, 1874-08-02

teFs, your correspondent left Aims at O'Clock in
the morning,-h's two objective points being the
famous Moose Mine and tho summit Of ut.
Lincoln: 4 ga!lop OF half mile across the
Platte bottom brings Que to the first series Of
foothills, and hero
THE SWEAT AND Tou,
pull, and man or beast is compelIed to halt everv
10 Yards to take breath. But notwithatan,,inr
the steep pitches and heavy grade. this ia Tie
principal road to the At Iinco1n aitrer-
mine, and four-mule teams we're con-
ore and supplies. Each side Of the road is dense
II wooded with the common yellow pine and
green mountain-fir; sud the aromatic smell,
combined with the cool breezo that con,ea
sweeping down from the heights above is do
liqhtfuL
Wo passed CLOUDS Of m;ners,-some toil;ng
upwar4f. some resting beneath the grateful
shade, aud all bound for the mines. One waa
recognized in the person of an old cIassuate
teries of sines and cosiues to . class in tha
States. He failed in business. struck West,
adopted the pick and shovel. and is now long
beaded. veteran miner. with decided pouchant
for - AIought," s'You bet" and draw-poker. Tha
from Alma. at an ajtitnla of II 900 feat. Tha
line of demarkation is complete. Not a
bush, shrub, or caosus-plapS rears it, head
above this barrier, although tho trees main
tain their full size no to the very limits Still
above, and mites distant as the crow flies, tow
cred the venerable peaks OF Liuco1n. Bros5. aud
Montgomery, powdered with snow and coquot~
ting with the clouds. The men and teams far up
on the sides looked like pgmies. and the cabins
lighthouses. Up, still up, above plain, forest
and mark. ahoyo foothills and yalleys. abova
mining towns and sauatters' ranches, clambered
the rond on the breast OF the mountaan.-now
rnsl,inp straight mn some steep erabauEmept,
and aroiu siding off from tha edge OF some vii
lannon's looking pnvino.
By 10 oclock q. m. the Moose Mina. on tho
northern stoue of Nj. Bross was reached and
from here the road leads over long, narrow.
rocky saddIe. which strotches from Boss to the
peags of Montgomery and Lincoln. At the TINA
Of cur trip the SNOW was piled up
TEN FEET H1an
On either side. while some large banks aboys
stood ready to slide down at the slightest notice.
Onlv tho day hefora one Of theae nyal.nche5
etarted On a Torace of discovery for
tha oulf below. completely epguJfug
in its course four-mu1e team and load Of ora.
Fortuugtely tbs mules managed to retain thet1,
fontirp and 1raroaj the load through but the
driver declares that he wouh not take such an
cthar anuee7a for MI tho silver mines in Cooya-
do, Oh the left-haud side Of the saddle going
no. ia sheer precipice over 900 feet in depth
the shores Of which have never been profancd
hr the footsteps OF man, C)amherins over rocks,
Aouuderinr through snow-d drifts, and wadlps al.
most knee-decp through banks of loose gravel
the honr Of noon found ua within 300 y2rti5 OF
The neak of ut. Lincoln. Here tho trail became
imn.ssahia for ho1Bes and. dismounting, We
nressed forward on foot. and soon stood unon
the snmnit, and II $40 feet nearer heaven than
The abandoned vrotchea who dwell by the shores
Ifaman Wishes to become fully sensible Of his
fnaipniacanco. worthlessness and littlenesa, let
lin ciamher m On the top of a high mountain.
r. he wishes to realizo What mean, con,cmpti-
| Bic worm he ID how vain are the works OF man
comnnrod with those Of Nature il he questions
the existence Of q God, and is disposed to accept
! tha chance theory for tl,is beautiful earth OF
/ nr-e .N1at him
srASp Upoy THE PEAK OF 1T. LINCOLN;
lat him stand there. with the sun beaming down
| F-,rn aboro ,ha clouds Saline under his feet be-
| 1ao ,nd fromo the great hejoht and amid ths
nroinnnd stilIness. let him caze away ont On the
nniains. md to the range that marks the Pacific
s1ann. iat Inn utnese the shifting panorams Of
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Of valley and forest thousands
Of feet under the proud peak; and, If he doesn'h
feal 1its sinking into his boots and repenting In
eockcloth and ashes, am much mistaken in my
estimate Of human nature. Standing there. tho
| entira Ilocky-Mouutatn region seems to be un-
rn1}ed ike = map. Due east. Pixies Peak rears
i,s snowy crest; north Of this, James, Gray'a.