Show KNOW UTAH By ALBERT F. F PHILIPS J Tourists who travel th the Arrowhead trail from Salt Lake to southern Utah and to California in palatial trains rains seldom if it ever er give a thought to the old ox team that hat hauled over the tho came route Now the journey by rail takes 24 hours the ox team required at least 14 H days Here is the route of the pioneers when the they sought the sunny southland and now the playground playground playground play play- ground of the world o 0 0 Let the start be made at Salt Lake There were a I number of caravans that made the trip to obtain homes lomes in the section purchased by the Latter day Saints about San Bernardino In tn in all acres From torn Salt Lake to San Bernardino is miles Ox teams earns made the Journey in 14 days under favorable circumstances but it usually required a longer time The route was through Fillmore w v S The road runs through to Salt Cruz crossing sing a a. desert of or 50 to 60 mUes miles wide ide and making Sevier Bevier river iver the way half point from capital At Corn creek was an Indian farm Iann and Weaver 64 miles mUes from Fillmore Cedar Springs is 15 at the entrance to the Par- Par avan valley where as early carly as 1806 there was a fort and a a. settlement Then came Fillmore which for a awhile awhile awhile while was the territorial capital one session of ot the assembly meeting there The old statehouse statehouse state- state house louse is still standing and is now a state museum six Ninety miles must be counted from in Little Salt Lake valley alley to Fillmore At Coal creek the road oad forks the central one being preferred IiI The next station is Mountain Meadows the southern south- south era ern m rim of ot the Great Salt Lake basin The Santa Clara is reached and thence a tot total 1 of 70 miles mUes must be traversed d divided Into several stages to the Virgin river Perhaps the divide is reached in 30 miles when the he path crosses the divide of the Muddy river Here Bere Heren Berea a n. desert 55 to 67 miles in breadth leading to Las Vegas is entered a fo c. Thirty miles beyond Las Vegas lies a pretty water waterhole waterhole hole lole called Mountain springs a a. preliminary to Dry lake which is a second desert 40 to 45 miles mUes broad and ending in an alkaline water hole called Kingston springs When passing through Las Vegas the tourist tourist tour tour- 1st looking to the right hand side of the road both railroad and airplane can see the tile ruins of the old smelter which the pioneers used to smelt their lead Little pigs of the metal arc are found in museums in Utah Nevada and California The third and last desert to be negotiated is one 40 0 miles broad which leads to W a a. post established for forthe forthe the he protection of ot emigrants and called Bitter or Bidders Bidders Elders Bid Bid- ders ers spring which is miles from Las Vegas One more stage Is reached at Indian river 35 miles away a a. tributary of or the Colorado where thero there was another military establishment Following and crossing the course of the stream the Sierra Nevada range is 15 sighted Fifty Finy miles further down the Mojave canyon the he city of San Bernardino now flOW the orange center of the he United States is reached CI Ninety miles further south routh from San n Bernardino San Pedro Js Is reached and from that point to San Francisco water conveyance could be had This completed completed com corn the Journey |