Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-08
FROM s.EARMER.''

Ice - Indian Bowls - An Unlucky
Year-Moral of Dr. Glenn's Death
Ny last left us with the timber, and
in fact everything out of doors, loaded
down with ice; and it remained so for
more than week. Tall trees stand
ing thirty or forty feet from the road
were bent so that their tops rested on
the ground in the middle of the road;
all old trees there was mass of wreck,
and young timber looked like lodged
grain. The ice has all gone now, but
the woods look as though they had
been exposed to a battery fire. We
are having a sad mixture of ice and
mud now.
Your correspondent, at. c." has
been looking at the Indian bowls" in
Belleview. have seen them many
times, and once or twice in company
with ST. C.'s" guide. In trying to
ride across the creek "fornist" the
bowls one of us suddenly changed his
seat from the saddle to the soft side of
a porphyry rock Sometimes / think
Pm growing old, and my memory is
really conveniently short, for 1 have
forgotten which one of us executed
that feat; but ! remember distinctly
coming to the conclusion that the In
dams never made those bowls, and
don't believe they ever got any chic
ride of sodium out of that brackish
spring water, either. / am not sur
prised at 1T. C.'s" guide stuffing him
with the Indian and salt story, for
that gent can be trusted to joke at ev-
cry opportunity; but he knew better,
for when we were riding together IN
Shannon county, on Rocky, south of
Current river, and few miles from d.
c. Reeds, we inspected a cascade and
learned the secret of the "Indian
bowls" as eny one may by visiting
that old mill-site to-day. Rocky burst
through ridge of stone and pitched
over a ledge of porphyry at an angle
of thirty-eight feet in forty; the water
rushed down through a crooked. WE'LL
worn groove, or crevice, with several
eddies; and pebbles swirling round in
the eddies had wcrn out holes exactly
like the bowls, and are wearing them
there still. After this the question |
with me was: Where was the ca taract |
or cascade of which the bowl blocks |
once formed a part? For they have
certainly washed to their present loca- |
ton. and must have been further up |
the Saline.
What does "Former Resident" mean !
by saying the objection of bad fence
around the CALEDONIA College is not
admissible? That all other fence are
bad, is the only inference / can draw;
but when l was there the fences av-
eraged better than they do here now.
Surely decline has not set i'm there too!
"Aii's well that ends well, of course;
but has not 'S3 made bad start?
What with fire. flood, and other mis-
haps, more human life and more prop
erty has been destroyed in the first six
weeks than ia two or three years be-
fore. Are We developing this country
or are we destroying it? Every year
we destroy more and more timber;
every year we cut more and more
drains and gullies; do more aud more
3, render our climate more irregular
and extreme; to fill up aud make
worthless with sediment our naviga- :
ble streams ut low water, aud to make
them a terror at high water; and them
like silly children. we hewal the re- .
suits of our own folly.
Score one for Herr Most. The news
papers in giving an account of the
death of DR.. Glenn, the large Califor- {