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Show 7 Si i. ;J Official Organ of the Utah Federation of Womens Clubs, $1.00 VOL. A PRICE FIVE PEE YEAE. SALT LAKE CITY, JUNE, 4 1898. IIL Petrified Forest in Nevada. Deep in the wilds of Humboldt county, Nevada, is the most wonderful petrified forest in the world. Although the place has been known to cattle men and hunters for many years, news of its existence has just reached civilization. In a way it was discovered1 last fall by a party of exploring campers, one of whom was Mrs. Ida Meacham Strowbridge, the n writer. This lady while on the trip, secured a number of good 1 well-know- -- photographs of the strange petrefac-tion- s, a set of which she has just presented, to the Academy , of. Sciences, where they have caused the greatest interest among the members. The photographs leave no doubt of the remarkable character of the locality. For an area of perhaps six miles petrified trees are found here and there, but only very scatteringly. One may ride a mile or more over low hills of white earth that yields under foot like wood ash, and see no sign of petrifactions, to come again on quite a grove of standing stumps varying from two to eight feet in diameter. The average, however, is not over six. The winter rains eat into thie soft banks of the low foothills that border the valley, and year by year new stumps and logs of once noble pines are being exposed. Few are agatized, as are the famous trees of other petrified forests, and many are white as calcined bones. The gullies and washes leading down to the meadow are frequently 1 GREAT SIX gravelled with the fine flakes of wood, that brittle as glass, crackle and crumble under ones horses footfalls. Most of the stumps are within a district of a mile square, and there is one particular portion containing about one hundred and fifty acres that is rich in specimens of knots and gnarls, and the twigs and limbs that lie scattered about whichever way you may turn. A soft earth bank of perhaps five acres shows the ends of logs and stumps and roots of trees protruding everywhere. A stump eight feet high and of the same diameter stands alone in the midst of endless chips from the workshop of the Great Carpenter of the world. Another, fifteen feet tall, with its roots easily traced for thirty feet each way from where it stands, overlooks the valley from an insecure foundation, and one expects it momentarily to fall. Across a little gully made by the heavy winter rains a log lies like a with over thirty feet of its larger end protruding from the hillside which hides the other end. How far it may reach underground, how tall it may have been when it fell, we cannot see. The thirty feet and more that is exposed show in the entire length but a taper. Verily there were giants in those days as compared with the little aspens of when these stone pines lived monarchs of the mountains about Virgin Valley. San Francisco Call. foot-bridg- e, six-inc- h to-da- y Subscribe for The Review. DATS AUSLIA t , CEJiTTS. NO. 21. The Federation Meeting in Denver Excursion to Salt Iiake City. That the women in attendance at the Federation meeting in Denver may have an opportunity to view the wonders of the Rocky Mountains and f spend a few days in Salt Lake City, the Rio Grande Western Railway (in connection with the Denver & Rio Grande and the Colorado Midland lines) announces a special excursion rate of $18.00 from Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo to Salt Lake City and return. Tickets will be sold 'at those points on June 29th and 30th, good for twenty days from date of issue. Stops will be given at interThe trip esting points en route. across the Rockies by way of the Rio Grande Western is a marvel in scenic No grandeur and novel interest. European trip of equal length can compare with it. The excursionists will have the privilege of using the Denver & Rio Grande in one direction and the Colorado Midland in the other. Salt Lake City has an ideal summer climate; it is also possessed of many attractions in the way of bathing in the briny waters of the Great Salt Lake, Hot Springs, Warm Sulphur Springs, drives, parks, canyons, as well as the Great Temple and Taber-- : nacle and other historic edifices of the Mormon Church. For copies of literature write to F. A. Wadleigh, General Passenger Agent Rio Grande Western Railway, Salt Lake City. UADERWEAR SALE KT OUR NEW STORE. . i va Llpman & Nadels Old Store. f Near 2nd So. & Main Sts. N G W lOPR CclSH OlOrG. : |