The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-08-29

send by rail and the remainder Of the
journey was made in wheeled vehi-
Gle starting out frsm the fertile Val
ley of the Missouri dotted here and
there with hourishing ranches and
comfortable homes, with the far
famed river curving round about in
many cleaning crescent. AS our
conveyance rolled up over the ''bench
es" across the "mesas" and began to
climb the "foot hills" a glorious
panorama nearly 200O feet below us
was unrolled as far as the eye could
reach that rivalled the grandest crea-
lions Of Rembrandt or Bierstadt.
The God of Day had drawn his
royal robes around him and sought
his evening couch behind distant
mountain peak, but the gates of pearl
and Jasper were still ajar through
which glorious visions of color were
flaming up in the West while from
the East was, shed the silvery ra-
dance of the moon in its second
quarter.
On our right was the picturesque
canyon of Deep Creek, with the water
worn gulches hundreds of feet deep
opening into it, the foot hills flatten
ing out with broad fertile "mesas''
or table lands covered with the vivid
green of the buffalo grass which hun
dreds of fat cattle were contentedly
cropping, in the distance more foot
hills rising higher and higher and
covered here and there with hardy
fir trees and beyond mingling with
the clouds were the peaks of the
Rockies. Here are "Twin Buttes''
on the tops of which you can make
snow balls with one hand and pluck
flowers with the other. They are
5000 feet in height and on top of
each one is deep depression many
acres in extent like the crater of a
volcano. Those are the seats of two
beautifully clear deep lakes which are
found frozen over sometimes as late
as July, then only few miles furth-
er on is Mt. Edith covered with snow
all the year round, on one side of its
frowning height. These particular
peaks are the home Of the elk, mag
nificent animal with launches as
large as full grown steer, and much
better eating.
In the midst of our first dinner at
the hospitable home we are visiting
dreadful thing happened. There
acas an earthquake. AS we sat chat
ting, laughing and eating there was
trembling and heaving of the earth,
the table reeled to and fro the tim
bers of the house groaned and crack
ed in every seam and that horrible
sensation which no one ever forgets
who has once felt it. was communi-
Gated to our bodies, by the quivering
of the earth. You feel as if the flesh
was sliding off your bones and your
marrow was being turned into ice
anu J oui UlOOo lubO Jtll1.
There were shrieks and cries and
a mad wild dash for the door and
the outer air, and all expected to
see the roof rent and the chimnevs
tumbled down, but no damage was
done except to the nerves of couple
Of the ladies. AS for me | sat Sc
renely down and prayed for one more
quake-just a little one-so that
could analyze and describe it at nv
leisure having then become more
composed as it were, and in an OBJ
serving state of mind
Yesterday morning at the first peep
of day two of the men went to the
head Of the irrigating canal and shut
off the water it having been decided
the evening before that we would
have fish fry" and make day of
it out of doors. AS soon as break
fast was despatched the men put on
rubber boots and got sacks and star
ted out to gather in the fish. AS the
canal was supposed to be drained by
that time there was nothing to do
but pick them up. Mrs. G. and
concluded to take a hand, as it look
ed such little way to the head of
the canal, but we found it long two
miles and were very glad that they
called to US to wait till they harness
ed horse into the buggy. We sat
down just where we happened to be
standing and when joe came up
he told us he had killed rattlesnake
exactly on that spot few days be-
fore as it crawled out OF the gopher
hole that was in the little mound we
sat on.
A splendid big deer hound accom-
panied us. He had killed 6 or 7
coyotes and had had numerous fights
with wildcats and badgers. We
passed the spot where a mountain
lion had devoured calf not long be-
fore and Joe" pointed up to place
on the mountains where be had run
into three huge bears making a meal
on ants which were in a rotten log
by the wayside. He let them finish
tNCH M6ut.
We drove as far as we could, then
all dismounted and made our way on
foot to the head of the flume which
was in the midst of an abandoned
mining camp surrounded with tow
ering mountains lofty trees and the
thunder of the turbulent stream that
came rushing down from the snowy
realms above, cold as melting ice IT,
self, and as clear as crystal. every
pebble and fish at the bottom, no
matter how deep the water stood out
as clearly outlined as cameo
1 went into one of the log huts
where men had lived for years search
ing for the ilusive ignis fatus of
wealth, and what harlships and in
eonvenienees will they not endure in
lis pursuit?
There we're the rough boxes nailed
70 the walls aud lillpsl With straw On
which inans homesick wanierer
f'ad perhaps dreamed uf The veal IA
he never gained. There were tile
short lengths q logs sawed Off tof
svats, the two rough boards that had