The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-11-09
WOMAN AND HOME
The Work and Happiness of Women,
and Their Ways
n Kerosene Can---Club Life vs.
Home Living---A Yankee Fam
lily in n Colorado Bon
Yard

Among the innumerable natural curiosities
Of Colorado none possesses a deeper interest
than what the people of Canon City are
given to calling ''the bone yard"
The scenery presents the finest geological
exposures / have ever seen, the little stream
through whose canon you approach the now
renowned field, having in many places the
formations cut clearly down 5000 feet,
showing all the Qualifications 1t would be
an ideal spot TO start a school of geology.
The bone yard proper is but seven or eight
miles out from the town, but the interest
continues for the geological student for six
or seven miles beyond.
feThere 1t is,n said Capt. Felch, who has
charge of the operations of %quarrying out
the mastodons. He was pointing to a dizzy
ledge Of sandstone away up the ~perpendicu-
lar side of the canyon, where a stretch of
white sail cloth protected the redeemed
treasures from the disintegrating action Of
the weather.
"And is this quarry your own property, and
how did you discover these bones in the
rocksf'
As to your first question, no; the quarry
is not mine, except by priority of occupation;
it is government land, but IL adjoins my ranch
over there in Garden park. and l am not
likely to be disturbed in my possession, for it
would be useless to anybody else. As 70 how
l came to discover this lost but most interest
ing page from the great book Of nature,
that was natural enough, we are a Yankee
family with the native inquisitiveness devel-
oped in a special line. We are naturalists
That odd little girl there Of mine. demure as
she seems. is n born student of nature; sho
has made some rare and valuable collections
of insects that have attracted attention. She
is not yet able to classify them completely,
49, So. -. l. hoe h.N ~ sauNv,.-Na@u A-
cept what she CLEANED herself from the scien-
tic books and periodicals which we have
about the house. Ny children discovered
this particular spot and drew my attention
to it Ii is a perfect geological mine; but, as
a matter OF fact, these saurinn rerrnins
abound in the Jurassic exposures about here.
They are, however, found in this particular
spot in greater abundance and perfection
than anywhere else yet discovered
1t is a humanizing and refining study.
Whistler 1t is that only gentle natures take il
up. or that IL has the magic to work gentle
mess in the soul of him that does so. Il is at
least to be observed that savageness is at its
lowest point in them that commune much
with nature through any of her forms. This
family, Of Fetch, that has been engaged on
these excavations, are typical Yankees, but
all the New England angularities have been
toned and softened in them. Those rough
clothed boys, who had found this scientific
bonanza, made me ashnmed of myself when
they talked of the geology OF the region.
That demure girl, who has no more notion
of the exact or proper thing in the way OF a
bang or a hustle than a Comanche maiden,
will jump out OF a warm bed before sunrise
one OF these cool mornings. and run away
half a mile to a clay bank where she knows
a certain rare species OF bug may be found at
just that particular hour. II they send her
to the spring for a bucket of water, as likely
as not, they viii have to 20 a half hour later
and bring both her and the water in for
breakfast. She has been leaning over the
spring all that time reading a thrilling story
Ito her; but, dear girls, beloved sisters and
cousins, you would never be thrilled by
anything SO stupid. 1t is not a tale of high
life at ali. in which Won learn the habits and