The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-08-11
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81 MINING CAMP.
FINDS JOHN SEEMANN'S HOUSE
Ill. Meyers Tells Of the Wonders Of Colorado
Scenery and His Visit to An Old
Dentson Resident

Deatson Resident.
tDne of the most delightful of my
xr1eriences while at Salida was the
visit to Turret.s Robert Plimpton
had told me Of the great wonders Of
BOX Canon, but l did not know
where this was. JUS. as l was
leaving the house he told me that
we were going to Turret, and |
went back and told Mrs. Foss our
destination. She said, "Why then
you will see the Seeman's j." The
road lay out past the smelter. Flora
sseemed to know that she had long
slrive and we were hardly started be-
tore she took q long rest. The road
vas up the valley Of the Arkansas !:
The railroad track Of the Denver &
Rio Grande running parallel. After
lEiying some seven miles we came
3, Browns Canon station. To have
ae he'd the other side OF the noun
tai through which the Brown Canon
RUIZ would have been according to
Robert. only about one mile, but it
would appear that we had to go six
miles around. We crossed the river
IN q state cement bridge, which was
very substantial structure. To the
north and west of us was the range of
mountains, with Shevena to the south,
and the College range to the north.
When we were but short distance
out of Sslida l said to Robert, II
wonder how far it 10 to that line of
green on Shevena? To me it does not
seem over six or seven miles. He
laughed and said it was nearer thirty.
OF course I was looking over many
small peaks and hills, not counting
the extensive valleys between. In
the language Of the locomotive engi-
neers was hitting the high places"
without counting the lowlands. / WAS
impressed in one way with the size of
,Shevena by the fact that we could not
seem to get by it. / would keep
thinking az we made turns in the
road. Well that mountain is past, -
and ! would look at another. but
soon after / would glance to the left
and see the huge mountain still moi
tar away.
There were few ranchmen g homes
which we came to at intervals. One
man was going to make what he hoped
was quiet q speculation out Of cabbage,
but the large majority Of the country
we passed over was barren and
sterile; sage brush and cactus. wire
grass, rocks, sand, pine trees. Robert
knew the right roads or l would never
have reached my destination. As we
arrived some three miles above Browns
station on the wagon road began to
get enthusiastic over the scenery and
kept calling Roberts attention to the
magnificent views OF rocks. noun
tains and river, but he always replied.
"Onlv wait till you see Box Canon. =
While / vas looking up he had hit
bright eye pealed for objects near the
road and was, on his part constantly
calling attention to prairie dogs ant
birds. His eye caught on the top Of
prairie dog knoll, the jaw bone of {
little dog. and he called out, "Whos
Flora. . and rushed back for it. Il
Was in this part Of the ride that I GU
from an evergreen the bough will
the cone. which / have taken hom,
NJ a souvenir.
Soon we crossed the railroad, an,
were surely in the Brown Canon coun
try We beg; n to ascend q canon at tn
blttom Of when . railroad had beel
laid to bring ore from mines in til
vicinity of Turret. To my mind tn
scenery was simply superb. Befor
we had gone far. there doomed u
before US Castle Rock. It stood on
20 prominent and high the, shere sid
Of the rocks seeming to be forty an
fifty feet high. When at Turret
purchased q picture of this bit Q
scenery. Shortly after passing thi
rock we tied the horse to q tree an
walked for little distance and the
/ was introduced to the Box Canon
about which Robert had told me sue
wonderful stories. Having been fool
ed % on my Judgment of nights an
distances, / feared to make an esti
mate in my mind as to how deep thi
canon was. know that when / look
ed over / felt dizzy and told Rober
be had better hold on to me. if 60
roo close to the edge. l found after
wards that the canon was not owe
$50 feet in depth from where I stoo
L was quite narrow. In the vale,
lay the railroad track to the mines
which Inoted before. Boy like, Rob
ert wanted to get some rocks to throw
over to see how long it took to reacl