The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-08-14
SINCLAIR SEES SIGHTS
Outin Colorado, and Describes
the Scenery to the Bazoo
Tribe.
He Takes Passage in q Rocky
Mountain Schooner and Tells
of His Trip.
of the BAzoo.
HOT SULPHUR SPRINGS,
MIDDLE PARK, Aug. 5, '83


MIDDLE PARK, Aug. 5, 'S3 !
suppose that nearly every one of your
readers has seen q "prairie schooner" but
how many of them have ever seen Rocky
Mountain schooner. l. for one, had never
seen one until / boarded one at George
town the other day, in which to make the
trip over the range, to this place. An &C.
curate description of it would be out of the
question, and We will only state that it is
four wheel vehicle. hung on leather
springs, with all the seats facing in differ
ent directions, and is used for the double
purpose OF carrying freight and passenger
Leaving Georgetown, We pass Empire,
four miles out, and here the wagon road
leads up the northwest branch of Clear
Creek for five miles, when il commences
the ascent OF the main range, by "dug
way" which winds around rocks and the
heads of gulches until, in a distance of
two miles, it gains an altitude of 1000 feet,
when around the point of spur in the
range, il makes q sharp turn, and runs
ure ui seeing, far below him, the road over
which he has just passed. Two miles more
OF zigzsg climbing, By which 1900 feet
more OF altitude is gained, and we are at
the summit OF the range which parts the
rival oceans. From this mountain range
scenes of unequalled beauty are constantly
pre-erting themselves 10 the eye. From
here you behold the savage grandeur of
primrval forests, ranges of mighty snow
capped mountains, whose peaks are in the
clouds, and anon, find yourself curiously
gazing upon the elaborate creation OF
mining life below. Right in front of you
is Longs peak, and iar away in the north
ives: is Gray's peak, the proud monarch of
the Rockies, AL unshOrn of his grandeur :;
the SPECIFICS chronicler of centuries in
their flight to eternity. At this summit is
a log house built with sixteen-foot room
fronting on the road, and the water falling
on one side of the roof flows down the At
lantic, and from the other side down the
Pacific slope, the descent is imm. diately
running around the beaks of
gulch,s, across the cOrduroyed slougbs,
through mountain pine timber of immense
growth our 'Jehu" pilots his schooner at
the rate OF i've miles per hour, requiring =
steady nerve and a strong hand ior one to
keep their seat. The scenery on the west
ern slope Is made up of mountains Of dit
ferent shape from those on the eastern
slope. The vast stone ribs of the worlds
great frame are here visible. Layer upon
layer of granite masses are piled high
upon each other In solid and stupendous
grandeur.
The vast height and Immense scale upon
which the hand of nature has here wrought
produces in the mind of the beholder a
sense Of insigni6cance. Ten miles down
and we leave the timber behind and enter
the head Of the park, which is an open,
treeless prsirie, averaging from three to
eight miles wide, cut into all shahes by
hills and valleys. Four miles down this
park and we pass the "divide," from which
a full view of the park is obtained. Far
away in the north is the Score range"
whose peaks extend up where the eagle
seems to knit them and the sky together in
his flight, while Grand river lays in the
bosom of the vale like shield of shining
pearl resting on the broad breast of huge
black giant, sleeping in his armor. Near
the bank of this river are the hot sulphur
springs, the water of which is 90, when
it escapes from the rocks and goes plung-
ing over an immense table rock with fall
Of twelve feet into the bathing pool below.
The town is composed OF two hotels, two
stores, two livery stables and a pOstoffice
At the Kinney house the tourist can obtain
comfortable rooms, excellent fare of wild
game and mountain trout. Tomorrow We
start for Steamboat springs, one hundred
miles to the northwest and over the Score
range" E. w. s.