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The Clinton New Era, 1891-02-20, Page 6Nr- lapClear Creek Canon SY 4. H. MSS, r= in st? 00 t1 bit itis :E ,rstgh ..tae , .feet higher than eeergetown, and ate the -OMR let narrow, Ghe quer' Pl. Oen, is, IneW„egan . reamed- be Qm u e ? aa 1. ld d O liY0 i '1 ed This la 1rlh.o.gagstiprt W1r�ir h puz� the engineers, wbo,with comparar tively little trouble, sa?ceee{ded ala bringing the road thus far. But here that wisdonn of the ancients felled. The engineers were giving .up the problem, when a youth - despised youth -canoe to the re• acne. A young man of 21 sum - mere, sur- veyed r- peers, went over the g rgun , u veyed it, planned a route and took the roadup the Canon to Silver i Plume n triumph. This engi- neering feat is worth going all the journey to see, , The road circles round the left side ofGeorgetown as you proceed up the Canon. As it leaves' Georgetown the train passes alongside the creek through the Devil's Gap. The train proceeds up the Canon for three -quarter's of a mile and there crosses Clear Creek and turns back until it reaches the Devil's Gap whore it re -crosses the creek on an iron bridge -80 feet above the spot wherea fow moments be- fore it passed through the Gap. Thus is formed the' far-famed Loop of Clear Creek Canon. After passing o'er the Devil's Gap on what is called the high bridge, on up the canon goes the train, and at about a mtle's dis- tance from Georgetown for the third time grosses the creek. Winding in and out for some dis- tance, it again for the fourth time crosses the creek. We wind around for a while until the last curve is reached. There standing at the side of the car• we look down the canon, and we see the four bridges,the track like an immense serpent coiled around, and yonder 1(f' tong the statements I alg about to make, there should seem to bQ some. ao exaggerated tbal yo4 moot believe them -then don't. TIOt please ,do flat set me dQvrtt ate a natural and irreclaim, able falsifier. Please bear in mind that int the West, with which my narrati v e has to do, everything is on a settle so vast, and appears to an Bastener, so exaggerated, that one seems to imbibe that spirit of vastness and exaggeration whether d will or so. Yon will therefore r•et down as tbe effect of ensiron- anent and climate any statement which you can't set down as fact. With this explanation, which is intended to save my reputation i will invite you to accompany "'sin Qn a trip lip ('Hear Creek t' -lou. We leave Denver, the Queen City of the Plains,bythe Colorado Central is a narrow gauge road, and well it may bo, for if ever a railroad had to pass through some strait places, and carefully follow the narrow wny, that road is the Colorado Central as it winds up, the course of Clear Creek. For the first fifteen miles there is nothing particular to attract the attention, unless it be the prickly - pear cactus, or the Spanish bay- onet plant that one sees scattered over the plains. Forty-five min- utes after leavingDenver we enter the Canon. At first the traveller almost wishes he were safely back to Denver; for towering above him for hundreds -nay, at times thousands of feet are masses of rocks that hide the sun in a clear sky as late as ten o'clock. The thought comes and will not away -supposing some portion of these one and a -half miles away, and rock masses should. come tbund- 700 feet below us are the top of the Bring down upon this train. But houses of Georgetown. Above the rock does net come down. It stands grand and sublime, looking down with contempt upon the train wending its way serpent - like along the chasm, as though it -would not deign to. take the trouble to crush anything so in- significant. Now that we enter the Canon, we take up a position is the open observation carat the rear of the train: If you wish to protect your eyes from the cinders, you had better invest in a pair .of goggles. Just as we begin to feel at home among the well named Rockies, we are told to watch out for the Overhanging Rock. We thrust our heads out far enough to enable us to see straight up beyond the roof of the car - we see our train passing under a mass of overhanging rocks, con- taining many thousand tons. We begin to wonder what evil spirit possessed us to start on this dare- devil trip without at' least first making a will, disposing of our sermun$. But it is too late, so must make the best of it. But the Canon widens now and again; the hills slope back a little more gracefully. What can those objects be far up on the heights that seem to move ? •Cattle -can it be? . Yes; but however do they manage to keep their footing on those steep inclines? These, stranger, are not ordinary cattle. They are side -wheelers --the legs on one aide are long ; on the other side they are short ; so they find no difficulty in keeping their foot- ing. Yes ; but how do they get along on level ground ? That,too is provided for. Some of the ani- mals have the short legs "on the left side. They get together -one of each -and leaning against each other walk on their long legs. What are you laughing at? Is this not another proof of the evolution theory l The Canon closes in again, and instead of cattle we see something now in the line of telegraph poles. There, is po soil to hold wooden poles. Instead of these,therelore, iron poles er posts are inserted in ibe solid -rocks. These iron posts have wooden