FOREST AND STREAM. 



[August 4, 188i, 



mire the scenery and the model structures in process of erec- 

 tion. Dinner was served in the large tent of the hotel which 

 has a seating capacity f t 300, the President at the head of 

 the centre tahle with the Secretary opposite. It certainly 

 was a rare sight to si c such a number of ta'ented gentlemen 

 of mature years, many of them gray-haired veterans, but all 

 bearing a healthy and substantial look. The bill of fare was 

 carried out to the letter. 



DINNKE. 

 Saturday, July 30, 1881. 



SOUP. 



Mock Turtle. Consomme. 



Chiokon (parsley sauce.) 

 Teal. 



BOILED. 



Mutton (caper sauce.) 



ROAST. 



Spring Chicken. Ham (champagne sauce.) 



OAME. 



Canvas-back Duck. 



0010, 



Pickled Lamb Tongues. 



EX'fREEX. 



Filet de Bffiuf (brazied). Lumt> Chops (breaded, Italian sauce.) 

 Macaroni (au gratin.) Calves' Head (brain eance). 



VEOETABLES. 



Plain Potatoes. Beets. Mashed Potatoes. Peas. 



Grcon Corn, B towed Tomatoes. 



RELISHES. 



Mixed Pick lei. Worcestershire Sauce. . 



Raw Tomatoes. Cucumbers. 



PASTRY AND DESSERT. 



Pineapple Pie; Snow Podding, 



Plum Pie, Fruit Pudding, 



Cuiitard Pie. Cabinet Pudding, 



Almonds. Layer Raisins. Lemon Pudding. 



Pecan Nuts. Cheese. Milk. Tea, Coffee. 

 iob cream. 

 Choeolato. Strawberry. Tanflla. 



The after-dinner speeches in response to the following 

 toasts were as happy, witty and brilliant as might have been 

 expected From the gentlemen present. The following toasts 

 were responded to as called for by the President: ' 'Wm. Henry 

 Herbert, better known as 'Prank Forester.' " Dr. J. D. Os- 

 born, in response to this, recaded his acquaintance with 

 " Forester," and gave many incidents of his worth as well as 

 of his amusing escapades. Judge D. L. Titzworth was next 

 called with the toast "Greenwood Lake." He gave the his- 

 tory and many interesting reminiscences of that locality. 

 Next, "Gentlemen sportsmen," T. C. Banks, followed with 

 "Warwick Woodlands," by Mr. McDowell ; " Literature and 

 Bport, twin sisters," by Mr. J. A. Beecher; "Long life and 

 success to the c'.ub," by Mr. E. L. Joy; "New York and 

 New Jersey linked together by Greenwood Lake and the 

 membership of 'the Greenwood Lake Association," by the 

 Hon. Wm. A. Righter. 



This closed the pleasing ceremonies, which consumed 

 about three hours, after which the party repaired to the boat 

 and Bailed for the Brandon House, where they were well en- 

 tertained for half an hour in the dining-room. The first 

 toast was to the "Brandon House," which was responded to 

 by Mr. Brandon and afterward by the present proprietors. 

 "The Press" received a hearty response from Col. Edwards, 

 of Orange County. The boat whistled for a return, and 

 nearly the whole p..rty took the train for home in the best of 

 spirits. 



THE ENCAMPMENT HOTEL. 



The hotel of canvas at the Warwick "Woodlands, Green- 

 wood Lake, is a new and novel feature of camp life. Upon 

 nearing the lauding, on a recent visit, we noticed a large 

 number of pure white tents and supposed that a camp meet 

 ing was in progress. The office of the hotel is a tent, with 

 all the paraphernalia of an ordinary hotel office. Upon in- 

 quiry as to wIk re the hot' 1 was the answer was that those 

 tents were the rooms of the house and could accommodate 

 two hundred guests. The i j ca was new and novel We were 

 assigned to room 10, a cosy ter.t on the mirgin of the lake, 

 which was so very comfort a> le that our stay was prolonged 

 anextiaday. The hotel hasupwrdof fifty tents 14x14, 

 with a fly over each one to keep out the rain and the heat of the 

 sun. They are all furnished with clean beds, and are neatly 

 kept. The d uing pavilion i<t a large striped tent near the 

 office, with a b a'ing capacity for three hundred persons. 

