| Show II I THE T f TOPS TOP OF THE I T H I Doctor Kingsbury of the Uni University f Ut Utah a II Writes of Their Thel r Glory MOST PICTURESQUE REGION Not ot Surpassed ell In linked and aud Beauty by Any lie 11 lias 15 Keen to Sec S STo To the Editor Prof Win M 1 Dr Chun Chu l V and nd th writer started from the Stewart ranch on the river nt at tt lla Junction with canyon canon Aug 7 with toad otc etc and with riding and one pack animal for tor purpose of ot reconnoiter In Ing the reg region 1011 couth of at about the great k mountains of or the tah The fhe party was gone cone Ie da 11 and a 11 halt half 1111 mill 1 wag Vat con Constantly In the except one afternoon The country traversed w rou rough h rug rugged ed and In ninny 1 IUM with full on timber the p k and moun mountain tain the trie Umbel timber limit the tho country li II l with Ith a 11 luxuriant growth of ot pin firs nu and oU I here and there with Ith beautiful ful tul unit exquisite lake RIY in tn KUP from un acre or l n to 60 eo Her are ar locked up II p In III th the mountain and hll hav beun t Iten en by few reI men white while or I n l J The II Itka ai II high U II the level of ot thu ei e In Ing at lit un 1111 or f fel feland Anti and mor on Oll one mountain mountaintop top din H iw from II dingle lIngle point ut least laKI 10 lOot of th hodl H of fit wa water ter tOl in in rn my IllY lit f the tho I 1 1 luk i the b pond 1 lilY Illy and on the t IndY shores of ot others lire ure the toot fout lep of ot th the l bur r tn tb and elk nil ail of ot which added to the Inter 6 t of the party a II It meandered thin wild and country countr l Kor or 1 time party would be In III tha of M unable to KP fl hut but timber limber and scarcely able to tell lell tho In III which It Will wim when it IL beautiful open cither wl with h a Il meadow 01 III by br one of ot tho those e L u luken no In lesion coma VU Into view und from many mUll of ot II III be lit wen en the hIgh and the locote Time I time lime would occur from tho th blind Instinct of 0 man and tho occasional stance ut the lIun un the parlY would come upon the theM e By the WI way thu tun d with clouds moat of ut the trip It not been for tur the care carefully tull fully mapped out route prepared en ell for tur the trip b by Prof of or the government geological the could II never ep I ha have mu le the trip In the five ami a II h lulf lt daya lint could have hae lo lost t Itself for 1101 th the e traveled In III till round trip wa not lIot more mure than thull flo Ilia I II with Ith deep 1 mn In imi nl i r rocky wall walli and thou nf ot larff thud thull It I In Imperative to 10 know very 01 nearly the exact to take In III to get lPt Into the hI t country to about when In It II Mild and to get It out u uIt of It In once within 1 It rocKy precipitous Iou itous II boundary These Thele many lake are ure urethe the of or the Provo Pron B ar 1111 river ill 1111 II within the n near thu tho atul HI I t Jl of nt the On 11 It return the pann panned ed d the of ot about feet teet the thO of ot tI four and which joins the t points of or tin the I Mount MountA A U Mils 17 Peak HU Bald Hald miM u It number of ot other all ail within a II of ot Hire nr four mil At Uie Ule toot foot of or Mountain I is one olle nf ot the theto mn many beautiful lakes on the shore Ol o of which the patty on Its liS Ut out the ranch It cover an arcu nf or about 40 acre U III as Its clear a u In the morn In B Bof of ot the departure the water was u perfectly Kill nt K I that It reflected th ra ray with OR Oil much definition and perfection BIone at BI aton on one of or the best French Krench mirrors mIrror no fO that beautiful Image of or b II nIt with th the tre an and 1 nt III their based blUet rould be lIeen HI It distinctly a the objects themselves From on point on 1111 the shore hore the Im hu Imager ager of ot IIII Peak Huda PeAk Mount a 11 and Bald ald Moun Mountain tain b l miny 11 n others could be I seen een making a pic picture lure ai 01 and beautiful a ae nature I could pO af at afford ford tord The writer has hAIl been In the Yel Yellowstone and In III the top of mountains and In many oth other lh er r mountainous region but hai teen leen nothing grander ami more beautiful region with It Ihl rugged box canyons canon an and lakes un unsurpassed surpassed J liy In any other on 01 our globe lobe While up In the top tope of ot the tha It occurred to the writer that many of oC these lakes not no now containing nah should hould be stocked with mountain trout by b our commissioner and ond thus be made lIIde the source of or supply of at the finny tribe of ot th thle c four Important stream of water During Durin hip high water timed would find their way down from these lakes In Into to tit th below blo and lId fur tur furnish nish excellent In those thol streams i well n nl toni ton of ot valuable food to the cillan of ot the tate state Another lea I occurred to tn the writer while these peaks It Willi that Ihl thin would afford one of or the grandest for tor a scenic rail rell railway way on thin or aI an any other The road could find II Ita way to la Lake e Washington and other beautiful luken at lit the toot foot of ot Mount Walton Waton up the Iro U canyon tallon and wind lI Its way near the foot of or the mountain to th then Bald mountain th ne the mountain along the great divide before mentioned to th foot of ot and thence eu t tto to the foot tont nf of Mount ga U It nuT then wind l UH w upward around t this hi mountain two twe or nr th three e limn and give hp the thO tourist an In opportunity to view Ie the hundred bundred lakes lake meadow con can conyon yon and grand or moun mountain tain and nd peak to 10 plentiful In thin Hi III mott unknown region Thin would make a iI c railway tar far more Inor attractive than that contemplated In Inthe the Grand cunyon enon of ot the Colorado or ot any allY oth r that could coul be built within the on tin of at our country and grand region forma torm a portion of ot our own Such o 8 scenic railway would be Utah Attractions to 10 t The round trip from Silt Salt Lake City would not net b more th than bout about mile J T T |
