Show scenic and historic spots in uintah basin await recreational developments 9 GREEN 11 what la is of much interest and easily ac accessible tessible are am the indian on the face of the smooth cliffs on an the west est tide side ot of green river just below tho tile mouth of the gorge it Is unfortunate that some desecration ec ct ration has ha taken place plate through marring shooting and other vandalism much can be learned oft of tho he methods used by tho the once industrious Inhabit inhabitants arts of this ular war section to make a record ol 01 some happenings it Is possible ible that thia this particular vork which Is not so artistic LS as many other ither pictographs pleto graphs in the green river and find athley ashley districts Is the work of some beginner under the tut tutelage ilage of tho the ancient bibes better artiste and historians they follow tho uio game geneval idea ot of depleting depicting ahat they wished to tell as tho the more elaborate pictograph found elsewhere it la is easy to imagine imag ino tho the beautiful level park before you to have ben been at one t tame I 1 me a field 1 here they grew bean beans and corn for winter storage etor perhaps too they brought water from the river T in a canal for irrigation purposes this sheAt sheltered ered spot la is capable of producing the very best of nature a 8 growth the green river nier gorge lying principally within the boundaries of the dinosaur national monument Is pot rot so difficult of access as most pers persons ains imagine of course there were Is the way of the nater route but this et at once becomes too difficult to the layman however from both direct directors ons sev tev eral cral times the past season this feat has been accomplished bo so often in fact that an but inter ested visitor viator eug suggested that a sign be placed in the grien river at jensen beware ot of the boats it Is impo impossible sible for the footman to enter between the cliffs of the mouth of the gorge but from either side it Is possible by strenuous effort to find the many and varied beauties this wonderful on gorge has to otter offer and it Is wonderful fa far more v wonderful ond erful than few of aln all the nature lovers of america realize L hen by those of f our own mn kinf home people tople as really ina inaccessible sib e bub but not so with but little effort and care 1 it la is possible to even men take a ack y animal into the awre even as tar far 1 l as the riar rowa at the head r true there are dangers especial i ly so if much epi oraton Is made just as there la is in any mountain ous section on any mountain trip A one day trip can be made on foot from th west akle as far aa as the narrows in the late summer time when the water Is low 1014 one could even cross irom froni side to side thero are many sandy beaches here a swim may be enoves there are places ware one can scarcely creep bv by sometimes marv feet above abone the river over mer the ledge of a it cliff attain again at the very waters maten brink which gaic git a 0 fat in man a hard pull to pet get by and not get wet net sometimes the voice Is echoed and re echoed the rush and mir of the waters eirys in 1 jl I lybas up and down ever changing as the few teet feet or lards catch eatch the sounds from froni the echoing sides the roar of the rapids may be heard for miles ralles what was once to ahn eghi in an almost smooth mountain lace many hundreds of feet above aboe vou ou no becomes and even small val ml levs lers with heavy timber in them the lome of deer and find possibly there ther are trickling and if one knows 1 where to find it a hot sprint or 9 geyser r I 1 to the river bed it Is reported the trip la is worth ones while oo 00 well veil equipped far climbing andl and only with shw who can be t tru bcd d tn in dangerous places one careless 1 one ht apoll what t 0 ot herrle e le would bo be acost roost enjoyable and rl aro liable trip it also tiso would be well ell it ing a one dav trip to take euf suf fi cent clent condern conden fd d acta for P gafis in car they fcc be it Is lic d maur mant will take the he trio this coant summer into ye green and that in anle me a highway will be c constructed into ita its MOUNTAINS the uintah mountain mountains surely ge p the imagination or the tile beholder for it at a lis fact thre Is something peculiar about them auxt what it la is may not become at the moment apparent still the thought persists one looks to discover there la Is great beauty everywhere but this 1 la the e in any mountainous fic cUon bo so that la Is not