Show Wonderful Solt Field While going down the divide we caught glimpses of the Buffalo and then the Clmarron rivers glistening like snov hi the morning sun We swung to tho south and crossed hoI ho-I Buffalo Here were several wells with windmill pumps back from the river some distance I seems odd to see wells sunk so near Cl he river but It was easily explained when we went a little further and saw the broad bed of the river as white as drifted now There are salt springs all along the lower course of the stream which renders the water unfit 10 stock The salt plain is at the juncture of the Buffalo nnd Clmarron extending several miles along both streams and is three miles wide at one place There is an artesian well of salt water near the southern edge From an opening six inches In diameter flows away a strong stream of brine Its winding course Is hedged 1 with Icelike layers of salt One with a vivid ImagInation can easily get up a shiver vihlle looking look-ing at this winterlike scene The ground appears to be covered with snow and frost which encroaches upon nnd overhangs the water of the stream For three miles away to the northward the plain glistens and dazzles and hurts ones eye with Its brightness The cliffs headlands and bluffs towering tow-ering with their rocky summits remind re-mind bnu of the of the bie descriptions 01 castles cas-tles on thd RhlMe The great t flat topped castlelike rocks custele seventylive feet above the plain the precipitous rawred banks the gentler Inclines with soft green foliage the broken slope beyond the Clmarron with Clnmlon canyons can-yons verdant with tree made 1 beautiful beau-tiful setting for the wide white plain Tonkawa I T News |