Show A N I 1 11 DI IVorid wonderful erfal Mag magatry n r z power or of loo lea in a colorado A party of gentlemanly and genial passenger agona Ago tits i composed of 0 III major ajar brown of ilia rio itlo grande western major hooper of the denver rio orande grande colonel me lee of tha colorado Tillo illand jolia john sebastian vi kimball lon cannon of chicago harry haughk Vai ight R T blunter and 11 11 II shepherd ut of denver who had boer been in attendant atten dan daneo ca at the convention ot of passenger pas onnor agents recently hold held at denver had a mot most remarkable experience peri ence near grand junction where they s stopped P e d 0 f r abi wallo 1 0 ot on i t li 0 1 r way to the city ot of zion major brown persuaded t tho lie party to 0 visit 1 s it t alio 1 0 o v t ui b jy u c coal 4 D aa banks bank located about forty miles from gr grand and unction junction colo the third night out they camped near abo famous ice cavas in vicinity and not being pressed tor for time tile party resolved to explore them A half mile distant from the thoe cases atus is u a largo lisauro t through ahro a 91 tho the basalt baal fc major brown build that ho he it had a d vi tho the spot last summer in hi company w ith dr miller tit ulrich time tho the yea was in places filled with ice and in others open to all ai unfathomable depth I 1 now cornea comes an almost almost incredible phase of tho the bartys ex exploration pl oration early in tho the succeeding morning to relate tho ilia adventure la in the language langu aeo of it a member bar ot of the party maj brown and I 1 found tho the fissure so elaborately described by him alie ho preceding evening it being completely filled ith too of singular clearness cl carnea i pres presenting epting a surface of bentio gentio undulations appearing much as it tho the phopho ocean near pit n iola had bad been frozen froyen over wo we traveled several dundr hundred ed yards along the edge of at the fissure adin admiring 11 log the rays reflected from its ita surface when I 1 was wai startled ty by a sudden cry from torn tho the genial major excited I 1 approached hlin impressed that thai be bogad had became juliana lutu ino ile n had dropped on his hands and knees and m ith an ablo ormal ex expression depleted depicted upon his face hintyes his eyes wore intently staring into the depths following his big wild sae gaye I 1 bobola at an apparent depth of twenty feet the pico fico and shoulders of a woman with eyes wido wide open and a beautiful complexion the tha face Rs as near as 1 could judge was well proportioned the nose somewhat iier ifer gown or what we could seo sea of it it about about the neck and shoulders was constructed of 0 rich material tile the rost roat of tho the body was indistinct to some flaw in tho ice tile face teemed seemed about six feet in iong length th the features appearing fa camillar miLlar nothing was said bald of this discovery till 1111 the next orning ru when wo we all visited tile the enormous floi fl HAure saire taking with it a crudo laining outfit and raqu resolved ived to dig the woman out ot at tile the im ice the first day wo we reached a depth of fourteen feet but yero vero determined to recover the huge well preserved corpse corlos cl th abo 0 next day that night wo we pondered upon how the woman got there slid oud when old did sho she bolong belong to a prehistoric roco race but then her attlio was wag so touch much like that ot of the present day however who knows but what abo was con contemporaneous with the in mastodon r lotion whose bonni bones tell us its of their pr prehistoric 0 lalo ex Isten its in ili the northwest we all tried to sleep but in ia vale vain so excited wore re we a uil nil we wa sat bat smoking bout about A the camporo camp oro gro all that blessed n lilt speculating as to what tho the next days research might bring forth at the drat streak of cayll lit labor was resumed ned but I 1 wo had to walk cautiously its an the fine ica id tad obscured the to ody body train from our view by noon n a depth ol of twenty one feet had bad been attained and cannon relieved me lad taking his bis turn in the lee abaft abad about a 3 old bismarck his marckx v who lie had been remarkably quiet while at work requested to bo be hauled up tip when bo be reached the surface Bur taco ho he placed a piece of ice it a toot foot square at my feet ert then lie threw f upon the ground rolling over and over in the most alarming alarm lug and hysterical manner in reply to my acx anxious IOUs appeal to him fa tor r an explanation of ills his strange conduct ho he only pointed to the chunk of ice be brought up examining it I 1 saw a piece of cardboard embedded imbedded im in it which proved on oil ono one hide to bo be till an advertising card till tho the picture ot at it a beautiful women woman on it and hearing bearing at tho the bottom the following le legood end uso use wisdoms robertine Kobert lne fur for the complexion tho the most delightful toilet article ever produced how did it get there perhaps thrown in last sur summer miler by home tou tour lit covered by tile tho winters winter 8 fee and costing ova men two days work to recover simply because tile the ice by its varying density avid and peculiar shape had magnified magnil led the picture a hundred fold nl end lent it it a natural appearance appear atice portland Ote gontan |