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Show I Wonders of the Inter-Mountain That Tourists Never See WHAT do you call the map or woman who rushes from the Atlantic lo the Pacific, does the great State of California In a week, Yosemlte, Yellowstone Pnrk, and Salt Lake City, each in a day, returns East and talks learnedly and enthusiastically enthusi-astically about the wonders of nature and the achievements of man? The mania for "making a call" at celebrated places for the mere satisfaction satis-faction of saying "T have seen them," Is apparently too general to be thought exceptional. One can read realistic descriptions de-scriptions of all the prominent places along the lines of tivnel, and talk quite intelligently about them from the data nnd descriptions given, but this great West is so rich in the marvelous and the romantic that many wonders In inaccessible parts have never been described de-scribed for general publication. It is these side trips into unfrequented places that yield the novel and interesting interest-ing information, that the inquiring mind relishes. ' Surprises Like Revelations. Any one of the great intermountain States would furnish a month's refreshing re-freshing observation and study, and to an Eastern man the surprises would come upon him like' revelations. Take as an illustration the Slate of Utah, with mountains rivaling Pike's peak, a salt lake nowhere duplicated on the globe, the greatest deposits of asphalt probably in the world, and Inexhaustible Inexhausti-ble mines of precious and useful minerals. min-erals. A State within whose boundaries sixty-seven Rhode Islands could nestle snugly, and have left 1220 square miles of water for Tjropagnting Narragansett claims. Even thirty-six Delawares would not cover the surface, and two 'Ohlos and one Delaware would find abundant room if they could agree politically. po-litically. From the pomegranates and cotton patches, of the southern' boundary to the pine cones and perpetual snows, of the northern mountains and peaks Is an astonishing leap.. Down In the Utah Dixie the silkworms spin their cocoons, go Into retirement and emerge resplendent re-splendent with wings; at the north the speckled trout sport, undisturbed, in transparent lakes ten thousand feet up from old ocean. Up there nature has hollowed out a bowl now and then, and capped the rim with the semblance of trees, while down the slopes the scrubby scrub-by woodland "feathers to the water." and hero you find the spot to commune with the superlative In nature, and wish to stay a thousand years Lako in the Mountains. Away in the recesses of the Uintah ir.ountains is one of these lakps, one mile by three in extent, surrounded by the most bewitching scenery, unsuspected unsus-pected and unfrequented save by the hunter and the Ute, antl in its sixty feet of water are the finest of fish, wary, suspicious, gamey to the limit. Here is the picturesque In nature fit place for a magnificent summer resort. In these mountain canyons are noisy waters leaping from shelf to shelf in the rocky gorge, throwing spray on bending bush and crumbling bank, and thundering on with the. rush of a cataract, cata-ract, till the mouth of the canyon Is reached, and the impetuous stream widens and now moves with more majestic ma-jestic flow, while on the banks are stretches of fertile soil and luxurious growths of bush and tree and tangled vines, and you wander Into weird and silent places, so solitary and solemnly impressive that the chirp of a cricket seems irrcvei out. The excursionist would profit by getting get-ting away from the railroad and seeing see-ing something out of the ordinary away from the beaten track. Get Into the cultivated valley and watch the water from the irrigating ditches creep through the grass and silently Instil new life Into the growing grain. Get acquainted with the man with the hoe. Shake hands with him. Should Stay Longer. The man on a trip should keep his head: should stay long enough in a place to distinguish the east from the west, up hill from down, and look at a thing long enough to ,know whether it is living or dead. The superficial observer ob-server may Innocently circulate false impressions and ridiculous notions. Any one of these intermountain States is full of undeveloped resources, rich In mineral treasures, peculiar in industries and productions; with canals, ca-nals, reservoirs and irrigated fields; flocks and herds; climate unsurpassed; scenery nowhere duplicated, and presents pre-sents Innumerable subjects for observation, obser-vation, thought and interesting study. The smelters, eugar mills, the machinery machin-ery of the mines and the mines themselves, them-selves, irrigation works, Indians, and multiplied subjects forjbe sightseer, student and Investigator, an here. "What a field for the minister, whos texts are suggested, and apt illustrations. illustra-tions. Sermons Just grow. |