crosspiece which hold the wires., But the newsboy warns us that another sight is in store for us. We turn our backs to the -engine and look up at a certain angle,and as the train wheels round a curve we catch sight of MOTHER GRUNDY. and around us are the everlasting hills; and in the distance are the snow-capped giants, that never to uncover their heads even in the presence of a July sun. We would like to stop right here and drink in the sight; but this is not an otd time stage coach, but a modern train. and soon ,we lose sight of Georgetown and th'ie loop and find eueselves in the - mining town of Silver Plume, 9,176 feet l above sea level, , a l and4000 feet higher than Denver. o Awaiting the arrival of the train, is a stage,ready to take any who wish to visit one of the many mines of Silver Plume. Four ladies and a gentleman, along with myself take our seats, and aro driven through the village. As we reach the outskirts, we notice that a fence has been placed across the road directly ahead of us, and surmounting a post is a yellow. flag. Upon inquiring, the: guide informs us that it is a case of .small ,pox. Our curiosity is not sufficient to prompt us to in- vestigate Silver Plume small-pox.We take for granted that it `is no more desirable here than else- where. Making a detour to avoid this plague -infested quarter, we have only half .a mile to travel, which road might be either better or worse. After our half -mile ,tourney we find that the road stops short, for we are at the mouth of the VICTORIA TUNNEL MINE. The horses are tied. Three lanterns are produced and lighted by the guide, rho carries one,and hands the others to the two male members of the party. We are now r•eady`toenter the mine. The guide leads, The ladies are scat- tered between the lights. The main tunnel of the mine is about eight feet high and about ten feet wide. We proceed straight into the mountain, walk- ing on boards laid between the narrow tracks upon which the miners run their cars. The main tunnel is double tracked. The guide walks r'ap:dly, stop- ping every now and then to make some explanation. As we pass along,we see hero and there a vn of ore glittering in the light of ourlanterns. As we stand admiring the strange, but truly beautiful scene, the words of Job come back with a deeper meaning and cloth- ed with a now beauty. (Job 28; 1,2,5 -ti) "Surely there is a mine for the silver; and a place for gold which they refine. Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone. As for the earth, out of it cometh bread and under- neath it is turned up as it were by tiro. The stone thereof are the place of sapphires, and it hath dust of gold.” "That path no bird of prey knoweth,neitber hath the falcon's eye seen it. Tho proud beasts have not trodden it, nor hath the fierce lion passed thereby." • We proceed in a straight line fora little over one quarter of a mile, when we come' to the end of the main tunnel, and aro now '700 feet under the grass. The guide here orders the ladies to stand in the centro of the tun- nel, the gentlemen to stand to one side and turn down the lan- terns. We do so, and see an un - looked foe effect. We thought we should bo in Egyptian dark- ness. Not so. The light coming into the tunnel one quarter of a mile away is still sufficiently strong to cast the ladies' shows on the end of the tunnel.. In order travel, however, we require the aid of the lanterns. Wo retrace our steps a short ide. 3ora we enter a Wiwi only about, t one.half ;as- wide as the QUO we have left. We proceed a couple of, bundrecl yards, when a fldavy r,3ogml Rtv'1t;es'upon out' ear's, and feel my hat ai oat lil e from.a my bead, by my hair, while my heafrt males a desperate effort to got through my throat, at the same time the mountain seems to tremble, Before we know what has hap- pened there conies auother4Boom t' andthe same "phenomena are re' peated with intensified effect. The guide quietly explains that it is merely a blast going off in an- other part of the mountain. Ile proceeds to open a door that stoles the passage, but he closes it immediately for there rushes out a volume of air so strongly loaded with sulphuric acid gas that I quite agreed with the lady of our party who said, that, all put to- gether suggested the 'Infernal Re - pone.' ' After a few moments the door opened and the air seemed clear. This was explained by the fact that there were numerous air shafts leading from ono mine to entthor, by means of which the air was kept in circulation'. After proceeding about 500yards we return to the main tunnel and pass along to another by-path in the mountain, where we •find some ore ready to be conveyed from the mine. The guide breaks oft' a sample for each of us. The mine yields silver, lead and copper. Leaving the mine we drive back through the village to the hotel for dinner, t'or which I and ready. . Now ata mountain mining vil- lage hotel you must not expect a neatly dressed waiter to come and stpnd beside your chair and say This is an overhanging mass of granite on which may be seen the outline of faces in the rock. We have been passing places on the road ; but as we started out to see rocks and scenery we have paid no attention to places. We note some of the names, bearing in mind that all you can see Of some of these pluses is a sign board at the side of the track. We pass, first of all, Golden, a town of some size. Then we strike tiueh romantic