STAGE COACH TRIP to the GRAND CANYON 1895 by JOSEPHINE FRANKENBER of TEMPE An /r»r» ?R epub lie. yadnuMorning, SxineohP July 26, 1936 Stage Coach Canyon \ rip Is Described IT'S vacation time — and now, as more than 40 years ago, the Grand Can¬ yon is a mecca for Arizona folk, as well as those from many other climes, in which to spend a few days" and revel in the majestic bi&uty of one of the greatest natural wonders in the world. An interesting contrast in the time required to make the trip and the convenience with which the canyon may be reached, 40, years ago and now, is contained, however, in excerpts from a diary kept by Miss Josephine Frankenberg, Tempe, when a group of valley, young people made the trip in 189r>, ■Seven weeks were required to make the trip to the canyon and hack—and the cost to each person $100, which included horse ren¬ tal and feed, and wages for the cook. Today's vacationist arrives there in one day and with no com¬ parable expense. was |Members of the party were Miss Uduie Gage, who is now Mrs; John fSnnett, wife of a prominent. Phoe¬ physician; Jerry Mi Hay, then district, attorney, and Mrs. Mil la y. who now live in California! Carl Hay den, now United States senator from Arizona: Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Springer, Tempe merchants* Ed¬ gar L. Stormer, second teacher to he placed on the faculty at the Ari¬ zona State Teachers College; then nix thej Tempe Normal school—and re¬ ferred to throughout the story as "P?:of."; the late W. J. Kingsbury, of the Farmers and Mer¬ chants Bank of Tempe; Miss owner (Continued On Page Two) jjjK ';.-l ' m 1; 1 ■ ■ C anyon Trip Is Described I I (Continued From Page One) Frankenberg, prominent clubl wom¬ her brother, Don Frankenberg, g Some of the experiences of the trip are told in the following para¬ graphs: Tempe, July 8, 1895. On the evening of the Normal Baccalaureate sermon, Mrs.1 Storment spoke of getting up a- party of 8 or 10 persons with the intention of going to the Grand Canyon and other places of interest in the north¬ ern part of Arizona. From then on till July 8, the time was spent in preparing for the trip, not the least an aiid horticulturist, and of. which was the ladies' costumes. 1 preparation!of the The party; com¬ posed of Prof. Storment anc| wife; Mr. |Springer and Wife; Mr. iiMillay Louie Gage, and; wife; Carlf Hay- den.) Don and 1 had agreed to start on July 8, but Mr. Millay could not leave his law business just then and [was to join the party at the as far as Fligstaft Caihyon, coming Also Mr. Springer was unableltd join the party from, the start on account of being disappointed in by rail. for his to join fcarty in a few days, the rest waiting after getting far enough business manager hardware store, but he was securing a the , north to secure a cooler climate, ^ arrijvod The morning of July 8 due time and everything was-bustle and Iconfusion. The wagons were neither of them in traveling condi- in tionijiby the times set to leave Tempe andithat fact caused more: delay and confusion The was3 before farther on. time set to lekve Tempe o'clock but it was fully 6 the old U. S. Mail coach, filled principally, with female, was loaded and drove down Mill ave- nueland created nearly as great a sensation as a Wild West Show. A great many people were disap¬ pointed because they did not get to see the laMjl^^MHWHHHHHHIi Bloomers Arouse Comment An hour and a half later found the old stage drawn up in front of Mrs. Millar's residence in The crowd parleyed a while as to whether they should drive upitown to supper or walk up, and! they thought it better to drive to sup¬ per ahd Carl was left to watch the mules, while the rest of us got our supper, as leftBrempe. One stunned nearly before he gentleman: was had his he at sight of the ejaculation of sur¬ plainly audible. Aftpr rather a late supper the crowd returned to Mrs. Mi! lay's where watermelons were served on the lawn and stories told while waiting for the- baggage wagon to bloomers and an prise 1 was arrive. About 11 o'clock every body was too tired to wait for cots. They spread out bedding on the lawn and slept as comfortably as if at home, if you ments. awake could believe their state¬ Next morning everyone was by daylight and ready for breakfast by six o'clock. jgfl Breakfast was ordered the .msht before in order to escape the curi¬ ous gaze of the crowd later. Every¬ and the stage landed us at the Opera Rouse cafe without any accidents. Break¬ fast over, we were waiting for one was on hand punctually stage to take us backjj| when lady (?) and two gentlemen came The gentleman simply glanced at -the bloomers, and seemed 'b ap the a in. prove of them, but the. lady such a scornful glance her face assumed such (?) cast, at them* and disgusted expression that I could not help watching her till the stage arrived. I fear the large sleeves did not conceal the laugh that was caused by ler evident desire to show her disapprobation of Such -boldw-chara acters that came out openly on the public street of Phoenix in such at¬ v'V tire. Women Of Party Snubbed When all were seated in the stage several gentlemen acquaintances passed along. They were possibly admiring the beauty of the vehicle as the occupants were not recog¬ nized. The procession, later in the day alluded to as "It," then re¬ turned to Mrs. M's residence. The forenoon was spent in unloading the. baggage wagon and repacking the things that were put in hastily the night before. Some of the more bulky and unnecessary articles were left stored in Mrs. M's barn. When the wagons were packed and can¬ teens filled we all retired to the cool hall to rest before dinner. Din¬ served at Mrs. Millay's and immediately after, they began get¬ ner was ting out the teams horses. The time was pied getting the lunch and saddle fully occu¬ ready, put¬ canteens, to 'begin ting crocked ice in the and at 3 they were ready the journey in earnest. ; v : in good spirit even if the day was windy, sultry, and very dusty. Four ladies occu¬ pied the seats in the old "Jetkey" while the three gentlemen of the party occupied the driver's scat; one lady horseback, .and the cook and Everyone seemed driver on the* baggage "wagon. Drove out three or four miles and halted to give the teams water but it had stood so long: that 1 he^jdranb little, prove on from there to the Arizona Canal but it was dry .and vigL we kept on driving slowly all night, arriving at sunrise the next morning at Gibson's. Station., Reach Alkire's Ranch Passed several teams and hotses pn their way home from the Pres¬ ent! races. From Gibson Station to A ikire's Was a rafSff, ihp'mfe quiet asleep one as than ver's everybody was more anything else. At 6 o'clock the