Show creat CAU oar correspondent niiles a conr cwg the boilers toilers Toi lers I 1 had a aking desire it was to suddenly deop down among the canal ites and catch a glimpse ot ans at bride of bothwell dead at work with a kichen skirt on and her eledes rolled up to her arm pila it w aa no mean langins that pricked up my thinker and pulled at my leg cords so I 1 most I 1 hired a body guard of three fierce looking tramps who were going that way aud off we started the first night we shopped in a hay stick near the post office ft inch bv the way is away off from 1 cautioned my guards to lay close while I 1 slept morning when I 1 awoke I 1 found that I 1 haj been robbed of everything and that my faithful followers were out hunting the ely thief an hour was spent in anxiously waiting for their return with the thief and my valuables not arming I 1 shouldered my gnawing vacuum and trudged along till I 1 readied colens too a jand flowing with snake juice and py here I 1 was overjoyed on finding that my guards had caught the robbers tor they all lay abound the yard dead drunk with my watch chain ring and money divided up among them that evening twenty five of the bad dpn around the static the email majority or minority of who had a knowledge of hand and toot crawled into a box car to rest peace ably fir fi r the night satan ruled the ring until about faur nex morning i when piled up lengthwise length wise they fell asleep looking like a heap of water soaked logs there was no room kit to me BO I 1 went to the house and with my shoes for a pillow my feet cocked up on a chair and an ink battle in each pocket to keep me from cloatine flo atine or being dragged off by ravenous buga I 1 resigned myself to a feverish sleep all the livelong night I 1 a vast sea of whisky with demon like men like cats and dogs chained to the bottom As old sol peeped over the eastern hills next morning he found ine sobered and fast fleeing out of thin cesspool of glorious joy toward camp four macs away tills camp is situated at the ahers edge about two miles west of beaver dam it is a village of tents with many wagons f arts and sc lying round ly two hundred tet te t atoe the river bed I 1 found walter managing bis numerous men and great strong mules were all hard at work excavating all along this riat of bear river you find the stream flowing an od worn down se keerl erl hundred feet below the country the work waa being pushed with vigor in oue small stretch the canal was completely finished it was several roda in width ten or fifteen feet in adeph with the lct bank tow erine nearly sixty fed air mathiason is a large good natured man with a br heart lie has worked for chief contractor cont william harlaud for many leara I 1 was told on the aide that mr oarland has in ali 8 world besides canal aun in an expansive range with near finn cattle worth about nine thousand mr ilat hiason faid his camp as about six in les from where alie water is taken out of alio river and that they will keep steadily at work the whole winter lie treated poo eible in route for mr garlands bead three miles above 1 was obliged to daive down a sidling lingway which biad only he minutes be foie boscn lie moans 0 a heavy v agon loaded dw n r h w barrows aud men pondering on the brinac I 1 lingered bat seeing no dead mens remaina or smashed up barrows 1 ventured and gained alie river bottom below twice 1 risked being ew allowed op by the ud bear but at last in the garland camp after leavin ar Mathia baur quarters ou alie opposite of alie mer this cozy city of tenta and ting was alive with nan of peculiar biros or the way it struck me alaby were toiling with sledge and drill some with pick and dun el were with mulo plow and above white here and there i man could be neen round kiv ing orders tvr ilia fiill came a hundri d more new labarera labar ers B ith blankets and ciolli a strapped on their backs in the baade of every tent out at full length in the liot bilut lay a lay tramp who had nuit work the clank of the at hia forge the think of the cook among a aock of tins the stern voice of the ba order tl o grating 0 the acra pers and the low of the iv quac ous loungers caught icy eager ef ater beig hospitably ly mck and campbell sir aaland ualand was away I 1 pulled my coat and started the gorge to the other camp three miles above sam I 1 had ga ned an eminence kiich eave me full command of the camp I 1 had just quitted the huge army of busy bodies laboring reminded me ot an animated ant lull the water is U ken out on the cast bide of the river or let bank and about midway down this great gorge liala of the vv ater ia acroca the old river bed carribe car rioe it to the op side when it wilt bi conducted over the hundreds of thousands of acres of ao brush plains lying to the west and southwest fouth west continuing on my way along hie carroy trail I 1 was com bellel doyens of timofij to hilt and admire the beauty 0 the econe my a foot aide the roaring and thundering falls with the spray rising into the air were far be low while the elfr anea sto d like go many etah sart a thousand feet still frelier above the grandeur of this picturesque gorge can only ba appreciated by an actual tramp through it but the very idea of ending a canal through these mountains of rock strikes one when on the grounds AS the most incompatible scheme ever made public wh la moun lans must be thrown down or penetrated millions of tona of loose dirt travel and rok must ba removed deep ark ravines murt either be filled up or flamed kude and romantic bridges were met en route at tle main water falls which are about alve feet in liecht lieg ht I 1 found a curious old fashioned ladder chich e ey weary wanderer over the trail is obliged to climb or descend it was extremely novel as were some of alie oddly c cedar bridges thrown over the gaping depths far tar beneath my feet four burtred yards from the eat mouth of ling rugged canyon I 1 came to the place vi herd the waters will be diverted from eld channel at this point the canal will be cut down nearly a li undred feet the river acroca which an enormous dam will be constructed ia about two hundred varda in width the water is only a foot or two deep and amov es over a bottom of liard atone subcontractor sub contractor larsen had just arrived on this side and was about to begin his work on the three long tunnels in alie gorge through the water will be conducted all winter long the emot herad bang of the blast will make the vallies and gaea resound it is faintly rumored eliat ome of alie canal mai mates a b g Brike of a tiling in this canyon in alie shape of a mountain of fold or silver JAKE MILES |