The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-09-19


is dazzled by the footlights. The cur
tain rises upon very paradise of paste
board, tinsel and grease paint, and the
poor boy thinks it real But back of
the flaring canvas lie the shadows and
lurk the sorrows. Truly, "All that
glitters is not gold" We returned to
Manitou that evening very tired and
hungry, but happy withai, feeling that
we had spent profitable day.
The next point of interest visited
was Cascade Canyon" This canyon
derives it's name from its many water
falls. For miles and miles down this
canyon there is one cascade after an
other. In some places the water falls
several hundred feet, and the spray
takes on all colors of the rainbow, and
is beautiful beyond description.
We next explored Cheyenne Can
yon," and mounted to the summit of
Cheyenne Peak. This is not high
peak; it is only 1900 feet higher than
the surrounding country, but is famous
on account of the semi-precious stones
to be found there. The visitor can
pick basket full of moss-agates, crys-
tails and topaz; besides. he will find
cats eye or an opal once in awhile.
We were fortunate enough to gather
fine specimen of each.
THE GRAND CANYON OF THE
COLORADO.
This canyon was next to claim our
attention, and is one of the deepest
canyons in the world. 1t is "Grand"
in every sense the word implies, but
still I think more appropriate name
would have been paradox Canyon"
for everything one sees here is con-
tradiction of what he saw just mo-
ment before. Here you can stand
bes1de au icicle q hundred feet ieng
and toss stone over into q bed OF
daisies. Here you can see the stars
twinkling in the heaven at twelve
o'clock noon. Here you can find, if
you care to dig for them, living worms
deeply embedded in the solid ice. And
as to the immensity Of this canyon,
there are places where you can see q
sheer perpendicula. wall two thousand
feet high. To give you clearer idea
of the depth of this wonderful chasm,
I will say that there has recently been
built across it a suspension bridge that
is 1925 feet high, or in other words, the
floor Of this bridge only lacks fourteen
feet of being half mile above the
water. Let Us compare this bridge
with the Brooklyn bridge. The floor
of the Brooklyn bridge is one hundred
and eighty-nine feet above the water
at high tide. Now if you care to figure
it out, you will find that the bridge
across Grand Canyon only lacks twen-
ty feet of being fourteen times as high
as the Brooklyn bridge, but
TO THE SUMMIT.
We had been training week for
this climb, and in that time had be-
come pretty well acclimated. So early
the morning following our return from
the Grand Canyon, we packed some
provisions and extra clothing upon a
burro and started for the top. We had
the choice of two routes, up the Ute
Pass, or via Pixies Peak trail, either OF
which involved tramp of nine long
steep miles. (There was no "Cog Rail.
/ road" at that time, to shoot you uI
and shoot you down again at SO much
! per shoot.) Sheponka chose Ute Pass
as being the best on account of the
. direction of the wind that day. You
I see the direction and velocity of the
: wind has got great deal to do with
successful mountain climbing. Well
. everything went lovely and we reached
the timber line about two p. m., where
f we pitched our camp and had lunch
Q Now if you think we didn't each have
: q good APPETITE you have got another
9 guess coming, even the patient LITTLE
II burro seemed eager for his lunch O.
q mountain moss. Some of you perhaps
Q have never seen burro, so l will de
l. scribe this little beast Of burden.
n A burro is q miniature donkey, b.
" weighs about four hundred pounds
Il has very long ears, and shaggy coal
10 which is brindle in color. In fact, b
10 would be considered anythlng else bu
e handsome. But what this little chs
Is lacks in looks he makes up 4
lel nsefnlnsss, for. besides being er