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Show SALT IiAKE TO XEV Y'JRK. Infcrollng UctaiU r a Trip Hr Iund and lValrrt URST I'Al-EK. My pilgrim igc began )Vednesday, rfcjt. 2ttli, at twenty minutes after eleven In the morning. Accom-paulod Accom-paulod by Mr. 1- I. Itlch, of Paris, Idaho, your writer lift Salt Lake City, ths great International center of the Rockies, for an eastern educational edu-cational institution situated at the city of Ithaca, and known 'as the University of Cornell. Woiooktho Itio Urand. Western, and it was not lonn before we were flying at light-uing light-uing speed tow ards 1'rovo, and then up S.onWi Fork Canyon, where lofty hills were colored wjth lb: yellow of the quaking asp aud tbe cottouwood, the red of the maple ind the gum of the pTne intermixed with the tinge of gold as tho ran shown don 11 from the height ibove. It , was not lon before we were over Soldier's Sum mitnnd traveling at full tpeeddown White and then Price River, until Castle Gate wa reached, wIiom walls wenvlowering heavcrtwanl to the he ght of 420 feet with a small pine t-tick on IbT higher aud -rao-t conspicuous I?klnir pek. Dawn lhee ri era, llirough Castle Vallej and across the deaert of eastern Utah and western Colora to, then-are then-are many things which would aniuso a person of an oWrving character, all of which I shall not have time to describe. There Is a rock cf a soapsud color found just wertof Price which is somewhat curtou. It Is of such a tough character Uiat it cau Iiardly be blasted, but when and just to soon as cjCpo-eU tcJ the air it crumbles to dust one sets whole and large hills of this character that are btlng thus brought to iut. Castle Valley is tho most unbroken and for other than a curiosity the least attractive region 1 have seen in thousands of miles. When I looked out and as far at tbe eye would reach 1 saw uothing but a broken, barren aud dreary wilderness, I ta-mght tiatio the beginning when the rains descended de-scended and tbe floods came all centered cen-tered la Castle Valley. At 7:30 we arrived at Green IUvcr for supper, sup-per, and by 10 o'clock were going dewn Grand Iliver, and grand it was with Its clifls towering upward and high, the river flowing and mating iu tho valley beneath us. Ily 11:",J as the tnn shoue beautifully, aud thegraues UoJd-d to the breezes, wc toiled Into Grand Junction, tho seat of Mesa Ccmuty, and situated at tbe junction of the Jrand and Gunni-on riven hrncc its name. Grau I Junction seems to be uatiirail destined to lie the thickest settled of all the rallies of western Colora.!o ffodi the fact that it hasa very rich aod productive soil, low altitude, and an abundance of water for irrigation. The finest of fruits and cereals are gran n. This saion two crops of strawberries were raised apples, iiears and know but lilthi after we pnsseil Grand Junction until tbemxldav save that wa changed from the wide-guage R. G. V. to tlie lurrow-gutgeD. lurrow-gutgeD. & R. U.and shortly after we were imvlng u,te fat do-n the Black Canyon of the Gunnison with its walls which sta id sheer ttvo tiiouKlmi feet high anj so clon together that most or the time e eu in broad daylight, only a njark of sky, spanslod with f Lars, Is csn la the bright blue einapy above. Tlie waters beneath are of a delicate emeriid green. The morning morn-ing of 84. 25th fi-und us at Gunnison Gunni-son City forlTcafcfat, and 415 miles from homa and friends. This place h.-wl population of about 3&03; ele-vatlou ele-vatlou 7u3, Is thesrtt of Giiaalsott County, lias two hanks, an ojiera hoje. a fair ewt houv, several churches, three chooi, saw' and planing mil', f. m !'i-e nni ma-chine ma-chine slii,, Siueiling aud ort sampling works, 1. Jes hoteN and ncpan-r the Hens-r-lYcu and the -Vers - DcmvcraL. Leaving Gunnison and Gunnlvotr Valley we -traveled slowly but surely up Tv-michi Tv-michi Creek to Sirger.fs rfiatiou, where ourtratn war rat Into two sections. The mall and baggage cars were taken on lead by one eugine, the remainder of tlie train was ha-iled by tiirec cnilms to the top oj Marshall Pass. There was a liose engine betweeu the Iwo ctlirui for a feeler and a safety, or, in other words, It Is run between the two sections for the uria of preserving preserv-ing tho rear train from any acddfnt if the foremost train shoul 1 break loose, and alj to feel al)ng the line If the roai is safe since the Hit train pied over it this Is done with every train that passes over this part of the road. The routo from Sargent ' to the top of Mar-tdnll Mar-tdnll Pass is a continuous curving and climbing a grade for fifteen ; mites of about 0J feet to the mile, until the top of the IJs is reached, an altitude of 10,555 feet, and some 350S fee: higher than SalUa,twenty-slr SalUa,twenty-slr miles on t-j the east. TfiS1 cont affords a mosf charming aud exteiiiive view,' the air become rrr.-cptlbly cooler, the tracks run Is all directions and tbni-Jgh some twent)-one snow shed, which vary In length from three to tnro.ru hundred feet. The sen-atlon experleuce-I, the grand and indescribable mountiin views, thertpid and astonishing changes at every turn of the glgantie wheel", (ogLtber with the nvtlty of the ride, are most marvelous, beautiful, imposing and sublime. Dvotx. Lauxciiko on the Ocean, Sept. ,39th, li93. |