| Show TO E 4 MOST SUBLIME the scenic attractions of dixie are unequalled Unequal led anywhere on earth the A washington county has brenic attractions tint that cannot be surpassed bi any aw other part of the known world anil and when a railroad is 13 built into the country tins this alone will many thou thousands nf of tourists at present tile nond wonderful erful beauty of portions of washington county are almost unknown n to the IN but n ith i a railroad near dear they n bould bo be ad advertised cruised ind and the grind cannon would probable 3 not be more to tourists thin than the wonderful ind billip cannons cin of the virgin river the cinon between thirty and forty miles cast of act t george has been set apart by Pie taft as ai a national monument the grandee s of its beauty bailles description it is 13 similar to the grind cannon of colorado in niana man respects except size being on a smaller scale however in the beauty of its col co loung oling its ornamentation and its glorious carvings it surpasses even the grand canion read the fol following follow ing extract from the government report of captain 0 E dutton of the united states geologic lo icil il survey who visited the 31 cinon after spend ing months at tho the grind cannon canon ind and cleao beir bear in mind that all the grandeur and beauty of the gr grind ind ceilon oil was fi flesh asb in the mind tf capt dutton when he lie vi visited cited the capt dutton says upon the calob heads the nolt bern fork of the virgin sometimes called llukan mu kun tu keap sometimes little zion river it flow a due south east of this is the caf cab caborn ctorn fork called the tile pa iu nu deap both branches ha bax 0 their sources at the base of the pink pinh cliffs and at length unite to form tho the virgin I 1 heir channels chan nils aie surely very verl wonderful freaks of nittie the lucip flous for man miles in a iacre cleft baiely fifty feet nide at the UIL bottom and sometimes narrower narron ron c r ind and attama a depth of more than 2300 2500 feet in be down its cli ell ennals into the sandstone the stream did not cut always s verti vertically ally 1 but s sias as cd ed from side to side so that gi eicie cat of 1 vall all overa mg the bottom of the abyss ind and in home places shut out tiie the sky overhead r ali the is even more lemarl able for a considerable distance di this stream ilso runs in a profound and exceptionally narrow cli chasm abin but it it at length widens out and juat duliere it joins the paruna ii cap 1 is a w u aich ultimately be belanic Lonic tho tile kno ledge of it is spread one of the hobt admired in the world king of his approach ap to the demples ind and boers toners of the virgin captain dutton says in an hours time we ILd the thu dolst of the and in in ill instant thu thue e flis lied us a blene acier to be forgotten in coming oming ti alnie a tile I 1 it t will I 1 bc beliam lieN tike rank with nith a very cry number of spectacles cadi each of winch which will in its oin way bo be regarded girded iw w the mot exquisite of its kind the world discloses 1 I lie soane before M was the temples and towers of virgin at our feet the surf tee 1 drops I ropi don donn 1200 feet up on i a bicad and rugged plain cut by the narrow cannons the slopes the winding ledges mes the bosses of projecting rock the naked mcany soil displays colors which are truly amazing chocolate Chocola tet maroon purple lavender magenta with broad ball bands of toned tolled white are arc in horizontal belts strongly contrasting with nith each cach other and tile ever vary ing ilig slopes of the surface cuts across them then capriciously so that the ebarp b defined belts wind about like the contonis cont colito ouis of a map from right to left across the further foreground of the picture stretches tho the inner can ion of the tile virgin iwuc feet in depth and her of considerable eidth lib ith is for the moba part lin unseen seen but in one place ii 19 dis by bya a in its course allowing showing the vivid green of vegetation across the cannon and rather more thin a mile and ft a half beyond beN ont it stands the il and commanding object of the picture the n western estern temple rising feet above the tile river its glorious summit NN was is the tile object we ue hid had seen an hour ind and now the matchless beauty and majesty of its vast mass was all before us yet it n was as oab the central object of a mighty throng of structures wrought up to tho the same exalted style and filling up the entire panorama opposite us are arc the tile two principal forks of the virgin the cap is seen emerging on tho the 1 extreme right through a stupendous gateway ind and chasm nearly feet in depth the further will nall of this can cannon on at the opening of the gateway quickly swings sn ings northward at a right angle and becomes become the castern ivall of little zion valley As it sweeps down don the it breaks into great pediments sediments ments covered all over with the calving the effect is much like that winch the architect of the