The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-01-16
IMPRESSIVE STATISTICS.
Written on Great Glacier on Lofty
Peak in Wyoming.


A party of hunters 1tlsr in from the
Big Horn mountains bring story of
wOndrous Wyoming pictorial presenta
ton and prophecy.
Clouds peak, the loftiest elevation of
the Big Horn range, lately developed
q grand glacier sheerly perpendicular
for height of $50 feet and at least two
miles in length, the face of the entire
ice mass being as smooth as glass and
as clear as crystal, while, on this NAM
moth and magnificent natural panor-
anna was imprinted series of dazzling
pictures typifying Wyoming'S past and
prophesying her future.
The pictures were in sequence from
east to west, beginning with the eros
sing by the canvas covered emigrant
wagons of the Sweetwater river at In
dependence rock, and followed in regu
lar rotation by the. discovery of gold
at South Pass. Atlantic City, and Min
ers' Delight; massacres by the Indians,
the advent of railroads. the stocking of
the wide ranges with cattle, horses and
sheep, the uncoyering of coal. the dis
covery of oil. the tracings OF soda lakes.
the finding of copper, iron. silver and
lead; the presentation of great forests
of pine, spruce, fir and balsam, the out
lining of vast areas of building stone,
and the following from headgate to
distribution, of the waters of the irri-
CATION canal.
Following these pictures of Wyo-
ming's past and present came the res
plendent pictorial series prophetic of
Wyoming's future; railroads traversed
every Wyoming valley and penetrated
every Wyoming range; the treasure
vaults of the mountains poured forth
their wealth; the fertile soil yielded
tribute to the garnered waters of irri-
cation and a varied harvest ever null
tiplied in its increase; cities sprang
full-builded and equipped from the
natural resources of the land that
bore them; and Wyoming-equi distant
between the east and west-stood por-
trayed alike as a continental and
commercial center-the great traffic
gateway and emporium blazoned at
once by the rays of the rising and the
setting sun.
For fully an hour this magnificent
and prophetic panorama shone in white
splendor above Wyoming mountains.
foothills, and valleys, and then, as the
spectators still gazed awe-struck, slow
~ faded from east and west, the earl.
Ter and ruder pictures first disappear
ing-thus reading in Wyomings future
still another bright page of the great
fact and prophecy that westward ever
the star of empire takes its way.
1t is interesting to note that this
is not the first time the lofty peak
of the clouds has appeared in the great
role of a continental seer and prophet
Many, very many moons ago and when
the power of the red tribes of western
mountain and plain were at the zenith,
the traditions alike of the Shoshones,
Sioux, Crows and Blackfeet all de-
clare that across the face Of the white
peak appeared broad scroll prophetic
of the passing of Indian dominion. On
this scroll was depicted the red horse
man and warrior; the tepee and the
council fire; the war dance and the
scalp girdle; the buffalo and the chase
and then, fading from west to east, all
Of these things passed away and there
remained in all of its breadth and clear
ness the great ice scroll upon which
another and mightier race was to carve
it's record and emblazon its progress
and power.