 The kitchen is over 40 fe-t long, and a marvel of neatness ; 

 it. has a very large hotel range, with an abundant corps of 

 co ks, who understand their business, as the meals served 

 bore ample evidence. 



The proprietor and manager of the hotel, Mr. L. T. Jenness, 

 is a vet»rau in that line and has done a large business in Florida 

 during the winter for the past four years. We urged him to 

 take all his tents to Florida and start a hotel there on the 

 same principle, which he may do, as this is an assured suc- 

 cess. Families get the full benefit of camp life, with the 

 table at d attendance of a first-class hotel at less expense than 

 in the usual hotel. 



The Warwick Woodlands are owned by the Greenwood 

 Lake Improvement Company and consist of 1,000 acres of 

 rough timber land. Th< y were first brought into notice by 

 Fra* k Forester's book, the " Warwick Woodlands," pub 

 lished in 184G. in which he Bays : 



"This is the Greenwood Lake, called by the monsters here Long 

 Pond ; in my mind prettier thnn Lake Georgo by far, though, 

 known to few except chance sportsmen like myself. Full of fish, 

 perch of a . pound in weight, and yellow bass in the deep waters 

 and a eood sprinkling of trout toward one end ! Ellis Ketchnm 

 killed a nve-poiiuder there this spring ! and heaps of summer-duck, 

 the loveliest in plumage of tho genus, and the best, too, mo ju- 



dice. excepting only the inimitable canvas-bock. There are a few 

 deer, too, in the bills, though they are getting scarce of lato years. 

 There, from that headland, I killed one three summers sinco ; I 

 •was placed at a stand by tbe lake's edge, and tho dogs drove him 

 right down to me : but I got too eager, and ho hoard or saw me 

 and bo fetched a turn ; but they were close upon him, and the day 

 was hot, and ho was forced to soil. 1 never saw him till he was in 

 the act or leaping from a bluff of ten or twelve feet into tho deep 

 lake, but I pitched up my rifle at him, a snap shot ! as I would my 

 gun at a oock in a summer brake, and by good luck sent my ball 

 through his heart." 



Mr. James R. Boyd, the Manager, gave us much more in- 

 formation about present and future arrangements. Suffice 

 it to say that the tract is in the hands of capitalists who in- 

 tend making it one of the finest resorts in the State, regard- 

 less of cost. The elevation is l,0u0 feet above the level of 

 the sea, and it is only forty-two miles from Jersey City. 

 They have already constructed an auditorium which will 

 comfortably seat five hundred ppople. The building is about 

 sixty- five feet square and forty feet high, built in the Queen 

 Anne style. The timbers are of yellow pine, stained, and 

 the windows in either end are of fine stained glass, and the 

 sides will be covered by elegant lattice work so as to give 

 plenty of air. The finish will be polycrhome style, and the 

 large roof supported by four trusses, leaving the main floor 

 entirely clear. The first concert given there this season 

 brought nearly five hundred persons from New York and New 

 Jersey combined, and some two hundred who remained over 

 night were carefully provided for at the Encampment Hotel. 

 With the lavish expenditures now being made it certainly 

 must become a favorite resort. 



BYE-WAYS OF THE NORTHWEST. 



SECOND PAPER. 



NO one can pass through Echo and .Webber Canons, on 

 the Union Pacific Railroad without being greatly im- 

 pressed by their grand beauty, but I think that to fully ap- 

 preciate their magnificence one must have seen them a num- 

 ber of times. Like most scenes of great natural beauty the 

 first view gives one only a general impression, and subse- 

 quent study is needed for any just appreciation of the 

 grandeur of these canons. To satisfactorily take iu all the 

 details of these natural wonders it would be necessary to 

 travel through them on horseback or by wagon, and examine 

 them at leisure as one passes slowly along under the over- 

 hanging cliffs. As one llics through them by train many of 

 tbe most fascinating bits of scenery escape the eye, and oth- 

 ers are passed so quickly that the mind fails to receive more 

 than a blurred and indistinct impression of something beau- 

 tiful, missed now and to be looked for more carefully on a 

 succeeding journey. 



