The Resources of Arizon
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ISBN13: 9781458936615
Paperback|9781458936615
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: sylvania and Virginia combined. Above its junction with the Grand its waters are clear and limpid, but after passing through the Grand canon, they are as turbid as those of the Missouri. The river is navigable by boats of light draft for over 600 miles, but it is one of the most changeable and capricious streams on the continent. It is continually shifting its channel, and it requires long experience and careful study to pilot a boat through its sinuous current. It is claimed that the channel changes every twenty-four hours, and where the river ran last year is often a fertile bottom overgrown with weeds and willow. Owing to the shifting sands and shoals, the Colorado can never be utilized to any great extent for travel or traffic. No doubt many of the camps along the river will receive their material by this route, but the building of two trans-continental railroads forever precludes the possibility of its supplying any large area of country. The Colorado drains the entire Territory of Arizona, and every drop of water which falls on its mountains, plains and mesas, finds its way to the great river. In its course through the Territory it receives but two tributaries of any consequence?the Little Colorado and the Gila. The Grand canon of the Colorado is the most stupendous chasm on the globe, and has not a parallel anywhere on earth. It is a tremendous gorge, over 400 miles in length, and from 1000 to 6000 feet in depth, cut through the eruptive rock of the elevated plateau by the river in its passage for ages from its mountain sources to the sea. A recent visitor to this wonder of the western world thus gives his impressions in the Central New Mexico: Four hundred and sixty-five miles west from Albuquerque, at Peach Springs, Arizona, is the point on the A. and P. railroad near...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458936615 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458936619 |
| Weight | 0.78 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.54 In |
| List Price | $21.33 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 238 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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