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F ERN CANYON, fifteen miles to the northwest of Alpine, is one of the most beautiful canyons in the Davis Mountains. From its opening toward Mitre Peak to the south, its trail winds ever upward, around boulders, through steep, narrow passes, under a dripping, fern-fringed ledge, past a waterfall and its worn basin below, on to the high level spaces where a pool spreads dark and deep under the shadow of the rock arch that spans it. Just below this spot, a quarter of a mile from the mouth of the canyon, is the Tippitt orchard, once the site of the largest Indian village in West Texas. Neatly laid-off streets have been ploughed up, and fragments of rock terraces stand in a semi-circle facing a big spring. Hollowed in the solid rock above the spring are pot holes, or mortars, the pestles of which are in the museum at Sul Ross. Within sight of the mouth of the canyon is a chief’s grave, which has yielded valuable relics — beads and finely-wrought arrow heads. Although in Fern Canyon it¬ self only, one evidence of Indian habitation has been found, a turtle-back scraper of flint rock, used for dressing skins, it seems improbable that the Indian hunters would have failed to use this passage-way from the village to the high¬ lands. Tlie canyon may even have resounded long ago with chants and battle cries, but its rugged walls give back now only college song and blithe laughter, and permit no stored- up echo of fiercer notes to escape from the silence of the centuries.
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