Show STANTON TO LECTURE The Noted Engineer ViI Speak on the Canyons of the Colorado The following letters are selfexplan atory University Club Salt Lake City April 27 1896 Robert B Stanton Dear SirAs we apprised you two weeks ago i is the desire of the members mem-bers of the club that you deliver your lecture on the Canyons of the Colorado Colo-rado and if agreeable to you in quarters much more commodious than the club parlor Since you are soon to leave the city we renew our request and we suggest that the lecture be delivered in some large hall where the public as well a the members of the club and their friends may have the opportunity of hearing a lecture of such excellent quality a that of which we had s taste in your Ancient Race of Cliff Dwellers in the Far Southwest South-west And we wish to express again our appreciation of the recent lecture with which you favored the club I the prospective lecture is arranged for at some theatre or church we are aware that not a little expense will be entailed and a charge for admission necessary We hasten therefore to r 1 o r extend the assurance of our cooperation coopera-tion and support Permit us to suggest further that you admit into your lecture an estimate mate or opinion of The Resources of Southern Utah upon which you are so competent to speak and in which the people Just now are especially interested in-terested Yorus very truly UNION WORTHINGTON President WALTER MURPHY VicePresident J T HARRIS I Secretary W R MALONE > Chmn Social Com Salt Lake City Utah April 28 1896 Dr Union Worthington President and the Officers of the University Club Gentlemen Your note of the 27th inst was handed me late last night I thank you sincerely for the kind expressions ex-pressions i contains and I certainly appreciate the very complimentary invitation in-vitation you extend to me to lecture in this city on the Canyons of the Colorado Colo-rado River of the West I shall be pleased to comply with your request and will arrange to give you and the public some description of my journey down that mighty river and the scenes in its canyons on Monday Mon-day evening next May 4 in the First Congregational church Let me remark however that no human language can depict the grandeur grand-eur and beauty that nature has wrought while carving out the Grand Canyoa of the Colorado which Major C E Dutton has called the most sublime thing on earth In order to give you some idea of these wonders I will select 100 views from the 1000 photographs taken on that journey and these will be shown by means of a stereopticon to illustrate what I have to say Many of these pictures are colored true to nature and show the beauty of the startling colors of the walls of the canyons I shall also be pleased in my humble way to tell you a you request something some-thing of the present possibilities and the future greatness of the southern part of your own state Again thanking you for your very kind note I remain very respectfully yours ROBERT B STANTON The lecture will consist of a description descrip-tion of the hazardous journey of 1400 miles by boat down the Colorado and through its canyons made in 188990 during which the president of the railroad road company and two boatmen were drowned and Mr Stanton himself was dashed into the whirlpool of one of the 520 rapids falls and cataracts over which the party traveled The grandeur grand-eur and beauty of the great canyons and the dazzling effects of color a sunset and sunrise will be shown by 100 stereopticon views taken during the expedition This lecture has been delivered de-livered in many cities of the east and in California and ha received the highest high-est praise from artists literary men and the press But the pictures of the interior of the Grand canyon reveal anew a-new Iorm of beauty and grandeur known nowhere else in the world |