St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-02-27
IMPRESSIVE STATISTICS.
Pictorial History Of wyominx Fount
By Hunters ON Glacier ON =
Lofty Mountain Peak.

A party of hunters from the Bi,
Horn mountains bring q story of won
drous Wyoming pictorial presentation
and prophecy, says a Cheyenne repor
to the Denver News.
Clouds peak, the .oftiest elevation
of the Big Horn range, lately devel
oped a grand glacier sheerly perpen
dicular for a height OF $50 feet and a
I least W miles in length. the face Of
the entire ice mass being rs smooth
and as clear as crystal, while, on this
mammoth and magnificent natural
panorama was imprinted a series OF
dazzling pictures IMPLYING Wyora.
ing's past and prophesying her future.
The pictures were in sequence from
east to west, beginning with the cross
ing by the canvas covered emigrant
wagons of the Sweetwate- river at In.
dependence Rock, and followed in reg
ular rotation by the discovery Of gold
at South Pass, Atlantic City and Min.
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, aaa 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
Mornings 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 Neutrality-suspicious. be-
tween the east and the west-stood
portrayed alike as a continental and
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 spectatorssti gazed awe-struck,
faded from east and west, the
and ruder pictures first dis
appearing-thus reading in Wyoming's
future still another bright page Of the
great fact and prophecy that westward
the star of empire takes its way.
1t is interesting to note that this
Is not the first time that the lofty peak
Of the clouds has appeared in the great
role of a continental seer and prophe.
Many, very many, moons g and
when the power of the red tribes Of
western mountain and plain were at
he zenith, the traditions alike of
Sioux, Crows and Black.
'eet alike declare that across the face
II the white peak appeared a broad
scroll prophetic of the passing OF In.
liam dominion. On this scroll was de-
,icted the red horseman and warrior;
he tepee and the council fire; the war
lance and the scalp girdle; the buffalo
md the chase and then, fading from
vest to east, all of these things passed
way and there remained in all OF the
and clearness the great ice
croll upon which another and might
er race was to carve it's record and
mblazon its progress and power.