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Show TO LITTLE COTTON WOOD AXD KETl'RN. Am, August Jllth, 1. I left your citv on Thursday, 11th, by U. S. It. R. for Little Cottonwood canon. Heading southward, alter freeing ourselves from tho city, we pass a level portion of country largely under cultivation. Large fields of wheat, grass, potatoes and corn, some of them very luxuriant, are rapid bypassed. by-passed. Snug farm houses embowered embow-ered with trees, dot the way. Light-miles Light-miles out we pass the Germania Separating Sep-arating and Refining works. The buildings aro extensive and appear to be substantial. Externally even--thing appears thrifty and in good order. or-der. Many flat cars were being loaded load-ed with bullion, whether it had been desilverized or not I did not ascertain. Proceeding through a less cultivated district seven miles farther, we arrive ar-rive af Sandy, r-uj.nac.es arc established estab-lished at this point also, and vast quantities of ore in sack arc by the sides of the R. Ii. track. At Sandy we take the narrow-gauge railroad cast-ward cast-ward fiyo miles Lq Granite, at tlie mouth of the canon. Thence still eastward leu miles by stage to Alta. In our ride Wo Sandy we had most magnificent views of the lateral canons in the great Wasatch range on our left, and of Bmgham in tlie Oquirrh range on our right. In going tlie distance, ten miles, to Alta, we rise about d,0u0 feci, or about 200 feet to the mile. And yet the railroad is being pushed forward in the face of this heavy grade. The main portions of tho canon consist of granite rocks. Those not so exhibit compact limestone, sandstone, and seams of porphyrjtic structure. The aspect of the ciinou is one of varied and impressive beauty and grandeur. Here walls of weather-beaten granite shoot up in plate-like maps, overlapping overlap-ping each other to tho height of 2,000 feet, with their bald, jagged and defiant defi-ant outline renting against the clear, cold biuo qj heaven. Again, ihcit graceful outlines, clothed in velvet and forest green, run in such easy curves as to tempt the traveler to try their deceptive heights. About one mile before reaching Alta we passed the spot where, last spring, eight men and eight mules were swept to destruction by the rushing snow. It is a tromendous cliff, smooth and clear to the top. The skeletons of the mules and wrecks of tho sleds arc still seen far up the banks and on the farther side of the stream. I have seen nouung tins side uf L'Luii;-ontory L'Luii;-ontory more truly sublime than some portions of this caiion. At Granite I witnessed the operation opera-tion of blasting tho enormous boulders bould-ers that rest in the valley, for the pur-poscof pur-poscof procuring material for tlie Temple now erecting in your city. Then again, the hardy axe man, far up the sloping side, felling tlie trees, and converting them into logs for the saw mill, ties for railroad or wood for the coal pit. The fires and smoke of the burning pits arc seen in many places. Alta is a representative mining min-ing town. It consists of three long sircccs running cast and west, and parallel with earl) other. Alout double this number of shorter streets cross the-:c at right angles. In the1 milling district areMout 2,000people. 1 In Alta proper 600. There arc upwards up-wards oi -U0 mines, but the principal ones are the Emma, Flags tall', Ttced j it Benson, Davenport, Grizzly, and ; Vallcjo. Then there is the Winsor j group, embracing the Savage, Monte- i zunia. Hiawatha and Last Chance. Tiie ebvated tram-way, 2,oS0 feet m length, of the Vallcjo, is a very line j piece of mechanism. Tiie Flagstaff i sends its ore down by a railroad tram-way. Several of these mines have large tunnels. But true and full statistics which arc of utmot value to mining interests and scientists would prove of little interest to the general reader. Climbing to the summit of the loftiest pe;ik south-east from Aim, upwards of 10,000 feet above sea level, having the twin lakes at our feet, and the imyie.ding snow drills above us, looking down into the forks cf Big Cottonwood Canon, Can-on, then mounting its forest clad side; far o'er to the case, into Parleys Park, then south toward Ltiii. over the great plain of the Jordan, with its bright waters here and there glittering glitter-ing like burnished silver, and to tiie ". W. thebaic waters ofSait Lake, and the purple haze whore ne-sties your city, as our eve turned from point to point and mh-Vorcd this glorious scene, and our ear caught me low ime'.uered j blasts p.-nt in tiie momna:u. tue faint crv of Uanist- rs i-x-hm:z their ( i-am; Ct move the heavy ioads, tne . rhi" of the anvil, and tue faint j '"" oi f- cu-'i lalvrhK' a tne . :ii;wett'c;,:'":;u in. wi h..l . c:u. in. ;ir.l tf'-ro i . S.u.hiK Zif, i'r.rt'kfi:y .'-.-y.-; ,U-o lin-s v.::l bo w' int-T.-; : I |