People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1897 — A WONDROUS WATERFALL. [ARTICLE]

A WONDROUS WATERFALL.

A Cataract With a Thousand Foot Plunge Discovered In the Olympic. The Olympic mountains of Washington have produced attraction, the beauty of which is not exoelled on the western slope. What is said to be a grand waterfall, coming from the snow capped peaks above the olonds over a bluff, falling a perpencfiouJar distance of over 1,000 feet and disappearing in the bosom of a beautiful plain, has just been discovered near Lake Sutherland, a few miles from Lake Crescent, by two ranchmen. Their description of the scene would exceed anything of similar character in the Yellowstone park. From the snow on the crests of the Olympics, where white men have never visited, comes a little stream, which rapidly grows in volume until it reaches the edge of a perpendicular cliff overlooking a beautiful plateau of 800 acres 1,000 feet below. For centuries the water has poured over the precipice until it has cut a smooth passage, something like a large pipe split in half, in the side of the mountain. Here and there it strikes an obstruction, and out of the mountain’s side spurt other falls. Standing alongside of the cliff a short distance away, the scene is beautiful and looks as though there were half a dozen rivers bursting out of the mountain. The huge volume of water disappears in a wild looking cavern and becomes an underground river. It flows beneath the plateau for a distance of two miles and then again bursts out of its imprisonment in the shape of an oval bridal veil and dashes over the rocks and cataracts down to Lake Sutherland and oat to sea. The country is very rough, wild and hard to penetrate. There is an abundance of wild game isolated around the falls. The discoverers of the falls killed 9 elk in half an hour and said there were 100 more in sight.—Seattle PostIntelligencer.