Great Falls tribune. [volume], January 14, 1888, Image 3

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A Geanine "Chinook" Has Come
.AND GONE! IT.LEFT THE ORE-PRICE CLOTHIER
A. NATHAN
with more Winter Clothing than he wants to carry, therefore
he will dispose of that part of his stock at .the
Greatest Slaughter in Prices Ever Before Known
His stock is one of the most complete in the Territory, and
he means business. Call at once and see.
Lookout for the sign:
"A... Nathan, One- -rice Clothier,"
Central Avenue, Great Falls, Montana.
MIGHTY CATARACTS.
THE UPPER MISSOURI'S SCENIC
GRANDEUR DESCRIBED.
Verbatim Extracts From the Diaries of
Lewis and Clark, the Explorers
Who Visited this Country
in 1803.
Thlrsday, June 13.-They left their en
campment at.sunrise and ascending the
river hills, went for six miles in a course
generally southwest, over a country which
though more waving than that of yester
day. may still be considered level. Atthe
extremity of this course they overlooked
a most beautiful plain where were infin
itely more buffialoe than we hap everbe
fore seen at a single view. To the south
west arose from the plain two mountains
of a singular appearance and more ram
parts of high fortifications than works of
nature. They are square figures with
sides rising perpendicularly to the height
of 250 feet, formed of yellow clay, and
the tops seemed to belevelplains. Find
ing that the river here bore considerably
to the south and fearful of passing the
falls before reading the Rocky mountains,
they now changed their course to the
south, and leaving those insulated hills
to the right, proceeded across the plain.
In this direction captain Lewis had
gone about 2 miles when his ears were
saluted with the agreeable sond of a fall
of water, and as he advanced a spray
which seemed driven by the high south
west wind arose above the plain like a
colume of smoke and vanished in an in
stant. Toward this point he directed his
steps and the noise increasing as he ap
proached, soon became too tremendous to
be mistaken for anything but the great
falls of the Missouri. Havtng travelled 7
miles after first hearing the sound he
reached the falls about 12 o'clock, the
hills as he approached were difficult of
access and 200 feet high; down these he
hurried wirh impatience and seating him
self on some rocks under the center of
the falls, enjoyed the sublime spectacle
of this stupendous object which since the
creation has bean lavishing its magnifi
cence upon the desert, unknown to civil
ization.
TILE LOWER F LLTS
The river immediately at this cascade 1
is 300 yards wide, ano is pressed in by a
perpendicular cliff on the left, which 4
rises to about 100 feet, and extends up
the stream for a mile; on the right the
bluff is also perpendicular for. 300 yards I
above the falls. For 90 or 100 yards from
the left cliff, the water fall in one smooth,
even sheet over a precipice of at least 80 1
feet. The remaining part of the river
precipitatez itself with a more rapid cur- 1
rent, but being received as it falls, by the I
irregular and somewhat projecting rocks
below forms a spendid prospect of per
fectly white foam 200 yards in lengthand
80 in perpendicular elevation. This spray
is dissipated into a thousand shapes,
sometimes flying up in columes ofl5or 20
feet which are then oppressed by largr 1
masses of the white foam on all of which i
the sun impresses the brightest colors of
the rainbow. As it rises from the fall it
beatis with fury' against a ledge of rocks
which extends across the river at 150 yards
from the precipice. Fromtheperpendic
idar cliff on the north, to the distance of
120 yards, the rocks rise only a few feet
ablove the water and when the r:ver is
high the stream finds a channel across
them 40 yards wide and near the higher
Spalrts of the ledge which then rises about
20 feet and terminate abruptly within 80
or 90 yards of the southeast side.
Between them and the perpendicular cliff
on the south, the whole body of water
runs with great swiftness. A few small
ce(iars grow near this ridge of rocks,
which serves as a barrier to, defend a
e small plain of about three acres, shaded
with cottonwood, at the lower extremity
of which is a grove of the same tree,
' where are several Indian cabins of sticks;
below the point of them the river is di
a vided by a large rock, several feet above
the surface of the water, and extending
down the stream for 20 yards. At the
distance of 800 yardf from the same ridge
- is a second abutmentof solid perpendicu
Slar rock, about 60 feet high, projecting at
right angles from the small plain on the
Snorth fdr 134 yards into the river. After
leaving this the Missouri again spreads
f itself to its usual width of 300 yards,
Sthough with more than its ordinary
Srapidity.
A SUCCESSION OF RAPIDS.
The hunters who had been sent out
now returned loaded with buffalo meat,
and captain Lewis encamped for a night
under a tree near the falls. The men
a were again dispatched to hunt for food
against the arrival of the party, and cap
Stain Lewis walked down the river to dis
a cover, if possible, some place where tl~e
1 canoes might be safely drawn on shore,
' in order to be transported beyond the
falls. He returned, however, without
- discovering any such spot, the river for
s three miles below being one continued
succession of rapids and cascades, over
Shung with perpendicular bluffs from 150
7 to 200 feet high; in short, it seems to
Shave worn itself a channel'through the
Ssolid rock. In the afternoon they caught
f in the falls some of both kiids of white
e fish, and half a dozen trout, from 16 to
23 inches long, precisely resembling in
f form and the position of its fins the
e mountain or speckled trout of the United
e States, except that the specks of the
Sformer are of a deep black, while those
of the latter are of red or gold color;
they have long, sharp teeth on the palate
and tongue, and gexidrally a small speck
of red on each side behind the front ven
e tral lins; the flesh is of a pale, yellowish
! red, or, when in good order, of a rose
1 colored red.
