The Beauties of Ha-Ha-Tonka. 



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stone work havini*- ht'cii done l)y Scotch workmen. Beyond the stabk\ 

 on a liig'her point, is the water tower, 80 feet in heiglit and witli stone 

 walls five feet thick at the bottom. Counting from the bottom of the 

 bluff to the top of the tower, the height is about the same as that of 

 Wasliington monument — 555 feet. Two pumps, run by water power at 

 the old corn mill, half a mile to the west, force the water into the tower 

 tank, from which it is piped to other buildings, and to distant parts of 

 the grounds, including an ice pond built on the liill, as the water in the 

 lake never freezes. It has also been planned to have water furnish 

 power for the electric light plant. 



The Natural Bridge, Eighty Feet in Height, With Roadway Above. 



"But in this enchanted spot it is not what man has done, but 

 Nature's work that awakens our wonder and admiration. On one side 

 of Sunset Hill, to which we have already referred, is the great spring 

 which bursts from the foot of the mountain, making a surging stream 

 of clear, cold water which whips itself into foam as it rushes against 

 the rocks, makes the roar of the rapids, and far below the mansion forms 

 "The Falls." To the north the rock walls rise abruptly and are bleak 

 and bare, save for some scraggy cedars that overhang the perilous 

 heights. 



"From the south the big spring is reached by a path, very steep 

 in i)laces, which leads down through dense growths of trees, wild flowers 

 and ferns. The spring has a flow eighty feet across and averaging five 



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