The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-17
A Wonderful Region..Henry Lake I'm
Nontana---OEfgin Of Several Great

Rivers.
Correspondence Of the Deer Lodge Northwest.
Henry lake Is over five thousand feet above
the level Of the sea, or about the same alti-
tude as Deer Lake Lodge pass. The climate
during the summer Is Salubrious and cXhila-
rating, and in the winter is not extraordinary
cold. Snow seldom falls so deep but that Mr..
Sawtelle goes to Virginia City without expo
riencinS any great Inconvenience. He has
had land broken on the north side of the lake
(of which there is some very rich), and, be-
sides the common vegetables, raises good
crops Of barley, oats, &c. From this place it
is only eighty miles to Taylor bridge, on
Snake river; siXty-fiye miles to Virginia City,
and about sixty to the internal regions, Which
Is a somewhat roundabout cut: as distance
lends enchantmcnt," more particularly in
this elsc than any other, it is not likely there
will be Il cutoff for some time to come.
Ry following around the lake to the west
side, dim trail is found leading over
the divide to the head of Red Rock, where
CT tie usual line Of hunters and sportsmeD,
elk, moose, deer, as well as different kinds OF
small game, abound in this wild, secluded
spot. ...s..-. -.'..
But one could dwell III this interesting re-
gion foc a week, yes, q month, and then not
see all that is worth seeing. One becomes
almost bewildered when contemplating the
"order of things" Go east, west, or north,
and walk Of couple hours will bring you
on the main chain of the Rocky Mountains,
| South and southwest is the only opening left
| Tor tribe east or south, and the same great
| barrier coniiuntS the traveller. The range
! ia making this short crook almost doubles
| UP, and resembles curve in the spine OF g
mighty serpent, and had it come a little
nearer together Henry lake would have been
squeezed up to the size Of brook.
BY climbing to the top Of the high peak at
| the west we look out upon the most wonder
| FIJI region known to man. For within scope
of the eye arc the sources Of the gT;lndest
| rivers on the face of the globe--born, as il
were, in the same little lake, and drinking MI
from the same small spring. Here the Iel-
| lowstone, Snake, and Green rivers, as we'll
as Clark's fork, Wind river, Madison, and
Galk.tin start together, and each seeks d
course of its own. Green river strikes boldly
south and keeps its eye on the MONDAY sun,
needing neither mountain nor plain--now
almost lost amid the sands of the desert,
then again hid away among unfathomable Gu
| mons, but ut last finds its way to the sea.
| Then comes the Snake-the river Of magnifi-
CcuI Kills, CutdidCIs, anu MISUNDERSTANDING,
down it goes, its face to the setting sun, pass
| ing throughout fertile valleys, by mines OF
wealth, cities of thousands and tens of thou
sands of busy people, and finally rests in the
bosom of the grand old Pacific, 1862
And now we see the Yellowstone going
still an opposite course, striving for the east,
at times leaping hundreds Of feet over per-
pendicuar precipices al Others cutting, rs
with the face OF O diamond, its way through
walls OF rock thousands upon thousands OF
feet In heisht-after many days of toisome
journeying from primeval solitude on to a
Land Of civilization and greatness, smiling
alike upon the home Of the savage and the
Christian, it at last pays tribute to the ocean
Of It's choice-the Atlantic. Between these
are many other streams, some Of them rush.
ing, dashing rivers. 1t is strange that so
many different waters should head here and
all run in different directions. o.:
But without doubt it is owing to the fact
| that this is the real end Of the world, and
that it was formerly land is yet by rights the
north pole, and is liuble to again imbedded
in ice (sonle day., all of which I may attempt
| to prove in some 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 to the southeast the steam escaping
from the scape-pipes of purgatory (some-
times called geysers) to mingle with the
clouds .gegSes - s'.s.s ".fr