Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-09-25

enjoyable to myself, and they seemed
quite pleased with our mountainous
country. One oddity they had the
| pleasure of seeing and doing was to see
the mountains covered with snow,
which fell the night previous to their
coming, and eat snow in the first. Of
Septem Der, which seemed quite nov
city to them. The Missouri Press AS
sociation was also here Il short time
| ago and made tour OF the Park.
It. p. RS watermelon story was
| quite interesting, and brought back old
recollections of days gone by when we
boys visited neigh boris patches in the
cleaning, but our preference was to re-
tire with our luscious fruit to parts
more secluded, where dogs were not
wont to stray. Such pleasures are
practically out of the question in this
high altitude, especially when water
melons sell from 10 to Is cents pound,
not each, as you have them down
south, and then kick if you don't get
one as big as a ten gallon keg.
But see [ am varying a long way
from my intended story, THAT of the
scenery around the coal camp in the
southern part of the State" Allow
your minds eye to follow me for few
moments. We are on board of the Park
train, leaving Livingston at $50 A. NJ.
The train spurs along it's road-bed to
the south entering and passing through
the first canon, six miles from town.
On either side, towering bluffs, thous-
ands of feet high, and at the foot of the
left bluff flows the Yellow Stone River.
On We go, winding in and out among
the mountains, through the fertile val
ley of the upper Yellowstone and DASH
ing through canons, until we reach the
foot of DEVILS Slide, which is formed of
stratas of sandstone, varying from a
bright scarlet and yellow to the more
sombre colors, making it as rich in rain
bow hues as the brush of an artist
could paint. This slide is atan angle of
45 degrees, and rises 1000 feet a bove the
valley below. On either side of the
slide are walls of brown sandstone, 100
to 200 feet high, the entire incline and
they only four to six feet wide. After
a tedious, long. Zig-zag climb we reach
the top, or Eagle Cliff as it is called.
Now fancy the path we ascend. The
view is wonderful; down below us in
the valley winds the famous river in
and out among the buttes; here and
there gathering force from the noun
tain streams as they pour their cold
crystal water into the swift current,
and, as the distance lengtbens, you can
see miles away up in the Park the glis--
tening rays of the sun, as it falls on the
turbid stream, farther beyond the
snow-capped peaks in Wyoming. and,
as we turn our faces southwark, the
magnificent Electric Peak, 800 feet
high, stands in front of us, with its
barren, rocky cliffs standing out in bold
relief against the blue ether of heaven.
To the southwest the sno w-clad Rock
les in Idaho, but the prettiest is yet to
be seen. While the bautiful stream,
the broad expanse offertile valley, with
farmhouses scattered here and there
among the fields of green, the forests
of spruce and fir on the plosite range.
and the snowcapped peaks in the list
ance are picturesque to an admirer of
nature, on ther sid. of the peak we are
standing on, and twelve hundred feet
above the former valley lies lake, a
magnificent sheet of water, one mile |
long and a quarter to a half mile wide,
surrounded by luxuriant growth of
lilies. willows and bullrushes, and, as
a back ground, dense forest of pines,
with steep mountains sloping to the
water edge. The bottom of this lake
has never been found, its depths is
ia fathonless.
Such as described are some of the |
many sights in AMI around the Ma
tional Yellowstone Park. With kind
est regards to all the readers of the
REGISTER, / am as ever.
J. r. SMITH.