Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 29, 1882, Page 3

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They make a specialty of COOKING STOVES, and have this ;ear placed in the market n (of the MOST ECONOMIC AND MOST SATISFACTORY STOVES ever made. They mako botn Plain and extension top, and guarantee all thoir goods. The agents for the company are. PIERCY & BRADFORD, =———DEALERS IN— BEAVERS IN THE ROCKIES Interesting Obeer vations About Their Carious Dams, New York San Medicine Bow Range boavers have been an active factor in the formation of mountain parks. I do not write of parks such as the South, Middle and North parks in the Rocky mountains in Colorado, but of those from one to eighty acres in area, that lie in the mountain solitudes surrounded by un- broken foresta—parks that are covered with & dense growth of grass and wil- lows in ¢ umps. Theso parks, where the feed is plentiful and the cover ex- cellent, are the favorite feeding places of elk and deer. When the sun sinks bohind the snow-clad peaks the air above these peaks grows chilly, and the blood of vampirish insects, the scourge of the mountains in early sum- mer, circulates slowly; and, as the shadows of tho pines advance across the parks, these blood-sucking insects, that fairly stiffened the light air dur- ing the heat of the day are benumbed, and by 6 o'clock in the evening, if the altitude be 11,000 feet, they have re- tired for the night. Then the duer rise from the thick cover in the forest, where they have lain motionless in hiding from flies, and walk slowly toward these parks to drink of the cold water, and to feed throughout the night. Theso deer parks have, almost without exception, been formed by the filling up of beaver dams, This summer my business of open- ing a placer mine has kept mo in the highlands. The pick and shovel have laid bare the old works of the beavers. The méthod of the formation of these small parks has been made clear to me. Many years ago, long after the flow of gravel, known among placer miners as ‘‘wash gravel,” had ceased, and vegetation covered the bottoms of the narrow valleys that had been gouged out of the granite hills by ice and water, the beavers searching for sites for homes, entered the mountains. Avoiding the rocky canyons and deep gorges, where the water was swft and had sufficient force to sweep away any works the intelligent animals might erect, they sought the points where reef of rock of extraordinary hard- ness had withstood the gouging of ice and wear of water., These reefs, act- ing as datas, retarded tho flow c water sufficiently to allow the se ment it was charged with to be pre. cipitated, This depositing of sedi- ment tor many years created a com- paratively level tract of land above the reef. Just above this granite point the beavers began work. A deep trench was dug across the valley on the line of the proposed dam. This ditch was invariably sunk through the muck clay and sand, and, in the ma- jority of cases, through the compact, gold-bearing gravel. On the un- covered couch of the golden gravel the foundarions of the dam were laid. Selecting trees that etood in proper positions, the beavers gnawed them off olose to the ground. Judging from the many beaver dams I have uncov- ered this summer, the animals thor- oughly understood the art of felling timber. It is seldom that a tree bear- ing the marke of their teeth is found outside of the line of their dam. Trees forty feet long and a foot in diameter are not uncommon in these old works. The trees, when cut, fell inte the trench, Muck and clay, bound to- gether with coarse grass, were packed solidly into the around tho lower logs, making a watertight foundation for tho dam. The upper works were built of smaller trees, and, in the lower dams, of pine boughs cunningly interwoven., The surface of the dam that was next the water was covered with a thick, compact layer of clay and muck. The absence of all de- cidious woods in the lower dams is marked. The dam finished, the fami- ly were established in their home. Houses—rude mounds of sticks and clay—were built in the slack water. Being surrounded by water, they wero safe from assaults of carntvorous ani- mals during the summer, and, frocz- ing eolidly, they successfully resisted, all attacks made on them during the winter. The beavers were safe. They reared their young. The family in creased rapidly. More houses were built, The mountain valley, though appar- ently level above the dam, actually had great inclination, and the slack water, though it extended from moun- tain flank to mountain flank scross the valley, did not extend up it more than thirty or forty feet. As the years rolled by, coarse swamp grass and willows sprang into life around the edges of the water. Sand and earth, torn from the mountain eides by tiny streams of water, formed during the rainy periods, and when the snow Furnaces, Fireplaces, Heaters GRATES RANGES STOVES, HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, Etc, _OMAHA_NEB ~——DEALERS IN— HALL'S SAFE AND LOCK CO. Fire and Burglar Pra»> s A JET JED 5B N AULTS, LOOCEKS, C. 1020 Farnham Street, ONILAEILA, - NIEXS. FOSTER &GRAY. —WHOLESALE— LUMBER, COAL & LIME, On River Bank, Bet. Farnham and Douglas 8ts., OMAELA ~ - = NEB. melted were carried by the creek to the slack water of the dam and there deposted. Gradually—it must have taken many years—the first dam was filled up, and no longer aflorded the beavers & safe home. Instead of rais- ing the dam they cut a perpendicular slot in it, 80 as to drain off’ the water, Moving up the stream to where the edge of the water was before they cut the dam, they dug another trench, sinking it to the bed rock. The wood of willow bushes appears in this section and dam, showing that this wood was established in the country at the time of the building of the second dam, The second works are always longer than the first and generally higher. Some of them are very extensive. One that I have often seen is €00 feet long and eight feet high, and though probably built many years ago, as great pine trees are now standing on it, is as solid as on the day it was finished, The dam completed and the houses built, the beavers were again estab- lished. Again the deposited sand and earth shoaled them out of their houses, Again they moved up stream. This successive building of dams up the stream was carried on until the mouth of the ecanyon or gorge next above the upper dam forbade further operations, When the last dam was filled up, the formation of the park was complete, The beavers, having performed their part in Nature's plans, abandoned the park, Moving up stream to where another reef jutted across the valley, they resumed operations, It may be that several families of beavers entered the valley at about the same time, and selecting different reefs for building sites, the formation of the parks in the same valley was simultaneous; but I think not, as in many cases the upfwr dam of the up- r park is still inhabitated by eavers, It is noteworthy that the upper dam of a park abandoned by THE DATLY BEE-~OMAHA TUE beavers is generally intact, showing that the animals realizod the useless ness of draining off the water, as they had no suitable ground on which to build ancther dam. The works erected by the heavers resulted, in my opinion, in the forma tion of the mountain parks. As af- fecting the interests of the animals, it They have been of other has been disastrous. foroed to migrate in search homes. — Revitalizing the blood is absolutely necessary for the cure of general de- bility, weakness, lassatitude, oto. The best enricher of the blood is Brown's Iron Bitters How They Looked. Detroit Freo Prex. On the Jefforson avenue line the other day a man with an umbrella and woman with a basket were the only ocoupants of a oar for sevoral blocks. The man not only stared at her, but rested his umbrella on his chin and took a long look. 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