Show L f o J iri Ho c v s r Sr I r rs 0 I j I C I cM N 1700 Fr G N 1 I Iro 9 ro r o 0 L j I I S ty S u yf i I 1 I i t I R I t tI 1 4 41 I 1 lm g r tJ J r L I II Ic S r 11 v r 1 1 l I r Ii I y yn n i T ll 1 I t Y t a 1111 l t r M a c y I 1 a y I a K ii v t NG i 1 F 4 l s S S f 10 r 0 t c S A 5 1 n nr Y r S SI SR I R J J r o o C RW S T Te D e T T A TE G TN t tE f vt PL LL N rJ 1 J Th r fl I 11 c I I BY Ng S B t I cliffs crita tra 1 B down picturesque valleys galleys alle now DO DOun un lofty Jotty crags era or run ruD running ning along al part pan WIlY way tip up p steep steeple le Into to p wed aM again coming out oat th Ih broad and aDd lid beautiful ul openings ide f limpid street streams and through Is and orchards and Held l of 1 hy nd InrI gram grain will wUl run the trains hai of t Nn pan an Pedro Fedro P dro Los Angeles t A 8 Salt lt t tK 7 when that Irae lIn is completed I rOa h vada a a Southern Nevada has I a l oular reputation Deputation of being belna little JM TM tn than n a desert d rt and aril much of it itt I aT ors nut t this tta tl reputation but through n fir nt l f distance the surveyed route of nf f the th new read to the coast cout runt run rov ch a 8 Beautifully picturesque find end i a fir f r i f makh country making a route routt that will rill with the tourists the present railroad ter tt nu r I it is it i from there that the au u f r h San Pedro and the theLine Or Ion on Line Lin L ine starts Northward to PIoci rUnt runs a Flag U h and n rues the tb th main In line UDe of both roads The a pan pictures show abow scenes on the UM PIo s and on OD the main mainline mainline line reproduced re from photographs m r qI r Henry Haw Ha T apA Q 4 assistant tant Chief hief Engineer H HM HI M Di I Cartney M K of the San Pedro Ppdro on a trip a short time ago over the line of the road mad cabs r in is in the tbt Meadow valley y ytM warp aaa th tM the Pt branch thirty I stales lOM in m l b runs ruM northward up the wash This TIlle wash or valley contracts i into type H gloomy Condor Con or canyon on with ste steep f walls walk 1050 1010 feet high so close Joee t I gether etbel that the tile sunlight bt never pene penetrates i trat some of the rec rece recesses ses MA At A t the head of Condor canyon is the famous ranch of Joseph Delmue with the dove dovecot cot perched high upon a rock The Th I II Delmues are an Italian family who I have lived on OD this ranch since the hoot boom boO days day of Pioche he in 1871 They be beI bet I I t came am rich setting milk eggs chickens i and pigeons p eons to the t hI people If of Pioche Plo Mo MoThe i The great iffat mines wines of Pioche became 0 flooded and the bonanza baun camp amp waned until it became practically pra tI deserted de but l ut the Delmue Delmae family remained on the ranch living in Iii solitary luxury and the remains upon the crag erac ax as a reminder r of ef other dare dav P the ranch are the old picnic grounds ground A where here ps le of Pioche used u d to take their anaca For some distance the San Pedro Pdro fol follows follows lows the route of the Ute and aban abandoned abandoned don d Pioche A R railroad This Thi little tle narrow gauge ige road once carried car carried 31 ried the ores of Pioche to the mills at a When it was abandoned Bishop Thomas Thoma Taylor of Cedar City bought one of the little engines B By laying rails raUB in m frost front and then taking them up and relaying then them this engine engin was wu hauled by oxen across to Cedar City It was to have been used for hauling coal from the tb mines to Cedar C a City but it never fulfilled lea its purpose P and is it now nou standing unused un ed m tn Cedar Ct ar City The ranchers rancher near the line of I the thet thet I t i t 1 I 1 Ii r S 5 J S r S ft i i i i old road have hae found the toe rank rails building corrals 1 From the head bead of Condor canyon to is an open country The road H passes by the oW old towns of and Panaca the rf is ia j pr r interesting is Hosmon settlement containing ag a B of at abort s ai ui wan con contented tented lets t as ft a rule die 1 is a great warm fine e ethe the town WK db wattle rye e tew itself It ff boasts two tiro JuI r b lH lases and goose striking buttes Ste buttes brutes of 0 Panaca are tux to uces of tear bax ned to is y tin the t ri i C sack time ago go a tunnel was run nm into tate one oneo of o the tile these thee buttes and the village au authorities conceived the idea Icle that lt by putting petting in a grated door at the mouth of the tunnel a would result re This was done Now the violators of the laws under arrest arre t at Panaca tarry I within the recesses es of one of the buttes buttas The Meadow ew valley valler wash derives its name from frees the hay meadows extending I along long the u course urse of f the stream for many miles The urbe wash Is h a part of a great Pah PahI I drainage basin extending I from