New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-09
LATER IRON TIE MOUNTAINS.

TIE steamer Robert CampD-n arrived al wharf las
Friday from the Mourtans she has been assent about
XIV hve Gays The CAmpb-ii- of our swe,t bosts,
ana ioes Of ths vast above may be conceived
fr the time che has been stesmlng on our mighty river
= 2 was $50 miles above the moan OF tue leuowstone
She rad fue run Capt KIP mountain rsder.
c. ne down the Campbell and is sojpurning fss days
with rs, Bis family reside few miles m the country
From bin .sn that the water IN The upper river Mar
the mountains been feet higher than known
before owing the deep in the noun AIM. He says
they have had only light seSsOnae rams IN the spring and
s-sroey crop during the IN Of June. Those OF us
Who have the immense volume If water rushing by
Continually the last FIVE months have often made the
Al 1ious inquiry, where does All th water come from
The given from the masses Of snow ilng
in tLe gOrges Of the Rocky Mountn- the upper
Of the IytT Capt hip says the upper Indians who Al
wsys Lar their in the bottoms, have had L al &c
sir,y ed BY The floods Had Dot aud Providence sus
u4poed The usual rans all the bottoms below must have
been swept Tie snow had not All melted IN ths mountains
when BE- left He says the sell IN the uplands above the
moufh ofthe Little Missouri is poor not much Of 1t dG fvr
guilty alton. He says they raise inc potatoes ladiAo corn
s1 weeks Variety peas, beans, Osts whea' aud most
garden vegetable IN the bottoms They have straw
btrr.ts blsckberes or rspbeires, - yet but Wild FUR
rips choke h.ries wild onions and s-rvice berries are
stunosut The have wild black currAn, which Is a
handsome flow erng shrub, with srR- tine fruit iney also
have Wild grapes and choice puns lower do~n
He there are some C nscrane bodies 81 pine IN me
iains but owing 10 falls rocks and rapids cannot Do
gotten ut bu, lower down thers are OCCASIONAL patches
If cedar and pine but 40 extensive bodies.
Trace has been good at the Forts although he Indians
intense cod and deep SHOWS or We them down isom The
noUi tans 70 the lower bottoms where the Indians usually
eLcamp and tie deep enabled them % catch then
easily Thus Providence in his grea, natural operations
broug poor Indian ia # the most inel-
.u eaous when the OF the ghy hunter could not
rea II lie be overtakrn by snOS storms on
the til and Of November lst, his way up about
900 miles Dorh Of this, and Travelled most of the balance
OF n way up in oeep The severe cold allied some
Of bis LoIse- ard one OCCASION IN large prairie, he
ass oytriaken ly heavy storm shen his compass
became uTed v0nd BOT tray erse Ice wlnds s"ep
With vlsLce the bleak prAirer Vas dark he could
rot see but little disrance-t ppOss Ole q tell sh.
sourse 10 steer Destruction seemed inevitable, when he
broke open trunk and found sua compass SONS friend
lad -'os away bin. With this they took their course
al after travelling twenty miles reached the point Of
uountain where there sons brush. The perils or
these nounisn men would ill volumes with wonderful
tales Capt Kip says good ount Vas prepared Tor GOV
stevens and his surveying expedition ST Fort Union mouth
q be yellow Stone he hal not arrived Ehen h. s The
Captain think that the Nay business railroad through
that reg on v III never be- very heavy
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