| Show greatest cataract Catara ot in the world the great west Is a great country high I 1 mountains and ana vast deserts are not the only sub limi ties which speak of stereotyped magnificence but the railroad explorations hive have found the greatest cataract in the world capt Wal walkers kerts account of this stupendous wonder of the west I 1 is thus chronicled in the sn san diego herald H erald of last november A wide valley extends on this side Bide of the colorado from its mouth month about one hundred and fifty miles up captain walker thinks the mohave must empty into the colorado near the head of this valley from walkers puss to the colorado he says a railroad child be built without a foot of grading he struck the colorado a little south of the mouth of the rio virgen and traveled up the river until he came to the virgen this last stream heads in the Wa mountains runs a southerly course and enters into the Color colorado akdo just below the big kenyon kanyon its month is a wide wid sandy bed with very little water in fact it shows much more water one hundred and fifty miles up stream this is owing to the fact that it frequently sinks and runs into the sand sevier river drains the northern slope of the Wa mountains and runs north captain walker in one of his tramps passed over from the head waters of the sevier to those of the virgen ho says the boundary between them is more cut un than any he be ever met with on this continent to use h his 10 own expression lim selon it is torn all to pieces with kau kan on the upper virgen are two very remarkable falls one oae of them about two hundred miles from its mouth is the most stupendous cataract in the world it fills falls in an almost unbroken sheet a distance of full one thousand feet the river some distance above traverses a pretty timbered valley and then runs through a close kanyon here the current becomes rapid the mountain seems to run ran directly across the river at the fall the stream is narrowed to thirty or forty yards while the kanyon rises on either side in almost perpendicular cliffs to a height of two hundred feet the pent up stream rushes ou on to the brink of the precipice leaps over and falls with scarce a break into the vast abyss below capt walker describes the sight as grand beyond description about thirty miles above there is another magnificent ent fall here the river plunges over the cliff falls a distance of two or three hundred feet and breaks into a myriad of fragments upon a projecting ledge beneath altho the fall is not so 80 great as the other it is more picturesque from the multitude of smaller cataracts into which it is divided by the rocks |