north of Ely EI Nev to the Gulf Golf of ac i Is California Calif art arl fir Assistant Assi tant Chief CI ef Engi Engineer Engineer t r neer veer McCartney McC Th The t appears ap rg near n Ely as hot hl and II Id then the sinks rinks under tinder the th earth It St cornis conte om up again a n farther bou in the White ite river rt r vet val valley vetley 81 ley slaking arcing gain again and Jien thes coming out oat nt in the file ft a I v r y 0 Colored Cliffs On the maIn maln ling line lin r below Oelo w ex extending extending tending bondIng nearly ail ai the way from Con 5 ways nays to t Carsons are picturesque bril brit cliffs They are aIe variegated t c cAn in An color ranging from bright vermillion to c and bro brown browD n The road runs nine between these down doon the valley r which contracts C now and then Into nar nay narrow narrow row canyons and then opens out into broader where are fertile ranches Twelve miles below ow is the theDe theDe f De Lamar pumping ing station Here are area t ta a of connected ted wells in the stream lt Am from which water is ta taken in five lifts for fr fourteen mites miles up 2000 feet t to the town of De flit T Tamar rAmar amar where Is II located the Fe De F e Lamar mine Here a atoo too is a grove of cottonwood Just below th tbs pumping station is a r stretch where the valley vaHey is comparatively comparatively straight ht and oJ nd a one on and a half halt mile tangent i is ia made possible po At the end of this tan tal nt a serious cloud doud cloudburst cloudburst burst bu t last Jut August AUtt did a great deal of damage dam ace to the graders camp there washing away tenth t and arti wagons and aM t supplies Mn sit lieli and nearly jutting a Il number r 55 of men The graders took to the hills and trees tret however and managed y to escape I Two miles mites below the pumping sta eta station stane taco tion nestled ne at the foot feet of ot Carsons cliff 17 1710 0 feet high is the ranch of or Samuel V Carson Here are tine lIne fields of ef pam grain and alfalfa beautiful vine vineyards yards and splendid orchards of ot peachy peaches apple applee and other fruits r Royal Koyal Gorge t nye Five miles below Carens Caa are th the f r narrows Darrow of or Meadow valley wash wa b Hereto Here to Is another Royal gorge gorg although the sides of or the can canyon you are not HO o lofty w t nor no BO so precipitous as in the fa moue feature of or Colorados scenery t The beautifully colored walls walla alls com coat so close to each other however that there fit is barely room for the stream which bounds and boils down its narrow l lout channel In flood time it would wash washout out oat a 8 railroad track built anywhere S near its ity level so o the San Pedro will run along a shelf blasted out of or the side aid of or the gorge orge Below the narrows there is an open country for several miles mile Twenty seven SeV en miles from Calientes Is the ranch h r pf f John Kiernan Here are fine cattle Q t tIe nd n d other livestock and fields and is The Th e climate is la so mild that the almond trees t bloom in February A little below belo c is the me old Mormon ormon well welI widely known among the emigrants who followed this trail to California over a and more ago 1 The water pockets p which shish have bave fur furnished furnished r water to wayfarers for some sometime sometime sometime time are an a short abort ort distance farther south sooth being miles from a Calientes Here Bees is ts a cleft In the rok into which the water for a large drain drainage t tage age pours in ID the time of freshets f shet with I great force fo This ThI has bas been going on ott x I Continued on 0 Page 10 0 G J I SCENES ALONG THE SAN PEDRO PEORO ROUTE Continued Continue from try Page Pa s L for ages and as u a result MUtt rr th the of or the HIE cleft te Is filled to a great depth with tones stones ranging from the size of ot a mar marble marble marble ble to that of a mans that flat or head heade The e water filters in around these the e stones stones and aDd In Is l kept from hy by the protection of the stones atones and of ot ott t the h steep step walls a traveler wants water he digs dip into these stones aUnee e a 8 tie tle way until he be gets to th the water The Pima Indians in Ancona Ar kelp keep k p their tb ir water Hater in 10 artificial ar pits In this w wry y preserving a supply all summer Hummer from the spring freshets The Holy City The pockets are a little distance away from the tb surveyed route mute of the rail railroad railroad road dod and since the engineers went weatS in inS InS S A Angell AR ha has hatt dug a 8 well and built builta a ramp amp closer to the grade This Thin camp amp has bu been dubbed the Holy Hol Holf f city it because the lived there then Here is a tall desert de ert willow one of those deceptive trees tree that looks loOk so 80 Uk ilk like rn an n ordinary