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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1887)
NORTHWESTERN NEWS AND INFORMATION. grandeur of glittering snow, lend to thin en- nun and nestling snugly In their respective k chanting Bcene an apiearanco of awe-impiring cation at tho far end vl the valley, with Ihs severity, that contrast strangely with the limited area In cultivation hidden from view peaceful landscape reposing at our feet. Tlic from our elevated st.indoint I hew are the only rugged vertebra of the Hitter Hoot rise sharply evidence of clvilitalion vlible, on Cama pral heavenward, and form the far-off ca tern Umnd- rie the land of Indian romance and historical ary of the prairie, while spur of thia mighty tragedy,thoniottautitul country In the world, range stretch far away to the northward, and Nothing In nature la more, enchanting than a form the rocky-ribbed Our d' Alcne moun view of this romantic "pot, obtained at a time tains, behind whose towering civsta rise the when the green of the prairie ia suffused with pinnacles of the mother range, priest-robed with the golden glow of tho setting sun ; and but for the snows of eternal age. the fact that, like Ihedalu ol old, our wing are But the eye won tires of the stern grandeur of w ax and liable to melt If wo soar loo near the and unutterable solitudes of the) primeval sun, we wonld lovo to linger upon tho leautlc hills, and seeks harmony in contemplation of of the hindm-ape, to which, however, no pencil the green pastures In-low. The stage road, run- and no bruh can do adequate Justice. A wo ning the full length of the valley, and by its dem ended the hill to Cotton wood, and traversed dense blackness attesting the unexcelled fecund- tho thousand of acres of fertile mil, untllled ity of the soil, an occasional cabin, the rem- and crying to heaven for the plow, our drier nants of a stockade fort erected In the dark and mlnation to advertiw to the w orld the wondn.u bloody days of 1877, the villages of Grangeville. wealth of Northern Idaho la-came like ct Iron Mt. Idaho and Camp Howard glittering in the In it rigidity.-AVx Vr .Yciri. 1 filt