teams halted about 40 miles from Phoenix at Alkire's. Mrs. Mi 11 ay had a letter of intro¬ duction from Mr. Alkire and Mr. Carson. The man in charge was very kind and accommodating. As soon as possible everybody took the sleep they were unable to get dur¬ ing the night. All slept soundly until about 12 o'clock when the cook began preparing breakfast. At 2 we felt very comfortable and the a fter¬ was taken to use as each felt Inclined. Some slept, a few read, the boys brought in a mess of quail and Prof, gathered a case of flowers to press. At supper Mr. Carson noon j joined the crowd, also at breakfast j the next morning. Just before leav- j ing Mrs, Storment made a sketch j of the house and Mrs. Millay took I a snap shot with the camerar : Our next stopping place "was Cot- tonwood where we camped for lunch the mules got leaches in; their mouths. Our bakers bread was get¬ ting scarce and the cook discovered there was no flour along, but we had plenty of crackers and used them to help out. and ] j ! Double Teams Required The afternoon was nearly all upd hill and on several of the steep? pulls up Black Canyon hill, the lead team on the jerky was sent back to -bring up the baggage. At the- Agua Fria j well the barrel and cans weredfilled and that night we camped oti the top of Black Canyon hill. j Friday morning we had the alarm clock set for 5 o'clock and we man¬ aged to get on the road by 7. We had no bad roads that required dfuhlitg teams and reached Bumble Ble at 9 where the teams were all watered. Mrs. Millay met; Harry Logan and the Loring boys. Can¬ teens only were filled ^d the prorexsian moved on. Our lunch was I, eaten on the brow, of Antelope hill: where the teams were again doubled. next Our stepping place was We got 100 pounds of Antelope. flour, |25 pounds of potatoes and watered the teams. From Antelope creek Big Bug was a short drive of thrlc miles and we .decided we would on to Smiths on the Agua Fria. IWe crossed Big Bug and |o feo struekloff across desert in ah east¬ erly feirection. The roads! soon branched and branched again till they became mere trails. After driving as far as we thoughtiwould bring us to Smiths and not finding plice we be~an to ask, "Where the are we?" jturnfd We back for mile and a fo a ranch, went in came told woman us we were femiths and a fouij miles after we had gone 3 miles, hnd our informant at Antelope said it was only three miles from from , stopfwhere the start.. We decided to thoretvas feed in sight, Smith,! we so rode in possession. No one we helped ourselves. Smitl| was or no and- took home and i When we were the owner home. He thought ana army. had taken possession. We offered t-o pay him for the hay used but he about : through supper came declined it. Mrs. Millay told him she thought it too bad for us to take the hay and not pay him. He an "What else could I do, mur$?" in severed, such|a broad Irish brogue that it mused the the evening. crowd a for the rest of He had been gone all day And was about three shsets in the wind. When asked abopt the direction to take in the morning "There are so manyj roadsS branching off this way and that way,"] motioning with his | hand, "that you will have to be very* care¬ ful or you might not take the wrong road." he said, We thanked him for his kindness us to come there; again and he asked on our way We rolled the back road, and where we camping home. bedding and hit up our by 30 ggt on.;Up$ mam o'clock should time have the we were been night by before. "Someone thought i t .Wryml be a great ibke if Mr, springer sp'ould start a weekiirar we did a nff "-overtake us be fry® we got to the place e we wereigoing to camp him to catch up. and whir wait for Further experiences of the party i thpir trip to the canyon will bef iold' in excerpts from Miss Franken- ;oh berg's diary next Sunday. Pkoeaix, Sttpday Morning, August 2, 1936 Arizona Republic, Canyon Trip Is Continued Adventures which included an encounter with an irate gentleman who objected strenuously to the cutting of a green piece of wood repair a brake block by memhers of a party of young valley to I folk en yon and in a route 1895; visit to the Grand Cana search for water, 1*> cliff dwellings are ^highlights of the following excerpts from a diary kept by Miss Jose¬ phine Frankenburg of Tempe dur¬ ing the journey. Members of the party making the trip, which took seven weeks, were Miss Frankenburg, her brother, Don, Mi§s Louie Gage (now Mrs. John Mrs. Jerry (now U. S. Arizona), Mr. and Dennett), Mr. and Millay, Carl Hayden, / senator from Mrs. Charles T., • Springer, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Storment and the late W. J. Kingsbury." The description of the trip con¬ tinues: We crossed the Agua Fria near old deserted house built almost In the. middle of the stream. Why anyone would build in such a place is still a mystery, as the country for miles and miles, is dry, rocky desert or foothills for higher ranges. We were still doubtful whether we were yet on the right road until we saw a freighter com¬ an ing from Camp Verde with a load of baled hay. He told us just to follow his track and we would be j&ll right. We went on then and felt safer. Prof Shoots 11 Quail Here Prof shot 11 quail at one Bhot. Our camp for noon was at an old deserted house, presumably that of a cow ranch. An old well was near the house, but 'it was as dry as a powder horn. I was riding Freckles, Don on Bob. We started in opposite directions, he going up strearn, I down, to look for water, About half a mile below the house there was a small stream ;of nice clear water. We ate our dinner •near the stream under a large wil¬ low tree. In a little outbuilding were three branding irons, the brands ; • 1/ being recorded in another place. Our quail came in very nicely for supper.. Saturday night we cammed a| G. W. Hance's ranch about four miles from Copper Canyon. He has lived here, for 28 years on Aenaga ranch Or creek (this means marsh). . / / < j|Hp In the morning Professor Storment thought he would get-k tough giiece of green timber to nail on the brake block and started to chop a small limb from a tree quita a way from. the house. The old fel¬ low saw him and came storming out to make him quit, saying he did not want the trees around the house cut down. Everyone thought he would not care then, if we cut a small stick down half a mile from the house, but as soon as he heard the chopping he rushed off mad as a hornet Prof offered to pay him for the damage done but he would not accept. After out and being we so Sunday 7:30 were he gone came apologized to Moran for furious. morning we started ah for Old Camp Verde, which reached by way of Copper we Canyon. I walked all the way down the