The Shasta courier., 1872-02-24
A WONDERFUL REGION.

Henry Lake is over five thousand feet
above the level of the sea, or about the
same altitude as Dear Lake Lodge pass.
The climate during the summer is salubrl-
ious and exhilerating and in the winter
not extraordinarily cold. Snow never falls
so deep but that Mr.. Sawtelle goes to
Viginia City without experiencing any
great Inconvenience He has land broken
on the north side of the Lake (of which
there is some very rich), and besides the
conf vegetables raises good crops OF
barley, oats, etc. From this place it is
only eighty miles to Taylor bridge, on
Snake river sixty FIVE miles to Virginia
9 ty, and about sixty to the infersal re-
gions, which is somewhat round about
but as "distaDce lends enchantment," more
particularly in this case than any other, it
| is not likely there will be cut off for some
| time to come.
| BY following around the lake to the west
side. dim trail is found leading over the
divide to the head of ed Rock. where are
the famous Red fock lakes Being out of
the usual line Of hunters and sportsmen,
| elk, moose, deer, az well as different kinds
of small game, abound in this wild, seclud-
ed spot
But one could dwell in this interesting
region for week-yea, month-and then
not see all that is worth seeing. One be
comes almost bewildered when contemplat-
ing the "order of thugs" Go east, west
or north, and a walk of couple of hours
will bring you oD the main chain of the
Rock Mountains South and southwest is
the only opening left for trife east or
south, and the same great barrier confron's
the traveller. The range, in making this
short crook, almost doubles up. and re
sembles curve in the spine of mighty
serpent, and had it come little nearer
together Henry lake would have been
squeezed up to the size of Il brook.
By climbing to the top of the high peak
at the west, we looked out upon the most
wonderful region known to man. For
within scope of the eye are the sources of
some of the grandest rivers on the face of
the globe born, as i. were, in the same
little lake, and drinking all from the same
spring Here tn ellowstone. Snake and
Greer rivers as well as Clark fork. Wind
river, Madison and Gallatn start together,
and each seeks course of its own. Green
river strikes boldly south, and keeps is
eye on the MONDAY sun, needing neither
mountain nor plain-now almost lust amid
the sands of the desert, then again hid
away among the unfatnomed canons, but at
last finds its way to the sea. Then comes
the Snake-the river of magnificent falls,
cataracts and cascades-down, down it
goes, its face in the setting sun, passing
through fertile valleys, by mines of incal
culable wealth, cities of thousands and tens
OF thousands of busy people, and finally
rests in the bosom of the grand old Pacific
| And now see the Yellowstone going still in
an opposite direction, striving for the east,
at times leaping hundreds of feet over
perpendicular precipices; at hers cutting
as with the face OF diamond its way
thronght walls Of rock thousands upon
thousands of feet in hei q t-after many
days of toisome jourueyirg from primeval
solitude on to land oil civilization and
greatness smiling alike up on the home
of the savage and the Christian it at last
pays tr butte to the ocean of its choice the
Atlantic. Between these are many other
streams, some OF them rushing, dashing
rivers 1t is strange that SO many differ
ent waters should bead here. and all run
10 different directions. But, without a
doubt, it is owing to the fact that this is,
the real end of the world, and tina. it was
formerly (and is yet by rights the North
pole, and is liable to be again i'm
bedded in ice (some day), all Of which l
may attempt to prove in subsequent
paper.
At the same time, with all these sights
in view while the frost Of the morning is
yet in the air, there can be seen beyond
the low mountain in the southeast, the
steam escaping from the scapepipes of
purgatory sometimes called geysers) to
mngle with the Clouds Corr. Deer Lodge
Northwest