The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-11-19
GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBES.
Trip Up The Mountainside and
It's Perils.
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Rev. Bacon Writes More Of His
Summer Trip.
On The Backbone Of Mouutain. See
Water That { oes Into Two Oceans.
An interesting Letter.

EIiioI .Htfittlltl -Aitef tEf ttlFii
ing ride over the ".ieiial Railway
/ a al the mHe Anxious tn aSceil
this mount ain ON a Aure enough I'd
road and experience The novelty q
being drawn into The very home q
the clones 10 an altitude Of owe
ii, 600, IT. but by a locomotive. This
was privileged to do On the 2lSt q
August. There is a narrOW-gaug'
railroad running frLm Silver Plum,
to the summit Of Mt. McCleltand
Although The distance, as the crow
flies, is not more han aud a hal
miles and yet it, requires sixteen miles
OF railroad IL rc:ch the summit
This altitui e can only be reached bj
a system of Switch backs" they Cal
it. That is, the train runs just as
far as it can aud then backs up the
mountain side and then toward again
and back and 50 on till the top is
reached
TIE train on this road, the Argen.
tine Central. runs along the side Of
the mountain in places so steep that
one involun ,arlly closes bis eyes ard
draws back from ;he window like a
mule shying at a sink hole. This
road is not a log road" like the fam
Gus n up Pixies Peak, but a regular
narrow guage road But no engine
can climb these steep grades except
the Shea, built expressly for noun
tain climbing. Instead OF the piston
working back and forth, as IN the
ordinary locomotive. it revUlveS
there being "A set of logs On the piS-
ton and a set ON the drive wheels, .he
engine is thus controlled WHEN other
wise it would run away when going
down hill or. slide back when trying to
climb the mountain.
On reaching the summit Of Mt.
McClelland | saw in the distance.
GrayS Peak, the monarch of this part
of the Rockies and if became The
passion of my being to stand upon the
weather beaten brow Of that quiet
peak and get an uuobStructed view
from that p0 Mt. To this end | for
feited my return ticGtt and spent the
afternoon and night at Waldorf, the
highest rail way Post Office on earth,
being ii, SOC #. above sea level
Near this Post Office, | had the move!
experience on The DIST DAY Of Aug. Of
rolling a now ball with my right
hand and piucAing. at the same in
stant. flowers with my left. This
may sound ''fIshy'' TO the uninitiated,
but in this, unlike DR.. Cook aud the
Pole, | took the ~pTecautiUn to bring
the flowers with me. | thought it
unwise 10 bring the snow, On that
night, so tonic in this climate.
Slept under two extremely thick CON
two wollen blankets, a Sheet
and counterpart and was still unc0m-
aud could have used to goo5
advantage a quilt. At this place is d
gold nine owned by a Methodist
preacher, Think of ii! A preacher
owning a gold mine. And he owned
also the Argentine Central railway.
In part, built it. And to lis credit,
it said, that while he owned the {
road, allowed no Sunday trains which
cost him so per cent of the {
of this road. At Wuldarf l I
secured a guide for the ascent of {
Peak, Mr.. L. E. Taylor, an a
'ged min.r. Mr.. Taylor isa striking q
Illustration of the eccentricities of a
Ortune. He was at one time the t
'wner of the celebrated "Bullion
of mines at Montezuma, Colo. C
Which brought, when last sold. n
a, 900, 600. He was the discoverer Il
4 the group and realized from them b
400. Mr.. Taylor has spent the best .
'art Of his life as a prospector, and C
o facinating is the life that, although d
low we'll advanced in years and with c
,lnsfolk well to do, he cannot be q
lappy away from his old hauntS and +
o he spends his time working a little n
lain he nov has. He has had a h
heckered career. He had a brother F
Who was also a proSpectOr, who lost Ii
lie life in a land slide while searching a
or gold. We began u perilouS and O
ediOuS climb a little after Sun-riSel q
ne morning and he carried me by Il
Genes unsurpassed, 1 believe. on )
After climbing until far up in il
he afternoon we became convinced c
hat the object Of our trail must be r.
we could not reach the +.
ummit of the mountain from that G.
ide. But at n point on our climb, a
sat upon the backbone Of the con- b
inent at a point so narrow that seat l.
d upon a rock / could see two streams p
Ike cords of silver, one on either side h
+ the ridge, of which flowed into n
he far away Pacific, the other into 81
he distant Atlantic. And such a n
] eve expect to see surpassed. o
On my right, tive Thousand seven ST
undred feet below me, were banks Of
low that never melt, for no direct W
n.y. Of sunshine ever finds its way LII
Ito that dark a1l frightful abyss. cl
here, ton was a lake sc transparently in
ear that it's waters looked as though m
hey were inky. On my left in an tt
valley were lakes Of four dis &c
net colors, a a perfect chrome bt
elbow, another apparently only a fo
w hundred feet away as deep and il
CHI a blue as the sky that bent above ht
and but a little way from that one lii