The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-08-06

''Dalles House, and a fine new brick
building proclaiming itself ''Hotel
| Cochico," we reached the bank and
We're at once in the presence of the Jam
and the s'dells.0 It was magnificent
sight great logs on the one hand tossed
together like huge jack-straws pile
upon pile, bristling skyward at every
known angle, and upon the other, those
wonderful masses Of rock with which ma
ture has strewn this spot rising higher
and higher until they merge into the
distant bluffs whose tops seem lost
among the clouds.
Noon was by this time approaching
and we began our climb in earnest with
the view Of finding a breezy, yet shell
tered spot where we might tighten our
lunch baskets and fortify ourselves for
the projected explorations Of the after
noon. After much scrambling, slip
ping, and retracing of steps only to be-
gin again we arrived at length,
laughing and breathless at the desired
spot and settled ourselves to lunch of
fruit and sandwiches under the spread
| ing branches of a tree whose roots
seemed inbedded in the solid rock upon
which we sat.
! Much refreshed by our rest and
lunch, we joined another part 40
had taken possession of Echo Rock.
overlooking the river, and spent some
time in watching the drivers drawing
in the cable as it was ''paid out" from
a little steamboat anchored below,
hooking it skillfully to a log here and
another there until a considerable
number had been covered in that way
and then, when the order to 'shaul
in' was given, skipping about, over
turning a log where it seemed likely to
hinder the progress of the moving
mass, at the same time avoiding the
rolling logs and the rope which would
SO treacherously slip it's hold, with the
dexterity acquired only by months of
experience in driving It was won
derfully exciting and we could have
enjoyed watching them much longer
but other pleasures were before us and
tearing ourselves away we proceeded
on our journey of discovery. Up over
the loftiest rocks, down into the deep
est glens, reaching out from a dizzy
height to gather birch bark on which
to write a history of the day as a
souvenir, we gazed heaverward
through the ''stove-pipe,' y tried on the
ssfoot-prints'' saw the ''table,' y
''kitchen,'' and countless other objects
of more or less note and, finally, strik-
ing a cave-like passage, followed it
only to find ourselves at the bottom of
one of those ''wells," where we left our
names that future generations might
know of our daring (?) feat.
J The Devils Arm Chair'' we had
seen from the river but judging there
must be some easier mode of access
than by climbing those formidable
looking rocks we struck into a road
leading up over the bank and met a
man who directed us to follow the rail
road track through the 'sdeep cut" and
we could then see the chair from the
road. "A lady from st. Paul CHM to
| the top last SUMNER" he said with a
suspicious twinkle in his eye as if he
thought we, too, might hail from the
! SANITY twin" and were not to be out
done. s..sa..
We followed his directions to the let
ter and found the chair as promised,
but, alas! so far below us that the as
! cent from the river now looked most
l OchCy LII SOu1 1SOu. koCC1uS
rapher stationed midway down en-
gagged in taking views of the river, we
concluded to await results and finding
our way meantime, to the summit of a
fiat rock overhanging the water,
grooped ourselves there fully expect
ing to see that camera leveled at us in
it's search for the picturesque. But it
did not deign a glance in our direction
and as the rock began to ''whirl,'' and
the river to ''reach up'' under the pelt-
i ing rays Of the July sun, we decided to
retreat and did so at once with more
I speed than grace perhaps.
i Finding out from the picture-man
4 that access from the top was next tc
4 impossible and that even the river-path
was exceedingly difficult, we concluded
i to postpone our sitting in this satanic
majesty's chair until another visit
especially as the gentleman expressed
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