Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-07-26

finally pours its clear waters over nre.
ctp1oe Z19 feet high. The wall IL r.r
pendicoiar and Of solid stone. The tor
luts over some little distance. 30 thai
the water makes q clear, unbroken lear
Irop Top TO bottom, not touching TIE
wan In the descent. At the bottom
wnere the Hoods ara ceasesslly poured
some distance separates the rock and
tne water. Persons walk With safety
under the falls. The roar of the waters
can De heard for several miles, and the
VAST masses OF water hurled into the
yswninR abyss cause the solid rock 10
trembie Tor some distance around. On
q clear day, when the sun shines bright
", tne falls presen. most magnificent
sight. Snoqualmie Falls are situ,ted
about forty miles due east OF Duwamish
bay and can easily be reached by trail.
Every summer a number of pleasure
parties from Seattle and other points ON
the Sound visit this natural wonder.
MOUNT TACOMA.
Towering far above the loftiest peaks
OF the Cascade mountains Mount Ia
coma rises prandlv, its snov-cauped
summit seeming to pierce the yery
heavens. This hoary headed monarch
u, beyond all comparison. the grandest
and most imposing peak on the North
west coast. Shasta is the only mount
ain on the entirs Pacific slope that com
petes with il for supremacy. For wild,
rugged grandeur, magnitude and alti-
tude Mount Shasta fully equals Mount
Tacoma, and by careful and repeated
measurement 1t has been ascertained
that the California mountain is about
eight feet higher than its northern rival.
Mount Tacoma ia situated some fifty
miles southeast of New Tacoma. In
form IL Ia almost perfect cone, ard the
sxact hight has been determined to be
II ,444 feet above the level of Com
bay. Eternal snow and ice
,lothe the summit and full two thirds
d the sides of the mountain.
Yawning chasms. aud deep, un-
broken canyons traverse the sides of
me peak. commencing far up toward
me top. and extending down to the
base, where they are lost IN the noun
Eain labyrinths that surround it. These
precipitous declivities are clad with a
dense growth of timber. To ascend the
peak the traveller must triumph over the
,teepness, the timber and the vast
r asses of snow and ice. Two persons
Slain TO have scaled the mountain to
he very summit. Notwithstanding
heir assertions, the story is very gener.
Ally discredited. 1t is thought no hu-
man foot has ever pressed those lofty
regions OF everlasting arctic rigor. The
ascent il considered beyond the power
1f human achievement. Indians who
have lived . great many years near the
peak, and who ought to be personally
sonversant with the difficulties aud
perils Of the ascent, affirm that il il i'm
possible for any one to reach the top.
The distance Is SO great, the obstacles
70 maxy and the cold SO intense, that no
person, however Injured to toll, hardship
and exposure, could accomplish the trip
and return in one day.
A SUPERB PROSPECT.
From New Tacoma q magnificent
view can be obtained of this grand
Rising from the rugged,
timber crowned chain the peak lifts its
mighty masses Of earth, stones, forests,
and snow to the clouds, forming stu
pendons picture of strength, wild isola-
tion and lonely grandeur. South of
Mount Tacoma along the same range
stands Mount st. Helen's. Compared
With the former the latter looks insig-
nidoant, its altitude being only $50
feet. Still further south Mount Adams
Ihows its frozen summit. This peak,
ike st. Helen's, is much smaller than
Mount Tacoma. Mount Adams is only
100 feet above the SEA level. North Of
Mount Tacoma, Mount Baker )ars aloft
IN does not compare unfavorably with
he Snowy Giant" Mount Bakers al
itude has bsen determined at 10, $40 feet
lbove tide-water. Most of the rivers
which traverse the southern portion of
Western Washington Territory find their
Iources about the base of Mount Ia
,oma. Cowlitz river rises in the dsep
canyons that thread the rugged base of
Mount st. Helen's, bat Cedar, Green,
White. Black, Puyallup, and Nisqnally
'ivers, and their numerous nameless
flow from Mount Tacoma.
There are said TO be fourteen living gla-
,iers on the sides of Mount Tacoma.
The nearest glacier is about twenty
miles from the Carbonate GOAL mine.
There Is q trail leading 70 this glacier.
Vioe President Edmunds. Mr.. Cakes of
the Northern Pacific Railroad and sew
eral others visited this glacier only
few weeks ago. Mr.. Cakes has given
to have wagon road cut to
this glacier and has also urged that the
work be done at the earliest practical
date. The object Of cutting this road
10 10 enable tourists to reach the west
ern base OF the peak with comparative
ease. When the road 10 opened hun
dreds of persons will doubtless visit
these glacial formations, either to graf
ify curiosity or In the interests of
Smoke 10 said to have been
frequently observed issuing from the
apex Of the mountain in past years, and
from this circumstance the assertion
ma IL an extinct volcano. Others, again,
affirm that smoke was never seen foat-
ing about the summit and deny that the
ever was an active volcano.
Only q few days ago the Tacoma and
Seattle papers stated that the mountain
Was again sending out smoke. At some
remote period themountain might have
been an active volcano; but certain il
Ia, the only indication that the crater is
not yet extinct Is an occasional rift OF
some white substance, either cloud or
smoke. Traditions amsng the Indians,
Wn1ch are known 20 De perpetuated from
generation 10 generation, give no 40.
count Of an eruption. N.
NEWS HReM TmE NoRrm COAST.
= Victoria Colouist: News by the steam
ship Idaho states that business is lively
In camp and Rold-dust plentiful. In
the basin the miners we're taking out
o per day per man. In the Trsadwell
claim they have penetrated the surface
Aid struck gold in the lower tunnei, and
the rock there proves equally AZ good as
that found In either Of the other tun-
nels- The people have been Watching
operations In this ledge. knowing that,
Il the tunnel proved good, il must be
one Of the richest mining claims on the
coase. Al the Trsadveli claim the man.
aQer IL veil pleased With the present
outlook. and there In little doubt that
thar will Be much morn doing aext