Show avys sv VT V T 11 THROUGH THE NORTH description and history of lie soda springs leaving oxford att an early hour the drive with the stage line which leares oxford macli monday wednesday and friday and returning upon alternate days was over a good road that passes over hill and PLEASANT VALLEYS possessing many features of interest to the elwanger el ranger in coming to this place a distance of miles mr J C morrison has tho mail contract between these two places and extending on to caribou Cari boo fifty nine miles farther north and he gave me many incidents of interest connected with his lines during the summer these routes arc pleasant to lass over but in the winter season they become covered with snow which drifts and makes the ro ids so far impassable that new routes have to be made here and there alona ridges and stakes are required to show where to DRIVE OVER TIIE DEEP SNOW then again the route becomes impassable with jeanm and the harda ineil carrier gets on snow choca and and ahe heavy rail upon his thiis is the edit for of thirty fiat mile imp giribono Giri boo where fill the mail taken in lat winn r w can aed upon asniw eliom and war the herh ni un bains far from ali hotd but returning to our route wo soon reach sight of KIVER awn fr in thi nar low rp i than w come to and caroti crek cre k lirar whir empties into the bear river and a halt is maddt to aro sro the earing ep ring these waters con lain in alution ol ution iron and achre ochre the deposit of which has lion built up a plateau many acres in extent ond these hot lakes or springs remain at the surface reptile rEX TILE valler n a que plain many miles in length through deir river lows in curve tho land of the valley baing nearly all under cultivation and rich in products no pleasanter plea santer homes can be found any where than some of these in that valley appear to be the upper end of gentile valley joins the afu plains that reach fifty or sixty miles north and spread out from six to twelve miles in width these plains have an OF LAVA has been broken up in many places to resemble great black walls rising from the ground while all over crevices and sinks funish exit for all the water falling in rain or snow the thin stratum of earth gives nourishment to grasses which make the plains good pasturage the only use to which they can be put several extinct craters aro bon ris ing up as sentinels over tho vast ex is mound shape with a crater fifty feel across and seventy five feet deep and the mouth is studded with pumice stone AFTER SPRING has been pointed the distance and now as we near this place ve are greeted abo gurgling sound of Steamboat spring so named from the similar 10 an engine caused by the of agns gns that lashes and agitates the the round hole in the rock from it flows is a creation of the spring itself by the deposit of that creates stone along the river bed frequent crevices cro viceS in the rocks permit OF GAS that spurts tho water upwards in similar manner how all this gas I gene abed to whistle in places like escaping steam and in others to force water into the air is a question to be settled by more conversant kiili natures chr laboratory nany mounds are built up to largo dimensions by deposit of soda iron and other substances held in tion the process is a simple one out lias required many ngos ti thu aone of the larger amounda A faring begins to flow upward and t on iho i sediment crealos a binell bound with a central opening through which the water flows r nd sr ad over tho structure which lo 10 grow on and on until THOUSANDS OF OF are thus into mound many feet in height and in time the aperture becomes closed and the siring abu becomes extinct to break out here and there through the yet soft rock of the mound and chua change after change cornea twenty five houses constitute the of chii place and tho inhabitants nio and hospitable almost every house entertains guests alio come OP and pleasure among alio here enumerated uen manager ot the union hallway S II 11 II 11 clarke who hopes to reap beno fit from these healing waters dr dinsmore Dins moro and J E market au ftc onitha oni tha Neb Cje orup son of jay bould and hia faie nu chapman of new york city Capt and horace and wm jennings salt like and franklin D and laibly of ogden ALL AKE DELIGHTED with the springs ap rings and climate capt codman makes this hia abado during the bummer and says while cifre he enjoys daod health but when away ia tick all tho time in my net I vill civo kama desma lin of of special interest in SODA idaho Aug |