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Show 38 • .. Vote.'\ JJy tltc Tray. ~ains, and over then t vvc had to pass, be- CAMP 83, Sept. {j :-A shorL tin-rc afIng t vvo rauges or properly spurs of ran- ter s~mting, th~ road bore away from ges. To get into the valley -vvc arc novv the nver, and dHl not again reach it unin vvc passed th~·ough a Car:yon \Yherc til late ln the aftcrnoou. Tlti~ pnrt of we cro sed the nver tltrcc tl111cs. The the route etnbrace€.1 a Rcrics of n1ounroad was shaded ?Y a thick growth of tains and hollovn;, that vve \Vere olJlicrell unclor? rush. In tlns place ·cveral grouse to cross. Son1e \Verc rather 1nore than w~re shot . The ,sett1e,n1c_nt ~\.nov-vn ~n a 1nere "1nole hill." W c nrc can1ped t hrs country as .Stuarts 1s s1tuatc<lin near the river in a narrovv valley. 'l'hc t~n eus_t cu<l of the. v~llcy on a very ~li- 1n_ountain~ arc steep and 1 ui'ty, and g1ble site. It contains twelve ca.bu1s fnngcd vvith a forest of pine, and in an~ ~thers are soon to be crcctc(~ . . N e~r places . the valley also. 'rhis gives a he~~- In a. nun1ber ,.of ~)laces 1nnnllg IS darken1ug_ gloo1ny effect to the place. c~u w~1 on to a co~. Iclcl"tb1c exte11t, and O_ur evernng Ineal vYas prepared bv a arc sa1d to be_ paying vvcll. A.s a:1 ev1- pine wood fire. The ga1nc taken to-clay dencc ~hat, tl:ls_ rart ~f. the world JS fast consisted of three large raU.lcsnnkes beconnng ' c1v1hz~d, Is ~the fact that it killed ncar camp. As a c1jsti 11 guishing ~as been arraugcd 1uto a c?u:·1ty, and ~as title, we \viU call this encha11t~d spot, 1ts pr?per officers, not on1ttt1ng a sbenff, "Rattlc.·nakc IIollo,L" Ali-I tOugh we co_ntm?s a n~n1ber of place~ \Vhere gam- have crossed and left a long distance bebltng Is earned on, and _vvlnskey s~ld at tween us ftnJ the divide of' the Rocky twont~~five c.e~ts per dnnk ar:d slzglttly l\Iountain range, -vvc arc by 110 nH·ans .a_dultoruted <1t that; so1nc e1ght days out of them, nor do we expect to be .stncc, one 1nan was shot dead and an- for son1c davs The Q f tl th 1 .r 1 . l J • <.Cippearauec o 1c ·? er lUllg 1?r :111L e stcahng. Pun- peaks ahead woulJ indicate that we 1shmcnt o~ t ins ktnd for Ruch an offence vvill be served \vith somcthino· . 1 seen1s rk ternbly severo. But •t his section to-n1oi·r·o"t'tT Weathe .r t bol 1o Tulg: l VY 0 r con11or a c. US ~ e all o_thcrs where g?l<l nnning is car- is an excellent place to camp ever _ n ed on, Is over-run vvit~l a. set of out- thiug being at hand that are n~cessa1!. laws, cut-throats and thieves that must C y :should they begin practici11g their arts: t ~l\If s:, SEr:. G :--What we ant!ci-be taken care of: As they have no place pa e ~s e~cning ~f t~c Iuount~1ns, of confinmnent, and even should such we received to-day With Interest: rJ~e characters receive their punishment in ro~t f?llowed ·~~e eomse of the nver, It a milder fonn, every lllCans \VOU]U be no eiug pOS£I e to COnstruct a road any taken for revenge, so acath is thouaht other vv~y. \i~hat rnay be understood to be t he only thing that \Vou1<1 be ban by. that Is that It ~as a very eircuit?us; exan1plc for others of like persuasion to toituous 0?e-ovei an<l along the sides profit by, and. a terror to all evil doers. of Inountaius, thron~h hollow~ and Can- . . . . . , . . yons, the last place It would be thortaht Th1s pa1 t of the valley ~u1ly sustatus \Vould be selected fo1• a road IIcrclo-twhh' at has ahl reafd y bee·n sa1d of it: A fore. vve hn{l natu1·nl · 1 (AI <AI passes, so n1uc 1 so h ~ng 1 wort y o 111_eution perl1aps, Is,. at that it seenwd a~ thou ah they \vere t Is p ace we obtatncd papers, COlJtain- made on purpose to I)C b.t t i t A t - t J Al rnu vvagous o ng ~ews o u~us n1n 1. though go through. 1-Iere nearly all ha~l to be ~wo rnonths old, 1 t vva~ news to us, h?'v- nutde, at an euorn1ons outln of 111one 1ng been so long t1epnvcd of auytluua and hard ] abor ,-1,11 ... ·I· y i' y · tt f' 0 - <- • e wo1 \.. o survey-concerning n1a cr o goneral11cwR a.ud ino· vva a great one but il t ,. · t he war. The vveai,her to-clay wn. hcau- st~tcl inn- ·l .,L.