Show IHETODRISTOTCLE Seventy Miles of Grandeur and S Novelty OVER THE MOUNTAIN TOPS From Salt Lake to Salt Lake by Way of the Park Brighton liiito Mary Alt I and Granite From dumb winter to spring In one wonderful hour From Ncwulai wit wing To creation hi llowor S December at morning Tossing vilil in his might A June WIthout warning And blown roses at night I thought of these lines as I lay on a snowbank snow-bank twenty feet thick the other day and plucked bunches of the yellowest buttercups butter-cups from the soil alongside the snow That sounds vcryjikea paradox I know but no more paradoxical than that this bank of snow lay and still lies only thirty miles from Salt Lake and a good deal less than that a the crow flies and that our party crossed over it on a boiling day in the last of July when you in the city were gasping for air gulping iced tea or sitting at your lunches under those newfangled electric fansYet Yet It is all gospel truth and you or any of your uweltoriiig friends can pass through it and bathe in all the glory of it as we did simply by purchasing a ticket over that realm of the marvelous which Tom Mackintosh and Mr Bennett have united i calling The Tourists Circle That is all for not at al a satisfactory name i t my way of thinking After one has been over it his mind involuntarily gropes out towards The Garden of the Gods The Home of the Winds The Eagles Eerie Abode 01 some other kindred title Besides it is no more especially the tourists route than the bankers the merchants the bookkeepers or the real estate mans indeed the future of tile circle and it is sure to be a great one I will be made by those very classes in this very city when they come t know that within three hours from their office doors liesia hottest July or Augusta miniature minia-ture Switzerland with its mountain lanes its sighing pines its eternal snows and its air of blended May and October DESCRIBING THE CinCLE The Tourists Circle is described by taking the new Utah Central railroad and running Parleys canyon thirty miles to Park City thence over the tops of the mountains by tram and wagon eight miles t Brighton thence over more mountains three miles by horse to Alta thence down Little Cottonwood by tram twelve miles t Granite thence by Rio Grande Western rail eighteen miles to Salt Lake in all a tour of about seventy miles and in all crowding into seventy miles more grandeur novelty and varely than one could conjure up out of any oiuer 400 miles of travel he could lay out for himself The richest suburban sub-urban land of all Utah the district where the boom struck first and lingered longest is that through which the first stcps of the Utah Central are taken Past Liberty Park through Lincoln Park Grand View along thecanal banks through Sugarhouse in tie midst of fields of grain orchards and verdure one finds a constant I source of delight in gazing doUgbt lzing upon the prospect and inhaling the early morning morn-ing breath from the fields as he is whirled through it The mouth of Parleys ca on is i entered at eight or ten miles from the city and the historic spot is passed where the pioneers stood fortythree years ago and drank in their first view of their fair promised land Then the climb is all up and upward Occasional stops are made to let those off who have come out to spend the day at such places as Mountain Dell the Mountain Resort Hardys the Scenic Resort Kimballs Park hotel and Snyder vie all of which aro on the line of the road and all of which are heavily patronized I patron-ized by those who like our party were i fleeing from tao heat of the city The engine en-gine finishes its climbing feat and a mighty one it isat the summit and looking back it is enough t make one dizzy to see the snakelike windings the train has pursued the precipices that have yawned under it and the huge bridges it has spanned But once on the summit and it is all a rattle and a buzz till the train pulls up in Park City the grade is u stiff a decline as that on the other side was an incline and the engineers main duty now is to keep the cars back of him from crowding him to perdition We left Salt Lake at 730 am and 10 oclock finds us landed in the famous home of the Ontario where silver and Craig Chambers are king The schedule comprehends com-prehends our jumping into carriages here and being borne over the hills to Brigh tons but the size of our party numbering sixteen and the fact tha it included two o the big candidates at the February election several newspaper men one or two actresses ac-tresses an actor u theatrical manager mana-ger a mixologist and several charm ing young society belles has caused Tom Mackintosh Jo Youne who receive us at the Parkto arrange