Show A PHENOMENON The Arctic Regions Imitated on Utah Lake A party ot sportsmen from this city including Messrs J W Lowell M H Walker and John Cunnington went down to Utah Lako last week duck shooting fwd pitched their camp on a little knoB near the shores and in the vicinity of Springville Along the eastern shore of the lake they saw what they suppoeed to be a bank of beautiful beau-tiful clouds which proved to be on closer inspection vast mounds of ice from 30 to 100 feet in height piled up on the banks Some members of th3 party had been there a few days and accounted ac-counted for this wonder phenomenon was nothing less in the following manner For some days the weather had been warm and the gentle undulating motion of the t water had broken tbe thick sheeting of ice into fragments of every size and sh pe Along the borders of the lake the ice had melted leaving a space of som twenty feet between the shore and the main body of ice Of a sudden a strong gale blew up from the i westward and gradually set the sea I I of ice in motion upon the eastern bank With steady and terible pressure it struck the land and still progressing crawled like a crystal serpent for 300 or 400 yards into the fields Wherever the banks were high and uneven it began to break and instead of continuing its progress piled itself up ia heaps and made a barrier for the on coming com-ing floe to stumble over Thus the mliion tons inertia of the crystal zsd wave kept on its irresistible march dumping each moment a thousand to swell the volume of the glittering mountain it had built And so this process continued until un-til the wind changed when the eastward motion or the ice was gradually couneracted and a space of clear water between fifty and a hundred feet in width lay all along the eastern shore Then what a glorious picture the L ca mountains presentea as me sportsmen got into their boats and viewed them from the water aide It was a theme for the artist or even for the poet and struck every observer with awe and wonder In paces where the banks were low and the laud fiat the blocks formed a pavement over the surface and Mr Lowell s boys would get on the moving blocks of from five to fifteen feet in size to enjoy a little excur ion by icepower Though smoothed down and somewhat some-what melted by the late rains and warm weather the Arctic imitation ot Utah lane still presents a picture worthy of a visit from some enter prising artist or photographer |