From the site: Winds of Destiny - RVLife - Grand Canyon, Grandview and Moran Point - 9/06/07
Today we travelled east of the Grand Canyon Visitor Center along the Desert View Drive to several overlook.Grand View Point.About 2,500' below this point on the South Rim is the Horseshoe Mesa.Pete Berry and fellow miners discovered copper (15-30% pure) and began the Last Chance Mine in 1890. A 3-mile trail was built in 1892-93 for the miners to access the Horseshoe Mesa. The elevation at Grandview Point it 7,400' and 4,800' at the Mesa. Although the ore from the mine was rich, the amount was small.This led Pete Berry to pursue other income opportunities. In 1893 he offered crude lodging at a cabin at Grandview providing mule-rides into the canyon for visitors. By 1897 he had built a two-story log hotel and added a larger frame building lat ...Read more...
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