with Mr Withe of the Crescent t run a special train of tram cars up to the mines with our par ty a passengers and the wagons are sent on to wait for us ahead wat THE GLIMIl UP TiE TRAM as the showman says is alone worth ten times the price of admission Starting from the foot of Park Citys Main street the puffing snorting train of box cars with improvised im-provised seat goes up the mountain Bide winding winding and all the time gradually grad-ually ascending till after an hours hard panting the engine pauses beside a water tank and allows you to gaze upon such 1 faraway far-away world of hills and dales spread out at your feet that your mind involuntarily turns to what Satan must have shown time tlO Son of Man from the top of that far off mountain when he bade him fall down and worship Such sight is witnessed by the aeronaut not often by any one else Still upward and upward wo went our path taken through vast fields of the most gorgeous gor-geous wild flowers of colors scents and varieties that sent up ecstatic cries of admiration ad-miration and wonder from tho fair occupants occu-pants of the box cars Wild roses daises columbines buttercups wild peas and an expanse of blue bells red bell and unknown un-known white purple and yellow flowers in profusion almost bewildering Tho Crescent mine is reached at last just as the whistle in the engine house blows for noon and tho yellow earthbegrimed minors come pouring up from the shaft to go to the diningroom But wo have no Orescent stockour sympathies arc mostly Ap x and wo dOlot linger there but taking a farewell of Mr Withey with a shout of thanks for his courtesy we clamber into the wagons there held in waiting by a prince of drivers and mountaineer Lawrence Kunball and once more commence com-mence our drive towards Brighton Wo have como five miles bv the train and still have three to go before dinner Thoso three we go over as only those who hmo fasted long and who see dinner in sight can go tho ride is a diriup ono over the mountain moun-tain roads and the immense altitude which wo aro traveling sono nine thousaud feet rentiers tho air ao noon day cool uud delightful BIUGIITOXS HOTEL I is descended upon at last out of a great I grove of pines andquakingasps Tnis beautiful beau-tiful resort o slice of Alpine scenery i transplanted in America has been written about so much and viewed by so many that shall hurry past it only saying i i you want more of it it is there and to be had for tho asking It is in a great cup in the tops of tho mountains and the row of board cottages that make up the hotel stands at the edge p of a grassy plat large enough for two baseball grounds the plat terminates in the beautiful sheet of water known as Sil vcr lake and the other shore of the lake is a huge mountaincovered with pinesand tho reflections they cast in the dark bosom of tho water are so great so beautiful beauti-ful so calm and Toposoful that oho could seemingly sit forever and gaze upon them The whole vale i circled with pines and quakingaspsand standing in its centtev ono could fancy himself in a huge amp1itle tre of nature with the receding rows of trees forming the myriads of seats that ran up to the top The air here is ever dreamy mire and calm the nights so cool that the hotel guests cluster around the parlor stove every evening and if it ii too crowded there they repair to tho kitchen Think of it ye toilets in town The time 3uiy r and the scene but thirty miles from your doorsl Fifty people sat down at the tables the cay our hungry band arrived There was trout the lake abounds with them though it takes a crack fisherman like my friund Burton Wells or Spencer to inveigle them to the surface cream that falls with n thud nnd a slosh into your coffee milk and butter galore hot biscuit and potatoes What more would the gods require i served in amplitude and mine host Brighton and his worthy dauio ideal and hospitable Scots who 1ael never yet had it laid to their door that the larder gave outbeloro the next express arrived from town townrom From Brightons two choices confront you You may cither push on by horseback horse-back over th picturesque threemile trail to Alta catch tho tram down to Granite and come home on the Rio Grande at nightfall night-fall thus completing the circle wham twelve hour or you may rest all night at Brightons breakfast there next morning then strike away from tho circle on a tangent tan-gent to the south to Lake Mary and reach Alta in time for tho afternoon tram haying hay-ing traveled two miles farther and it is true over a rather rugged road but having seen what isu thousand fold recompense the calm and magnificent grandeur of Marys lake Our party divided in its choice some pushed