Daily Kennebec journal., 1898-05-05


not less than one hundred pounds each
and they covered all the timbers beneath
the box. often giving the structure d
fantastic appearance. Sometimes the
ice was piled up from the ground to the
flume, twenty or thirty feet. in columns
and arches. having the appearance of
marble of intense whiteness. If the wa
ter is permitted to flow all winter j..
! the Hume there might be danger that
the ice would accumulate till the weight
on some of the high trestles would be
| sufficient to drag the entire structure
down.
After four-mile run the boat sudden
~ energies from forest of pines and fir.
ana the passengers in the boat eXpe-
rience the feeling of person in a balloon,
when the world seems to drop away from
under him. The fiume runs out over a
n1Sn tfestie, and at first glance nothing
is visible underneath. There seems to be
nothing but unfathomabe space. This is
near the turn around the point of Ste
phenson mountain. and the vast abyss
beneath, which seemed bottomless. is the
| canyon OF the San Joaquin river, down
just how far beneath would be hard to
guess 1t looks not less than 5000 feet;
it may be less
But by leaning over as the boat hurres
by one can catch mOmentary view of
the white foam of the river of the can
y"n. Not sound is heard. The pluns-
| lnS OF the river over sunken rocks that
| lret Its channel cannot send even muir
which mo n,ssnnmnr IN he anne boat
| looks down as he hurrcS on. Nearly
everywhere In sight the canyon is dark
or three nlnros tha snnli,ht nours tbrou"h
ratrways in no '1ims I'M ~ ho,,,,e r., II
on 1oaming floods, silent in the distance,
and gild the blackness OF the granite
cliffs which hang like walls IL thousand
feet above the river
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