canyon, a distance of five miles almost a continual downgrade.. Mrs. Millay took two with shots the camera in coming down; Stopped at an old lumber shanty until the teams came up, and asked a thous¬ and questions of the old man in charge. for 17 He said he had been'there His reason for liv¬ such a God-forsaken place years. ing in that he was there was thing he had he and could and every¬ there with1 him was not get away. Freight Wagon. Damaged Soon Horn's Moran after passing this place of surprised to see up on horseback. A off the' hind wheel and let the freight wagon down on the tap we were coming came axle, Don and Carl unloaded the jerkey and went back to help them straight up and we camped at the barracks at Verde, Since leaving home I have been unable to see a. single familiar landmark until today in looking down the Verde I recognized-the Four Peaks and Reno, or iviouht Ord. The outlines are almost dhe old same as from Tenape, but they look much smaller because we are much t - higher a up. Prof has taken on such tan that he has to stand a run¬ ning fire of jokes on his appear¬ ance. Shortly after sundown the female portion decided to take a bath at a pool in the river. When almost to the river, there was an irrigated field to cross, so we came back, went down to the large flume and had a fine bath. Several were so unlucky as to sit on a pine board that had some pitch on it and from the expressions of some of the male portion who bathed in the same place later on, they had a similar experience. After breakfast Mrs. Millay and I went to the old water tanks, and from the tressle of one took a shot at the old camp. Later on w© were visited by Florence and Flora Hanna, one a young lady intending to go to the normal, the other a teacher, both daughters; of the blacksmith. They had returned from a trip to the Grand Canyon. jud| , i S'gHt t/iiff Dwellings packed the * jerkey. leaving the Jbig wagon for repairs, and proceeded on our journey, crossing the "i^erde at fte moutb of Beaver creek. Soon after crossing we had the first glim se of the cliff dwell¬ ing. Mrs. Storment and, ][ were We horseback and we thought it much than it reall- was, and de¬ cided to ride over to see. We struck out across country, having to cross Beaver five or six times. We made the trip all right, but nearer when got there we could on^y up to the second ledge. A ladder about nine feet long was the only means of reaching the dwelling. Possibly that would we climb pole have answered all purposes if of the men had been the ladder up from another and steady some along to draw one ledge "to it from top¬ pling over. But with a sheer per¬ pendicular bank ' fully 50 feet to the bottom of the rooms, and only narrow ledges frorh six to 18 inches wide to stand on, it did not seem very safe for two lone women. The main portion was built in with rocks and adobe mud. timbers, of the floor to the story projecting through Bide wall were- still in a of preservation^ as were bers over the windows. they istood. looked The so from house was The upper the outgood state the tim¬ At least where we built in a chalky-looking cliff where the . up¬ strata was of a harder com¬ position than that underlying, ; It gradually crumbled out underneath, leaving an overhanging sheet under which they built up with rocks and mud, forming walls, ; per These ancient cliff dwellers were race of small stature, for the openings are about three feet high by two feet wide. On either side of the main building were smaller places walled in. They looked as if they might be connected by in¬ side tunnels or something of that a nature, for they did not seem to have parallel ledges, as the main building did. When we had seen aU there was to se$ without being TT—V'.... able . i: ; ; - to reach the holdings, we thought how 'we could best reach the rest of the crowd, as they had gone on ahead and did not know we were cliffs. going all the way to the •Explorers Rejoin Party If we had kno.wn the general di¬ rection of the road we might have struck out and' not gone very far out of the way, but we were neither 'of us acquainted with the general direction so we concluded to stay pn the safe side and strike out in the direction of the road where last seen before leaving the crowd. We had gone about a mile after striking the main road when we saw dust in the distance. A few minutes later we saw they were coming back down the road. They thought sure they had lost us or we had missed our way. We were getting thirst} and had no canteen with us. Mrs. Storment was tired of riding-and Mrs. Millay took her pony. - We journeyed on then until we to the Maxwell ranch; where Kentuekian by the name of Smith *was living.: He has the first farm up on Beaver creek, which he ir¬ rigates from a ditch that runs through a tunnel 70 feet long and over a flume a quarter of a mile. We ate our lunch in the creek bottom, but after lunch we found a cool, shady place under an over¬ hanging rock where the water dripped down from ; the flume, forming a nook where maidenhair fern and other plants flourished. The crowd grouped themselves in the shade and Mrs. Millay took two shots at them. came a Everyone regretted the necessity leaving such a cool retreat, but dared not linger. Our ride for. the afternoon was a hot, dusty one. The thermometer reached 105 in the shade at Finney's ranch, where we camp until Springer comes. Our jerkey reached the camp at 3 o'clock, the baggage cdming about of we 6. When we had rested a whdle and arranged about camping with Mr. Finney, we went over the mesa &bout half a mile to the celebrated Montezuma well. Visit Montezuma's Welf Prof, Storment says the well is an immense lime stone sink. Some ■ fossil leaves were found in the stones inside the well. The well is a large, almost circular' basin over 300 feet across the top and 50 feet to the surface of the water. Several trails lead down to th# water. Toward the southeast side is an outlet for the water, which flows through the bottom of a large cave where the cliff dwellers lived in times gone by. The front of the cave was built up with rocks laid in mud, plastered over, showing imger marks distinctly. In some of the small placed they filled in with corn cobs. They are a larger cob than those found- in the valiev in ,the ruined mounds. . morning we lay abed had breakfast and Mrs, Tuesday until late, MiiTay and Springer, Louie and I, to the Soda springs, about quarter of a mile south of camp. There are two boiling places in one asin with a narrow rim of sand between. The water boils up and keeps the sand on the move con¬ stantly. In the afternoon we all took candles and went over to the well to explore1 the, Ggve„ which is above the outlet