The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-01-18
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THE SOURCE OF SEVEN RIVERS

Henry lake is over 900 feet above the
level of the sea. or about the same ALI
tude as Deer Lake Lodge Pass The
climate during the summer is saluhrious
and exhilarating, and in the winter not
extraord narllv cold Snow seldom falls
10 deep but1hat Mr.. Sawtelle gees to
Virginia City without experiencing any
great Inconvenience. He had laud 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 and etc. From this place II
is only eighty five miles 10 Taylor Bridge
On Snake river sixty five miles to Vir
gluia City,ana about sixty to the Internal
Regions, which is somewhat roundabout !;
but as ''distance lends enchantmept, more
particularly rathis case than any other,It
IS not likely here will be cut off tor
some time t. 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
inc of hunters and spOrtSmen, elk moose.
deer, as well as different kinds of small
game, abound n this wild, secluded spot
But one could dwell. in this Interesting
region for w.ek-yea,a months and tha n
not see all that is worth seeing One be
comes almost bewildcred when contem
plating the "order of things" Go east,
vest or north, and walk of couple of
hours will bring you TO the main chain of
the Rocky Mountains. South and south
west is the only opening left, for a triae
east OF south, and the, same great barrier
confronts the traveller The range, in
mading tbs short crook, almost doubles
up, and resembles curve III the spine of
q mighty serpent, and had it come lit
tie 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.
TIE most wonderful region known to mati.
For within scope of the eye are the
sources OF some, of the grandest rivers on
the face OF the globe-born, as 1t were, in
the same little lake, and drinking all
from the same small spring. Here the
Yellowstone, Snake and Green rivers as
we'll as Clark Fork, Wind River, Mad
ison and Gallatin, start together,and each,
seeks course Of its own. Green River
strikes boldly south, and keeps its eye ion
the noon day sun, heeding neither noun
tain nor plain--now almost lost amid the
sands of The desert, then again hid among
unfathomabler canonsr 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 to the setting sun, passing through
fertile valleys, by mines of incalculabie
wealth, cities of thousands and tens Of
thousands Of busy people, and finely rests
IN the bosom Of the grand old Pacific.
And now We see the Yellowstone going
still in al opposite course striving for the
east; at times leaping hundreds of feet
over Perpendicular precipices; at others
cutting as with the face ofs diamond its
way through walls of rock thousands upon
thousands of feet in height after many
days of tiresome journeying from pri
meval solitudes on to the land Of civil.
zation and greatness. smiling alike upon
the home of the savage and the Christian
| it at last pays tributes to the ocean fits
cholce-the, Atlantic Between these arr
many other streams, some of them rush
ing. dashing rivers It is strange that 81
many different waters should head here
and all run different directions. Blu
without doubt, 1t is owing to the fac
this is the real end Of the world and tina