Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-26

4oou Tals ed on irrigated land. And here
we have allowed to lie waste, given up
! to rattlesnake and bat and prairie dog,
lands enough to support whole nations Of
| industrious population. The work be-
| gun will be consummated. Here and
! there exceptional lands may be stubborn
! and refuse to yield any wheat or corn
| from their hard fists, but if the hoe fail
| to make an impression, the miner pick
! ak will discover the reason for it and
| bring up from beneath those unDroduc-
| tive surfaces coal and iron and lead and
| copper and silver and gold God speed
| the BIOLOGISTS and surveyors, the en-
/ gineers and the senatorial commissions
! and the capitalists and new settlers and
| the husbandmen who put their brain and
hand and heart to this TRANSPORTATION of
| the American continent
But while l speak of the immensely of
the continent, I must remark it is not
an immensely Of monotone or tameness.
! The larger some countries are, the worse
for the world. This country is not
more remarkable for its magnitude
than for its wonders of construction.
What a pity the United States govern
ment did not take possession of Yose-
mite, Cal, as it has of Yellowstone,
Wy. T., and of Niagara Falls, n. 7.
regionsl Who that has seen them can
think of them without having his blood
! Jingle? Trees are now standing there that
were old when Christ lived. These
mOnarchs Of foliage reigned before
Caesar or Alexander, and the next
| 1000 years will not shatter their
scepteT. They are the maSts of the con-
tinent, their canvas spread on the winds
while the old ship bears on its way
through the ages. Their size, of which
travellers often speak, does not affect me
so much as their longevity. Though so
old now, the branches of some of them
will cTackle in the last cOntiagration Of
the planet.
That valley of the Yosemite is eight
miles long and a half mile wide and 5000
feet deep. 1t seems as if it had been the
meaning Of Omnipotence to crowd into
as small place as possible some of the
most stupendous scenery of the world.
Some of the cliffs You do not stop to
measure by feet, for they are
that neither foot of man nor
beast ever scaled them, they
stand in everlasting defiance. If Jeho-
yah has a throne on earth these are it's
white pillars. Standing down in this
great Chasm of the valley you look up
and yOuder is Cathedral Rock, vast,
gloomy Minister built for the silent wor-
ship Of the mountains. YOuder is Senti-
mel Rock, 327O feet high, bold, solitary,
standing guard among the ages, its top
seldom touched until a bride one Fourth
of July mounted it and planted the ma
tiOuai standards and the people down in
the valley looked up and saw the head OF
the mountain tuTbaned with stars and
stripes. Yonder are the f'Three Broth
ers - 1000 feet high; ''CIoud 5 Rest, -
North and South Dome aud heights never
captured save by the fiery bayonets Of
the thunder storm.
No pause for the eye, no stopping
place for the mind. Mountains hurled
on mountains. Mountains in the wake
of mountains. Mountains fauked by
mountains. Mountains split. Mountains
ground. Mountains fallen. Mountains
triumphant. is though Mont Blanc and
the Adirondack and Mount Washington
were here utteTiug themselves il one
magnificent chorus Of rock and pTecpice
and waterfall. Sitting and dashing
through the rocks, the water comes
down The Bridal Ven Falls, so thin
you can see the face of the mountain be-
hind it. YoEder is Yosemite Falls,
dropping 2G34 feet, sixteen times greater
descent than that of Niagara. These
waters dashed to death on the rocks, so
that he white spirit OF the slam waters
ascending in robe of mist seeks
the heaven. Yonder is Nevada
Falls plunging zoo feet, the
water in arrows, the water in rookie IS,
the water i'll pearls, the water in anne
thysts, the water in diamonds. That
cascade filings down the rocks enough
Jewels to array all the earth in
beauty, aud rushes on until it drops into
a very hell of water, the smoke OF their /
torment ascending forever and ever.
But the most wonderful part Of this /
American continent is the Yellowstone |
park. Nv visit there last month MADE |
upon me an impression that viii last for !
ever. After all poetry has exhausted it |
self aud all the NoTans and BieTstadts |
and the other enchanting artists have /
completed their canvas, there viii be /
other revelations to make and other /
stories Of its beauty and wrath, splendur /
and agony, 20 be Tecited. The |
Yellowstone park is the ge- /
ologist's paradise. By cheapeGing of |
travel may it become the nation 5 play !
ground! IN some portions Of it there /
seems to be the anarchy of the elements. |
Fire and water, aud the vapor born |
or hills Of crystal that have been over /
five thousand years growing. In places |
the earth, throbbing, sobbing, groan-
ing, quaking with aqueous paroxysm.
At the expiration of every sixty-five |
minutes one of the geysers tossing its
boiling water lS5 feet in the air and
then descending into swinging rainbows.
CaveTns of pictured walls large
enough for the sepulcher OF the
human race. Formations of stone in
shape and color of Gala lily, of hello
trope, Of rose, of cowslip, OF sunfiower
and Of gladiola. Sulphur and arsenic
and oxide Of iron, with their delicate
pencils, turning the hills into a Luxem-
burg or q Vatican picture gallery. The
sO-called ThanatOpsis geyser, exquisite
as the Bryant poem It was named after,
and the sO-called Evangeline geyser,
lovely as the Longfellow heroine it com
memorates The so-calIed pulpit ter
race, from It's white elevation preaching
mightier sermons Of God than human
lips ever uttered. The so-caned Bethesda
gevser, by the warmth of which invalids
have already been cured, the angel of
health continually stirring the waters.