Show 1 la an immense glacial field has been fsr 41 covered in the unexplored explored region of central t r a 1 idaho ho by F D B Schermer hom geologist and 0 g i st and mineralogist under the date of aug 8 ho he writes as follows As I 1 came over the divide into big creek I 1 saw away to the west among r the high mountains what appeared t to 0 be a glacier inquiry at big creek developed the tact fact that though two of the tha men in camp had lived there several years they had never been able to get up to that snow they also told me many had tried it and failed all had tried to tato take horses with them I 1 determined to go on foot As I 1 advanced the signs of the white man decreased until they disappeared altogether the country through which I 1 made my way was the wildest an and a roughest of any through which I 1 ever traveled in point of grandeur and picturesque tur esque beauty tho the view from the peaks rivals anything in mountain escen itry ry in the united states beneath the glacial field I 1 found a series ceries of glacial lakes the glacial fields are quite extensive they probably cover nearly as aa great an area though not so thick as the great glacial fields of 0 f the alps I 1 examined sixteen terminal moraines mo raines of this number eleven were w ere receding four stationary and only one advancing none that I 1 saw ox tended more than 2000 feet below tbt snow line the writer says saya that tho the glaciers are arc located about thirty five miles milea southwest of shoup amid a number of very high peaks that are not down on she maps boise cor sau san francisco chronicle |