Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1902 — A PETRIFIED FOREST. [ARTICLE]

A PETRIFIED FOREST.

Almost everyone has heard of the petrified forest in Arizona, but few know that it is comparatively easy of access to visitors. The distance from the railroad is but seven miles and at the station Adamana, on the Santa Fe. a few miles east of Holbrook. Mr. Albert Stevenson maintains a small inn, accommodating about ten people and provides a spring wagon outfit and several saddle ponies for those who desire to visit the forest. The old pioneer, Adam Hanna, who, in the sense that John Hance made the Grand Canyon, made the Petrified Forest, has moved away. At the forest there are hundreds of sections of tree trunks of various sizes and in variegated colors lying exposed on the plain or half buried in the hillsides. There are several extinct volcanoes in the vicinity of the forest and about two miles from the railway station are the ruins of an old Aztec settlement and curious hieroglyphics carved on rock. Stop-overs are granted at Adamana on through railroad and Pullman tickets where the holders desire to visit the Petrified Forest.