| Show JL I J rL Picturesque Part of Eastern Utah 1 Opened Up U By B New Railroad d w r Q of Route of New liew Uintah Road Running Toward the Reservation it t 4 4 4 t t I t t 4 Ono One or of the pieces ot of 4 advertising ever Issued Is t the booklet on th fib which has ha Just been Hent out ou by Major ajor S K Hooper general a ent ot of the Rio system from which the tho Uintah road branches off at Mack The rhe booklet 18 I illustrated anti and ch gives an of tIll new road and the ea tem Utah coun country country try it I 1 opening up The stol story told la is herewith reproduced 4 t t f t J The railway is a narrow gauge railroad In we western tern Colorado and ea eastern ern Utah It extends fifty tour four mil to Dragon fr m Mack its terminus and Juno junc junction tion point the Rio w t tem ern em railroad Mack k I Is jn in the ferUle valley of oC the Grand Grand lie i twenty c I Ity ty mUM westward from froni Grond June Junc Cole Colo and while a small community Iii is yet destined to Iro grow to consid crable as aa a 8 railroad town surrounded as It w l by land itt fortUIty fertility W brought und under r gatlon Nowhere lit In the United States has bas there hen a more astonishing result in inthe inthe the irrigation of arId lands anti rota theIr Into beautiful farms aims durIn the tho put ton ten in this o the tho Grand river From se sen sev n oust But of STack Mack to Palisade miles further fast east there Is Isan 1 an Uninterrupted series of prosperous farms growing nfl the of frutt and for tor which the irrigated Colorado lands of comparatively lo low elevation are afe noted Colorado melons melona have won a reputation at home and abroad those ot of the tho Grund alley are equal to the b best t The Del Delaware Delaware aware peach Is surpassed by th peach of the valley The are for their variety an and I rare quail qualities ties Numerous other othor fruits arc aro equal equally ly Successfully grown as Is IB O of course the tho beautiful w western clover cloer the alfalfa or lucern Large Irrigation Project The Tho Grand riv river r is one ot of the largest streams In western Colorado carrying ln an enormous volume ot of water atm An im immense Immense mense Irrigating ditch or canal ns as the UI h line to bo be constructed by bythe bythe the United States Stales lovel government ment ts Is de ae designed signed to traverse the country Imme north ot of and to the tho westward 3 ot of Mack bringing aU all or of the tho lug ing valleys and mesas under irrigation A smaller Irrigating ditch already alread In Intersects the valley at track Mack Home eok era fora ma may well give consideration to thia area as one possessing man many advantages Through land such as has b been On de described described scribed the tho railway laUWa passes for fot fota fora a dIstance of twelve miles at which point It enters a canyon canon in the foot foothills foothills hills of the Book Cliffs CUtts an for sixteen miles on a 8 steadily ascending grade grado It passes through scenery that Is picturesque The stillness Is pro profound profound found broken only by the operations of the coal 8 at the station Car bonora eighteen miles from Mack At miles out are ara th the shops and round found houses of th the raIlway at the tho base ot of the main range ranse of the tho Book CUffs Cliffs fore frere the traIns be besin b sin gin their heavy heay climb toward the sum aum i nUt mitt with one mile of I S tier por cent grade grado and thence on an uninterrupted grade of Th per poz cent five miles further to the Two thousand feet teet of eleva tiun Is attained in th these six miles by byan byan an engineering accomplishment that Is unique In railroad d won beautiful tn In the natural char of the country Where Mountains Join Sister States The Book CUffs Cliffs Is fa a pr ei itous range upwards of two hundred miles mUe In an east ind west t course from lom th mountaIns ot of Colorado to the tho Wa Wasatch Va satch and ran ranges s or of Utah cross crossing ing the brOAd valleys alleys or of the tho Grand ant and Green rivers like Uko a majestic ram rampart part art and providing an unobstructed ie ew on eithe sIde for hundreds of 01 nUe a There are e no ether nearby mountain to shut hut oft the view as OIl o other moun mountain thin tain mU railroads road s Rising steadily up the face O of r this groat nm range e thero is never j n a moment when the eye eyo of the ger ma may not rest reet with perfect delight md and w wonderment upon a gorgeous pan panorama panorama orama ot of slopes below 10 o of valleys and aDd deserts be beyond ond and of mountain ranges in the tho horizon To the eastward the groat continental divide and the Grand Most to the southeast the precipitous San Juan mountains or of Colorado Colordo no iO miles aw to the south the Sierra La Sal in rn Utah mn d distant In grandeur on the hither side ot of the valle valleys s that lead to the Valley of Evacuation Creek TheM views from the train windows nr are be hOSt t appreciated when hn the is reached at Baxter Pass Here im anthor pIU i 1 un Unfolded folded on the north as from the thu nar narrow 10 row summit the tho traveler sees the valley of creek stretching out to the tho Grand canyon ot of hIte river and ander N er the old reservation tI Raven RaVN ridge and Blue mountain on 1 1 h hr north