Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-15

plains. The transformation of the "des-
ert'' will be speedy. Its identity will
be lost beneath the footprints of progress
sive civilization, and nothing remain
worth seeing in this wild region save
Pixies and other peaks, lifting their
hoary heads above this charming para
dise-the "Garden of the Gods"
H GODS BEVERAGE.
BY the way, Congress water goes into
desuetude. General Dodge, who owns
an interest in Colorado Springs, is max
ing arrangements to have the bottled
water distributed everywhere through
out this country and Europe. 1t is most
pungent to the taste and full of health
giving properties. But here In this at
mOsphere, and with scenery so wonder-
full that one never grows weary contem-
plating its changeful aspects-where
sickness is impossible and disease dies,
because its forces are forgotten and there
is nothing wherein il may feed, there Is
no need for health-giving water. Why
could not Western wilds have these
wonderful mountains and transparent
atmosphere, and let US of the lOwlands
at least have clear streams and sparkling
fountains whose medicinal properties
and virtues cannot even be initiated by
the chemists art? The blessings of
earth, as of human existence, are most
unequally distributed. General Dodge
proposes to equalize these aspects of OF
existence by the worldwide diffusion of
waters that bubble up from the base OF
Pixies Peak, the Olympus of old, within
the Garden of the Gods.
FoREMANIzING.
I have seen illusions in the APPEAL
to the foremanizing process. Theneces-
sity for its adoption is most apparent
here, where one traverses a thousand
miles of crossties, and sees during the
journey not one single tree. When in
Missouri, some days ago, l saw Swiss
and German vinedressers, who had used
the same foremaniZed cottonwood stakes
through a series of years. So costly had
been the process of stalking the vines
that many v~ine-growers had imported
cedars from Tennessee. Now, however,
foremanized cottonwood subserves every
want of the winners. Therefore, the
wisdom of those who would preserve the
best streets that ever blessed a city by
foremanizing and preserving the NicOl-
son pavement. If absurd fence laws,
like those of Tennessee, be not resclnded
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continent will become a treeless and
thus a ~rainless desert. The preservation
of wood is only less important than the
protection and creation of forests which
supply mechanical wants and define
and regulate climatic laws.
THE OLD STORY.
But l can only advise readers of the
APPEAL, in these hurriedly-written
notes by the wayside, to visit eve now
this landof wonders before its attractive
ness is destroyed by the unsparing hand
of progress and civilization. Words
cannot paint, tongue cannot tell, imagi-
nation even fails in its highest flight to
in fitting terms the glory, the
su6limity, the wondrous magnificence of
mountain, vale, hill, canon, dell, tor
rent and cascade that multiply upon the
vision as waves multiply upon the
oceans bosom, as, ~bewildered by the
beauty about us and above us, we take
in the ineffable splendor Of the scenery
of the Heart of the Continent.
L. J. D..