Our Colorado Chiquito in its lower parts has an equally romantic aspect.
Close to our ranch was another of Nature's wonders, a petrified forest, quite unique in that the exposed tree trunks are solid masses of agate, chalcedony, jasper, opal and other silicate crystals, the variety of whose colouring, with their natural brilliancy, makes a wonderfully beautiful combination.

These trees are supposed to have been the Norfolk Island pine, a tree now extinct, are of large dimensions, all prostrate, lying in no particular order, and all broken up into large or smaller sections.

Many carloads have been removed and shipped to Eastern factories, where the sections are sawn through and polished, and the most lovely table tops, etc., imaginable produced.

One must beware of rattlesnakes when prowling about these "ruins." To complete the physical description of Arizona territory something must be said of the pine-clad mountain range to the south of us.

The bulk of this area constituted the Apache Indian Reservation.