the peculiarity the varied coins s tho the burlou cur loiL shapes all fill are studied to find ami of these we are the tile cause ol 01 that pecullar igind sensation that there la Is something tom ething different one ha luis never yet cx while in any mountainous section in america then oue of the dayah daya alle ilc marveling the various arlous puzzles which may hae presented teem eles one Is suddenly awakened to the fact that the uintah range bt cf mountain mounta lis runs cut and v et est cx tending from the colorado line to the wasatch lange the pumie puzzle has been solved then mien comes cumes the re adjustment to tho the new nsw beauties one beholds the sin has a it peculiar way of still coming up in the cast and in the west went iraa 1 traveled all diy ay the same way the mountains lay you marvel you had not td before the long period of light bc be fore the sunrise and the greatly I 1 extended after twilight glow ot ithe tho wonderful sunsets as in the entrancing entrancing desert sunsets suns ts of the southwest J as you had be been en used always b before fore in 1 the mountains of 0 the quick lib it ot of the morning tind tho thel almost maddening darkness after sunset this riles to particular section of utah corno of the most wonderful sunrises and ba witnessed in all the world there is 1 ft a blending of the mountain fastnesses and heights he gats principally to the north but in places on the couth south as well impossible to wor words and expression fall fail one because of the tile many colors cam caused sed by the long time ume of the greatly subdued light of early morning or lato late evening ening c there are odors colors and tints no ht human mere cle can i say what they are no dyers dyer a art sa has yet been able to find or any painters painter s brush bruth to asp any part lot of them and antl they change every day into some unknown new ne beauty it li is not infrequent for the corning up or the gong go ng down of or a it full moon to entrance one with the colors that arc are displayed that it becomes almost unbelievable the same country ud liel before one oa that but a few minutes or houra hours before had been an unforgettable sunrise or sunset there are times timm too when intense color stretches the entire dis tance around the hortein hor teon 0 east west est north and south at such times the whole canopy oil the tle heavens hemens present en an appearance ot of beauty that it vt ouid seen as almost sacr sacrilege illge to even cien attempt to d des cibe ci be es the present a riddle ol 01 the grave grae and find silent yet speaking to and in a langu language gge understood by those who 0 have beheld the puzzles of her ever evex charig ing dress the Uin talis are m a im director rector wm win 0 peterson of the U S A 0 has a well said sald the no u wonders onders of the compare as 83 a three weeks li stand to a it one night stand ti anything bloes canon m zion zions s FA it lonal park hae has to offer and we who live lie contina ally iu u this environment mav well add only lwy more roi utah we lovo thee r nd because ct of the italie that low fore is 1 enhanced a th thousand told fold no wo where else can such 13 of light and beauty be FORT 01 juno june of thlu this N vr air ir there vaa was I li 1 the nj of pert ahiel attra from tae the aming cf ef 1531 four cf of united states soldiers told lers eita blOed the att at the itte mouth ot of the aahl y a ezri yon on the th oreen green homstead homp komm tead the soldiers were parri d atre a pear while they to build wild a road ever anict 1 mountain there was no call fw for work the tort fot um named in honor major J NI thornburgh who killed in 1070 by the WhIte indians during the meeker melker massacre i this hi storto spot lies has an ind flavor of the early troublous leus not only ich aith thy tho indian indians ot of west but also of the frontier battles for existence at presed t there Is nothing at cite site of 0 tills this spat to inter att ctt a or sightseer bet et proper mackers cr aliat still be better a suitable and find a reconstructed fort art one the moer 1 1 I cal spots in the baa bas n could be presen cd chis a hould should be ome a t foi to the organization ot of ashley valley and the fons sons daughters of the utah pioneer pioneers tradition historical or otherwise becomes a ilch lich heritage for future generations genera tlona fort fott thornburgh Thon burgh ha has woven own int its it brief existence a trad lional history lalu valuable able ka 0 ath ash ley valley equal to that of the th explorer