The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-19
HANGING LAKE, COLORADO.
An Interesting Body of Water Up In
the Rocky Mountains.


From the Glenwood Advance.
Hanging Lake is generally known as
Dead Horse Lake, a name as inappro-
PIRATE as 1t is possible to imagine for
the reason that no kind of a horse
could possibly get up into the lake.
This lake is situated about one mile
from the canon known as Dead Horse
Canon, which is opposite Shoshone sta
ton on the Denver and Rio Grande
Railroad. eleven miles from Glenwood
Springs.
1t is one of the most beautiful lakes
the mind can conceive of. The water
is clear as the most perfect crystal.
The minutest object lying on the bot
tom Of the lake can be seen as well az
| an object floating on the surface. The
depth is from two to probably 100 feet.
This lake hangs in the corner of two
perpendicular walls of rock which seem
| to tower 1000 or more feet above II.
| The outer wall of the lake from one
cliff to the other is circular in general
| form, with a sigzag edge from three
inches to six in width, formed by the
vegetation which has grown there and
then become petrified by the water of
the lake running over it. From the
appearance of the wall IT is growing
and combining more water within its in
closure.
There are trees lying in the lake that
are covered with lime, showing every
limb, knot or indenture, no matter how
small or great the indenture may be.
There is no sign of animal life in the
lake or anywhere around II. 1t is very
doubtful whether II FIRE szes over in the
winter, for IL is fed from an immense
spring gushing out Of the rocks several
hundred feet above II. Underneath the
lake are several caves that are some
twenty feet long and ten feet wide and
high enough for man to walk upright
in. But you will certainly receive a
free shower bath before you climb over
the rocks and get into where H. is dry
From the mouth of the canyon to
the lake are some very wonderful
things. There are part OF petrified
trees, broken stalactites OF various
sizes which have lain there unmolested
for centuries, perhaps. There are skel-
etons of buffalo that have persisted or
that have been driven over the high
cliffs in the midst of a terrible snow
storm long years ago, punches or
leaves that have gathered themselves
together by a rock or brush lying in
the little stream OF lime water and
have themselves become rock, and the
size and form are as perfect as the
leaves that grew on the trees the past
summer.
About one-haf mile from the mouth
of the canyon is a very large lime
rock that formed itself around large
tree so long ago that the tree has de-
cayed and passed out of existence, but
the prints of the bark are as perfect
on the inside OF the hole in the rock
as they were the day they were form
ed From the appearance OF the bark
signs IL was a red spruce tree about
fourteen inches in diameter. There are
several limb holes In the rock that are
as perfect as the tree hole.
A few feet below there is another
rock showing that 1t grew around
tree while II was standing up, but
from some cause unknown to man the
rock has been parted where the tree
was inclosed and only the form OF
the tree body about four feet from
the ground is left in the side OF the
rock.
Dead Horse cayon ic certainly a cam
yon of wonders. There may lie hid
den between those massive walls OF
rock some bodies of the buffalo that
are petrifed. From surface indica-
tions there have been hundreds of them
that persisted there. Some of the old
heads that are there show thar the
animal was OF great size Some OF
the bones have lain there for ages
while Others are in a good state OF
preservation.