The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-09-23

measured, InouSn olteh o'oSoAu0o
1t is more likely to be lower thar
higher than Gray's peaks. DR.
4 Parry did not succeed in reaching
: the summit of Longs Peak, but made
: an approximate measurement, which
Z he reported at 14,050 feet. Blu
:. this last season the. first successful
, ascent Of that notable mountain was
made by Professor Powell and Mr..
tByers, of the Rocky MOUNTAIN
News; and theirmeasurement, the
first reliable one ever made, gives
; the figures Ct 1880 feet. The New
York NATION, therefore, showed more
presumption than knowledge when
it undertook to criticise- Mr.. Bowles
in his s'Switzerland of America, -
for not being more exact in reporting
the heights of the leading mountains
Of Colorado. The, NATION says she
ought to have known that Longs
peak was IA, sos feet, (which, in fact
nobody did or could know outside of
the NATION office. T'9e<7 "eats
There are numerous other peaks
in Colorado Of $4,000 feet and up
ward. Among these are Mount Au-
dubon, Vielie's Peak, Mount Guyot,
and Parry's Peak; while those of
ten, eleven, and twelve thousand
feet in height lie everywhere about
in the central portions of the Terri
tory. To the west of the peaks,
constituting the dividing range of the
continent, lies a huge mountain
known on the maps as Sopri's Peak.
1t seems, both from the SUBMITS of.
Gray and Lincoln, to be still higher
than those. 1t never has been meas
'ured, and though its apparent SUI
periority may arise from the compar-
alive lowness of the peaks directly
around it, the people of the ileighbor-
hood will not yield their possible
right to claim for Colorado the
highest mountain peak in the United
States until an actual measurement
Of Sopri's Peak shall decide against
them. lsJIA71 "a
The question as it now stands,
seems, therefore, narrowed down to
Sopri's Peak and Mount Whitney,
in California. The peaks Of the
Rocky Mountain range, north Of
Colorado, in Montana and beyond,
offer no competition to those Of the
former territory. But when we
annex Mexico that country will bear
off the palm in North America for
the hisheot rn0tr1rtsin peaks. She
has, too, Popocatapetl and O1izaba,
whose heights seem to he definitely
settled at 1920 and 1880 feet
respectively.
There is nothing in our mountain
ranges in the Atlantic States to at
all compare with any of these figures,
Mounts Clingman and Mitchell, in
North Carolina, 6,940 and 6,722
feet, respectively, are the highest
mountains east of the Missouri river.
Mount Washington, in New Hamp-
shire, ranks third, with a height Of
i 6,285 feet. The highest mountains
in Switzerland are Mount Blanc and
Mount Rosa, 1915 and 1880
) fleet, respectively. South America
has several mountain peaks, ranging
! from 10000 to $4,000 feet high.
But the Himalayas, in Southern
! Asia, carry off the palm Of the world
for high mountains. There are sew
eral peaks in that range between
$4,000 and $4,000 feet in height
Mount Everett reaching the last fig
ure, and to be precise adding two
feet more. These latter figures almost
take ones baeath away, even to
! think of them. To mount the heights
: whish they represent would do ii
actually; for the air at such an ele.
: walton, is so rare as to make human
3 existence there dangerous, if not i'm
: possible.
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e yields him an income Of fifty thou
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Engineer Sickles of the Unior
! Pacific has just returned from Cali
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