The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-03
other. It washes the base of the tow ering palisades first on the right and

OtHer. It washes the DaBe or the tow ering palisades first on the right and | then on the left. It maintains close re. | lationship with a cliff for half doser | miles. Then it suddenly crosses through the bottom lands and hugs the opposite frowning mass.
 On bright day a stretch of the wind ing river seen from a summit of the palisades shimmers like well-polisheC silver. White aptly describes the ap- pearance. A nearby view from the banks reveals degree of purity which is not unequalled by any other Western river The contrast of comparison with the streams which flow through alluvial country Is striking. White River has
 is origin in mountain springs. Num-
 berless underground channels in the
 limestone strata help to swell the vol
 ume. Tributaries vary from tiny rivu-
 lets starting high up on the benches of
 the mountains to powerful streams
 which gush forth with a roar from be-
 heath shelves of overhanging rocks.
 Twenty miles below Forsyth, beside the
 White, is McGill Spring, which pours
 out from the face of the cliff body
 of water strong enough to run large
 mill. It is a type of hundreds, while
 the smaller and unnamed springs can
 only be enumerated by tens of thou
 sands The Buffalo, the Crooked and
 the North Fork in like manner grow
 from the springs along their courses
 and add to the White their contributions
 of the same clear sparkling water.
 only when heavy rainfall occurs in
 the watershed of the White does the
 water lose its distinctive character.
 Even then while the rocky surface sends to the river considerable portion
 of the rainfall stained by the vegeta- tion and the soil, the greater part sinks into underground reservoirs and courses and, slowly Altering and settling, reaches the river through the springs, which defy the longest drouth periods. White River booms for a few days with mighty flow after protracted rains A forty-foot rise Is not extraordinary in the contracted parts of the valley. The water assumes dirty whitish look. But the flood subsidies quickly, the cur rent clarifies even more rapidly, and the river runs steadily during the dry season. It is not want of water which causes the unnavigable stage. It is the character of the channel a series of long levels and of short rapids. If the cur rent was evenly distributed there would be depth enough for the light draught stern wheelers all the year.
 Many years ago Forsyth was reached by steamboats on White River. The bold navigators pushed their stern lyheelera tO the foot of the rapdS Then over the rocks and through the trees dragging the towline it's full length The upper end was strongly fastened to stand the strain. The boat end of he hawser was wound around the cap stan. With the paddle wheels driven )y every pound of pressure available, md with the donkey engine winding in he towine, the boat dragged and push "a itself foot by foot trough the foam | ng rapids. After the passage was made ] l long reach of smooth deep water made | progress for perhaps twenty, perhaps fifty miles. Tn this way Forsyth was cached. And when the boat loaded | O the guards" with lead and cotton and loge and the various products of the White River coutry turned prov down. tream, there was little to do but ot rust to Providence and the nerve of he man behind the pilot wheel. The urrent did the rest
 One day in a spirit of daring Captain 'a teman said he was going to take the Gary c. to Forsyth if it was her last rip. He made McBee's and the other andings above Buffalo City, and tri- mphantlV awOke the echoes If pipa