Iron County register., 1888-08-30
A Trip Wet.

After seeing the boys ali into work
and having nothing else to do, I
thought I would take q trip all around
the mountain, but could not see much.
only now and then a. clear spot break
Ing through, as the snow was on the
ground. 1t must have been ground
hog day. as they were very plentiful
all around; and no small hogs at that,
for measured one that one of the boys
killed and it was 2ls inches long from
the tip of its nose to the tip of Its tail
and nine inches across as he laid down
on the ground. Having seen almost
enough Of the snow, aud it was getting
along toward the 4th of July, I con-
eluded to go down to the little town OF
Telluride aud see what kind of time
they would have. So on the morning
of the 1st of July I started. 1t was
hard going up, but fun going down.
Had no bother at all, only met lot of
donkeys coming up loaded with pro-
visions (they take provisions up and
pack mineral DOWN. and as I did not
feel like climbing up among the steep
rocks to give in to donkey, kept go
ing back until / found niche in the
rock and let them pass. I had not gone
a great way until met another pack
of them Zone man drives from SO to IS,
according to his ability, but as the
road was getting good deal wider as
1 got down the mountain, had nc
bother in passing. Finally I arrived
at Pandora, little place at the foot
of the mountain. AS the writer is very
inquisitive, he thought he would go
over TO large building and see what
it was, and I was surprised to see a
large stamp mill for crushing quartz,
gold bearing. Come to find out there
was large gold mine on top of one of
the mountains and the mineral was
sent down by an endless rope with
buckets attached every here and there.
On leaving Pandora / passed by a
concentrator, where the poorest or No.
y silver ore is partly cIeansed. Not
stopping in cannot give the reader
any information about it.
When left the basin it was about
35 degrees above zero; one hour from
the time I left it went up to Goat Pan
dora.
At Pan Dora went on horseback
through one of the pretty farming dis
tricts about one mile wide and So long.
Everything you saw was surprise.
Waterfalls from 25 to 800 feet and with
the grandest of scenery. Finally, after
2 1-2 hours got to Telluride all safe.
No church bells ringing or anything to
remind you it was Sunday; everything
in full blast. All kinds of business was
opened up and lots of drinking and
fighting. l commenced to think that
had made mistake in the day, but
no, it was Sunday. Wouldn't this be
good place for some of these ministers
to come in place of going off to foreign
country?
Telluride is town Of 1000 inhabit-
ants and only few years ~ old. It
has all the latest improvements in
buildings, and is fitted with electric
lights and hest of water. They have
a large reservoir that supplies the town
and first-class fire department, and
their water power has a force of 400
feet. On the night of the Sd of July
they gave us an idea of what they could
do, as there was an alarm and they
came down and fastened their hose on
to the plug at the corner (at every one),
but found out it was false one, go be-
ing as it was hot and sultry they CONF
menced to sprinkle the streets and did
it in good style. Finally they saw a
coal oil barrel and turned the stream on
it. A cyclone could not do any better,
for it fairly knocked it 25 feet in the air,
and then the boys went home and that
wound up the program for that day.
On the morning of the 4th I was astir
as soon as it was day and went down
to the grounds where they were going
to hold forth. Everything passed off
nicely and large pile of money chang
ed hands betting on the races.
On the morning of the 7th l left and
wended my way back toward Marshall
Basin. AS the snow was leaving pref
ty fast and the country commenced to
look fresh and green. spent good
deal of my time strolling about the
mountain. My only companions were
groundhogs and mice (as big as ratsl,
until concluded that bad had enough
of the mountains and finally bid the
boys goodbye ard started for home at
6 p. NJ. with the intention of getting
part of the way that evening lover the
divlde), as was acquainted with the
road going. AS soon as got to the
/ top q terrible thunder storm came up
and kept me there until dark. aud by
the time I reached Portia every body
had gone to bed and lot of bad dogs
around the house would not let me get
anywhere close SO could wake the
parties up to let me stay all night, SO |
left-the dogs and made break for
Ouray. The only thing was afraid oi
was going across the little bridge on
the trail, it being in several places
pretty bad. had more courage than
| had seven weeks before when | went
up. At last came to it, and the moon
was shining pretty bright. stopped
and looked at it until said to myself
Here goes for II, . and walked across
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