Word: canyoneering
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...fissure in the earth split the farm of Harley Robertson, soon widened as its sides fell in, became a canyon 200 ft. deep, its bottom crawling, heaving, puffing. It swiftly swallowed 20 acres of Robertson's farmland. Other fissures snaked across his property, threatened 80 acres more. Salmon Falls Creek ran yellow with volcanic dust and yellow puffs spurted from dry fields. Muffled thunder rose from underground, as though boulders were detaching themselves from the roof of a subterranean cavern and falling to the floor. The first canyon continued growing in the direction of the stream. If it reached...
...widow with four grown children. Twenty years ago she moved to California's Mojave Desert from New Mexico, arriving with "a can of beans, a loaf of bread but no butter." She owns a patch of mining territory 27 miles north of Mojave, near wild, scenic Red Rock Canyon. Her claim to this land was recently in litigation, was cleared a few weeks ago after the case reached the California Supreme Court. Last week it looked as though Mrs. Bishop's troubles were over. Newsstories from Southern California made it appear that Mrs. Josie Bishop owns an extremely...
...crated picture was sent to a brother in Colorado. His residence changed to California and in a short time he went to Brazil on an engineering project. The crate with the picture was in a warehouse during the earthquake and fire and later was taken down to the canyon on the small steamer which carried supplies to the lime company's colony and on its return carried the barrels of lime loaded from the wire tram you mentioned. I think the picture must have gone down by mistake because, while my brother and my nephew had living quarters...
...Hills where they would catch rabbits. They met him Saturday afternoon and walked back into the gullied wilderness where they built a fire. To catch the rabbits the girls were to be placed separately at different spots. "I left Jeanette and Melba sitting there, I took Madeline up the canyon. . . . After I choked her there with my hands ... I tied a piece of rope around her neck to make sure she was dead." Then he returned and repeated the crime with the others. Then he ravished the three bodies. Finally in a fit of remorse he took off the girls...
...talk, dealing with the proposed National Plan for completing the topographic map of the United States, will include an account of a boat trip through the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. The public will be admitted free...