
and that today you can see a once 
great torrent where it broke asunder 
the mountain and ran in a great river 
of fire down its side to the level 
country. The river is as plain today 
as it was thousands of years ago 
when it was alive. I have walked 
for some miles alongside of it, and 
some day I hope to see where it was 
vomited from the earth, 
I have seen buttes, solitary and 
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far from others, rising at least one 
hundred feet high, whose tops were 
almost solid lava , and not another 
trace of lava could be found for 
miles. How these hills of solid sand 
could have a lava roof I never could 
guess out. 
‘hese are a few of the strange, 
wonderful and historic spots of our 
country. ‘(here are countless others 
all through the southwest. 
Would you pass up such wonders, 
the most of them to be easily seen, 
and tear off to the old world? 
The people of England know more 
about our wonderful dry land than 
we at home do. 
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