of the stream. We found nothing interesting except the front portion which the cliff dwellers used. Above^the ; cave on the rim went a , •gfas' originally a stone put^gly "the tumble-down weib; of the building rocks are' leftWh ere the rvalls were. On the'western rim of the basin are several other dwellings which are harder to reach. I 'did not visit them; 'Mr. Finney showed us where we dbuld get some wild cur¬ rants. They look like they might be like the H'ingliShman's drink, alf and alf. but hung in They had clusters, gooseberries. thorns than no more so There two were varieties, a dark red and a yel¬ low. They have stripes like goose¬ berries and the blossom hangs on, but they are smaller thdn a culti¬ vated variety, though larger than the currant. We named them j goose-currants. Wednesday fishing; in morning we Went the afternoon we washed. M#s. Millay got a snap shot of Carl and Louie. Carl shot some quail and doves for pot pie1. Don and Prof, caught some more fish for breakfast Thursday morn¬ Mi&p®fot D0n Mrs. ing. and Carl the spring' apd took a- shot at them. Prof sketched the well, .Mrs. Storment the outlet. Mrs. Millay in photographed the outlet lake, and besides getting another pop at Carl and Louie. The principal part of the day was devoted to tormenting them. 1 \Soon after 'dinner a party of Phoenix people camped on the other side of the creek, Dr. Dame Mr. Singleton and fami Still no tidings of Springer. X" think they intend o send for a new stock of supplies. We hare and ron liAs. been having eggs .and fresh milk camping here. Mrs. Millay, Storment and I took a bath in the since lake at the outlet of the well. Friday, 19, 1895^—Arose at Just before break served at half past seven, Mrs. Millay got a telegram sent by messenger from Flagstaff for the party to move on with all haste and Springer and Millay would meet lis there. Managed to get packed and on the road by 11 o'clock. Ate lunch about 2, and kept right on to Rattlesnake tanks, July half past five. fast, which where aboyj the ♦ . 5 sundown Passed a was teams o'clock. and cave were Kept watered on until ate a cold lunch. which we explored. Further adventures will of the | be related next tern • / rizona Republic, Phoenix, Sunday Morning, August 9, 1936 Tour on Tale Resumed Further adventures of the "gay nineties" party which undertook a trip to the Grand Canyon y via an old mail coach, jerkey and horses in a seven-week journey are- told, in this week's installment of the interesting, diary written bv Miss Josephjne Frankenbur g of Tempe who was one of the members of the party., referred to in the .Those who are diary are Miss Frankenfmrg, Don Frapkenburg, her brother, Mr. and Mr&. Jerry Millay; Miss Dpuie Gage, now Mrs. Jo|m Dennett; Carl Har¬ tk S. senator .from Ari¬ Mrs. Charles T, Springer, R¥rof. and Mrs. Edgar, Stormeift ind the late W. J. Kings¬ den, now Mr. 'and zona; , bury, . vstory of the journey contin¬ ues frorfTTast week" at this point: Saturday, July 20, 1895—1 forgot The to mention anything about the day we were there so the cave will take said it was formed hnbbil' that had an opening to the surface. It is about 20 feet to the .top,of aUloose pile of rocks that- have pom the root Three gair&nes usad m as room here. Prof.; from a volcanic . #abti|ni each of many different which are not wer® i#0 but are high enough to right in nearly when they seem into mete cracks feet long, fwalk up¬ length, to-kindle down earth. The iuf cave 'is on the mesa, opening about by four feet in the rocks, mouth of the and is a rectangular three growing wider, as an inverted funn.eCXhe water from the road drains downward to the' cave and black covers, most ot the floor of one branch*-' tlie, others being sticky mud loosely piled An rockskt^ , v ' "AH ton a Lie'. Don, Prof, and G#1 climbed downfirst, then Doh catpe back, got a and sdrne pieces of candle ' Storment and I down bis knee. He ."lowed:" it was easier, letting us down, than getting us " out; The rest of the crowd did hot car# to go down and we did not urge them. rope and* let Mrs. over afternoon and morning was through cedars and junipers. Among the many stories told by old resi¬ dents' was one that we would be bothered nearly to death by swarms, of peeky little black gnats, but when we got into the cedars where thexj were reported to be, the worst we saw was only one' or two. We set that down as another Arizona lie. Our .drive Friday early ''Saturday' informed they are at, or near, - their best. . Aboitf. 9 o'clock Saturday mprnmgfc we came , to Woods Tjfich where the5 watered . and the can¬ I saW a'truck patch in the distance and as no one was in sight about the place, I walked in and helped myself to turnips which we are going" to hare today (Sun¬ teams were teens filled. day). for dinner. Nearly .all day ; • .j Saturday, but most * oVer Hg rocks/little rocks that rocked the jerkey,/aiid rocked us all—but not tQ sleep, "We made as great a speed as possible past Munn's park,; a small opening or valley in which no pines grow and some land has in the rooming. .we- traveled rocks and rocks: malpai rocks, been fenced. Stopped only long 'enough to speak to the people camped £here. An old man by the name of Leterur camping ground 0 the outskirts !y selected of a onf cifvWpr^on$pf of the by Mr, spring, anil! Millay because few stray drops felh of what ' the future might have' in store. In passing through ' town, we ^thought 'it wise to lay in a supply of bakers bread and some butter also soine beef¬ steak add potatoes. All hands flew around to ge% up a tent'before it began to rain in earnest, but it poured down before it was half up and before the slickers could all be fished out from the baggage. Mr. Mil lay, Jimmy, Carl and Louie were •soaked through, a# had to change warning as sopn as plothfs. we had a us t^scfeould LateP^li get out dry rain let up and' beefst^H^ coffee, bread and butter for supper.' Rain Sunday, about Continues July 21, IS 95—Arose and had a good break-' fast. The sun shone out bright and warm but clouds still hung over the seven peak, Mrs. Millay started to clear out the tent to. clean up, but it began raining from a clear sky which was later one leaden hue, showing that it had set in to rain and meant to keep it up. It is now 2 o'clock Phoenyx' time. Morah has the dinner cooking,! but the rain is falling straight down with no in¬ tention of stopping to let us eat anything that might get cooked. Mr. Millay took a canteen, got it full of milk, some lettuce,:radishes, carrots, fhey are. lying out. on the taable and look very tempting but shiveyi;d ! it is cold,ahd raining. Six hours of misery^three I^eforfe dinner and three artef. Hadydin;ner sometime in the afternoon