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Show PioturescLue Eegions , Vicinity of Salt Lase.. -, . l ;LOEIOUS POSSIBILITIES. ;ption of Its Many Betties-i Betties-i Most DeligWful Drive-Au -tractive Summer Eesort. eBforthe Bait Lake Times. a Lake has in Us immediate wonderful variety of natural and pleasure resorts is an ' but one which cannot too Ul and re-told. Strangers here every day. aud the "tlfov n-alize the beauties of iu chosen home the sooner eel settled and satisfied at 5 their lot amongst surround-Twhicli surround-Twhicli tboy need not be bat can Justly ho Vid; t'he future development . Ij is almost limitless, "(dorado man describes it as Leulville and Manitou in one, , jllc features being derived L.nt mines at Park City, only iir miles distant by rail, fthe most delightful near-by ,ad probably almost unknown ,ads of Salt Lake's new ci tithe ti-the City Creek canj'on, whence he mountain stream bringing us W sparkling water. This creek ay up by that snowy cone with ne trees on it, which you see far L.re back of the north bench, we take a buggy and drive up von. Our way leads through le Gate, then quickly turn-L turn-L the narrow . cartyon hose sides are lined with neat ;s in a couple of minutes we c mouth of the canyon and are - a smooth road with the creek down over the boulders at our orations were not carried on so close to the stream. Away we go further up, and soon tho gleaming masses of snow, which we saw from tho city, begin to look close at hand. The road grows somewhat rocky, and wo begin to question the advisability of going further.' We have heard of the falls and proposed on setting out to see them before turning back. We feel like Stanley in Africa and perhaps incurred as much personal danger. So we keep on. Suddenly the roar of falling waters breaks upon our hearing, and in a few more hundred yards we turn a corner aud there meets our view a charming succession of falls. Not indeed a great height, but well worth coming to see. "What a charming spot to linger on in solitude," suggests my companion. "How one can shut out and forget the busy world. Surrounded here by naught but the sublime features of primeval nature far away from the jarring influences of niau's " What ho might havo finished will never be known, for suddenly there came borne upon the mountain breezes: She's my An-nie, I'm her Joe. She's my Nanny, I'm her beau. Soon we'll mar-ee, Never to part. "Oh, gracious!" wo both cried, "arc even these rocky glens echoing that everlasting refrain." "Hullo, there! Say, how far is it from town" "Seven miles." "Can we get any farther with a buggy?" "Yes, right up top of the divide about ten miles." "How high is it here?" "Over 6000 feet." "Thanks." We lingered awhile by the spray of the tumbling waters, gathering moss and water cresses, and reluctantly turned our '. horse's heads citywards. Forty-five minutes later wo were again passing under the Eagle Gate, having pondered on the way down on the glorious possibilities of this delightful canyon when the authorities shall have time to make it what it most surely can be made. F. T. "ne change from the tmsy street iu but a few minutes ago is re-ie. re-ie. On either side rise the i the canyon 150 feet high, and up on the north side is the hick forms so conspicuous an rom all parts of the city, rade of the road is evidence of cd with which the waters come j down, if the pull on our collar did not ' show it. The sides of the canyon are green fly. Everywhere are clusters Id desert flowers bursting iroups of youngsters with picnic in their hand and knots of other no we pass, all of them heading hady recesses higher up. Clearly enot new comere. This can-mold can-mold story to them, but every ts beauties the rushing waters, intain sides, and the wild flowers fresh joy. tic mind could easily find elo-jr elo-jr a reverie, and even to such a (1 case as the writer the scene lo these lines: .. ; t the turn runs down t ; be uplands brown. . . , :., Wshts of 'the snow clad range, ncHlyne drawn from the stifling town reckoned a fair exchange, las! the poetic dream is rudely y a horrible stench striking the y senses, aud a turn in the road avast heap of stable manure in of decay, while scattered about ' of rubbish of every kind tin d clothes, stinking bones, bro- ties. Here, in fact, is a public md not an old one either, for f this is of recent date. I explained to my companion, i visitor, is set aside as a park pleasure of the citizens. The 1 the public dump was 6U11 thick uostrils when -wo reached . a there the formerly beautiful sides of the canyon aro by hideous gravel pits upon von now men arc at work still increasing tho desl ruction of beauty. ntly we reach at a distance, of ? from the Eagle Gate, a quaint tiling nestling among the trees Hie rushing water's edge. This ast permanent habitation. ' beyond is an old watcnnill, for-wiicd, for-wiicd, like everything else, ' by in Young, but gone the way all Us go sooner or later burned, wnt more and we are at the ""'ks where the city supply up on the left we see the rnouu-f rnouu-f Marred by the cuttings made ?ipe liuo leading to the capitol above. 'lie road begins to rise very rap-'l rap-'l in some soft places is badly fluently by heavy traffic. Soon less of these wagons is asccr-;j asccr-;j we reach a point where lime "t'ing quarried out of the moun-l,! moun-l,! Md a party of workmen have i'- It docs seem a pity that for l;of this lime, which is so plen-aiauy plen-aiauy other places near the city, !'k should be going on here. mi upward we go, and at about ! from the city the waters of k rush over a dam which has nstructed to turn them into the ' niU pipe line. Wonder how la'er is going down! Here is a to estimate. ect across, six inches deep. fur miles an hour. Result, m'llion gallons every twenty-l,rs! twenty-l,rs! Reader, make a note of reference later on in the sttm-'Perchance sttm-'Perchance you are cursing 'it has scribbled on the side of ,(1en house covering the head- hnaclunBe right away, ,"Kh w e do have to borrow t In , bea the clods rain today, st when the sun shines tomorrow. ;, Person of weak intellect Viad J5' been overcome by the' dis- so much of the precious fluid Ml by we come to a cabin which S a claim, and sure enough there 'ypical pioneer, t'he hour is uou, but he reclines at full ,n a lied, which seems to be the 11 article of furniture on the ; nqtiiry, wo learn that he has "P 100 acres, which no one would "grudgo him if bis domestic op- |