(<··~t"l' ' [.J- ta orl cobu-t' 1 f } rl. t } · M c" b n '-" • ' ' \VctR llHH C y .u ' an l.C evcn Jng- ple<h·aut·. gra<li11g· <irtd cxcaratinp- i.bP Ri<l~~ of tlie Notes f3!J the ffuy. ----------------------------- ----------------... ·------------- mountni u:-;, ·which vvas not a slight job. inrnat<'s came out to look at us, and Where \Ve cro~~cUJHOn ntainR, they be- S'ce1ncu p lcascJ vvith the sight. Clearing lofty; of course the aoc.eut ~ras long, ing tl1is Yalley, another n1ountain rose in places Rtcep, the desccn.t the smne. up bef-Ore us, and cut , hort our travelThe track in so111C places vYas of cartb, ing for a tjn1e, on level roads. T his in others of looRe fine stone, 1naking part of the \vay is li~c 1nne11 of ycster. difficult footing; n.ud. again of large day's, but reqnired 1nore labor to 1n ake .stone for so1nc distance. One place \Vas it what it iR. 'l'hi~ \vas about t hree .dug out of solid rock, of a red color, n1ilos in extent. llcrc as it were, \Ve rese1nbling r;late, on the bank of the are s:uspenJed in 1nid-air, l1alf -vvay up river. It is a place that enterprising a n1ountain, \vith the river rolling sevglass peddlers \vould do \vc11 not to oral hundred feet belo\v. A Iniss move attemp t to travel \Yith a load of \Yare. on the part of driver or aniu1al \VoulJ A self -evident fueL i~ here don1onstrated, precipitate the \vholc do,vn this ste~p , that t he river gro\v~ larger on receiving beyond the povver of assistance.every little strcan1. By the n1ile marks The road vvas exceedingly gooJ conalong the vvay vve find we arc nearing sideri11g the nature of the country, .our final <lcstination, as \VC1l as " IIcll and. \VO passed iu saf(~ty. This part Gate." By the appearance generally of fully snstains the uanw applied ycster. of the place V\re have been traveling day, al thongh smne of the party tenu it through to-day, indicated by the narne the Devil'b ])en. The n1ountain sid.es of the pass, we thiuk this n1ust be the and valleyR arc 1narkc<1 by n1any wellDevil's Cause\vay. We ha<l been trav- worn paths, 1nad.e by Indians au d. packeling son1e tin1e on the vvcst side of the ers ¥vl1ile romning through the country. river; on desccndjng the first Inountain, On leavjng this 1nonntain vve di<l not we crossed it by bridge. For a great after\vards ascend any material eleva. amount of travel the structure would tion, but re1nained on nearly the san1e .not last nw.ny years ; but it is better level \Ve are novv on, that of the water. t han a fo.rd. W c have seen along the This afternoon passe<l a scttlmnent of way con1paratively but few birds, ex- some dozen or rnore half-finished decept ing p erhaps1 an occasional buzzard scrteJ cabins. Why they are thus left that woulJ show itself. In this last vve do not know, but suppose thmn to valley we \vere greeted with the voices have been erected by the builders of the of a large flock of cro-vvs-quite a va- road. Soon after crossed tho Big Blackriety in its way. In the valley also foot river, on what vvas once a -good wild berries grow in great abundance, substantial bridge, but now a 1niserable, hut none of a don1estic nature but rasp- dilapidated, half-broken dovvn concern. berries. The sun set for us at an early Here the l-IeU Gate receives an addihour; we are so buried. up in the n1oun- tional supply of water that flows down tains that it sar~k from our sight, long the Black-foot. Soon we passed ~eforc it reached the horizon. Cau1pcd through what is called " I-Iell Gate," 1n a pine thicket nearly one 1nilc fr01n the entrance of Cadott's Pass of the water, but with good feed. l{ocky l\Iountajns, and entoreq the Bit- CAMP 85, SUNDAY, SEPT. 7 :-'riJne te~ Root valley. vV c lHtd ll1ade up ?Ur being of great value, we continued our ~1n~ that here we should s~e son1eth1ng travel to-d.ay. The pinery vve entered t:ernblc, . but to our ~storn~h1nent we last njght, gre\\T 111orc dense and dark a:;; vvcrc 1no.·t agreeably dJsappo1nted. In\"~ e advanced. 111 ihi.· vn.lley hy t hP steatl of tl "Hell". it \Yas n v?ry Pa~·a:riYer si<lc..' ,\;rerP t\YO Iwlian lml s TJ 11• di~P wl~t·u tukeu 1n cOiupnruwn \Yt t i i |