on to make the circle within the day the remainder nine in all staid over at Brightons underwent the tt luxury of sleeping under blankets and quilts in midsuinrapij and mounted on nine popies next morning scaled tho heights in the direction LAKE MAIJY With this party I cast my lot and never was a choice more fully rewarded Who first gave the name of rnryl to the dark blue body of water that lies so still in the tops of those peaks Iam unaware it may have come from the thought of the beautiful Scottish queen it recalls the dark robed pictures of that calm and tranquil tran-quil beauty and I would not be surprised if the christener had Mary Stuart in his mind when he bestowed his title You must see Marys lake with t rockribbed shore its stony islet its surrounding peaks its fringe of pines and its great dark unruffled bosom of infinite calm to feel what we felt as we gazed upon it Something of its tranquil seems t reach out t and impart itself to the mind of him who look upon i and oyer one as he gazes steals the memory of the beautiful words of Longfellow And the nlcht shall be filled with musio And the cuios that infest tho dav Shall fold their tents like the Arab And as silently steal away Our painters the best of them Lam bourne Ottinger and Culmer I think have transferred some of the beauty of Afarys lake to canvass but Michael Angelo himself him-self could not givo an adequate idea of what that beauty really is and no one could really sense it who has not stood upon its banks ana surveyed it for himself him-self selfAfer leaving Lake Mary it is all a prodigious pro-digious climb through a region so rugged that one might almost imagine he was the first of his kinu to travel it Lake Martha and Lake Catherine two smaller bodies of water than Like Mary lie in the steppes abova it and both have loveliness of their ownbut not like unto that of Mary Climbing on past Catherine and you come to the summit of the divide within a few feet oi the highest peaks that wo may behold be-hold to the southeast t of < s the city and a point from which commences the three notable cailons American Fork Big Cottonwood Cot-tonwood and Little Cottonwood From where we pause to rest our ponies we can gaze far away to tho blue mountains above Ogdensee the range beyond Kamas and that on the west of Salt Lake valley It is here that a tremendous snow bank almost bars the way and the noonday sun that beats upon it only causes a small trickling stream to leave it and fall into tho lake below The thawing process only goes on a few hours each day and before tho size of the big pile is appreciably reduced the snows of another winter upon it again As fast a the snow molts out of the black soil springs a myriad of the richest and most delicate buttercups whoso yellow color forms the strangest sort of marginal fringe to the bank ot snow Another hourof riding this time down steep declivities brings us to Alta the home of the Emma and the Flagstaff mines and the region of tho terrible snow slide a littfo spot where more lives have been lost theuiountain avalanches than in the whole offUtahs mountain ranges besides be-sides But the town is dead and silent enough today only a few men resting about the main store of the place Tucker Wallaces the population all being at work in the tunnels and shafts of the mines that dot every hillside within reach of the eye Down tho tram to Granite with Mr King who has tho line under lease is one of the most exhilarating experiences of the trip the car is lot loose a safety brake attached at-tached and whirled down the grade with 0 velocity that makes you long to burst forth into a good old Porter Rockwell Rock-well yell Granite gained and we find the train gone but the time we obtain allows us to visit the fairy grottos where Summy Turn and Mrs Spencer Mrs Rossiter and Mrs Thatchers lovely nooks are situated and therein cool grot to lave the outer and refresh the inner man Mr King sends his tram car with us from Granite to Bingham Junction the descent being so rapid that no motive power is needed and down wo como whizzing for ten miles through fields and past farm houses whose occupants come out and stare in openmouthed open-mouthed wonder at the latest wonderful achievement in electricity At Bingham Junction we are civilization once moro We fling ourselves into the luxurious re dicing chairs pf Mr Bennetts new broad guage coaches and are whirled into tho I city we had left thirtysix hours before exhausted from sheer enjoyment Touring tho tourists circlo is the event of a lifetime to have accomplished it one feels that he bus at lust been face to face with nature and to have accomplished it as wo did was giving liberal education to tho soul GAX |