witli bread and milk before retiring. Monday, Jul? arise very early 22,M&95--Did becfhse it Wfes not still rainy with, shdwers hiirihgkth? eve¬ ning-. While at! breakfast: We had a She came over and invited visitor. to us to house in and use of her rooms. We thanked her very much, pleasedby the offer, but thought it would not rain any more to amount ^anything. The lady was Mrs.; Cteflc/rifl whose land we Were campihgf tghjeyds a sister' of Sheriff Cameron. They have the case come it over rained any her more one finest hous^ I have seen,in town— that is appearance from the outside^ later in the da#-" we dressed in Tohg skirts and. pro¬ ceeded to take in the town, We the^fSn^t, bought supply of goods and Saw Mr. Man Horn, Mrs'. T, Springer sent a telegram to find out how and when C. T. left so a new forth. C. home, ternoon : Shevgofe and ,a fe-lf; ,reply in the af¬ relieved. ,Visit Stone Quarry Tuesday,rrdSiIV 2S-tOot up late again, for it rained -again in the night. After; breakfast eight of us got aboard the jeiTry and visited the stone quarry, saw^them 'trim¬ ming stone for the normal school. , Carl;saw. a*felbw there that ried 'Jessfe ,TAnf times, but Am ; mar¬ Saw her several acquainted with her. ;. Mrs. Millay took fiMe Wiews of the quarry. From there we went to t^e reform .school. The .base¬ ment, apdone story are finished in stone; -'What othe pest will be T don't know, , \ ' • y From The school we went to. the saw Mill where .Mrs. Millay took three views.. They waited-ay mo¬ rn eht until she had oine view and then she took another with all the machinery in motion. , When about ready to return home a gentleman a store and/offered to "Show, ns some Indian' cujrioS in' a gentleman's private house'. The owner., a-'Mr.. Riordan. D. dan 'I thlpk, is at'present .hot- using the housh yThe interior fs f fids bed m natural' pine. Ctne room .esnecially is worthy of mention v From stepped out; of. - the outside it appears JikP any other part of the house, but inside the work is entirely hewed out by a hatchet or ax. The center of the ceiling large pine/ log with in pitch roof style The sides are simply-! slabs hewed rough—also the door and window jams and sills. In is a smaller logs resting on it. - - ' t——i~ ■ ".'-P-'k * ( m i this robm all' the Indian' curios decorate walls, mantle, and floor, in fact everywhere. "pie dining room, hall and all over "the* floors were* spread" with the fiws't of 'Na¬ vajo. blankets. Mr. Rlor&an was once an agent and knew a good thing when he saw it. The staircase, too, was carpeted with blankets, a rug frona. a moun¬ tain lion,., also one from a black bear "skin, werb in little nooks with seat& dforMoungitig, Two fine large armchairs stood on opposite sides of a large fireplace. The chairs were of sonte dark wood, hand¬ somely inlaid in pparl. They were perfect beaufifs. This man", owns the saw mill, store and everything on that side of town I presume. • | Arrive „ One would that where lumber was-so plentiful that they could boast of some good lumber buildings, but this is the "work' jumbled upv town I ever saw. Even the people have a slouchy careless suppose look about them, and everyone re¬ marked that theret were no good looking men or women Just? in town. I left camp to come up to Observator- hill I heard a great noise and several gun's fired, I looked around and saw the long looked-fOr as arriving. men notes went to a some of the are I writing my any the pietuJfsHo see If they I shall have to re¬ as it is nearly .• ;?' good. turn to camp sundown. Here is as joke am hilfeJMrs. Mi Way photograM^Fs to develop from on gbb(^$^laye to' tell a aj$< any,: Wl^en 4te telegram toRalph Garheron to be sent someone Jerry Millay She-riff soon sent by him to Fihriey's, Gameron wayl not ih the office,-hut a deputy by the name of Bell was thereso -he telegraphed back to know what the "party" fo ; had done—why they were come to F1 distaff. Notj; Guild and In the evening [Prof. Brown /called.. " Rater Notf came back and stayed until bedThey just returned from the and said' it rained all the while they were there. We Had?;our. watermelon., It was very good considering, but not of the, very iest cniaij&y. It oiily cost a dollar, I time. canon ' | •and 10 Here bv MKSSsm. cefets m - a _ piecf • <: Flagstaff pey sell meh| rfm'ia a slice.'? the slicp, 10 don't know the Further aifcf of the slice. adventures of the party will be refafe'd ncxGweek, { § I fcs Arizona Republic, Phoenix, SilnJfay Morning, August 16, 1936 p-p. Lanyon 1 rip Is Described The thrills and experiences of fin¬ ally reaching the Grand Canyon are recounted in this week's installment of the diary kept by Miss Josephine Frankenburg qf Tempe 1895. in when she and a group of her friends made the hazardous trip" in horsedrawn conveyances of that period. # Those who composed the party Miss Frankenburg, Don Frank¬ enburg, her brother, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Millay, Miss Louie Gage, now Mrs. John Dennett, Carl Hayden, how U. S. senator from Arizona, Mr. and Mrs. 'Charles T. Springer, Frof. -and Mrs, Edgar Storment and the late W, J.•Kingsbury. Were : . . The diary continues: Wednesday- ,July 24, 1895,—We to break up camp $qd get an were early/start ljutSpringer's buckboard needed repair A and it was,noon be- , .fore 'we- . started, but the baggage wagon, was oh the road a little o'clock. Springer's horse',.whs " ;:toovbut hr«v0!e 4to travel, after sick, We !'were only out st; short time when it CommenhedMo 'tain, but no b-ne got wet, nearly5 everyone has k slicker or waterproof of some description. They are not all proof against the T * rain, though. We drove oh out to Little Springs a distance of 16 miles where we de¬ cided to camp a few. days to let Mr. Johnson and the horse get better before getting entirely outside of all chance for ah M» D. When about ~ * eight miles out from Flagstaff we came to a series of, troughs that have water piped into them from the hills above. They belqng to what is known as the A1 Cattle ranch, as do those at Little Springs where there are two sets of troughs. Those Jit Little Springs are nearly a quar¬ ter of a mile apart, connected by a gas pipe. Our camp is located near the up¬ per set. The water is clear, cold, soft and excellent for dMnking and ' . laundry purposes. We have our tents in the edge of a forest of pine, hemlock and aspen. Aspens immediate vicinIty, Little Springs is remarkable for its unique hotel register, though ; some of the guests left only their initials. The smooth white trunks of the aspens for a radius of half a spruce, predominate in the : • mil© are decorated with.the names every visitor since the I: or initials of invention of jack knives. Some ar¬ tistic minded have sketched vaqueros and other symbols of the Wild West which show up distinctly In the smooth white bark. ; Little Springs is on the foot of the western slope of the San Fran¬ peak. In coming along the road could see several patches and three or four long streaks of snow down the western side on the shad¬ ed sides of gulleys. We have our tents all up and the floors covered with pine and spruce boughs, while several .of the more esthetic have a species of ferns ar¬ cisco we . tistically arranged over and around their especial corner of cot anci tent. (16) HHHK Sees Thfree Deer Thursday, July ,2£,—Kingsbury was the only early rfe He took his rifle and went up t^he, side of the mountain ibout an hour whlk, at® claims he saw three deer in a groups but he did not bring any into camp before breakfast. After breakfast Storment, Millayand I washed. The who were not feeling bad load¬ ed up their cartridge belts and struck out for big game, but before they left camp they scared all the game out of the country by trying their guns. Springer's 44-90 goes men : I I " off like a young cannon. Have not heard a shot - yet since ftheyMoran left camp, and isit just is now past return2. says one :,ing. Rained again, Springer, Storment, Carl and Don went to the top of the peak and did not get | back until after dark. Mrs. C. T. put the camp in a stew because they ■wefe out so long. All forenoon she fu&sed over the horse, then over t C. T. Friday, July 26.—Kingsbury left camp early this morning to go hunt¬ ing. Fixed up lunch and horse feed to last two days if necessary. He took a man named Brookbanks. X wandered down to the house later. Mrs. Brookbanks was a' Bates— used to live at Snowflake or Winslow—knew Sam, Johnson and fam¬ ily—was much pleased to hear of Wilmuth was a little girl They also knew the Readheads. Mrs. Brookbanks' sister was visiting her from Flagstaff. Her parents live at Uba City, ap Indian reservation or some such place. King came back soaked. Saturday, July 27:—Mr. and Mrs. Storment, Louie and I went to gath¬ them. then. er flowers. Visited the crater of an old mud volcano, the bottom of which has water in it. Came back in time for lunch—had squirrel pot pie, Rained again. Sunday, July 2£,—Mr. Johnson felt bad he thought he would return to Flag, so we had an early break¬ fast which, by the way, was to con¬ so tinue on, for upon talking the mat¬ ter over, everyone thought they had starved long enough on two meals day. After breakfast Don drove a him do^n, night, get Monday. He to stay over¬ things and return was some Kingsbury and Springer arose early^ topk horses and went to look for deer. Both came through, and still back soaked d-eer. We ate our lunch at half past eleven in a steady rain, but.for supper they moved the table into the tent. I read the. greater part of Trilby. Kings¬ bury was feeling rather jubilant and thought he'-d have some fun by scaring me. He got the rake handle slipped sl^ly around tlje tent and no pushed it in under the brush to make me think it was a snake. Then he found that did not work, so he .took his fish hook and dangled that down, over my head to scare me with spiders: I vowed right> there I'd , get even some time sooner or later. J n i y §2ffJp bvfore bre^fast. fc* Monday, some ,eardy,;rf*ad j Soon iaftt'rV breakfast I saw my chance to get even with Kingsbury. He'wished to chhve his, name rip in an aspen tree away leaned above his head, so he against the tree, one to other to rest one foot oh. When he was nearly through I slipped up and pulled the prop from under his foot. I laughed like I would, die to see him sitting up there 10 feet from the ground hug¬ ging the tree for dearjife. ,1 Could hardly put the pole back agairf after I got him to say please. He thoughtthat was enough to make a,man say dam, of anything you asked. They all had a. good laugh at him and they didn't at me. I wandered off from camp to write my notes—been gone now two hoprs -think it time Don was back from two poles sit on, the Flagstaff. * Don came at back to camp - o'clock. I came after getting some 2 pine gum. Took a bath, washed out my clothes and finished Trilby. Don arid Prof, went out for squirrels and got one. ' Have Snowball Fight . Tuesday, July 30.—Arose at 5, bad breakfast at 6, and at 7 we—th^t our is >lrs. S torment, Kingsbury, Don and I were on our way up the mountain. We reached the summit at 11, ate our lunch and were ready to return at 12. Went over to a snow bank arid had a snowball fight. Rolled some rocks down the gulch and returned to timber line* where our mhles were tied; Mrs. S.N had a narrow escape from bqing scratched off her mule by going too j close under a scrub pine tree. An¬ other time her saddle slipped up o-rithe mule's neck. I had, all my fun at the beginning. My mule got be¬ tween two small aspens and when they touched his shoulders he be¬ gan to kidk and buck,1 bift he did. not get me bucked, off. Picked a gunny sack" full of fur needles fdr , pillows and got home at 4 o'ciock-, Tomorrow we -leave. This makes the second day it has rained. v Wednesday, July; 31.—Up anc$ ready to travel by 7 o'clock—soon rained again. Reached the troughs at Cedar Ranch about half past 10, went on past; two other sets of troughs near the last set where> there were stables where the stage changes teams. We ate our lunch just back of the house and there found we were off the regular canyon road. Nearly all afternoon our road was very rocky, J>uf we reached Moqui Station early in tttfe evening and pitched camp. The grass was very good there but water was very around scarce, only surface water . collected in scraped-out tanks and not very much of that. Thursday, August 1.—Boys, that Carl, were up at day¬ light.'Went out about a mile and a half to get a deer. They say they saw a deer and shot at it several times. We were on the road at 0, is Don and bound ,for the Grand Canyon, 18 miles off. Arrived at the place where we camped at 12 o'clock, ate our lunch and then looked around for horse feed and drinking water. Mr. Scott, manager of the Hull ranch, was not at.home, but we were here to stay. Mr. Millay had a let¬ ter of introduction from Ralph Cam¬ eron, Scott. sheriff When of he Coconino, came in to Mr. in- the evening- lie sajd that "it' was all right, Ralph and me are great friends." After we had our lunch,, which only half enough, hut was all had cooked, we walked over to the rim of the canyon. The new railroad company has bought out the old Hance place and" Hance has a new trail. into the canyon about a mile further up. John Hance is a brother of G. W, Hance that we met farther back'. Carl and Louie went over later and gave him a great gag about how niee liis brother