The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1895-03-30
Grand Teton's Height.

W. 7. Sawyer, the leader of the dar-
ing little band of explorers and miners
from Cripple Greek, is in the city, and
he says that the grand Teton, the CEN
trail and highest peak of the three Te-
tons in Western Wyoming, is 1886
feet in height, and, therefore, so far as
known, is the highest mountain in the
United States proper. It rises 446 feet
above Mount Whitney, which hitherto
has been supposed to be the highest
mountain in the united States. It is
1929 feet higher than Pike's Peak, and
is 9S2 feet higher than the Hottest
mountain in Colorado. Mr.. Sawyer's
recital Of the adventures of the little
band from Cripple Creek and the dis
coveries made in the regions perhaps
never before trodden by white men,
sounds likes chapter from Livingston
or story from one of the early voyag-
ers in the great West.
"Four years ago." said be, 81 met a
stranger on a train between Denver and
Cheyenne. We fell into compensation,
and he told me about Roger Dorgan,
the Missouri miner who went into the
mountains Of Western Wyoming twen-
ty-fve years ago and arrived at Chey-
enne several months later with HOO
pounds of placer gold on his pack horses.
The gold netted S282, 0O0 | had often
heard the story from miners and pros
pectors in the mountains, but never
placed any faith in the report until | /
became acquainted with the. man on
the train. | found that my new ac-
quaintance was son of Dorgan, and
was wealthy farmer of Missouri. His
father died about 1870, just as he was to
start on second trip to the mountains.
His secret died with him.u
Speaking further, Mr.. Sawyer said be
determined, after leaving Dorgan junior
to investigate the truth Of report
concerning the great placer find, and at
he earliest opportunity be made a trip
INTO the Teton country, met hermit
named Todd v ho was paid a $1,000 by :
)organ to pilot him out of the country I,
n 1869, and found that the story in its :
sential features was true. Last sum I
ner Sawyer organized for grand ex- !,
loring tour. The party started from r.
ripple Creek overland the trip inyoly- :,
ng journey Of 600 or 700 miles !,
through one Of The most rugged regions
the American continent. The party =
as supplied with horses. wagons and q
complete camping outfit, and on Aug Il
st lst "Jackson's Hole" was reached. n
he ''HoleN is beautiful basin in the u
ountaius, twenty miles south Of Yell :,
" Stone Park. The valley as de- !,
ribbed by Mr.. Sawyer, is sixty miles i.
ng and has an average width Of twen- III
miles. Jackson's lake, a body of q a. T..
eighteen by nine miles in size, is in
e upper end Of the valley, and the or
'ske river, emptying out Of The lake, ~
hich is fed by hundred mountain -,
cams, winds its way through the VAL
7. Mountains on three sides shut in f.,
e valley ffou the cold winter days, sjf
that Mr. sawyereays, the Snake riv- an
is never frozen over, even il the III,
dest days OF the year. ~.
The region" said the visitor, in re- !
10 inquiries, rs one Of fhe mos. mo
eresting have ever seen, and have tai.
tea all the principal mountain VIII
inlries of the world. One Of the ran
nntalns, which has been christened II