The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-11

any part of the world. Collona forma-
! tons have some regularity in stone or
IN -he ARRANGEMENT, hence the Giant s
{ CAuseWav ard similar rock piles can
not be used FOR illustration. Neither can
weather. worn and lgaJer-washed bowl
der hills like those in Mauritius be
utilized. These rocks do not bear the
J least resem blance to rocks exposed by
! floods, age or any such causes Tney
/ do not even appear TO have been grad
ually lifted into the air by some suDter-
ranean or seismic cause. Let the mag
! ination picture great area OF barren,
/ coarse-grained blue granite. spread out
! over plain in layers 10 to 20 feet thick,
with NOT a tree or shrub or particle of
/ earth upon il. All Of a sudden let some
giant explosion crack and break il up
/ in sharp-edSed, irregular chunks of all
sizes from a ton weight to the size of
small house, and in all SoItS OF
s'ha -ses. from a rude triangle to any,
thing you might wish to draw. except
round bOwlder. Now. imagine that
some winged Atlas had gathered these
IRREGULAR chunks of sharDened blue
granite up in his great apron, assembled
into the skies and dropDed them and
let them law as they fell upon each
ether, until he had heaped up this huge
frcWning mass 1000 feet into the air,
and you will have the best description
l can give of the Black Trevetons.
TERRIBLE PLAIN OF STONES.
These are the Black Trevetons as you
stand and look at them. To Chamber
over them, and TO worm about in the
black bowels os them heightens their
wo-de: and the wonder of them. The
mountains and SPURS about are totally
dissimilar in every respect. The main
mountain of the Black rrevetons rises
back in three tiers. The top of the first
d hon .t--1,
Then there is a jumbled. rocky valley
terrible plain Of ragged stones, with
dangerous mouths everywhere A slip
on the uncertain gravel of the rock face
might take one against a keen edge of
rock beneath, or further on 10 danger
Gus depths. The climb is still over these
TO the next tier which looks like the
spiked piazza of some iron footed god.
= extends back a couple of hundred
yards. Beyond. the high swell of the
apex rises over this crater valley The
foundation soon breaks out into a kind
OF soup bowl of two acres size and
then the breast Of the cuDola swells
uo against great mass of cracked
I ROCKS which crown the peak. More
! properly they lcck. like a timeworn
weight placed there to hold something
down
After making the effort one could
well understand why the daring noun
taineer halted at the pinnacle 500
feet up, and declined to burn his brain
further in the blazing, pitiless. tropical
sun, TO lacerate his body or risk his
life further at scaling the abrupt rocks
or slanting slabs. Without hobnailed
rubbed bottOmed shoes and my knotted
rope with its iron moose for hooking
over the nose of the rocks, and a piece
of chalk 10 mark the way through the
crevices. ascent of certain stages was
lmn0SSi hlP Whom NJ
the top, / worked my way down under
the mass of rocks and then back up
through the creeks to the surface again
going in this way as much as 100 yards
into the depths of the mountains. COM
ing out as much as 200 yards from the
lngress either forward or TO the side.
Often / retraced my slow. creeping
course 10 find an egress using the
chalk to chart the course to prevent
being lost. Once / spent fully two
hours scaling a 50-foOt rise in this way
Sores and bruises did not count Put
ting your provisions through and then
working yourself through the gap of
some irregular niche of sharp rocks. is
far from pleasant. but it must be done
If one aspires 10 top the Black Treve-
tons
INSIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN.
Working by compass, after passing
the first tier. / found myself worIning
further and further into the middle of
the great hill. The sun could not be
seen: my watch was left behind for
safety; the fading light soon told the
approach of evening. While streaks of
light still bent themselves about like
silver ribbons during the day. they
were now getting paler and leadened.
The sun may have been shining out
side, but it had now lost its angle upon
he f4ln oh Co.
in the mountain l do not know l had
worked and pulled and crawled
through hole after hole, and explored I
cavity after cavity. following the
brightest light for hours until my
knees We're raw and my garments torn
in the effort AS the dense curtain Of !
night pulled itself down before me. !
the air Duffed about my ears like the !
spirit wings Of invisible ghosts | was /
tired and worn out. When my own |
hand could not he seen against my own |
nose, 7 laid down to reSt-a human par /
eel in a mass of stone. In that terri I
BILE climb UP and down and about be- /
meath the surface. not able to see fur
Their than the immediate rock opposite /
the hole through which streamed the /
gray streak which guided me, the mys-
teries of the pile remained mysterious /
still. The little rays shot on down or /
out. the rock still jumbled and yawned |
and yawned. and at times one hardly /
knew whether he was going up or de-
scending. The beams of the sun didn't I
seem TO come from anywhere in par
ticular; they just bent and shot and
hoisted through the pile as best they
could. At no time did I double on my
course. except when forced to retrace
my chalked track. because of failure
TO find an opening big enough to ad-
NIT the body of a 1S0-pound man. AT
places I found large caves of rooms
from 10 TO 40 feet wide. of equal length
and as much as 20 feet high. The floors
were fairly level. It was in a small
one of these that night caught me- and