weeping willow that a 8 thirsty mi tl traveler J eler catching sight of one tries cries out for rw Joy jU feeling sure ure he e will find Lind water near But a desert d rt willow tan can grow groV without water wafer and these e trees have been n the source of ot many hitter bitter h disappointments to wayfarers I this thin tree near the Holy City the t h up and down Moapa mails mail meet i at t I midnight and the tree is according accordingly ly ty tailed called the mail mall tree tret hive Kie miles mills to the tbt southward are the theEt Ki Et Echo ho cliffs Them Thew are gray cliffs which throw sounds back bark and forth and send them bounding down the can mn jon on BO so th that tbt t they y can lan be he heard three Or 01 four times from different places The country near here Is il desolate for tor tome Come distance until ranch ranchi i reached rf Beyond in sa an open valley and fifteen miles milea from the ranch is 18 the Moapa river popularly known knot as the Muddy This is a clear beautiful stream averaging twenty feet wide and a foot toot deep belying its Ita name The river was wa originally named na by hv the Indians after the modi or mes mea beans beaD The word modi mode was afterward corrupted into mudd muddy East of lis is place is i Mormon Momma peak a landmark and a short abort die dis distance tance tane dray away is the Napa Moapa loa Indian res reservation r rena reservation ena Beautiful Vegas Valley The road crosses the Moapa and then Ulen f fur r about fifty miles mile It passes pu es through h ha a forsaken country but bat after Ctet the desert d rt divide it descends into the Ute beautiful Vea V Vegas valley which la k lit III miles from The celebrated Ix Los s Vegas ranch owned by Mrs Mis r Helen HelenJ J Stewart is in this valley yielding very every kind of ot agricultural product ap appie appin apples pin pie peaches apricots and other fruits P pecans ans and almonds Here Her is 18 an im immense Immense mense apricot tree tret which annually pays the interest t on In 1000 in the Vegas valley are the Wagon Wheel h ei springs famous among the etui emi emigrants grants of fifty years ago aso In e springs the sand nand bubbles Mid and boils to as great Ireat is k I the pressure pr ure from below They TH look Jook to be only a few r inches deep but butan butan butan an object t can sink Ink eight or tea ten feet tt in ta inthe tat the be t turbulent sand When Whan the emi end emigrants emigrants grants were crossing tb u country on their way to California we ale first Ant among them hm t took off the wagon wheels wheel toE to E soak them over oer night in this water When they awoke Yook next morning th thu the u wheels heels had disappeared in ID the moving sands and they Were vere pre in the midst of the desert de ert country without means meu to move in either direction Hence Henc the name of or the springs The Bird springs also alao supply water to th the valley and s seven Ien v n miles below them is III the Bird springs pass pue which to Is by the San Pedro Path From Prom 1 Bird springs pass paM to the California line JIM JIMa linea a distance of fifty miles mUes is desert A large part of or it is I the dry clay olay bed ot of otan an ancient lake level as a a floor and supporting practically n no vegetation except an as occasional tuft ut of rabbit brush brushA A Celebrated Watering Place On the state line between California and Nevada is la a well dug by some philanthropist t and equipped with a i windlass and bucket buckek buck The water is brackish h and fit lit only for the horses Upon the windlass is a sign bearing this inscription 4 Tile This wall well is 99 9 feet deep t Brace upi up You can make it Across Acro the line Une In California CaUl Is the California Eastern railroad This lit little little tle tie road ro d was built some years ago o from Blake on the Ute Santa Fe Fc to the mining camp of or Manvel ManYI Cal Cat Since the San Pedro and the Oregon Short Line began on their project of or roads meads the t e California Eastern has been extending to intersect with the surveys of o these two new routes From the California line fine the road will traverse the deserts deBert of or San Bernardino county climb the range ra ge at Cajon pass and then pus pass through the beautiful ranches and orange groves and pretty cities that lie between the mountains and the sea ea in southern California At the Utah end from Nevada NeRda state stateline stateline line the road wilt will m pass pas across oc oe occasional occasional strips of or desert through can canyons canyons canyons past pest mountain ranges near live lively lively ly mining camps and through fertile ferUle valleys until it reaches its terminus in the Promised Land lying between the Wasatch Wa and the Oquirrh ranges the broad broa and d beautiful valley which contains the Great Salt lake Jake and the great Salt Lake City |