Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1906-11-24

with their rocks and huge powders
ground into fantastic shapes, and their
many colors of soil and rock washed
and mingled in natures paint pot and
then by the forces of nature scattered
over the face of the landscape.
The little boats of shallow draught
and powerful boilers have a battle
royal with a winding and twisting
stream of narrow channel, filed with
dangerous rocks, eddies and mael-
stroms rivaling the whirlpool Of the
Niagara gorge. With an average. cur
rent of eight miles an hour the river
frequently breaks into turgid, roar
ing, racing torrent of rapids against
which the little steamer throws her
self valiantly., nix
AT Chelan Fails the Chelan river
comes tumbling down it's cavernous
bed into the Columbia, making the
connection between. the. snowfed gla
ciers of the Cascades and the great
river highway to the waters of the
Pacific. In a four-horse stage the
journey to the foot of Lake Chelan is
made through five. miles of wild seen.
ery., queeFlY mingled with domesticity
and agriculture. .v $500. ..,
In its ioprney Of less than four miles
the Ghelan river fails almost 400 feet,
and carries stored within the rocky,
walls of it's imprisbning canyon one
of the greatest wateN possihuities,,in
the northwest. 1t is capable of. de-
Yelopihg- more than 100000 horse
power, which the glaciers Of the Cas-
cades, s,will go Won N feedfngl 4hreugh
countless ages to come. gThine is not
far distant when this water power will
be utilized to dig from the Cascades
their wealth of mineral deposit, to re
-duce their ores, to TRANSPORT them TO
mill and railroad, to turn the wheels
of mill and factory, to saw the lumber
of the Cascades. to transform it into
articles of commerce and to make
wealth and happiness for thousands
where now not even tens are benefited
At the lower end of Lake Chelan
there is very little promise of the
grandeurs that begin to unfold them
selves soon after the first turn in the
lake is reached Around the foot Of
the lake and adjacent to the two little
towns pOcketed away there from the
outside. world are many beautiful
farms nesting among the foothills and
producing their agricultural wealth
only to receive most of 1t back in the
way Of deeayed products, wasted. be-
nf of or 20
portation and Of the excessive cost of
the present wagon and river trans
.portation. = AZ TgI~
0-sFhe first wonderful fact about the
lake is that. it's waters are the, only
ones, in this continent at least, which
are both above and Abelow sea level.
The yellowstone has its W0nd effal
lake. more than 7lOo0yfeet above sea
leYel but here are waters whose leyels
are more than l 100 feet above sea
fever and which also extend from 500
TO possibly 1.40O OIfeet Ibefowl sea level.
r So clear aner the waters -of, the. lake
7thatgthe, picture above and below. their
surface is thez s2ms,a Look at the real
picture, then turn the eyes into the
depths, and There ii IS mhrofed with
a. rfaithfI1hess landEyiv1dness.t that first
ystaltlesss chen phagns,s Regard ing the
rnlors. of the q. waters. Of Lake, Ghelap
artists are ever ratipg. The blending
of many colors is ever changing with
.the;whimssef the HiRdssoG the eEodds.
With the shiEering Of. the tEees,o and
with every mood of nature herself
Cold and clear they are often swept
by huge waves, ~wlnchaare Beaten by
wind that comes roaring down the
glacier-cut gorge. gathering strength
and fury with every mile or canyon
travelled and with every effort TO reach
the world omtside thel grantee wallis.
In storm orrlnc calm the, grandeur
and the beauty are ever there, and are
ever changing. ''l'I
II In the immediate vicinity-of all this
scenic wealth are fully $4,000 acres Of
fertile soil, and only about 5000 acres
of it is in cultivation, 1900 acres. be-
ing in fruit In the mountains also
are rich storeho1ses OF mineral that
are awaiting transportation.
To the sentimentalist, however, the
of the iron horse" is fraught
with regret. Buried in natures scenic
galleries around Lake Chelan, 60 miles
distant from the nearest telephone or
telegraph, alone with nature in all her
moods, it Is possible to forget that
such a thing as a stock market or
counting house exists. With the ad.
vent Of the railroad the solitude viii
in a measure be gone, but the compen-
sating fact is that beauty and gran
deur unsurpassed will be brought
within the reach OF 4hodsands instead
Of hundreds. s. GLENystANRhuS.a |
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