The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-10-07
Mogul mine at Portland and where
the Lundberg, Dorr & Wilson mine

MOSul mine at 1OT Ll8uU anu where
the Lundberg, Dorr & Wilson mine
is located. Here they apparently
gather up gold from on top of the
ground as well as underneath. But
those living there inform us there is
large opening many thousand feet
square that has not been filled in
directly underneath the Burlington
railway, and some day there will be
cave-in similar to the one at Lead,
they tell us. But let us hope it will
not occur when train is passing
over. Leaving Portland the train
began dropping down hill. Pres
emily we could see the train looking
down across ones toes at the bot
tom of the canyon, and the conduc-
tor assured us we would soon drop
down there. One man said, Eyes, if
we live to get there" Then he told
the story of how a drummer coming
down Redfern hill and seeing the
train shoot into tunnel. remarked
that the engineer did we'll to come
so fast around all those curves and
hit that little hole. Soon we we're
down in the canyon, and looking
back up toward the sun we could
see bridges we had passed over and
cuts we had passed through, and on
the other hand picture that ought
to remove all doubt from the minds
of man that an Omnipotent Hand
painted that picture to show a
doubling world that there is a Gre
ator, and that in the beginning the
earth was void and without form,
and that after He had created all the
rest of the world, and had lots of
experience, He fashioned Spearfish
canyon.
1t would tax the descriptive pow
ers of Bayard Taylor, or some 9TH
er equally good writer of travels, to
give one who has not made this trip
seen to be appreciated. Their beau
ty has challenged the admiration OF
people all over the world since the
Black Hills were settled, and they
will so continue to the end of time
In size it is not as elaborate as the
Gand Canyon, but the intensity of
their beauty is equally fascinating,
if not more SO. There is the wind
ing mountain gorge, the rock ex-
posture, hillsides clothed with trees
of many shades of green, and the
yellow, the purple and the red of
atumn leaves, with each winding
! curve of the train revealing greater
beauty, until the eye gets tired of
the beauties it beholds and looks
| aside to rest moment and get
ready for another contact. Above
you is the mountains crown, be-
low the pellucid, clear water of the
little mountain stream that has
| charms peculiar to itself that makes
it unlike anything one has been able
to witness in travels elsewhere. The
rock formations, vertical, horizon
tai and of many grotesque shapes,
making walls precipitous, varied in
hue from the white Gaping lime
stone to the several shades of yell
low. red, brown and other hues.
These, with the picturesque pines,
spruce, birch and other woods that
line the slopes of the canyon, they
make picture never to be forgot
ten and one that makes a harmoni-
GUS blending that is more enhancing
than the brush can reproduce and
more ravishing than the widest
dreams could contemplate. One
could write columns of the beauties
of the scene there to be beheld. of
the beautiful falls, of the dainty
bridal veil falls appropriately named,
and of the Homestake workings
where they are spending millions to
produce an electric power plant, but
We will leave the picture for others
to view at first hand, only to suggest
that were the beauties of the can
yon advertised to the world, you
couldn't begin to entertain the peo-
pie that would come here to see
them.
Arrived at Spearfish all repaired
to the vacant building where the
Methodist church ladies served a
barbecue dinner, and it was a swell
spread that was served. There was
plenty for the thousands to eat, and
all arrived with ravenous appetites
and of course the amount of food