THE CROOKED FALLS.
s Friday, 14.--This morniing one of the
5 men was sent to captain Clark with an
I account of the discovery of the falls, and
after employing the rest in preserving
)the meat which had been killed yester
r day, captainLewis proceeded to examine
- the rapids above. From the fails he.di
rected his course southwest, up qie ri'er.
After. lStsihg one -esitined rpid an
thrie snalI eicade ~ aendshe or 4
feet high, he reached, at a distance of five
1 miles, a second fall. The river is about
r 400 feet wide, and for the iga~sce of 8
yards throws itsef-ver to the-depti
19 feet;and so thelatssly that .e t
r the name.ot fltf(ko0c1 falls te
Ssouthern shore it extends obliquely up
Swards about 150 yards, and then'fodrms an
acute angle4dowiw&dlwrds nearly to the
Scommente.m.ea ttt four small island
close to the northern side. From the
perpendicular pitch to these islands, a
distance of more than 100 yards, the
water glides down a sloping rock, with a
velocity almost equal to that of its fall.
Above this fall the river bends suddenly
to the northward; while viewing this
place captain Lewis heard a loud roar
above him, and crossing the point of a
hill for a few hundred yards, he saw one
of the most beautiful objects of nature
(the Rainbow falls): the whole Msssouri
is suddenly stopped by one shelving rock,
which, without a single niche and with
an edge as straight and regular as if
formed by art, stretches itself from one
side of the river to the other for at least
a quarter of a mile. Over this it precipi
tates itself in an even, uninterrupted
sheet to the perpendicular depth of 50
feet, whence, dashed against the rocky
bottom, it rushes rapidly down, leav
ing behind it a spray of the purest
foam across the river. The scene
which it presented was indeed singularly
beautiful, since withaut any of the wild,
irregular sublimity of the lower falls, it
combined all the regular elegances which
the fancy of a painter would select to
form a beautiful waterfall. The eye had
scarcely been regaled with this charming
prospect, when at the distance of half a
mile captain Lewis observed another of a
similar kind (now known as the Little
Rainbow falls): To this he immediately
hastened and found a cascade stretching
across the whole river for a quarter of a
mile, with a descent of 14 feet, though
the perpendicular pitch was only six feet.
This too, in any: other neighborhood,
would have been an object of great mag
nificence, but after what he had seen, it
became of secondary interest. His curi
osity, however, being awakened, he deter
mined to go on even should night over
take him, to the head of the falls. He
therefore pursued the southwest course
of the river which was one constant suc
cession of rapids and small cascades at
every one of which the bluffs grew lower
or the bed of the river became mnore on a
level with the plains. At the distance of
two and a half miles he arrived at
another cataract of 26 feet (the Black
Eagle falls.) The river here is 600 yards
wide, but-the descent is not immediately
perpendicular, though the river falls gen
erally with a regular and smooth sheet:
for about one-third of the descent a rock
protudes to a small distance, receives the
water in its passage and gives it a cure.
On the south side is a beautiful fall a
few feet above the level of the falls; on
the north side the country is more bro
ken, and there is a hill not far from the
river. Just below the falls is a little
island in the middle of the river, well
covered with timber. Here on a cotton
wood tree an eagle had fixed its nest,
and seemed the undiswuted mistress of a
spot, to contest whose dominion neither
mrn nor beast would venture across. the
gulfs that surrounds it, and which is fur
ther secured bv The mist rising from the
falls- This solitary bird could not escape
the observation of the Indians who made
the eagle's nest a part of their descrip
tion of the falls, which now proves to be
correct in almost every particular, except
that they did not do justice to their
height. Just above this is a cascade of
about five feet, beyond which, aws far as
could be slis erned .h*e velocity of .the
water seemed to abate. Captain Lewis
now ascended thelsill which was behind
him, an s from its top a delightful
plain (wn te site of the city of Griet
:?allsa xtei tng from the river to the
base w RockytiOunbtains to the
fouth and southwest. Along this wide
level country the -Missouri pursued its
windiieurse, Piled with 'water to thi
m~ian gr I blot-it foer
miles above it was joined by a large river
flowing from the northwest through a
valley three miles in width, and distin
guished by the timber which adorned its
shores; the Missouri itself stretches to
the south in an unrnffled stream of water
as if unconscious of the roughness it
must soon encounter, and bearing on its
bosom vast flocks of geese, while numer
ous hers of buffaloe are feeding on the
plains which surroand it.
A New Postmaster at Benton.
WASHINGTON, January 9.-Among the
nominations sent to the senate today was
that of Mrs. F. A. Helm, as postmistress
at Corvallis, Oregon; C. W. Price, post
master at Fort Benton, Montana; C. A.
Muslum, Billings, Montana.
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