escalante and ashley let us its preserve that history A oaf ir z 4 07 r 4 V e t 34 3 4 nal r 10 I 1 few of green river at green laks chere it cuts a nearly feet deep this scene Is only a chort di tance off the I 1 hantla noad 40 nales north of derral isil 19 rp amry them r ard bo committee took the bloats cf of licop M cop no to the site of port fort thornburgh Thom burgh and placed a maiker to be replaced later by a more substantial one to 0 be b erected by them singhara Bing hara oe one of or the 1 old 4 p onders ot of the v ard uie the exact site as near as possible 0 t the head headquarters of the c cy lort mr Bing liam struck the first blow to drive the marker in aich which each one prasert had lud daae part mr Bing liams remarks at this time should be presen enid cd for posterity along w th the other records available to the history of old fort thornburgh copper per there was taken a fortine of the red metal the ore va R as taken ken to uio the railroad on a ho p backs of pack mules the interest at one time in ito its development wae was anten ing in all direct direction lons was wax the order of th day there up within tho the immediate neighborhood ahat hat was as bullion vule imd and a little later city the latter becoming a prosperous min ing camp containing a mett market the eier present frontier saloon and a cene dewral 1 store tho the sites of all fill these efforts at sit tho the early mining of this section L of interest td ta the lover of the historical of rny section especially much may be been seen of the dyer nuru and Is morth a visit when on the vernal manila forest roal the dyer mino was lias established in icet lea I 1 by L P I 1 D DW er mid ore of irb ulous balth baa has been taken out co consisting isi eting of copper silver and eld gild from nom 1800 1900 to 1902 about nien viere a employed at st kileby by 1804 1004 all m anning ning operation cen beald ad bemuse the ore pockets had been exhausted according to the best authora ties there arc an no truo true glaciers in my iny section of the mountains A clacker in th genral gen ral accepted term Is a river or ales aj ei cf if perpetual ice moving slow V on a mountain tide side of tuch thero are none but bitt to the beholds of the perpetual snow find ie I e on the bloisi u of ahn etiny peaks of the high LIn lincalis talis the illusion of a s p and but for tho the fact one know knows tey are axe not aiming mot ing to the untra untrained ired ese he has seen a glacier to all appearances one it enoc no r the enow snow and loe ice of unknown depth haa has lain there foro untold ages there ere are maeral places ino trio air t tin th county where cine one atti ith a fw fem hours trad may behold the 11 illusion of a glacier foil m t eliol the fort rot thornburgh road 0 cr uintah mountains froni from fort wyo long ago ae emed it its pur pc fcc e that of retting getting tupp lles to hati static d at pt this histora hi spot during ita RA short existence through the thel uintah range frequently meet evidence ol 01 the tremendous amount of work dono done and hardships endured under the durec direction alon first of judge william A carter and st own exeme carter died at 66 hia his arme ot of at fort bridger ar d 1 the th work vans as continued by hia his wa son william A carter now of PC port wio this vas in th raring of 1832 lat I 1 in the summer of as roon ss as conditions permitted aleut it R IL romig and a detachment of soldiers Eold lers renewed large boulders and the road in part ir 1883 four comp ariles of infantry under major I 1 Del delbusse Deltus lusse wi sp zant nt ahree months working on the read hen 1 and slid now known as the fort 1 gh rod tho the road waa was neer ud used for rali tary after the garrison at port thorn burgh was mas transferred to fort du chesne but wae was a geat advar advantage tage the earlier settlers of the ashley valey valley in getting across to the rail i N A IV Q P n ash birek gerge atri r hott ill tatter from tile bernal highway 15 antles of tria hi loru DM mal ie mention ct of the old Is die c mine to tle older settlers a of the ashley vi llcy iley brines brings meni cirl 0 ol 01 the time when i it vaa was lored thit that the vernal etlan would for all be poz manent in the mind I 1 the mieng crid from tills pirU cular spot alch as a lodo lode or pot of almost pure t 4 road li va work ork of new L LO D S G Clial tt hero here hearing compe coin I 1 bethi tHi mi CEDAR CITY C of street projects underway of tva wooden fda I 1 bridges und erray on wig h way bof tween sunnyside Sunny side and columbia |