New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-08


nd s,onos gray with sagebush. white incrustauohs VI
I meadows beside the swift, winding steams stnn'eu
willow and greasewood and around inc horizon so"
trake ridges gloomy under the shadows OF the stor
,nds An day the lines of Shelley poem OF The Clouu
ang in my ears
II sn the snow on the mountains below
AL r 81, e. great s P ~; 5N Si,s Mite
WSen Sleep in he arms Of the blast"
TT Mountain at the northern extremity of the Medi-
ciueBow range 900 feet in hight II is such con
pcuous landmark that see 1t for more than huhde
miles of travel and we at last to believe that with
ali the speed Of our train getting no further on
our way Now we find IL before now behind us; now on
The right and them suddenly, the left and so Tor
hours-always the broad, snowy pyramid Lara
mic Peak TO the northward, is also visible Tor long
time ..,
crabo stream II rises in the North Park, at the west
ern base Of Longs Peak and makes great curve arOu
the high tableands Of Laramie forcing It's way through
the Black Hills in deep canon. We are st' -
ON the Atlantic side of the continent but on eroSsns VIZ
Platte we have reached the FOOT OF tho ""'ei M
dividing ms from the rivers which flow 10 the RACINE
a. pI;,, station there is supper; the night Is moon
1oss am tol that the great continental DIVIDE con
stats only Of high plains and ridges covered WIN sage
and therefore 60 TO bed willing TO be carried uneoh-
scously To the Pacific side.
In the morning. find We have just crossed Green
piver main branch Of the Colorado This is the point
NrrpF li.
summer notice no difference in the scenery since yes
terlay except that Elk Mountain has really disappeared
We follow Blacks Fork on rising grade hhGihS ho
beauty in the low gray hills the stuned willows along
the water In the south, the Uintah Mountains Ilt
LONG line Of snow which the black clouds are continually
rcplcnishing by o'clock the MIN -Aundredth mile rom
omaha is p,ssed and we reach Carter the station Tor
r,t Rridcer which is about - miles 10 the southwark
Here the furnishing passengers find breakfast IL mas pel
made meal-StatiOn for the first time, ana we are nun
doubtful what fare shall get But, Woulu 'ha' oou'
find tables equally good east OF the missouri IHc
coffee is perfect the supply of steaks ham ana eggs IN
cxbausiblc and Of the refreshing quaiteS oI o
mountain air see 4 to have been baked into the bread.
Now ve commence the ascent of hHd sumnht-thaV
which divides the waters Of the Pacific from those OF inc
Great Basin Here the character OF watershed Is oIo
definitely marked than at sherman, although rhe graue
of ascent nowhere exceeds feet to the me Inc sum
mi, altitude is 75lO feet and we wind upward along
the hare drcary slopes the sweeping clouds strike our
track and we are IN the midst Of a snowStOrm undor
such aspcc the scenery is dismal The groves OF aspe
from which the crest is named, are out OF sight III inc
hoows; even the sage is low and stuned ana al 'o
vast landscape is dark, eless, and apparently ul'o
liable.
nescenlipr 70 the valley OF Bear River, first reach
the deserted houses Of Bear City, where few courageous
men OF order drove of the throatcuttng rairoac-1uh
ers two years ago. then comes Evanston whefe theI'
will soon be q cOal-mining town, ana, III rev! year
more iron ounderies and rollins-nis inc coal vein
forth feel in thickness the coal perfectly free from SUI
pbur burning freely with little ash, and is probably tn
best IN the world for smelling purposes Near at nam
there il mountain OF iron ore, mixed with just enoug
limestone 20 make fux. At this point therefore, IN
road will be able supply all its own material fortuh
favors the bold but not often so sgnay as III the cas-
OF tho Union Pacific Railroad.
Att o'clock we reach dinner at Wasatch, little tow
Al the head of the famous Echo Canon. And here, on tn
edge of the Salt Lake Valley, must close my letter b.