milan cathedral appears to hive have designed though here it is iv avidly idly suggested rather than fully realized as an artist painting in tho the broad style suggests many things without actually drawing them the sumptuous ben bewildering il dering mazy effect is all there but u when hen e attempt to analyze it in detail it eludes us the flank of the wall will receding up the deap is fora for a mile or two wo similarly decorated but soon breaks into new forms much more ivo and w n wonderful ond erful A row ron of a i mile high is quarried out of the palisade 1 here is an eloquence in their foi flims ins which stirs the imagination with nith i t singular bin tin gular power ind and kindles in the mind of the dullest ob observer erver a globing response just behind them and being a 1 thousand feet higher is the eastern temple crowned with a doino dome of white sandstone but since it is in many respects a repetition of the nearer western temple ne e may turn our attention to the latter directly in front of us a complex group of white ton cis springing from a central pile mounts upwards to the c clouds aoud 3 out of their aidt and high above all ases i 1 dome like mass nias which dom the entire landscape it is 13 almost pure white with brilliant streaks of carmine debe ending its vertical cr walls at the summit it is ti and a flat tablet is laid upon the top showing its edge of deep red it is impossible to liken tins this object to any familiar shape for it resembles none yet its shape 14 far from being indefinite on the contrary it has bas a definite and i f which exhorts an all exclamation cla mation of surprise ft ihen hen first bel 1 wy W held the tile towers which surround bur round it aio ale of 0 inferior mabs and altitude but each of them is a study of fine form and architectural effect thea are above and change to a strong rich red below beloi dome and towers lie ale planted upon a bic no less admirable its plan is indefinite but its profiles arc are perfectly sl systematic ste matic A curtain wall nill 1400 feet high descends vertically from the tile eaves of the templo tempi and is succeeded by a steep slope of ever widening base courses leading down to the esplanade below the curtain wall is decorated with a lavish display of vertical moldings mol dings and the ridges caves eaves and mitered angles are fretted with nith cr er rated cusps this ornamentation is suggestive rather than precise but is none the tile lebs less effective it is 13 repetitive not symmetrical reverting exerting Il tm temple across little aion valley its upper mass is a repetition of the one ft in inch cronas the western pile it has the same elli elliptical contour and a similar red tablet above aboe in its effect upon the imagination it is much the same nothing can exceed the wondrous beauty of little zion valley which separates the two temples and their respective groups of tow ton ers ors nor are these the only sublime structures which look don down n into its depths for ones arc are seen on cither either hand in its proportions it is about equal to the yosemite but in the no p V V r MIS Z 13 is A A f 16 w 7 r ty I 1 W ci I 1 i N V 1 A 14 R A canyon grandest scenery in the world I 1 ability and beauty of the sculpture there is no coin com par pinson lson it is on to a satyr no w n onder the fierce mormon zealot who named it was nas act ninda of tho the croat reat aion on which hid his fervid ferid thoughts were bent of houses not built with hands efern il 11 it in i t alie lie ilea ell from those highly wi ought groups in the center of the picture the ee escapes to the we westward stuard along the miss of cliffs and buttes covered with tile same profuse decoration as tiro tire n vails ails of the temples and of the their color is brilliant red the terrace out of wh which i ell they b have ave been car carved ed is cut into by broad and slashed in all directions by wide canyon valleys alleys far par to the west nest nard twenty mile milea away is seen the I 1 list palis ido ide lifting its imposing front behind i a miss malm of towers and domes to an altitude of probably 3 feet and with i a grandeur which the dib distance tance cannot dispel and right here bete it at zion there is whit what is probably pro bibly the roost most unique sawmill in the world it is owned by the tile petty bro who have the mill on oil ille top of a bluff 2700 feet fedt in height tins this bluff is not a gentle lopo but T i perpendicular cliff which actually oi overhangs erli angs in place ille transport their gumbei from then null to the country below t w yi 4 the cliff by means of a cible feet long that is double of course or 3 feet the edge of the cliff to the tile station below as it descends at an incline they send don do n on in avenge average feet of lumber per day often counterbalancing alic loid load on oil the cable by hauling up baled liay bay and camp supplies several visitors ladies among them have bale arcende to the top of the cliff by tins this cable and liae lia e been lowered by tile same means |
