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From a butte above the town, the sight of range on 

 range to the north is a joy to the nature lover. This is a 

 fruit country. Strawberries and big red apples luxuriate in 

 that soil ; also cherries and all kinds of berries, nuts, even the 

 English walnut. Wherever there is a margin of soil along 

 the lake, little fruit farms flourish. Out east great crops 

 of wheat are grown. Both east and west of the lake, sheep 

 ranches are numerous and profitable. It is claimed that 

 copper and gold are so abundant as to be, in themselves, a 

 reason why the railroads are bound to come. A few mines 

 are being worked, very profitably; a road, branching off 

 from the lake about half way from Chelan to Stehekin, leads 

 to one important mine. 



The winding course of the lake and the variety of forma- 

 tions on either side, give it a constantly changing aspect, 

 so different from most lakes. The water is a deep blue and 

 when one rows about in a skiff, as I did, and remembers 

 that, while he is 1,095 feet above the level of the sea, if 

 he should fall in and sink, he would go down 1,600 feet 

 (at least in some .places he would), it is apt to make him 

 somewhat careful with his oars. The lake is not over three 

 miles wide at any point and not often over a mile and a half. 

 Forests rise from the water's edge till they give way to the 

 barren cliffs, whose tops are covered with snows. The 

 rounded walls above the waters show glacial action, though 

 precipitous cliffs, here and there, rise up out of the water 

 to be smoothed off toward the top. 



It is not hard to find a good trail up to the top or to 

 some point of observation and see glaciers and snow capped 

 summits in abundance. Up the Stehekin River, which comes 

 from the north into the lake, in two miles we find Rainbow 

 falls, leaping 270 feet over the rocks. 



Up to Bridge Creek is fifteen miles, where the Cascades 

 ?.re at your service for sightseeing. All around the lake 

 and the canyon running on to the north of the lake, ribbon 

 like streams, from melting snows, come flowing, down from 

 the serrated peaks and over frowning precipices, to lend a 

 decorative touch to nature's marvelous handiwork. 



But scenery is not the only thing to be found. Rev. Dr. 

 Crandall. of Minneapolis, distinguished as a "fisher of men" 



and scarcely less distinguished as an expert trout fisherman, 

 was in there on his annual pursuit of piscatorial pleasures, 

 and he found it was only necessary to "drop a line" to 

 his finny friends and they would promptly accept his invita- 

 tion to come up to six o'clock dinner with him. And the 

 air of the lake is sweet, like nectar. The white plague would 

 have a hard time getting a foothold there. Only here and 

 there de we note the effects of man's presence, and, even 

 then, not in a way to spoil the unblemished beauty of nature. 



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