The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-09-30


many times before and followed the mar
row, winding trail up the steep mountain
side where to look oack made ones head
swim. and where miss step or stumble
would precipitate horse end rider down
the terrible rocky incline 10 almost GER
tain destruction. But the magnifcence
of the scene repaid many times over, the
labor and risk of reaching it. As we
neared the t,p we could look down hun
dreds of feet below us upon immense
snow-banks which the summer sun had
failed to dissolve, 1t was a bright, clear
morning, and with overcoats and wraps
we were able to meet the chilling breeze
without discomfort. Resting over the
tops of lower mountains we saw immense
white clouds, which from above, with
the sunlight shining on them, looked
like great sheets of snow below us, For
hundreds of miles in every direction
mountain peak after mountain peak met
our view, snow-capped and rock bound,
''grand, gloomy and peculiar" 1t was
the sight of life. time. In the clear,
rarified atmosphere there is almost no
limit to ones vision with a good glass.
Denver lay fifty miles to the south of u.s.
Pixies Peak 1J0 miles distant, looks as
though it was scarcely a gun-shot away.
South Park, an elevated, fertile plain
with an area Of many thousands of acres,
was almost at our feet, while ranges of
mountains in Wyoming aud New Mexi.
co were plainly visible. Victor Hugo
tells us that ''every condition has its
instinct and he who finds himself for
the first time face to face with the Rocky
Mountains Gods eternal sentinels-has
AN appalling sense that he has not only
over rated his individual importance in
Natures economy, but has likep ise un-
dervalueA the influence of inarticulate
nature upon himself. Nothing can trans
cend the majesty of these snow-capped
mountains! You gaze upon them in mute
wonder until you grow abstracted and
out of self into the idea of perpetual
greatness. You do not think-only feel
and somehow the eastern world that
you have left behind with its glitter and
gloom, its enyious struggles aud mani
fold defects, fades into insienifcance in
view Of this endless range of Divine az
chitecture, and you are for once an hum.
BILE worshipper at the pure shrine of sub
Unity.
Three miles up mountain gulch above
Georgetown is what is known as Green
Lake. 1t is large basin at an elevation
of IL 900 feet, filled with water rs feet
deep, almost as cold as ice and of green
ish hue. The lake is half mile long by
a quarter of "A mile In width, aud over
looked on all sides by an impregnable
mountain wall, Here the propagation Of
tsh Is extensively carried on, and the lake
literally swarms with beautiful trout and
salmon. They are so tame that uroves of
them will come close to the shore aud eat
crumbs from visitt RS hands. There are
now about 20 900 in the lake and several
thousand young ones in the tanks Below.
10 feed them requires fifty to sixty
ponnds OF ground meat per day at this
season and larger quantity in winter.
No hshing is allowed, and AN armed man
patrols the bank at night to prevent the
destruction OF these pets. The object of
this enterprise is to stock the mountain
streams for food and sport. All the
waters OF Colorado are being rapidly de-
pleted OF their beautiful tinny inhabitants
ana fishing here is not what it was a lew
years ago. The subj,c OF fish propaga-
tion is being agitated in many of the
States, and the attention of Congress has
been called to it. All our waters need
replenishing. Seineing and other de-
VICES have greatly reduced the supply of
iSh food everywhere and nearly destroy
ed the healthful sport incident to its TAX
ing. But a small percentage of the eggs
deposited are hatched and saved in the
natural way, while by the artificial pro-
cess, properly managed, only very small
percentage is lost. The destruction of
young fish by the game species can also
be guarded ag inst until they are able to
take care OF themselves, thereby still
again largely augmeLting the annual sup
ply. Congress could wisely appropriate
Tor this object, in eligible localities, n
portion o: the sums voted away upon that
annual steal, the River and Harbor bill,
and expended for the supposed improve
ment OF mythical rivers and streams.
Dom PEDRO.