Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-06-21
THE FREE PRESS.

GRANGEVILLE. IDAHO.
FRIDAY. {: {: y: : JUNE 81. 1897
EDITORI1L NOTES.
The Trip across CraiO's Mount
din--A Familiar, But
LOceiy Scene.
Nowhere is there more beautiful
and romantic scenery than is pre-
scented to the view on the mountain
road leading from Lewiston to
Camas Prairie. Gently ascending
all the time the road winds thro'
wooded mountains displaying new
beauties at every advance. Anon
the way leads under thick green
vaults of leaves formed by the tall
trees arching overhead, the blue
sky mingling with the green. And
again the scene changes to magnifi-
cent prairies clothed in tall grass
and flowers galore, and fringed
with groves of stately tamarac and
pine. Then too there are more
pastoral scenes of enclosed farming
lands with fields of sprouting grain,
and punches of fat and frolicsome
cattle, and substantial residences,
to show that the country has other
merits besides beautiful scenery.
But it is on the descent to the
Camas Prairie side that all the
beauties combine together and form
one of the most marvellous pictures
among natures remote and almost
unknown treasures.
Here, with this enchanting view
unfolding before me, l always love
to linger IL moment to impress on
my mind this familiar but ever
charming picture of Idaho scenery.
All around, everywhere, the nigh
ty mountain ranges look cool and
many-tinted in the sunlight and
haze of brilliant afternoon in
June, while unfolding itself as we
descend lies the green carpet of
the beautiful prairie, thickly strew-
ed with multi-colored myriads of
wild flowers:
Gorgeous iowerets in the sunlight shining,
Blossoms Haunting in the eye of day,
Tremulous leaves, with soft and silver lining,
Buds that open only to decay.
alright and glorious is that revelation,
Written all over this great world of ours;
Making evident our own creation
In these stars OF earth, these golden flowers.
with child-like creduleus affection
We behold their buds expand
Emblems of our own great resurrection,
Emblems OF the bright and better land"
Truly a beautiful and soul inspi-
ring scene! To the southwark,
looming more grandly and clearer
than ever in the blue distance, are
the majestic peaks of the Seven
Devils, flanked by the loftier nights
of the Salmon river peaks and old
Buffalo Hump. In the east, the
foreground of the picture, rises the
endless vista of the timber-crown-
ed Bitter Root range; and on the
north, with the deep chasm of the
Clearwater intervening, are a null
tiform series Of mountain chains
which stretch away in endless per-
spective to the far-off Cnur d'Alene.
Nowhere on earth is there a more
lovely, more glorious and more
soul-inspiring view than this noun
tain home of ours and as we in
hale new life with every breath of
the pure mountain ozone, freighted
with the perfume of the dew-tipped
and sun-kissed wild flowers and
listening to the musical whispers
of the balmy breeze, thoughts too
deep for utterance surge through
the soul and mellow the heart with
the lovely cradle song of "The
Princess -
Sweet and low, sweet and low.
Wind OF the western sea
Low. low. breathe and blow.
Wind of the western sea-"
But the most inspiring view be-
comes monotOnous after awhile,
and the "wind of the western sea-"
be it never so soft, is but an at
cocktail which sharpens
the appetite of a hungry man. We
have eaten nothing since an eight
O'Clock breakfast at Waha lake,
and so as We go bowling down the
slope and Cottonwood heaves in
sight, the mind is recalled from
the land of sentiment and dreams
to such mundane matters as specu-
lating on what we are going to get |
for dinner.
But it is a lovely ride through a
lovely country in the loveliest time
Of all the year
LEWISTON.
Where, in the time now near at
hand, the fertile basin of the Clear
waite pours its golden and amber