Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-08-08

terraces, arbors and promenades
natural fountain fed from the noun.
tains sends up jet $50 feet bigh.
which is illuminated at night with
electricity in prismatic rays There
ARE countless mineral springs of various
qualities, one which yields 1000 gall
Ions of water minute. These SUNNY
magnificent bathhouse, but the 'sbi9
pool'' is the most unique attraction. II
is $50 by 100 feet. The clearest blue
water is hemmed In by red sandstone
walls and fountains clay in the centre.
The temperature of the water ia 60
degrees and the year round people batbe
in the warm waves that are oren to
the sky.
From all this gayety and fashion we
emerged into scene OF desolation, the
sage plains of the Utah desert. Weary
stretches of sand covered with law gray
sage bushes; no living thing to be seen
but AN occasional raven flying actoss.
Along the horizon ON each side ridges
OF sand like walls of old ruined cities.
Sometimes it was heaped into the
similitGde of huge fortresses with
towers and bastions. There was some
thing oriental in the scene; broken and
fallen columns and terraces OF sand sug
ooloring OF the sky and sunsets weru
oriental too and the illusion was helped
by the mountains, hazy with distance.
among which were some perfect pyra.
mid shapes. At last small cottonwood
trees, the advance guard of vegetation
appeared and formed a little oasis and
among them were few houses, though
what could induce any one to live
there, or what they lived on was q
mystery.
At Helper, Utah, we encountered a
splendid looking specimen of the COW
boy with perfect teeth, clear eyes and
line color lie was arrayed in fringed
leather SUIT and broad sombrero. Inn
mediately about 20 cameras we're aimed
at MIN. He was SO pleased with the
attention he received that he shouldered
his riffs and boarded the train to enjoy
some more Of 1T. He was the centre OF
an admiring CIRCLE whom he was enter.
tanning by his native wit and naiyete
when two other strangers clamhered
into the car. The manager of the tour
had Just received telegram warning
him that two pickpockets were ON the
tram, and recognizing these as the men
he ordered them out. They were inso-
liant, but he was resolute, and marched
them through to day coach where
they cou Id not be expelled as they had
paid their fare, hut they tried to ply
their calling as they passed through the
groups on the platform. Meanwhile the
tourists began to imagine there was
collusion between them and tle cowboy
and that this was to be a "hold up, %
for which the spot was ideal, desert
land and mountain incline ahead.
IhA RnndngtOr fhrauuh ole
at our cowboy like vigilance officer
and ordered him off. He carelessly
tossed out of his purse $40 gold piece
and offered to pay his fare, but the
conductor only showed more of the
whites OF his eyes and repeated bis
order to leave. The cowboy shouldered
his rifle, dropped from the train and
followed it with his easy, swinging gait
and SO the episode ended with nothing
more than scare for the timid passen-
gers. He was doubtless what he seemed,
type OF picturesque class that is
passing away, for the fact that the
great cattle ranges, are passing into
the hands OF stock companies, are
being fenced in and that the herds will
be fed in winter, is significant and
marks the close of an era and the trans
formation Of the wild untrammelled lord
OF the plains, the broncho- busting,
rifle welding cowboy into the COM
monplace feeder OF cattle, into a status
similar to that of the Eastern "bired
men,. - He will lose in picturesq ueness
though he may gain 10 usefulness,
The Remington cowboy, the hero OF tho
saddle, who spent his days and nights
In mad rides across the prairie before
frenzied herds, or in breaking the
spirit of evil-lninded brorc hos already
hardly exists outside of the Wild West
Show, and with him, fortunately is
passing the old haphazard way of rais-
ing beef ON the Western plains. The
poor beasts, at least on the big ranges.
will no longer bs abandoned to their
fate in n Colorado blizzard. ID was
neither pleasant nor profitable to the
owners to see cattle frozen to death by
hundreds, nor to watch the swollen
bodies and protruding tongues that
told of the terrible destruction of
thirst. Windmills. sluices, artesian
wells. alfalfa, that can live ON lass
than grass, and corn, are
making existence more endurabe for
cattle on the plains. and surer profits
for their owners. A. S.