names as as Chimney Guy Gulee, Beaver Brook, Big Hill, Forks Creek and Flayd Hill. Then comes the better known health resort, Idaho Springs. Af- ter we leave Idaho Springs we be- gin to feel at home, for the next is at Lawson which sounds fa- miliar. Then we strike a town of some sze, called Georgetown- -which was of course, named after the enterprising commercial cen- tre of that name in Ontario. Now let us pause a moment to take our bearings. At Denver we were 5,170 feet above sea level. Wo have one station more to reach. That is Silver Plume. Silver Plume is only one mile and a half distant distance, and tern to one s Game in like . «smites*'. Ai 'or eetGbing alar breatbi, we started. for ,bone, bight.E bight.deligbted with i olrr taste 9 1rid�.1%1.n, Oa 'ii•tilii I u Of .a �� w o• 'w.. t >� �a5ens.n,a�e ee,, € treat, worth about $16,000 has mysteriously disappeared from the city and the detectives bave failed to And any clue to bis whereabouts. DI Dygasinski, a correspondent of the Warsaw Courier, has re- turned from Brazil with an ap- palling story of the fate of Rus- sians who emigrated to that country. A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says that information received from the Rio de la Plata districts show that locusts and drought have reduced the maize crop to a quarter of what the crop .was in 1890. DON'T FEEL WELL. And yet you are not sick enough to consult a doctor, or_ you re- frain from so doing for fear you will alarm yourself and.irienes-' we will tell you just what yeaneed. It is Hood's Sarsaparilla, which will lift you out of that un- corthin uncomfortable, dane'erous condition, into a state of good health, confidence and cheerful- ness. .You've no idea how potent this peculiar medicine is in cases like yours. TIE HAD NERVE A quick witted and daring Western lawyer once saved a guilty client from sure conviction on a charge of poisoning. It was proved that the poisoning had been done by means of certain something like this t cakes, a portion of which was `Beef steak, turkey, cranberry produced in court. NY hen the sauce, mutton chop, ham and eggs, counsel for the prisoner had finish - tea or coffee.' No, my gentle ed his speech lie said: -"And there reader, nothing so elaborate. gentlemen of the jury, are some of The waiter sees you seated at the alleged poisoned cakes. We the table and then disappears into declare to you, gentlemen of tbe the kitchen. A sufficient length of time having elapsed to allow even a Highlander to say grace, that waiter returns with your victuals and' slams down before you a plateful of hash. You meekly suggest that hash is not your favorite dish. The waiter - disappears 6o quickly that you begin to consider her the most obliging individual you ever jury, that these are not poisoned cakes. They aro as harmless cakes es ever were made, ane in order, gentlemen of the jury, to show. you that these cakes are not poisoned, I will eat one of them right hero in your presence." And he did eat one. He took care, however, to leave the room at the earliest opportunity, and to make a bee line for an adjoining met, when suddenly your good room, where he bad an emetic in Ile' opinion vanishes into thin air. fi ' rea�lines, and an antidote. But in walks the landlord, who, poin,- the .I'i!? -ever heard about the ing his seven shooter at your emetic.•I +re antidote until the head, says in no still, small voice; i lawy'ei'' releet had been acquitted "Eat that hash, I say, and none of your sass." The argument convinces you A bDy stood on the burning deck. oven if you are the most stubborn Unwisel' . tan. 'tis said, For, with It. • to-- a,,proaching name, logican this side of the Atlantic, His elders •ly tied. • ......--4.. • .— for in that seven shooter tnere are seven sound arguments, none of which you care . to tackle. So you quietly eat the hash, and such delicious hash 1 You never thought you could eat it with such a relish. Wonderful 'ow circumstances alter cases, is'nt it. .Fortunately they happened to be out of hash at the hotel where I took dinner. I account for this So, many nom ., i, til stand, Unmindful tel` their fate, • Till, step°by step, Grim Death conies on And then, alas l too late ! Far wiser, surely would it seem, When his approach we see, With "Pierce's Pellets" well in hand To vanquish old "G. D. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets have remarkable power to correct all derangements, thus warding off disease that would surely follow. To l� �' B 1< s e 74.� Thi* sW io alitat frA time ! t o time �digouAsed soento o journalt. I E.E.HAYW 0 gad ,,. . one soca the vast number of '\"' broken down, ltetlesttendprematurely Cid MO fo u nd in... every com mun i . ty , unlooltcd for and pleasant over- Purely vegetable, pleasant to take. sight in this way. 1 was late for perfectly harmless ! With a little forethought,they maybe a present help in time of need -cheating doctor and robbing the grave. As a liver pill, they a:e unequal. �roallest, cheapest,easiest to take. One a dose as a axative, three or four as catharticl. Tiny,sugar- coated granules, in vials; 25 cents. dinner as I sometimes am for breakfast, and I suppose the other guests had so enjoyed the hash that they called for a second supply, and the resources of the hotel in that line were exhausted for that day. What then did I get ? you ask. Meat yes but what sort of meat ? I will never be able to tell