Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-01-23
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Flora of the Yellowstone.
| Mr.. Vasey, botanist of the Depart
ncnt of agriculture, and Mr.. Golfer.
f5OtaniSt of Hayden's Yellowstone Ex-
pedition, are engaged in classifying
and distributing the botanical coilec-
ton made in the Yellowstone National
Park and its environs last summer.
There are about 200 species of flora
indigenous to the territory embraced
within the limits of the park. Tho
woody fibers are chiefly pines ard frs.
The pines are of three varieties-the
red pine, and two short, rough species,
which attain height of from twenty
to thirty feet, which is about the length
of their latin names, the only ones of
which they are now in possession.
There are the specimens of spruce
commonly called "white pine" and
Swamp pine" and the balsam and
white spruce or silver fir. The latter
is a most beautiful tree. When at full
maturity its lower branches, which
sweep the ground, spread out over a
disk some twenty-five feet in diameter
forming the base ofa symmetrical cone,
which rises not unffequently to a
height of one hundred and twenty
fleet. .4 9l..f.....I
Besides these there are few cedars
and poplars, and several inferior speci-
mems more like large bushes, but
which, through courtesy, are brevetted
trees.i -.'' iis- So"
The tree line on the Tetons is at about
the. usual altitude, IL 900 feet, but on
Mount Hayden it is much higher.
This peak is IA, 900 feet above the level
Of the sea, and vegetation is luxuriant
until within about 800 feet of the top,
where it5tops abruptly at the base of a
cone Of ofgranite that caps the mountain,
and is so steep and smooth that even
snow can not effect a lodgment upon
its sides. i 80 '---' ''--
Grasses in great variety and abun-
dance, and OF the finest quality for
IgreGing. cover the mountain sides to a
great height, and hither in Summer
| flock, by thousand elk, deer, and other
iherbivorous animals, TO browse upon
tie broad, luxurious pastures.
I . The floral display is remarkably
abundant, varied, and brilliant, far
surprising in beauty the famed prairies
of the Western States. Primroses, COL
umbines, larkspurs, monkshood, fox
gloves, and thousand other flowers,
some familiar, others rare, cover the
earth with brightness, and fill the air
with fragrance Z3ri ,-4ej ..-a-u
Burglars are working Dayton.
! Senator Nye wants to be U. S. Minis
ter to China. 80, =.
|, Philadelphia new post-ofice> will
cost Sc, 10000
Anew afternoon paper is to be start
ed at Pittsburg.
w. w. Conner has been appointed
Adjutart General of Indiana.
The purchase of SamaAa Bay has
been effected by New York capitalists.
A bottle containing strychnine was
found in the cell vacated by Stokes.
Wsverly Ohio, is happy in the posses
sion of brand new ten thousand dol
lar Jail.
The prosecuting counsel in the Stokes
/ case do not think he will obtain a new
trial.
/ Waves forty feet high dashed over
the quays at Naples duringa recent
hurricane. - iaii- -,'i --i>i i
More than 50, 600 Italians were rem
dered homeless and destitute by the
Hate floods .iui-a 80 - ..-"gqEs
Thepeaeh buds in Southern Missouri
are reporteda all killed by the recent
cold weather.. :s..ui. -.it To -.i.i4
,!Thedebt of ALilyaukeeis larger than
that,of the State of Wiscosinr viz;
s, 200, 900. ....s...t .-.
Within the last four months sixty
three Georgia gin houses have gone up
in fire and smoke.
The opium eaters have an organ at
Laporte, Indiana, called the Theriaki,
published quarterly.
Vallejo, Cal, claims possession Of
itle etnbalmed body of an emperor
who ruled China 5000 years ago.
4 Receipts ofe6tton at Padncah by tho
lPadueah and Memphis road now aver
age about 200 bales per day. ID .-l.a
/ 4ffrHe entire product Of the lead mines
lin Wisconsin, since they were tirst
Iopened is estimated atnarly $500, ,OoO,-
OVo' b, y,a .besioioIH a.l-ln'-s,-
! Though, behind in a good many
things, Pennsylvania is the first State
in the Union to organize cooperative
.tsauer kraut factories.
. The Spanish government denies thal
HI ever received /. note from Secretary
,bFish on the subject of slavery or re-
,lforms in the colonies. s-.
The Senate committee on Elections
has summoned Senator Pomeroy, o.