treated us when we camped there. We told Carl lie was as big a liar as old John I lance himself. Men Struck By Lightning We" all walked about three-qnarters of a mile to the rim of the can¬ s'on and liad our first view. Spring* er was a littje in the rear, as lie started later and chme through the camp where the railroad company has a hotel, wliefe tie met two men coming in from the canyon. They had been struck by lightning about 11 o'clock that morning. A third man was also struck and instantly killed,; Two of tlie men were brothers just was we out on pleasure trip and both a tliem Yale students. The other ina is a lecturer, named Herbert Stan Renton. Louis H. Port.er, the student, was very badly burned, but not killed. Had no ope to dress his burns so Mr. Springer went back to camp and got some cotton and sweet oil to bandage him. The whole camp turned out to ley Yale hunt the man that was killed. About dark they came back-and said they found the man but they could not get him to Flagstaff that night, but stage driver went back to get hack to take him in the next day. Late in the evening Mrs. Springer and I went down to get some water the a and met Bob Goodwin and George Martz with Belle and Lena Martz, Hattie Reidenour and Carrie Culver and her father, besides another crowd from Phoenix, George Chris* ty and others. Friday, August 2.—We did pot get up very early, only had two meals; rained in afternoon, A|ter our breakfast we put up a lunch- ari$ tramped up the canyon al^ng the rim for a mile or so. Don and i| struck the trail down to but we only went down 15' mintites and it took us 20 minutes to get th^jbottom, back, and then we rested. I decided then that I did not care t07 walk there and back in one day../ A thunder storm came over from the East and we all made flack, to camp in haste. After dinner. We went to the sheep herders' cdrral to watch them run the sheep in, Mr. Scott was very good and gave us a nice fat lamb. Bob G. and Joe Cul¬ were there and th,ey gave them the shoulders, which was more than they wranted to take, m ver , Prof, sold out Mrs/ Stormeht, Springer^ and Louie.. He told them they had a new breed of sheep over there, and that they had better so over and look at them—they had long tails. Mrs. Springer said, let's go and see them. I never saw any like that." All the.rest laughed and they; looked foolish, Four of .. Goodwin's part$wg$^ down m -the I canyon, . <• . ^ Further ■ ... adventures of , v th* party wilt he related next week. > (19) Arizona Republic, <1 .. '& Pfioemx,^ Sunday Morning, August A;-X iw*: .fc .a ^fi'.Aa ■ - Vacation Party After Trip Starts Homeward Into Canyon Down The trip down into the Grand Canyon and experiences from the canyon to the Natural Bridge are related in this week's installment of the diary kept by Mies Josephine Frankenburg of Tempe in 1895 when she and a group of friends made a trip by horses to yon the Grand Can¬ and other points of interest in Northern Arizona. The party was composed of Miss Frankenburg, her brother, Dan Frankenburg; Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Millay, Miss Louie Gage, now Mrs. John Carl Hayden, now Dennett, United States senator from Arizona, Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Springer, "P^of. and Mrs. Edgar Storment and the late W. J. Kingsbury, The diary continues: but brought rim and latter being the Saturday, August 3—Up late, had our horses and mules in so we could ride up to the of the canon to Moran's Point Bissel's Point, the place where the men BtU£bk were from either cannot tell. To be appreciated it must be seen. We ate our lunch on Bissel © by lightning. The view place is grand, words where the roar from be distinctly heard. the river could In the evening, and I to down Don, Carl, Kingsbury, Louie went over to the Goodwin camp interview them on the trip the trail. , _ , , . Josephine Is Determined Carrie Culver was the only one that thought it worthy making the trip. She walked would go again if down and up and she could ride. I I out told them I was going tomorrow. went back to camp and found that no one was willing to walk mile to order the horses,, so I start¬ ed by myself. After they % found I was determined to go, Don came, U Sunday, August 4 — Kingsbury, and I were up at five, had breakfast and ready to go by six. We had' to walk % mile for the Carl and started down the trail at' 7:15 o'clock. The first two or three miles are very steep. Carl and I walked nearly half way down, horses but King rode , nearly all the time. He wore his horse out going down and he carrie near failing down from exhaustion when near the rim coming home. Opr horses cost $3.50 apiece. Carl rode his own pony and get along fine... It took us three hours to go down. We stayed an hour and a half in the canon and got back on top at 4 p. m, « Monday, August 5 — Began our homeward journey at noon. wagon Each ate had lunch along, so we when and where we pleased. C. T. Springer remained with Porter to attend dressing of wounds. At first he intended to join us at Moqui Station, but no one else was en the stage except the driver eo he went on to Flagstaff. Camped all bight at Mo qui and ' tii^t the Wi nslowuprowd 23,1936 (20) • m 'k Head Fen- Flagstaff Tuesday, August 6—Left Moqui early in the morning and drove to Cedar ranch where the barrel and c-aha were filled in ordeh that we might make a dry camp beydnd. When out from the troughs a couple of miles, we passed near a gulch where there are some fine specimens of petrified wood. We spent an hour and a half looking around for small enough pieces to carry and each one came back with all they could carry. Here we met Arthur's party going to the canon. We did hot make camp until late, It was nea rly dark when we stopped and a thunder stqrm was hovering San Francisco Peak. We found ever out later "that it hailed like blitzen at Flagstaff. During the night the wind blew a good strong breeze. It nearly picked the tent up several; times. Wednesday, August 7.