Show A TEXAN EDEN description le nor of tile he dianco blanco canyon in the tile staked plains of traveling on the old mckinzie trail on the third aay we stopped for lunch and to water our horses at the flow out of the blanco or white 11 river which flows through blanco canyon forty miles and which it should bo be remembered is only the freshwater fresh water wate r fork of the ll benzo razo we had halted at the gate of the texas E edca where the painter would have bave stood entranced beuc pencil il aud brush being all too tame to put in lines or color the grand landscape where ca earth rth and brush rush and hill and water and cloud and sky mingled into an all indescribable picture I 1 turc chesun wis shining brightly FY the valley and upon tile mountain bluffis looming ethun up linn deeds above the limpid stream tant flowing through the center of the canyon the grass which was tinged with thu autumn brown in the open valley appeared in ill fleat great plots and patches in the hoi bol rows ors and ander the shadows of the canyon bluffis myriads of flowers flo were blooming and with withered cred cropped out from the rock base and open prairie among was the texas star a five leaved flower which heads to the north horth a veritable flower magnet magat hare it is aud and growing till rare as the rudo rude hoof of horse and cattle con cone dinue to trample it out the hardy flowering cactus is is everywhere nature made a big effort in the spreading mouth of blanco canyon this canyon is about forty five miles long and widens from its source like a wedge until at its mouth there arc are fifteen or sixteen miles of plain and brush and rich grasses As we cross the crystal steam flowing over limestone and russum beds we ave follow the trail up over the bluff where the fossil sea bacus crop out oo 00 ayery bare sur face and there stretching away from froin the far distance we see and for the first time realize the extent of the tile ranges ranes known As the staked plains in la the wonderfully clear sunlight we see herds of cattle feeding and away toward a hill range some startled antelopes are scampering p e ri 1 g off ON in alarm this trail up the steep bluff blut ovea oven which we have just come lias has been beaten into a smooth path by the countless feet of buff buffalo ialo and antelopes and indiana diana for centuries here where the savage a in his primitive brutality 1 once hunted the tile noble game we ire now ico i co cc cattle feeding undisturbed in the great range of the kentuck kentucky I 1 cattle raising company the tile bufflo have departed but buc ip in their place havo come chort horned cattle eattle showing the peaceful marriage between the wild cattle of the west and the thoroughbreds of the thi bluegrass blue grass grm of kentucky |