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...these heirs to a glorious past and spirants to an even more glorious future greet each other from Hong Kong and Havana, from Beacon Hill and Devil's Gulch, what a dramatic moment demanding the imagination of a Hugo to appreciate! As East meets West and North meets South, is there no master's pen to do justice to the event? There...
...18th hole at Inwood, Jones won, in addition to the open golf championship, one of the greatest " feasts of honor" ever heaped on a Georgia table and a resolution of appreciation from the Georgia legislature. Only was there an echo from Alaska missing. Possibly the sight of Hurricane Gulch, Alaska, persuaded Mr. Harding that bunkers are trivial affairs after all. "But," protest the politicians, " he should respect the golfing voters. There are only 54,000 voters in Alaska-mostly icemen! " " Yes," replies the poor golfer struggling wearily around a crowded Sunday course, " there are a million golfing voters...
Snow slides are quite like miniature glaciers, being formed by forty or fifty feet of snow drifting info a deep mountain gulch. When the spring rains come, the water percolates through this body, causing the bottom of it to melt away. The immense mass, weighing hundreds of tons, then starts on its swift course down the chasm, tearing everything before it. One picture showed how a slide had cut a straight, narrow path directly through a forest, and in one instance had driven a log completely through a larger tree. The momentum of these slides coming from such a height...
...general route will be as follows: from Bozeman via Virginia City, Alden Gulch, and Ruby Creek to Henry Lake, Idaho, returning thence to Bozeman through the valley of the Madison River. The course will be completed by the early or middle part of August, so that there will be time for members of the party, if they wish, to extend their trip to the Yellowstone Park and the Pacific...
...intend to conduct a course in the form of a field expedition in the Rocky Mountains of southern Montana. The party will meet at Bozeman, Montana, some time in July, and after collecting its outfit there will move south and south-west by way of Virginia City and Alder Gulch through Ruby Canyon, into the Henry Lake country. It will return through the Medicine River valley. The whole trip will occupy about five weeks. Especial attention will be paid to stratographical and structural features of the country covered. Most of the trip will be through uninhabited country, and the party...