Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-01-25
The Source IF Seven Rivers.

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Henry lake is over 5000 feet above
the level of the sea, or about the same
altitude as Deer Lake Lodge Pass
The climate during the summer is sa-
lubrious and exhilarating, and in the
winter not extraordinarily cold Snow
seldom falls so deep but that Mr.. Saw
telle goes to Virginia City without ex-
periencing any great inconvenience
He has land broken on the north side
of the lake (of which there is some
very rich), and, besides the common
vegetables, raises good crops of barley,
oats, etc. From this place it is only
eightyfve miles to Taylor Bridge, on
Snake river; sixty-tive miles to Vir-
ginia City, and about sixty to the In
ternal Regions, which is somewhat
roundabout; but as "distance 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, very dim trail is
found leading over the Divide to
the head of Red Rock, where
are the famous Red Rock Lakes. Being
ont of the usual line of hunters and
sportsmen, elk, moose, deer, as well as
different kinds of small game, abound
in this wild, secluded spot. But one
could dwell in this interesting region
for week-yea, a month and then not
see all that Is worth seeing. One be-
comes almost bewildered when contem-
plating the "order of things Go
east, west or north, and walk of a
couple of hours will bring you on the
main chain of the Rocky Mountains
South and southwest is the only open
ing left for tritie east of south, and
the same great barrier confronts the
traveller. The range, in making this
short crook, almost doubles up, and
resembles n 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
brook. BY climbing to the top of the
high peak at the west, we look ont 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 it We're, in the same little lake, and
drinking all from the same small spring.
Here the Yellowstone, Snake and Green
rivers, as well as Clark's Fork, Wind
River Madison and Gallatin, start
together, ana each seeks course OF
it's own. Green River strikes boldly
south, and keeps its eye on the noon
day sun, needing neither mountain nor
plain-now almost lost amid the sands
of the desert, then again hid among
unfathomable canons, but ut 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 to the setting sun, passing
through fertile valleys, by mines OF in
and tens of thousands of busy people,
and finely rests III the bosom OF the
grand old Pacific. And now we see the
Yellowstone going still in an opposite
course striving for the east; at times
leaping hundreds of feet over perpen-
dicular precipices at others, cutting
as with the face of a diamond its way
walls of rock thousands upon
of feet in height-after many
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meval sohtudes on to the land Of evil
cation and greatness, smiling alike
upon the home of the savage and the
Christian, it at last pays tribute to the
ocean of its choice-the Atlantic. Be
tween these are many other streams,
some of them rushing, dashing rivers. I
1t is strange that so many different
waters should head here ana all run
different directions. But without a
a doubt, ii is owing to the fact that
this is the real end of the world, and /
that it was formerly (and is yet by
rights the north Pole, and is liable to
be again imbedded in ice (some day., /
all of which | may attempt To prove IN
paper. At the same time, /
with all these sights in view, while the .
frost of the morning IS vet in the air,
there can be seen, beyond the low
to the southeast, the steam
ascending from the scape-plpes of
sometimes called Geysers) .
to mingle with the clouds.