The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-09-02
PA. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 1869.
ROCKY moUNTAIN FLOWERS.

I.
A correspondent of the Chicago Times,
writes from Sherman, Wyoming Terri
tory:
Whatever may be said of the impracti-
cability of the route of the Union Pacific
Railroad over the Black Hills during the
three months of January, February and
March, this much will be conceded by
every visitor, that, for nine months in the
year, the sides and summit of these ever>
lasting hills are bedecked and adorned
with the greatest variety and grandest
display of flowers and wild fruits that ever
grew from the soil of Gods own country.
Every hillside, nook, valley, lawn, plain
and peak, from April until late December,
is gorgeously arrayed in countless thou
sands of flowers of every color, form and
size, applicable 20 the season, and wear
ing smiling 10 welcome each dawning
day and shining sun. The higher the
peak the brighter and more delicate the
fora, and upon the loftiest SUBMITS we
gather the Pdnteia NiVati, or snow plant,
and its fiery red brand, the star cockade,
the mountain lily, red, blue, white, yellow
and violet moss flowers; the purple aud
white plume the large white tulip, yellow
cactus, prickly pear, with its large bell
flower OF delicate yellow leaf and purple
base, and the ever-present, always bloom
ing wild parsnip and carrot, with their
purple and yellow clusters On the
plateau and in the dells we gather the
yellow pea blossoms, the yellow fax, pur-
pie and blue larkspur, blue bells, peony-
poppy, hyacinth, yellow, red, white and
tri-colored rose, strawberry, sunhower, the
white and purple sweet pea, johnny Jump
up, blue, purple, white and yellow flag,
sweet williams, pinks and a hundred va
rieiies peculiar only to this elevated floral
garden of Wyoming, which now reposes
SO grandly and charmiRgly in its cool
refreshing altitude of S262 feet above the
sea level.
L have now Oh my table boquet of
wild flowers made in the shape of !. pine
apple, out of nearly seTeuty varieties,
comprising every kaown color and hue,
some OF the most delicate formation, and
the whole forming cluster of floral beau
ty that ever have seen equaled by a like
collection Of cultivated flowers in the
beautiful State of Louisiana. These
flowers VIII retain then freshness of color
and sweet fragrance for two weeks, if kept
standing in vase filled with pure, soft
spring water Of the mountains; and ma
jority of them, In their native sell, bud,
blossom and bloom all summer there
fore claim that here, at Sherman, the
highest point that is crossed by the mar
vc!ous continental highway from the Mis-
1uri to the PaciGc the highest elevation
In the world where a town is rapidly
building where the thermometer in the
coolest days of winter never reached ten
degrees below zero, and in the warmcst
days of summer never marked eighty de-
grees above where there is perpetually
light and pure air where decayed matter
erlits ne stencils where dead aainals dry
up without sickening odor, and every
wind that sweeps from the snowy range
IS cool, healthy and invigorating where
horses can be worked all summer without
sweating, and all wiAser without blankets
ing where the soiI'is AZ rich decom~
posed granite; the rocks, beautiful in their
towering grandeur, all granite, gneiss
and tiEnestORe, inteTspersed with precious
stones Of silica, ch&.cedony, qaarlz, iels-
par, topaz, agate, mica, tale. hornblende
and seIpentine where the springs boil up
the pures5 softest, coldest water where
scattered over The surface, but in plain
view, arc numerous ledsos of quartz,
which time and capital will soon develop
into rich leads Of gold, silver, tin, anti
mosy, iron and'copper; and whcrc every
tlriag that grows or lives, assumes gran
deur not attained by any species in a
lower fatitude, is, claim, the Eden of the
northwest, and the only pleapant abiding
place for the city invalid during the sickly
dog g.days in your sun scorchcd world ight
thousand feet below US.