The planting of the coal.
"And thefts from satellites and rings
And broken stars I drew,
And out of spent and aged things
I formed the world anew."
What is the world that shall be in this mystic Arizona? What, indeed, was the world that has been there? Imagination falters alike before the stupendous marvels of its past, the picturesque splendors of its future. Its scenic grandeur will make Arizona a world centre; the nations from afar will make their pilgrimage to the sublimest marvels of all nature's revelations to this planet. Here will be sought the counsel of the gods. The message of the prehistoric past and of the undiscovered future will "give the law of night and day" in wonderful Arizona, the land of magic and mystery.
CHAPTER IX
THE PETRIFIED FOREST AND THE METEORITE MOUNTAIN