you. It might be mule, or cat, or dog for ought I can prove to the contrary. A person who neither saw it nor tasted it said it was "mountain mutton," and per- haps it was. Ono thing I can say it was very good, or else I was very hungry which frequently amounts to the same thing. Dinner over, -a few minutes later we take the train to return. On the up trip you were so troubl- ed with cinders striking your eyes that you vowed you would never take an observation train again. You bad better break that vow _now, foregoing down the canon the train requires only suffi- cient steam to work the air brakes. so that there will be little, almost no smoke. The only incident) in the early part of the return trip, is a delay caused by cattle on the track. Poor creatures they know not what to do. The track is so nar- row that for some distance they can turn to neither the right nor to the left, ascent they hurl them drew himself up, and slowly delivered selves into the creek. But the en- himself of this sentence, "I aint a rail - TIT FOR TAT. Communicated. To the Editor of the ()Unfelt Neta Erct I./we SIR.—A gentleman, desirous of catching the train that leaves Wing- liam at 7 a. m. for places south,stepped hurriedly on the platform just as the train from the east which leaves a few minutes earlier,was leaving the station. These trains commonly called the Toronto and the London, run on the same line as far as the junction, where the one turns east the other south. Coming thus hurriedly on the platform and anxious not to miss the train, our traveller took what he supposed the quickest method of ascertaining the destination of the slowly receding train by suddenly accosting a large man -one of the type so often -seen lounging on station platforms and other p ublic places, with large expanse of waistcoat from which dangled a heavy chain and numerous seals, with large hands thrust deeply into breeches-pookets,and eyes made preternaturally large and round by staring boldy at every woman that comes within his range of vision as•he slowly paces to and fro, expector- ating to the right and left with much pre- cision and regularity by way of accom- paniment to the movement. To the breathless query of our traveller. "Is that the London train ?" the fat man gineer is patient and careful of hie train,at last the canon widens and they find room to turn off But now lost time must be made up. Tho engineer pulls the trhottle clear back into the tender and as it is all down grade, in a short time the telegraph poles looked to be as close together as railway ties, and the suction drew all the water out of an irrigating ditch along the track. The rails began to curl up behind the track and the water in the tanks froze up. A tenderfoot dared to put his head out of a window. He immediately became bald. His bat, however, was caught in the suction, and so firmly held against the rear end of the car, that it took three men and two boyo to pull it off. When the train at last came to a stop at theUnion Depot at Denver, it was exactly five min- utes and'twenty-three seconds ahead of its headlight, which manhood are various, and aniang them may bemens tioned overworked, mental ytxain, lope ee sleep, over indalgepce of Ap rites, and excesses of vari.taus Binds 1, lead- ing to .Pattered nerves, lege .of -.vital Zeroes and premature decay, and often to insanity. To ail time suffering Dr Williams'. Dints Pills oomeasa boon. They build PpltlaPxtered nerves, enrich Vie blood, stimulate the brain, and reiniorae the exhausted system. All who are suffering from any of the causes that break down and enfeeble the sys- tem'should use these pills, and will And therm a sure and speedy restorative. Dr Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, orwill be sent, post paid, on , receipt of prise -50 (euts a box -by addressing The Dr Williams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. "The Unkindest Cut of Ali." ENCORE DYES ONLY 5 CENTS A PACKAGE. The - Best Dyes in the World FOR HOME DYEING. Equal to any Package Dye for bright and fast colors. Send for Sample Card to J. S.' ROBERTSON 3t CO.'Manu- facturers, Montreal. way official," then turnirg slowly on his heel, expectorating again with ap- parently much satisfaction. Our traveller made no reply, but going into the station ascertained from the oblig- ing official that his train would be in in five minutes. A. little later he was seated in a comfortable car on his way to Blyth where some pressing business would detain him for some hours, and looking up he saw his fat aegnaintanoe of vast extent of wateh chain and seals, sitting a few seats in front of him. "Confound that fellow" thought our traveller, "why he was waiting for this very train, and could have told me, the bear." An hour later when turning the corner of a street in Blyth he came soddenly face to face with the "bear",who before he had time to recognise the victim of his rudeness thus accosted our traveller, "Could you tell me hocq many hardware stares there are in thie place?" while speaking he was attracted by an odd expression in the eyes of the man he addressed, an expression of amusement, beneath which lurked danger, as our traveller gnisically replied, "I aint a city direc- tory," and raising his hat with a polite good -day air, passed on. "Darn fool 1•' muttered the big man as he turned into Moser's Hardware. 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