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Figure 12. Drawing by Lt. John Tidball from "Telegraphic Hill."Apparently looking southwest toward Granite Mountain (see Figure 13).
Figure 13. Recent photograph of Granite Mountain and Sullivan Buttes as seen from Signal Hill. Ibelieve that this is the land scape that Lt. John Tidball sketched on January 1,1854. "Lieut. Tidball has taken a sketch showing the Sierra de la Laja and Picacho, s o m e twenty-five miles distant... the descent of the valley...causes the southern portion, represented in the sketch, to appear a formidable range." The photograph here, taken in 1996 ,is a telephoto shot framed to try to match Lt. Tidball's sketch. T h e s k e t c h r e s e m b l e s t h i s l a n d s c a p e a n d b e a r s n o r e s e m b l a n c e a t all t o e i t h e r P i c a c h o M o u n t a i n , M o u n t F l o y d , o r Bill W i l l i a m s Mountain as seen from this point. The buildings to the left are the Headquarters of the Hat Ranch. The clearing and drainage running down and to the right of these buildings is the route, Ibelieve, the party traversed on the morning of January 2, 1854 in their futile search for the headwaters of the Bill Williams River. Photograph by Harley Shaw.
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