Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-08-30
PRESIDENT ARTHUR'S TRIP.
The Presidential Party Enjoying
Themselves Hugely I'm wonderland.

Dispatches from the regular cores
pondent accompanying the President
and party in the Yellowstone Park
are as follows.
GRos NENTRE RIVER, Wyo. Fort
Washable, Wyo. AT 6:30 o'clock
this morning the President and party
mounted their horses and started
from Cape Isham. We marched
down the Valley of the Gros Nentre,
crossing that stream to the north side
about ten miles from our camp of
last night Thence the trail lay away
from the river, through canons and
over mountains of considerable eleva-
ton, although the grades were not
very steep. After marching about
fifteen miles we arrived at a low mesa
ON the river, which was SO attractive
that the whole party voted we should
remain here tonight. In honor of the
President Gen. Sheridan called the
camp Camp Arthur Shortly after
our arrival rods and reels were gotten
in shape and the entire party went
fishing Gen. Stager made the larg-
est catch, Senator Vest next, and the
President third.
Capt. Clark came in this evening
from "A two-days hunt after elk and
bears. He had but little success.
All the party are well and enjoying
the fishing, hunting, and mountain
air with the keenest zest.
CAMP TETON, via Fort WASHABLE,
Wyoming. Promptly at half past s
this morning we mounted our horses,
and not without longing, lingering
looks behind, rode away from Camp
Arthur. Our course was in wester-
ly direction along the north side of
the Gros Ventre river The air was
clear and bracing, and the day as fine
as any with which we have been
favored since wet set out from Fort
Washakie The trail was best with
few of those difficulties with which
our fortnight's trai! in the wilderness
has made us so familiar, Indeed, IN
the absence of fallen timber, rocky
side hills and steep ascents and pitches
the ride would have seemed some
what monotonous but for a single fea-
ture which actually gloriied it. We
had climbed to the summit of a long
hill about five miles from Camp
Arthur, when there suddenly burst
upon our view scene as grand and
majestic as we ever witnessed. Below
us. covered with grass and flowers,
was "A lovely valley many miles in eX-
tent. through which was threading
its way the river on whose banks we
had just encamped. Along the whole
westerly edge of this valley with no
intervening foothills to obstruct the
view lowered the magnificent Teton
mountains, their snowy SUBMITS
piercing the air eight thousand feet
above the spot ON which we stood in
reverent admiration, and fourteen
thousand feet above the level of the
sea. 1t was the voice of every mem
Der of the party that that sight alone
would have fully repaid all the tolls
and perils of the march. We are en-
camped in the Teton basin, on the
bank of the Gros Ventre. The local.
ty, aside from the splendid views of
the mountains which it affords, is our
least attractive camp. The river at
this point has an excellent reputation
as a trout stream, but the wind has
been blowing at too many miles an
hour to permit much success in any
thing. 1T has been powerful enough
to break the ridge-pole of our mess
tent, but fortunately not beyond re
pairs We are all in excellent health,
and are thoroughly enjoying the trip.