The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-11-04
Palmer. Texas.


rocks, portions are very rough and
rocky. A few weeks ago three
Of us laid in provisions for several
days and provided ourselves with
plenty of guns and ammunition and
started from Burnet for little trip
west of the Colorado river. Moth
ing worthy of note occurred until
we reached the river; this we found
very difficult as the banks are very
rough and precipitous. In many
places the channel of the river
seems cut many feet deep through |
almost solid rock, which in most |
cases is a hard limestone marble or
granite. We camped for dinner on
the cast bank of the river in a Gne
grove of pecans. After dinner
we ferried the river and turned
our course up its western bank.
The character of the soil over
which we were passing was q light
sand which produces well, but in
most places the rock Is near the
surface, rendering the soil unfit for
cultivation. No game Of any con-
sequence was found to-day, nothing
more than birds and jack rabbits.
At sundown we reached Fall Greek
Falls, on the Colorado; a small
creek pours eff into pool hundred
yards or more from the river. This
is a beautiful place indeed. On
either side the cliffs rise almost
perpendicnlarly for from one hun
dred to one hundred and fifty feet,
their rugged sides are covered with
a dense growth of cactus, scraggy
cedar and Mexican persimmons.
The cactus is of the most thorDy
kind and grows from ten to twenty
feet high. At the foot of these
cliffs is a pool of water fringed with
pecans and elm, and gently pouring
over into the pool is the little creek,
falling a perpendicular fall of one
hundred and four feet. So great is
the IA that almost the whole Of the
stream is converted into spray, fall
ing like q gentle rain. So beauti-
full, romantic and weired is the
place that one can but stand aud
gaze in wonder and awe. In many
places huge blocks of granite stand
separated from the rest of the cliffs
like great stalwart pillars, the
channels between seemingly cut in
ages part by some mighty rushing
river. Here we camped for the
night and soon the gentle falling
of the water had assisted tired ma
ture and in dreams we were watch
ing the leaping waterfalls among
the Alps of Switzerland.
In the morning we were especial
ly attracted by one or those huge
pillars standing by itself; it was
some forty feet high with rough
sides and in form it resembles a
woman; some of the boys christen-
ed it "Lot's wife" The material
these huge powders is an inferio
kind of granite with an occasional
strata of rhomb spar. The sand OF
these small streams is composed of
mica, copper and iron pyrrhites.
T:Iis section is very subject to
drouth; rain of any consequence
had not fallen for twelve months.
Springs are however abundant.
Some we found gushing up from
crevices in the granite, sufficient in
volume to run a mill, but these wa
tiers are not very cold and are very
strongly impregnated with lime.
The next place of interest, about
forty miles further up the river, was
large sulphur spring. The water
is very strongly impregnated with
sulphur and salts, the odor Of the
chlorine can be detected a cousid
cradle distance. Many annually
camp st this spring TO avail them
selves of its medical properties.
Also being situated on the bank OF
the Colorado, the pleasure Of hunt
ing and fishing adds 20 its benefits.
Many receive these benefits who
would be deprived of them were
they made a fashionable resort.
While camped here we visited what
is called Upper Falls Creek Falls,
about three miles below the sulphur
spring. AS this was unapproacha-
BILE except on foot, we stumbled
over rocks and through cactus un
til we almost regretted having
started, but one view Of the falls
repaid US dopbly for the walk. Al
most shut in by rocks, tall cotton.
wood and pecan trees, it burst upon
our view all at once. The volume
of water is greater here than at thC
other falls mentioped, and the dis
tance fallan is equally as great, bu
the water leaps from rock to rock
and is dashed into spray by juttinl
cliffs, giving all the hues of thu
rainbow. These waters quickly
form a deposit and ia consequence
fern, leaves and small roots of tree
become incrusted and seem Amos
: like they were sheathed 10 ice o
boar frostl MOSES and ferns, wa
tered by the spray, cling 10 thu
rocks in great profusi0n.
After breaking camp at the Colo
RADIO spring we crossed the country
to the San Saba and Llano rivers
The pebbles and sand over which
they flow are quartz, mica, copper
and iron pyrrhltes, and glitter
in the sunshine like gold. These
are treacherous quick sands. \
stream may seem shallow and al
most VII bout water, but once press
the troacherous sands and you sink
the water flows beneath the surface
| Approach creek bed that seems
almost if not altogether dry, bu'
take out a few handfuls of sand
and you will have plenty Of clear
water.
Stock raising IS the principal en-
/ ployment in this section; the grass
on which they Craze is the rich and
nutritious mesquite and the tall
sedge of the prairie. The timber is
postoak, elm, cottonwood and pc
can with numerous other scrubby
growths. Among the latter is the
Mexican persimmon aud the mul-
berry; neither are so large and fine
as those in the east. Iron and coal
are found in some sections oyer
which we passed, and there are a