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Show artifact, can be found easily. Continuing wet, tha highway passes through Delta. tnodern .ettlement which sprang from the rolling plain, beginning in IVOU. large percentage of the nation, alfalfa .eed ie produced here. At Hinckley, the tour veer, .out for a .ide trip to the ruin, of old Fort De.eret, built by the pioneer, in 1866 a. protection ' '"J dian. during the Ut. Black Hawk War. Southwest of tho fort a cob-bleetone cob-bleetone marker commemorate, the pot where Capt. John W. Gunnison Gunni-son and .even of hie men were kill-ed kill-ed by Pahvant Indian, in 1853. At thi. point on the tour the traveler can either return tp Highway High-way 6-50 and journey to Lehman Cave. National Monument or continue con-tinue south on State Highway 26 to Fillmore. , , In Fillmore, the touriet can find the Old State Hou.e Museum State Park, a historical building which a 1 . 1 ' a AaXim I dates bac kto early Pioneer day.. The old .tructure wu Utah a hrrt capitol. It wa. erected in I8JJ by Mormon pioneer, when Fillmore wa. designated the state capitoL The pioneer building now serves as a state park and mueeum where pioneer relics and Indian artifacts are displayed. From Fillmore, you easily can travel to sections of Fiehlake National Na-tional Forest for camping and fish- Continuing north on U.S. Highway High-way 91, the traveler passes by Chicken Creek Reservoir, better known a. Yuba Re.ervoir. This reservoir, res-ervoir, as well as Mona Reservoir north of Nephi, is ideal for boating and water skiing. Nephi is the jumping off P ace for the drive over the Mt. Nebo Scenic Loop. The "loop" road passes pass-es through cool aspen groves and 1 green pine fords as it winds be-' be-' neath the 12,000 foot, snow-capped 1 peak. Beautiful mountain wenery and cool alpine r.tre. . await traveler, over Mt. Nebo Loop which i. now open for tha summer touriet Mason. i Payson, turning west on U.S. 6-50 at Santaquin. The highway passes through semi-mountainous, semi-arid land, and slides across the desert to the Nevada line. Game abounds on this yellow-gray landscape, including deer, antelope, jack rabbit., cottontails cot-tontails and other wildlife. In the Tintic Mountains, the road pasees through several small mining min-ing towns which comprise the famous fam-ous "Tintic Mining District", once the favorite campsite of Ute Indian Chief Tintic. After the death of the chief, some of the richest mineral veins in Utah were discovered beneath be-neath his old campgrounds. Eureka is the key city of this district which in the past has produced million, of dollar, worth of .ilver, gold and lead and still holds valuable ore deposit.. Southwest of Eureka the highway high-way passes within view of the shifting shift-ing White Sand Dunes. Hundreds of white sand hills and hummock, can be seen in this area. West of Lynndyl the traveler can see the Topaz Mountains where the world's largest topaz beds are located. lo-cated. The desert area of this tour is a rockhound's paradise. Some of the richest Cambrian fossil deposits in the nation are located here. In addition, gemstones, obsidian, arrowheads, ar-rowheads, pottery and other Indian rasa pZTh rasa gsj ir3V5' n &?J msgm ii lit Bronco busters and many other member, of the nation's touring rodeo performers will bo competing for prizes in Nephi'. annual July Ute Stampede celebration. UTE STAMPEDE, GREAT BASIN TAKE SPOTLIGHT ON CENTRAL UTAH TOUR The 1962 Ute Stampede celebration celebra-tion in Nephi July 12 to 14 will be among the top attractions on a recommended rec-ommended tour of Millard and Juab counties. According to D. James Cannon, director of the Utah Tourist and Publicity Council, this is a perfect time of the year to motor over the Mt. Nebo Scenic Loop and visit surrounding sur-rounding Great Basin country, once part of the bed of masoive, prehistoric pre-historic Lake Bonneville. The three-day -celebration in Nephi will include parades, three nights of good old western rodeos and a number of local events in which visitors can participate. In the rodeo, some of the nation's na-tion's top riders, ropers and steer wrestlers will vie for thousands of dollars in prize money. Tho suggested tour begins at Provo, Utah county, and continues south on U.S. Highway 91 through |