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Show ! -r-r-r-f !! I Fireworks Display in X Salt Creek Canyon 'H BY KENNETH C. KERR. 5 llPALT LAICE ls illetl w,th fornier i I Xephltes and they will no I J doubt remember a certain 3 Fourth of July celebration A. .. a 1U5S. On this important day the good i 3 Jp!c of Juab's capital decided to ln-? ln-? ' V.e Sanpete county and the Sanpete $ 7Ncy railway arranged nn excursion i R fern N'ephl to Moroni. Practically the rt!e population of Nephl bought tick-stand tick-stand the day wns surely a success, for to fun at Moroni lasted until late in ie evening and all seemed well pleased lth the programme, which would make itnuch longer story than is Intended t the present time. Oae of the features on the small bill a a $500 display of fireworks at the wks of Salt Creek canyon as the train Wnrned to Nephl In the evening. This u to be under the supervision of Col. -.J Mm Parry, he of the throtttle on the fcJnpete road. Everyone who has been there will remember him. ,ov'' the forks of Salt Creek canyon to a gc-Qlogical formation com-i com-i taily known as the honeycomb. It ls ? only a sight In that locality but ;! uj been seriously treated by well-cwn well-cwn EcientlBU as one of the peculiar f. of the tertiary period or some-; some-; - s&of that kind. It was thought that ; tke 5500 worth of fireworks could be i Ht off in front of this wild sandstone 1 p "nnatlon It would make a great hit S3 J1 be a fitting climax to the day's cn-. cn-. i Kftalnmcnt J 'a't Creek canyon is steep nnd the t m tack Is a steady grade all the way ' I Cr(ouGh 11 was arranged that the y tun should stop on the summit and the j I:yrk should be loaded on a push car and run down to the forks by gravity. gravi-ty. The train was to wait ten minutes and then proceed when its passengers would be greeted by a bombardment as the spot was reached. So the fireworks were loaded on the car and the firemen under the direction of Col, Parry, sat on the top of the rockets and bombs and lighting their cigars were shoved off. It was a thrilling ride down the canyon but the forks came into view at last and then the stuff was quickly unloaded and the car hauled off the track. Then came the rush for the honeycomb. "Toots" Vlckers was there with his wagon and it was not a moment mo-ment before the fireworks were on the vehicle and the rush began to the strange formation. But distances are deceptive. The honeycomb looks as if it were near the track but that night It was found out that It was quite a distance. The boys got there all right and pretty soon the whistle of the excursion train sounded. Col. Parry gavo the signal, everything went off like clockwork. The six men who set off the rockets declared it to be the finest thing of the kind on record and they derived the full enjoyment of the ?500 worth, but imagine their dismay when they returned to the train to hear the shouts of derision and when the Nephl Weekly came out next Thursday, there was a single paragraph, "A grand display of fireworks In the canyon. Who said rats?" The honeycomb Is so far from the track that all the several hundred excursionists ex-cursionists saw was a bit of red fire and one or two streaks that looked like rockets. " "I thought it was a good long drive over there," said Col. Parry a few weekij afterward. |