—Up before up and on the road by 7:15 By 9 o'clock we reached Springs, but only stoppedlong enough to water the teams and drove on, anxious to get to I Flagstaff. pun o'clock. Little * When about three miles from town Carl saw a squirrel up a tree. Every time he shot at it the squirrel ran farther up the tree until he reached the top and came on down and up a second tree, and still he did not get him. About a mile put of town, the nut came off the front wheel on the right hand side cf the jerkey and we scrambled ou in "a hurry. FH thought sure £h> thing was going to turrtgL over, but it didn't, It took: if an ;hbur to get the nut and straighten up the jerkey for business. When we finally got in town, we had to hunt up Springer, and found he was going out in about* an hour and a half with Porter,* probably as far as Kansas City and possibly as far as New York. We went down to the spring near the foot of Ob¬ servatory Hill and pitched our camp. Horn came out while we supper, also Walter Lo¬ Mr. Van at were gan. Chase Wild Cat August g—The fore¬ used in getting in a new supply of victuals, etc., and in the afternoon, we all went to the old cave dwellings about nine miles .northeast of Flagstaff. Mr. Van Horn went along and showed us the way. When about six miles out from town a wild cat crossed the road and someone said, "Run it down." I was on Carl's pony and Thursday, noon was . lit in after it. yards, it for The In ran up a someone to a few hundred tree and I yelled come and kill it. crowd all left the jerkey ex¬ cept Don, and they ha'd only one gun in the outfit, the Professor's little .22 rifle, 'but he brought it down with one shot through the skull. He wanted me to take it, but I did not want it, so he skinned it to make a rug. When we returned in the even¬ ing, Mr. and Mrs. Logan and Mrs. ^.mith were in camp to visit, and Mr. Van Horn took supper and brought down some pears. They nice, but Jimmy said they "apiece" and not "a pear." Friday, August 9.—Mr. Kingsbury packed up bis bedding and returned to Tempe on the 10:45 o'clpck train. Mrs. Springer had hers packed also were very cast 5c 121) - or —— but backed out about train time alid stayed with the crowd. It took until nearly noon t.q get things, ready for travel and after a ha^iT ranch, all boarded their respective seats and the procession moved Out of Flagstaff in the direction of the Natural Bridge. We made about 15 miles and. then camped for the night. Saturday, August 10—Our journey, from Flagstaff has been mostly down hill and we made pretty good^ headway with several small valleys with no great divides between were the order. Clark's valley was the largest. Here several flocks of sheep on the slope of the hill and some very nice patches of po¬ grazing were tatoes were in bloom. An oat field not quite ripe, was the best grain I have seen since leaving the val ley. Drive Miles For Water Some of our journey today was rather rough and rocky, but mostly down hill. Mormon Bake, seven miles long, but very shallow, was overgrown with tulles or pushes and lots of ducks and heudivers were seen. was near that was horses, Our camp for the night muddy waterholes good enough for the sorhe but not for cooking. remains of an old well and marked the place of pen The a rail- a former home. Sunday, August ll.^-We had to drive eight miles in the morning be¬ fore we found good water in a well in Long Valley. From there we went on to a nice little spring by an old log cabin. It was only five "miles through a ^ * series of small valleys. spring where as it was On the If was we the went road up was a Near the steep hjil very raining all the way up.' top of the ridge, the road good, but it soon went very down a road that newly work¬ was ed, in fact the meh' ,w£rkl at work it then. This was called Pivot Rock. I suppose because you came down, turned short arid went right on again. up All the rest of the afternoon drizzling rain made the road very bad, but we had to make Strawberry Valley in order to get water and so we drove very late- We had to pitch our tents in the rain and dark, but we Had a roaring camp fire that lit up the country. We passed the a head of Fossil Cre«k where Carl and Professor picked up some- shells, from the limestone rocks. Monday, August 12.-—Got up late, the people thought it was Sunday. Don forgot all about his birthday and I never thought about half it until after .1 was in bed. I told Mrs., Millay not to say any¬ thing until morning. Mrs.. Millay and Mrs. Springer both lost their colored glasses while getting the tents up and both were lamenting their loss, when Profes¬ scored one. He said, "You folks started out with spectacles and when you get back you will be a spectacle." We had just four miles to go to Pine where we camped and rode sor over to the bridge. Put in the rest of the day getting wood, water- and feed for the horses, and later we made a Yankee bean hole mormng we had B istop and brown bread, Mr£. the and and next baked beans Millay madr make the hb'f* filled, in the).wood and Moran dofi^h. I helped (Continued On Page Eight)' J j (22) (23) Canyon* Starts Home (ContinuedC^rom Page Four) fhn drfi^e b1arlt Parhoi)ed, Carl dig: out the coals and o had Jimmv covered them o^er the bake oven. Don and Carl put up head, and foot stones and we had them buried at uhe riParl ot " Mrs 5nme »Petty on the t£C uf°r CaUeii *•<<#««.' hut thought epicac better Mmav kfri« tCan ail name. was > t,, <• baked8^' l'>. we only Forced had To got there did biscuit one Back Trail the bridge son?e roasting we our for we QJTlWere *oia*' over to e hen Had was apiece for dinner. Party - fcown bread well I rnoi c b flve on horseback four0 ci0cic' the and in buckboard, Fro. fessor and I holding down the back springs. X : These mountain people call it five miles from Pine to the bridge, but they told us by going farther up the road we could drive fearer than V, until with , n1 so o 12:30 p a we dl'ove and drove We met m. a man freight wagon and he told us we were the road to the East Verde and in a few more hours we would get to Camp Verde, There was nothing to do but take the back until we reached the trail and follow that. It was nearly 2 o'clock when we reached the hill down which the teams could not go, so we unhitch¬ ed the mules and led them down to f®ed and water. A man by the name of Gowan lives near the bridge and on trafk- oas an orchard and vineyard on the top of the bridge which he irri¬ gates from a spring near the hbuse. Ihe bridge is 191 feet high from top of the arch to the water, 160 leet across the lower side and 600 feet long. A ladder 37 feet high leads up into one of the large caves, this one being- called the organ loft on account of the lime formations resembling pipes. The water passes over limestone and objects placed spray dashes over them become coated with lime. Gowan has where the a and that little wagon, a rocking horse little 'shoes of a child near the place that are! some died b#!ng coated s*u vp o fo Climb' up. horse bark they was in order to over them. We started o clock. It. were bark took but. udtil for me the 40 me- top *i minutes it. took 6 h-block f}:.. NbfbVe ready to start home, <14 7:30 o'clock be fori we reicned nearly starved to death. nearly home they found out they Jiad left a gun at Gowan's and someone would have to go back after it the ne,xt day, so we .decided camp, When tp stay over one day more. (Further adventures