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Show IMPRESSIVE STATISTICS. t Written on a Great Olacier on a Lofty ,. Peak in Wyoming-. -. A party -of hunte'rs..i'ust in from the Big Horn mountains bring a story of wondrous Wyoming pictorial presentation presenta-tion and prophecy: Cloud'a peak, the loftiest elevation of the Big Horn range, lately developed a grand glacier sheerly perpendicular for a height of 250 feet and at least twlo miles in length, tho face of the entire ice mass being as f tnooth as glass and, as clear as crystal, while, on this mam-'moth mam-'moth and magnificent natural panorama panor-ama was imprinted a series of dazzling pictures typifying Wyoming's past and prophesying her future. The pictures were in sequence from eaet to west,- beginning with the crossing cros-sing by the canvas covered emigrant wagons of the Sweetwater river at Independence In-dependence rock, and followed in regular,' regu-lar,' rotation by the-discovery of gold at South Pass, Atlantic City, and Miners' Min-ers' Delight; massacres by the Indians, the advent of railroads, the stocking of the wide ranges with, cattle, horses and sheep, the uncovering of coal, the discovery dis-covery of oil, the tracings of soda lakes, the finding of copper, iron, silver and lead: the presentation of great forests of pine, spruce, fir and balsam, the outlining out-lining of vast areas -of building stone, brick and pottery clays and asbestos, and the following, from headgate to distribution, of the waters of the irrigation irri-gation canal. I Following these pictures of Wyo-1 ming's past and present came the resplendent res-plendent pictorial series prophetic of J Wyoming's future; railroads traversed every Wyoming valley and penetrated j every Wyoming range: .- the treasure vaults of the mountains poured forth their wealth; the fertile soil ' yielded tribute to the garnered waters of irrigation irri-gation and a varied harvest ever mul-. tiplled in its increase; cities sprang full-builded and equipped from the natural - resources of the land that bore them; and Wyoming equl-distant between the ea3t and west stood portrayed por-trayed alike as a,, continental and, commercial center the great - traffic j gateway and emporium blazoned at once by the rays of the vising and the setting sun. For fully an hour this magnificent ana prophetic panorama shone in white 1 splendor above . Wyoming mountains, foothills, awd valleys,, and then, as the . spectators still gafced awe-struck, slow, j I ly faded from east and west, .the earl-. ier and rudei4 pictures first disappear- ! ing thus -reading in Wyoming's future j still another bright page of the great i 1 fact and prophecy that westward ever the star of empire takes its way. ; It is interesting to note that this is not the first time the lofty . peak of the clouds has appeared in the great role of a continental seer and prophet. 1 Many, very many moons ago and when i the power of the red tribes of western j mountain and plain were at the zenith, the traditions alike of the, Shoshones, Sioux, Crows and Blackfeet all de- i ciare that across the face of the white peak appeared a broad scroll prophetic of the passing of Indian dominion. On this scroll was depicted the red horseman horse-man and 'warrior; the tepee and the council fire ; the war dance and the scalp girdle; the buffalo and the chase and then, fading from west to east, all of these things passed away and there remained in all of its breadth and clear, nees th great ice scroll upon which another and mightier race was to carve its record and emblazon its progress and power. I i 1 . 1 m ma' - |