Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1869 — The Powell Expedition. [ARTICLE]

The Powell Expedition.

Colorado debouches Into lM«»rien plain irf lhc . Trfritory of Aril »n* Several of Colonel PbwellXlettef a describing thead-' ventures hnd discAld-fea op hit&elf and . Kass ss Msmisdirtex teTH- was dispatched, the expedition descended the river abefft foun huhfifed miles, between walls almost vertical, ranrinw. from buhired t (/fifteen iftfrjrttd feetjn heights—the exterior rinmof the canod be-> ing from twenty-five ,T|untlr<xl', to four thousand feet above the bed of ths rivet. More than two hundred wtWghlls and cascades emptying themselves ovrt_the TlUl of tto oonoMato the main riiiw,

.<i-.ii were seen in this dfataneorYresentingal-mosU:<o#tM**HrtofJ»-k>f*liailu«rt> scenery.' Tho-fcAitogiCal tbduiUioh bf-th» crtmtn con-1 sista I principally-.4>fJMkumtw> stone. Granite was found only at three* places, aiwfbWßnitftddmnaiiit. No discov’erieo of precious-metal* wenema*le,.and no dr HIV or Were found In the bed of the river. One section of the* ciusrm was >)u»dr toi consist of verwdlne Mid |tjap|tifblly-Mk||,d- warliM; wtach is at presc^,, -‘l’he cvuntiy Ira versed, is banwi, beyond de£ scription, and is pronounced by ColoneK Rdvrell. »foo€ imSteJUibte -«£ xtfaivatjon, erewby ii ? i S atio«. 43: ljl'X* t ~ s ri i <W>jM*l IfowHl pMnottiuwhhe'S'eported, adventures of the irfitrt'Whhe, Who'‘fur. nishednUiO-data arktebvin Zipping Qrand GaHon.ef thm •CrflAMdty l tr -ißbirtßlete ifltrtfonj i.JJp <MveS» lokt Ih thdwrocdltion.’bnt allthe In--1 except one' set Ivwe 1 .desy-tjiyedi dr capsized; ana the only 'provisions cnifffStTTroi'TWTWTy pnwiasr’ni ’fiOnr, cotnplctely saturated-with water.— Chicago :>.i