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Show 1 1 The Wasatch Story of fcfcPlet,', ' 1 (Continued, from Procodlng Pago.) i dustry of this stale, may still see this interesting relic. A crude, primitive affnir, indeed, hidden away .imoiig tlic willows, a little to the northeast of ihe summer cottage of James II. Moylc. The flume that once supplied the plant with ' water has disappeared, disap-peared, but the rock-work is almost al-most intact. And certainly it is worth preserving as a souvenir of the early days. Peeping up beyond the dark fringe of pines beyond the Silver lake, may be seen the great cliff from Which the ore was taken. 'Phis cliff also looks down upon the rioted Wasatch scenery Lakes Mary and Martha. The Mountain Lake miuc. it is now called, and is owned by Jesse Knight, and it is operated at present from the 8nke creek side of the cliff. If w,as not long after the erec-'tion erec-'tion of that first smelter that the famous Emma m'ine was discovered discov-ered and developed, and then mining in the Wasaloh mountains moun-tains began in earnest. Scenic Passes. The Pass of Gleneoe in Scotland Scot-land is one of the most famous passes in the world. Jt has been painted into unnumbered pic- turcs and described over aim over again in verse and prose. And yet there arc a thousand passes in the world far more grand and of which avo have hardly heard; in fact, about which but little has been said. AVc have, I was going to write, a hundred here in Utah that exceed ex-ceed it in wildncss and grand-cur. grand-cur. And T do not believe that number would exaggerate the 'truth. The Little Cottonwood, at whose head lies Alta. exceeds Gleneoe greatly in scenic magnificence magni-ficence and 1 believe that I may add beauty. Gleneoe has nothing noth-ing like that, scene where the big mouutaiu the Tower of Babel looks down upon the lake that gives rise to the canyon stream. "Why, one might aslc, is the Scottish pass so well known and talked about and some of the others so little? It is this association with events of life and death, the human interest, in-terest, poetry. And for the samo reason I believe the Little Cottonwood Cot-tonwood canyon of our own "Wasatch mountains is more interesting. in-teresting. j f But how about the writing of "PletV That is what was to be told in this sketch. Is not 4haf. question already answered? The story of "Plet" was bc- " I&B JToxjvyTrt? Sirs IIjib JRTig-N' Bjiai-fTttMGm- gun without one thought of a plot. The narrative developed itself as it went along and the final paragraphs were as much a surprise to the writer as to the reader. Tho story made itself. ITov could it havo been otherwise! other-wise! There was the material. There were the living characters. charac-ters. There were the grand settings set-tings of nature and liic dramatic! dramat-ic! action among them. There was a focus of novel and characteristic char-acteristic western life. A phase of life, vivid, heroic and one that was transient, soon to pass and not to be repeated. An untried un-tried field for incidental and descriptive de-scriptive writing. But the author did not think of any of those things while writing the story. Tt was written writ-ten for love and because he could not help but write it. Aud yet it has been a great pleasure to know that the story, prose or verse, has been read beneath pine and palm, in lauds across the Atlantic and on islands of the Pacific, in countries of au-cicnt au-cicnt civilization and in others where yet the savage outnumbers outnum-bers the white invaders. Certainly Cer-tainly the author of "Plet" has admired and loved the Wasatch mountains. They have been to him a pleasure and a delight, a solace always. No more beautiful, beauti-ful, range is to be found in the west, in America, than that one upon which we look from our doors. It is difficult to tell in which season of the year lliey are the most attractive and fair to look upon. For these reasons the author au-thor cannot but feci a joy that lie has framed liis love for those noble mountains aud the heroic life and romance among them in the poem of "Plet" -J)jrj?jr7r Ojv T&jz 2vlsvztOT- ? |