eighty miles away to tab l lt t mountain and the river rier au miles further distant In the tho in Colorado over oyer the Uin tab tah re reservation and bf beyond ond to the LIn tab tah mountaIns in tho northwest t ISO miles the brt through h Ute the pines and aspens on th thu the blue vault ault above the eter eternal eternal nal peace in all the atmosphere Everywhere there Is areen U hK and shadoWs ma or of eol r It Is I Iring ring poetic satisfying and anda I a apul to the thu artistic sense nse I Game in Abundance Aloft Along the crest ot of this range among its beautiful ul trees tree by It Its springs ot of purest water are aro rarest OP OPportunities p for tor those would nae haSe either Is in bungalow cabin or tent to escape the heat beat of summer to tobo tobe bo be in a land ot of natural ye 0 manes or from sues Budt a rend to tomake make Dalte tou tours to remoter etl In ii search ot of lanest game In Game there Is isi f i r those that seek eok Tn lion llon bobcats gray olves and the deer the latter er ef course coming within the workings ot of the game gama laws Jaws Old Indian trails trail dei furrowed lead along the rt ridges 1 and aud wagon roa roads in excellent condition thoUgh like Topsy they have bave simply From these new panoramas unfold In kaleidoscopic Cloudless Days and Starlit Nights Who has not heard hearl or of the wonderful sunshine of the great country In the west where there is an almost uninterrupted succession ot of da days s And starlit nightS nihlS Who Vho does not love the pleasure or of n the sunlight In an atmosphere re free from humidity and who does not know that In the or of sunlight and a ozone Is the knell of the dreaded bach bacU ii 11 of life uto In a Country such as this lids will arrest the tho o of pulmonArY will wUl rapidly Ch the blood In red des and Imparting n a rOllicking sense of joy oy in Itin living bring into play a rare combination ot of t agencies for Cor lion tion On the tho northern d descent not quite so 80 grade racIe as In hi the southern elope the railway winds through In groves and parks to M Andrewa lake Jako an artificial storage io e reservoir r 10 vo miles mUes further ou the west fork ot of Evacuation creek k lea leads 5 on by curl curi ous hula and canyons to the termInus at Dragon There are I es at both track Mack and Dragon Dracon Dragon Is II the tho p point for tor passengers freight express and mall mali to arid and to the lower White river valley vaney In Colorado and in Utah to ernal and the Ashley to the tho eto Indian agencies at Ouray and White Rocks Rodes to States military post at Fort Duch Duchesne and to the er Uintah Indian reservation lying In thie valle valleys s of the tho Strawberry and Duchesne rivers Good Hotels Already Built The Railway company for the convenience of Its patrons has con constructed most comfortable hotels both at Mack and Dragon Drason Harmonizing with the country in which they are aro pl placed d they are alft in what that bo be termed Renaissance style of with walls of concrete The he lounging rooms and parlors are with wi th books and dally daily papers the dining rooms are moat InvIting and the bed rooms models ot of el s and comfort Lighted by gas heated b by steam with the tho I sary of tub and shower baths and with most excellent cu sine there ii I abundant nt Invitation n to both traveler and tourIst to not only como come but Un lin linger Ungo go ger The railway hotels and all con connecting m lines arc operated throughout the year The Green River basin from its southern confines In the tho Book Cliffs on the tho south to the Wind river and Big Horn mountains of Wyoming on the north was wa once a great groat Inland sc sen No other othet section of the tue world Is so prolific In its Ita yIeld of fossils Monster nan mu rIan many of theta varieties not e known to exist have been talc en thence to places h let the worlds mu museums Careful and ns as those these have so far been by government and the they yet et have hao been but superficial At and around Dragon fossils are scattered In profusion and In great greut variety OnlY II a tow few miles away resting horizontally In a great rUt rift ot of rock lie the vertebrae of an imm immense nse snake or lizard fully six sixty sixty ty foot In length To those whose minds turn with Interest in directions such as those these a prolonged stay at Dragon will bring mo most t interesting and profitable re results and Automobile Trips are made nt at Dragon for for points beyond ond by stages and automo hiLs operated In conjunction with the railway company traversing roads twelve feet in width of easy easy and beautifUl curves and grades S Those hl highways hwa offer experiences that no nowhere where else olse are duplicated From Dragon the route follows Enc Evac nation creek six miles through gril buttresses buttress 8 ot of lofty hills and mesas to the commodious corrals that the tho rail railway way vay company has constructed for the ot of the shearing of the vast berds of sheep that are brou brought ht to this point for shipment and for tor the shipment of their wool Just beyond Is the bt beginning of nation canyon to avoid which the tho road ris rapidly to the roiling rt ridge go above aboe Here ag again in bursts in into o eat expanse of Green River basIn the Book Cliffs Cutts and