Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-08-27

0nDy tTlDe. AT one CdSI IuO IIcSlucut
Landed three trout weighing in the aggre-
gate four and q quarter pounds, and each
of six other casts took two hne specimens.
The President secured the greatest weight
ard the Senator the largest number, the
total weight being one hundred and five
pounds. The sport Is now about over.
The largest one csught weighed three and
one-hslf pounds. Looking back
Over Our Course
from Fort Washakie, where we first noun
tea our horses and abandoned wheeled
vehicles and took the Indian trail, which
led us through some fertile valleys, across
some bad lands and over some rugged
mountains there are many memoriet :
which inger pleasantly in the minds Of
every member of the party. The hallstorm
at Camp Crosby, the dust which sifted in
our tents at Camp Teton, the tolls OF the
trails of fallen timbers. are at last forgot
ten in
The Pleasant Asse Citations
of the rest of the journey The pictures
Of camp Lincoln with its banks OF snow
lying placidIy, slowly melting near snow
flowers, which had all the freshness OF
early spring : tender forget,me-nots, wild
asters, butter.cups and coiumbias, the lat
ter with their delicate, scarcely perceptable
shade of blue, for which many claim it the
most beautiful of the wild flowers found
in the Rocky mountains; carpeting OF
scarlet, blue and gold added to this; the
white mountain fox nesting close to
mother earth, and in such profusion as to
suggest the idea that the hand OF nature
had
GIasped Some OF Her Stars
and scattered them in wanton profusion on
the grassy stones of this romantic region.
nnynnH tho DOwpr
of De n 20 describe, located in a bend of the
Gros Ventre river, on a high bluff, from
the crest of which we got the first good
view of the royal Tetons, or TitianS, as
they should be called; to the west forest OF
pine and spruce mantling the mountain;
to the south and east clay and sandstone
rising high in the sky and rich red from
its iren Coloring, masked here and there
by a green foliage. The short thick grass
Of the little valley furnished splendid
grazing for our animals, and the trout
within twenty feet of our tents made the
immediate surroundings
Most Delfs hIfnl.
Then the Titan basin, as large as the State
If Rhode Island and covered at this season
Of the year with nutritious grasses, pro-
fuse in evidence OF being the center grazing
grounds of antelope, deer and elk. The
near future must practically determine
its value for stock purposes. Then jack
son lake, as we saw il from the crest OF
high bluff on our line of march,
Cleaning Like a Sapphire,
its surface fretted and blown into white
caps by the winds which swept down over
Mount Moran, moaning as they lost them
selves in the gloomy forests beyond. Ma
tuTe has indeed given a royal setting to
this jewel-twelve miles long and three
wide, on the East and North fringe of
quaker asp and willow brush, on the West
and South spruce and pine clothing the
feet of the grand Titans, and scrambling
up the sides until vegetation dies out.
Above the assures, chasms Of grim, gray
rocks
FILLED With Snow Banks
some of them 5000 feet deep, of dazzling
Nhiteness in the sun. Yes, the scenery
along our route will furnish many pleas.
ant memories in years to come. Enough
game has been killed to satisfy the wants
of the party, To-day we entered the sacred
precincts Of the park, and buffalo and elk
can look at as with perfect safety,
for Gen. Sheridan has given orders that
nothing shall be killed. The members OF
the party are enjoying their usual good
health and are commencing in fact to real
ize som mething in the way Of robust strength
for the investment made in taking trip o
his kind.