Show WOULD BE SCENIC ROUTE OF AMERICA RA railroad if r oad F from rom 0 green r ee n X alver ive r to uintah basin BASIA would have support of the gould interests by ed p F harmston thursday august 21 left mcphersons ona sons at ft a m and reached buell dam site 10 miles below at 1280 1230 p in where we ate dinner in the rock house below the dam rite the power company has baa done considerable trenching drenching tren ching built two rock houses stud and consider able trail and road but no permanent work upon the dam for the first four miles this morning the line con finues on east side of the river then crosses to the west side where it remains remain to a point just juat above the mouth of price river where it cross ex e to east side bide continuing on that side aide of elgin desolation canyon ca a yon ends e n do and a nd grey arey canyon begins at a point about three miles below sons ranch desolation can yon is for the most part composed of red sandstone form ing very massive walls and ending at the south in fantas tic spires domes and cles the grey canyon Is in at first composed of grey gray sand stone then the lower two third changes to shale with grey sandstone capping the ithe shale becomes darker agthe as the coal measures are approached in the vicinity of price river coal canyon is fit situated just above the dam site on east side of the river is in a box can yon 76 toot feet deep with alkali seepage in bottom about two miles below the dam site we pass poverty canyon very similar to coal canyon about four miles above tho the mouth of price river the trail being on a plateau about feet above the river we cross over a narrow peninsula and the trail drops in a agg zigzag route feet to the mouth of rat tle snake canyon a more pro eminent canyon than either coal or poverty prom from this point the trail follows down the east side of the canyon at one place the coal Is in excavated to make the trail eighteen miles above elgin we pass pan the mouth of price river at which point the coal measures are arc very much in evidence the line from a point four miles below mcphersons sons is in a box canyon at most places however being wide enough to permit the rail road to be built without great expense to a point about three fourths mile above the dam site from which point for a distance of 10 miles a large continued on page 6 |