Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-01-26
IMPRESSIVE STATISTICS.
Pictorial History of wyoming Found
by Hunters ON Glacier on n
Lofty Mountain Peak.

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A party of hunters from the Big
Horn mountains bring a story of won
drons Wyoming pictorial presentation
and prophecy, says a Cheyenne report
to the Denver. News.
Clouds peak, the loftiest elevation
of the Big Horn range, lately devel-
poped a grand glacier sheerly perpen-
dicular for a height of $50 feet and at
least two miles in length, the face of
the entire ice mass being as smooth
and as clear as crystal, while, on this
mammoth and magnificent natural
panorama was imprinted a series of
dazzling pictures IMPLYING Wyom-
ing's past and prophesying her future.
The pictures we're in sequence from
east to west, beginning with the cross
ing by the canvas covered emigrant
wagons of the 6weetwater river at In
dependence Rock, and followed in reg
ular rotation by the discovery of gold
at South Pass, Atlantic City and Mn
ers' Delight; massacres by the In
dams, the advent Of railroads, the
stocking of the wide ranges with cat
tie, horses and sheep, the ~uncovering
of coal, the discovery of oil, the trac-
ings of soda lakes, the finding OF cop
per, iron, silver and lead; the presen-
tation of great forests of pine, spruce,
fir and balsam, the outlining of vast
areas of building stone, brick and pot
terry clays and asbestos, and the fol-
lowing, from headgate to distribution,
of the waters of the irrigation canal.
Following these pictures of Wyom-
ing's past and present came the re-
splendent 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 its increase; cities sprang full
builded and equipped from the natural
resources and of the land that bore
them, and Wyoming-equidistant be-
tween the east and the west-stood
| portrayed 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 noun
tains, foothills and valleys, and then,
as the spectators still gazed awe-struck,
slowly faded from east and west, the
earlier and ruder pictures first dis
appearing-thus reading in Wyoming's
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
ilof 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
Shoshones, Sioux, Grows and Black
feet alike declare that across the face
: Of the white peak appeared a broad
scroll prophetic. of the passing Of In
dian dominion. On this scroll was de-
picted the red horseman 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 the
breadth and clearness the great ice
scroll upon which another and might
Ter race was to carve its record and
emblazon its progress and power.