Show one of alic tracks of nil avalanche leo one of the oldest binl best known professional prospectors in this pirt of alie country hai just returned froni n trip to tho lical ot alio eagle river abobo his journey was with exciting incidents and none dioro and thrilling than that ho passed through on aliu divide above middle park on or near park view lie hid been for sonio tea days prospecting in this little known por tion of the adte and succeeded in discovering some very buo cirii of decomposed quartz rich in free gold he staked oi of the claims that seemed to him especially valuable and pushed his up several of alio smaller creeks 0 finding placer diggings in this lio was disappointed ami flirted ed across 1 spuros alic range to return to alio fortion and lo 10 el middle park on the southern side liis bouto liy don n so steep and precipitous an incline that several limes lie meditated turning around and going back but binally decided in on in one tho mountainside descended in almost a smooth plane somo yards wide and apparently alie water course of some dried upstream in this he descended but when about midway down happened to look around and witnessed a spectacle that made his blood run cold ami ci cry limb artin on with terror ibish up above nearly at alie summit a hail become star loit on a tor bilic descent toward alio valley with every bound it a mass of flirt smaller boulders and debris and from one mass ot ka 1111 it became in the twinkling of an eye a hundred and a vist avalanche sweeping down alie natural channel recovering himself on alio llio instant anil realizing his dreadful peril eliat h cliance for life liy in his getting kiil 0 alio track alio llio him and darted tow aid tho nearest side alicie was but an of time and although lie seemed for alio instant given wings he despaired of ever reaching a place of safety in a second ho alie side of alie clambering frantically up a ragged heap of rocks A shrub was just above and seizing it in a desperate ho dragged himself up tho sido sm ill boulders acro already hying down below liim the ground trembled and alic gigin lic rocks shook to their foundation hurling him fact with a loar that reverberated to the heavens alic avalanche sapt past it was a wild strange ono eliat illch tho prospector willi we as lie lay prone on alio ground scarcely daring to breathe an instant iho channel was filled with a rui hing river but a river of stone and earth roaring ansing and surging like living water hugo rocks masses ot earth and great pine trees would rise to tho surface and then disappear again in tho surging torrent alio moto poor humanity would have been in lucli a stream tho miner could well realize and it is needless to say aliat in alic remainder of alio trip lie avoided alie and red a rough over alio llio rucks to alic incurring of any such a risk again conner |