I shall not attempt to give any description of the beauties 

 of the ride, which have been so often detailed in tho exuber- 

 ant language of guide-books. I may, however, say a few 

 words about the very great attractions of the Salt Lake Val- 

 ley, for in this spot we are shown very clearly what our 

 Wt stem country — no matter how barren it now appears — 

 may become whenever it shall have been supplied with 

 wa'er. I do not mean to say that tbe Salt Lake Basin fur- 

 nishes the only instance of this kind, for there are certainly 

 many others, but nowhere else in the sage " deserts"— so far 

 as I know— has the raising of large crops been so extensively 

 carried on as here. 



The BasiD of the Great Salt Lake was, when first settled, 

 nothing more than a sage plain. In some places it is flat, in 

 others gently rolling, and its level is approximately the same 

 up to the benchesof the mountains by which it is surrounded. 

 In many respects it reminds one of Ihe "parks" of the 

 Rocky Mountains, these being in fact nothing more than ex- 

 tensive plains surrounded by a wall of mountains. 



The Salt Lake Basin, of which the Great Salt Lake now 

 occupies but a comparatively small portion, is simply the bed 

 of that older and grander sheet of water, called by geologists 

 Lake Bonneville ; and the terraces, which show the level at 

 different periods of the waters of that ancient, inland sea, 

 can still be seen, by whoev( r cares to look for them, running 

 along the mountain sides, hundreds of feet above the level of 

 the plain. Lake Bonneville was far larger than any body of 

 water now existing on this continent. Its outlet was in Idaho, 

 toward SnaUe River, and it extended southward for several 

 hundred miles. 



The plain of the Salt Lake Basin, as I have said, was for- 

 merly, and is still, in some places, a mere snge desert. At 

 some points, where the land is but slightly higher than the 

 lake, the low flats are, covered wi h saline and alkaline in- 

 crustations, which whiten the ground, and of course render 

 it wholly infertile. But a large portion of the soil which is 

 not subject to overflow by the lake has been so thoroughly 

 irrigated by water brought down from the surrounding hills, 

 that it produces crops which the most highly cultivated farms 

 of the East might be proud to acknowledge. Far-extending 

 fields of wheat, rye, barley and oats, bright green stretches 

 of graceful corn, and long rows of pota'oes, now just com- 

 mencing to blossom, carry one back, in imagination at least, 

 to the well-tilled prairies of Iowa or Illinois. Every farm 

 has its orchard of thrifty fruit trees, and its hay and pasture 

 fields, where tbe clover anil the timothy prow thick and high. 

 The air is filled with the fragrance of the new-mown hay and 

 the scent of the clover. One hears the familiar song of many 

 of the birds of the timber, and sees their graceful forms and 

 bright colors a3 they move among the trees. The clear, fresh 



water which hurries down from the snow-clad peaks to make 

 a garden of the parched prairies, shines and glistens, and its 

 murmur and rush as it dashes onward make music d' bghlful 

 to the ear. Sights and sounds such as these are inexpressibly 

 grateful to the weary traveler, and he cannot, fail to wonder at 

 and admire the indomitable industry and perseverance which 

 have built up in the desert an oasis. The most careless ob- 

 server can gain— by comparing this region with the country 

 through which he has just passed— some slight conception of 

 the change which has been brought about in the Salt Lake 

 Basin. To fully appreciate it, however, one must be an old 

 mountain man ; must have spent days, weeks and months in 

 riding over prairies such as this one was, have been parched 

 by the hot winds and scorched by the blazing sun of summer, 

 have looked longingly at the eternal snows of the loftier 

 peaks of the mountains, which, visible but unattainable, 

 told him their story of cool airs and icy waters. To one who 

 has been through these experiences Salt Lake City and its 

 environs tell their own story, and for such a one they have 

 an unspeakable charm. 



Every one who stops here goes to the Tabernacle, the 

 Temple and the Museum. The two former are both very 

 wonderful in their way, but of the Museum peihaps the less 

 said the better. It is by no means so interesting now as it 

 was some years ago, though it contains some very interest- 

 ing specimens of ores from various Utah mines. A visit to 

 the Warm Springs ought by all means to be made, and then, 

 after a dip in the lake, one feels ready to resume his journey. 