Thimble Rock on the south and west n the right heWs Hells Hole ox in its ragged lab labyrinths and in the tho foro foreground below the weirdest outlines of weathered sand sandstone stone stono ledges whiles while the road follows the smooth undulating surface of the mesa Further on the crossing of Evacuation tion canyon canyon on a bridge the ascent on the other side and a or of the canyon on to its very fhe fl road stretches out afong the western edge Then a rapid do de descent scent into the tortuous Grand Granel canyon the White river its walls hundreds tit fir feat deep great masses of colors in reds browns grays s anti 1 yellows aU all ruthlessly iSY riven grotesque and ns as If they were the troubled dream or of orA s A Dora Dore Counterpart of Grand Canyon As words an and 1 pictures can give no adequate conception of the Grand Can Canyon Canyon yon of the Colorado so do d they fall in inan an any attempt to express the stupendous vagaries of nature here for the Can Canyon on of the WhIte river though on n a smaller scale cale is a counterpart rt of the Grand Canyon ot of the Colorado the formations are the tho same and the processes ot mak aU all alike aUke It must 1 be soon to ho be I app appreciated it must tIC to felt folt to be un Understood I I and seen on once co felt It will l never er be forgotten for or the solemn awe awo which fills the soul of the tho onlooker mAY never ner be effaced Tb The crossing of White river at I igna ignatie tie tio is 18 on a 11 truss bridge whence for a mile the road rond skirts the bf before fore entering Valhalla Hero the gods have hwe pla played ed sport with moun tabt and tOUS toS and in the C echoes ho S throw out R again ain dee deep chuckles ot of their mirth Vast tres obelisk temples towering pinnAcles all in con confusion fusion Cuton worse confounded Owls and ravens silently slip from their perches and flap fiat uncannily o ot to some remoter rest place Four miles from White riVer brings brins ono one In to the tho upper level of the Gr Green n River basin anti to the er ery corn com station of Bonansa where meats meals are arc served an anti 1 whore where a limited number may find sleeping Hons should they so desire Branch Road From Bonanza The reed branches branche at Bonanza one route loute leading eastward crossing White WhiteRiver River canyon again to RanJ h Cola Colo another northwesterly to Vernal and the tho Ashley valley and the tho third to the Indian agency at Ourn Ouray and Fort Du Duchesne heane chesne be beyond ond Leaving Bonanza the tho road to crosses Coyote basin u e that rca less denizen of the plans ve In man manof many of the wiles of modern business life is a relentlessly to harass halass the droves ot of shoo sheep with results that arc at once to himself and to the OWner Thence over oer Dead Mans Mons bench of gruesome hi history tory to another hotel and timi at t Kennedy Kenned t ten mIles be beyond ond Ho Do also a point wh le the traveler I will m find t lOrten miles further on fer ferres ferres res have been n ted which pro I ide a crossing ing in width over Green river at Alhandra Again by etty esy grade e the road lead lesda on to mU miles Or from Ho Be b by the southern route ton ten miles te tA a wayside ide inn at Chineta station and on to the lower Green river ferr ferry at Oury Ouray tort former Ar 8 ncy and present trl tribe l renter of the lire gre Utes Thence it is thirteen to Port Wort Duchsne Vernal is the count county seat of county the location ot of the United States land oMee fe all the tho lands in county and that part art ot of the thelan lan Ians 8 in satch county wore in included eluded In the reservation Thus J u 1 nr what was s the Uintah reservation Is embraced e within the Vernal land ds Town of Vernal Vernal Verntll is a west most charming town In InU U th center of Ashley Ashly with bank Public schools and ll vod streets WithIn a comparatively short radius there thore are about S O people vre ure I Is their principal and s the output ot of tho Ashley valley in its fruits and honey in the dairy Ue livestock tock and hay and grain Krain The apple orchards re fair to look upon and bear such fruit ns as will great surprise An apple twelve inches In is b no mon men thing and so i richly are the branches laden that propS are of w to save thorn thool from destruction The nu streets and nU all the highways in ate ale fringed with trees as 1 I may see in Holland Brooks ot of clear I running skirt tile tho roadsides The purple blossom blosom or of the deep deop green Ia fn fills th air with fragrance yielding the tees hoes unspeakable bl delight It Is a garden spot of not malty maity years ed exist l lonce once once arid and now an enchanting ValEt ale of Ca Cashmere Good Soil Is Plentiful The soil values of this extraordinary country le In tile the great depth varying nr from ten to fifty foot feit ot or an absolutely homogeneOus product ot of disintegration of the lulls The Th process has been com coni complete and chemically with will a resultant materIal that Is most perfectly adapted for cultivation and that b because of its ita great depth is practIcally inexhaustible The annual precipItation of twelve to Inches of rainfall Is of course courte In III Itself mad inadequate equate to the needs But in st nUy the streams are tapped |
