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Show j AMERICAN FORK CANON. 1 " Tho Yosemito of Utah. TourUts visiting Utah should not think of leaving the Territory until they havo Eecn the great American Fork Cufbn, which, in the wildness of its grandeur, and variety 0 f its Jiountain scenery far surpasses every other defile in the Wasatch range; and is considered by many, a formidable formid-able rival to the wo rid -renowned Yosemito cf California. A fight-seeing fight-seeing tour across the continent is incomplete unless this break in the Alps of North America is visited. Tho canon is a mammoth panorama of grandeur from top to bottom, from one end to the other. At every curve in the road the mountain and rocky scenery present a different aspect. At one place a precipitous cliff will rise heavenward over 2,000 feet, while just beyond you gaza upon a jagged mountain of rock?, whose lofty aprx 1,000 feet above stands boldly forth against the bright blue Fky; and so on there is a continuous shifting of scenery from grand to wonderful, I from beautiful to sublime. 1 Besides the pleasurcof scene view-j iug, the trip to American Fork has its other attractions a ride over tho beautiful little narrow-gauge railroad being one of them. This road the American Fork Railroad is one of , the most finely and safely constructed construc-ted mountain lines in the country; and cost, including the rolling stock and appendages, nearly $400,000. It is fifteen miles long, intersecting the Utah Southern thirty-five miles south of Silt Lake at American Fork City. It has the heaviest grade of any road on the continent, a portion of the line rising over 300 feet to the mile, while the average ascent is over 200 feet per mile. The road-bed is substantially sub-stantially built and well ballasted, and crosses the tortuous American Fork river fifteen times over as many well-constructed bridges, in a distance of nine miles. The eastern terminus of this road is at Doer Creek. It ia graded, however, up the canon to tho Miller mine, four " miles farther. Lloyd Aapiuwall of New York is the president It. N, B.iskin and others ofSalt Lake, dircctors-and E. IIum-: hrcy, manager, while 3Icssr. How-1 , land ifc Aspinwall, of New York, are1 the principal owners. I ! This railway connects directly by a good wagon road with aome! eighteen mines, foremost among1 which, are the Miller, Pittsburg, ! Dutchman and War Kigle; and the1 Sultana smelting works, which, aloi.e cost $SO,00D. There is an exhaust-; exhaust-; less amount of timber in the Ameri- 1 j can Fork mining district several saw mills are now in operation and twenty -five Datent brick coal nits are burning constantly. Visitors leaving Salt Lake City at 7 o'clock a.m., by the Utah Southern, will reach the eastern terminus of tho American Fork road Deer Creek at noon, and after spending two hours and partaking of a fine trout lunch at the "Hotel de Clarke" they can return to the city in time for a 6 o'clock dinner at the Towns end House. P. S. |