 A little narrow-gauge railway— the Utah Western— runs 

 bathing trains daily to Black Rock and Lane Point, which 

 wait for a couple of hours, affording ample time for a bath 

 and the lounge one fee's like indulging in alter his immersion 

 in these extremely buoyant waters, which are so dense that 

 it is almost impossible to sink in them. One can float with- 

 out any effort with the whole head out of water, and diving 

 to any considerable depth is almost an impossibility. Most 

 bathers avoid submerging the head, as, if the water reaches 

 the mucous membrane, the effects are extreme!}' unpleasant 

 for the time being. It is necessary after leaving the lake to 

 take a douche of fresh water, otherwise one finds one's self 

 coated with a crust of salt. During our excursion to the 

 lake a number of interesting birds were observed, some of 

 which were new to the Eastern eyes of our party. High in 

 the air and rosy in the light of the setting sun a number of 

 great white pelicans were slowly fanning their way south- 

 ward, directing their course, no doubt, to some distant 

 breeding place. In the marshes which border the lake we 

 saw long-billed curlews, willets and great blue herons, while 

 on the mountain, at whose base the track runs, were various 

 magpies and a number of hawks. 



I made some inquiries while in this place with regard to 

 the California quail, liberated here some years ago, but was 

 unable to obtain any very definite information as to how they 

 are doing. I was told, however, that they were numerous to 

 the south of the city, and they seemed to be well known 

 to the inhabitants, some of whom did not seem to be aware 

 that the birds had been introduced, but regarded them as in- 

 digenous. 



If one desires, during the overland journey from New 

 York to San Francisco, to stop off and visit the famous 

 Coms'.ock mines of Nevada, he should stop at Reno. From 

 there the Virginia and Trnekee Railroad will take him to 

 Carson City, Gold Hill and Virginia, all of which places are 

 worth a visit. We chose the last- mentioned town, and, 

 through the kindness of Mr. W. H. Patton and Mr. Lanumn, 

 of the Consolidated Virginia, were enabled to make a most 

 interesting tour through the mills and mine. The process 

 of reducing the ore is so well known that I will not go into it. 

 but the descent into the mine afforded me a novel experience, 



It is not every day that one has an Opportunity to spend 

 an hour in a temperature not far from 120 deg. Fahrenheit, 

 and knowing that the mines in question are unquestionably 

 the hottest places " on or about" the suffice of the earth, we 

 were all anxious to go through them. The lowest level yet 

 worked in the C. and C. V. mine is 2,550 feet below the sur- 

 face of the earth. The temperature varies greatly in differ- 

 ent parts of the same level, but it may be safely asserted that 

 everywhere it is hot. At these great depths the men can 

 only work for a few minutes at a time, and are then obliged 

 to retire to the cooling rooms. They drink great quantities 

 of ice water, and pour it over their bidies continually. Of 

 course they perspire enormously. The water which triokles 

 from the roofs and walls of the tunnels is hot, so hot that "ne 

 cannot bear the hand in it ; the air is full of steam given off 

 by this almost boiling water, and every object that one 

 touches feels warm or hot. We were told that the hottest 

 place through which we passed had a temperature of 120 

 deg., but there is said to be a place in the 2,200 feet level 

 where it is 155 deg. No one who has not been through 

 something of this kind can quite appreciate what such a tem- 

 perature means, and what it means to be surrounded by air 

 so hot as this. It is one thing to stand for a moment at the 

 door of a blast furnace and feel the glow of the molten metal 

 on your unprotected face and hands, and quite another to be 

 enveloped in and to breathe air at 120 deg. The heat is in- 

 tense and all pervading ; at first it is difficult to breathe, and 

 one feels suffocated; the perspiration pours down like rain. 

 I heard one of my companions, as we passed along, express 

 his sincere commiseration for Shadrach, Mesha% and Abcd- 

 nego. Now that he was going through what they had ex- 

 perienced he could understand what their feelings must hav§ 



