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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBElflO, Ascent tTimpanogos Furnishes Numerous Thrills 3 1920 of-M- uy Useful Itemas Gifts aft U raenpee ted gttfisicas m Our Ceat Climber Is Impressed With Bigness of Nature and Littleness of Man; Glacier Toboggan Tries Nerve on Descent. , By DANA PARKINSON. For years Mount Timpanogos hag received little Attention from the communities lying t its foot They have taken the old fellow as a matter of course, considering him a part of the landscape, and little else. A few .nature lovers . wimmimti reported to Coming down, (he devil wink. Further upstream In the hanging rock, a mass of thousands of tona of rock projecting over thosoroad. that it is scarcely To the south, high discernible from the road. Is the CTstal cave, containing nine rooms.. 1 Every Day Manufacturers Are Sending Us New Lots of Goods to Be Offered in This Unmatchable Selling at Savings That Cannot Fail to Appeal to Every Thrifty Buyer. STORE OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL XMAS oiganize4aclub Camp Among Aspens.ranvon a few years ago and tried to get people Hikes Were interested In the mountain. conducted annually to educate the majority of the natives, who considered the mountain an obstruction rather than an asset. Last year the forest service decided to put (WO into a trail up the mountain, provided the .local people would cooperate The In developing this seenTc wonder. Commercial club of one of the towns agreed to install a camp at the footof The county agreed to the mountain. build a road. Another organization agieed to construct a clubhouse. In six months' time over (16.000 was spent on development, - One local newspaper which had prevloualy paid very little attention to its back yard had nine references to the mountain in one issue. During the sea. non the clubhouse was used as headquar-lerfor 700 boys and girls, who, in clubs of thirty to fifty, took turns bolding their outings here. Before the trail was completed 1500 people had passed over it. Movies Are Taken. One of the large film companies was induced to send a camera man to take pictures of a hike before the trail had hardly started. It was a strenuous trip, and after getting back to headquarters the camera man wrote., "But I have toy health back now and It's ail a mighty pleasant memory, but let'e not do it again until next year at least.!' The moving pictures were placed on the same news reel which showed fhe first transcontinental air mail service.. Tills reel was displayed simultaneously at 327 first-ru- n houses throughout the United States, There Is no telling how many second and third-ru- n houses displayed it. During the summer Just past the 1600 hikers included people from New York. Minnesota, Oregon. Texas and other states. They could not understand the mental attitude of a community which would allow such a resource to remain After returning undeveloped so long. ftonf the trip, they immediately searched toe stores for picture postcards The stores were well supplied with Illustrations of California and Niagara Fal's, but had no pictures of Timpanogos. Ascent Is Difficult. People of all descriptions and disposl tions have attempted the ascent. Some aie successful and some are not. An old colonel from Texas. 70 years of age plaved out a short distance from the top. However, he saw enough to cause him to make the exclamation after returning ' When get back to Texas and tell mv nelg Ihors the truth about what I have s 'cn they will rail me the bigctsf liar hi seirn states. ' 'I he trip had Pest tie made artei July otherwise lliete in loo inui h gnow. One li Kir's mi to ilde fiom Sa't Late hongs i. ic to t e mouth of American Fok d Rugged cliffs on either s d- ate and often screened with evergreens seems incredible to Hunk of tree If the g 'owing out of thst solid rock. niaglnation is active, profiles of all sots of iteatures are outlined hy the Jagged nuks. An old mans head is verv no-- 1 cei ie. w'th brush forming the and ehln whiskers High up to 'i.e i. ft i vvhat is termed "The Devil s A ye iai;e hole through, a mountain peal, just below the top. big enough to a low a team to be driven through, appears quite tlnv from the bottom of the earn on. AS one moves up the canyon 'h change in perspective gives the eye the appearance of gradually opening. 1 I nn-o- do-le- eje-hio- I Curator of American Fifteen miles up the brings you to camp, utiles the car la an espeIt can case In which ctally powerful one. go g mile further. Camp is made among the aspen and beside a beautiful stream. The top of Timpanogos is visible above a series of terraces or rocky shelves. The atmosphere and general environment are exhilarating enough for songs and stories!, around the cnmpfire. Most of the yarns ti are not especially encouraging to the uninitiated. who Is wondering whether he will be able to stand the trip. Next morning camp is vacated by 6 o'clock, The forest service trail is .four feet wide' and on a 15 per cent grade all- - the wav. It lgads through aspen, spruce and fir, past waterfall with drops Of from ten to 100 feet. Bluebells lafksnur, monkey flowers, columbine and monks-boo- d are strewn ptofusely along the path. , gtops aie freouent, so tnat an opporto appreciate and absorb tunity is given From the edge of everything en route tne the last shelf, camp beiow looks like, a thumbnail sketch. i V.. r r HUNDREDS OF THE NEWEST In View Is Unobstructed axi unrivaled 80 One-hamile fiom the' Summit the trail conies .out onto the divide wnith heretofore has cut off the view to the west. A ditference of one step on the trail reveals the entire valleys of Utah and Salt l ake, together with twelve towns. From this part of the divide the trail leads around a point and apparently to an impassable cliff, but this cliff is penetrated by a narrow chasm, through which youa is along climb. The last quarter-mil- e rim on the left of which is a sheer drop Of about 2R00 feet. At last the peak. 12.000 feet high, is reached and the view is unobstructed in all directions. The highest mountains in the state. 100 miles to the northeast, are easllv visible Sixteen towns, together with the valleys of Weber river, Beaver creek. Provo rivet. Utah lake and Salt Lake are ail in sight. After becoming profoundly impressed with the littleness of man and the bigness of nature, reluctantly you start down on tile side opposite from the ascent. lf value-givin- i g array. Amazing savings $80 $S at 0)90 in luck. Behold an unparalleled value gathering. - See this avalanche of real style and quality at low prices undreamed of before. K Men, be Sur.ly a wortder event. Buy tie Snappiest New Suit nd Overcoat faah-io- n at low pncee unmatched and unequaled and NORDS easy terma in the bargain. Mens Hats, Shoes and Furnishings for Xmas Giving at Surprisingly Low Prices Nords Xmas Gift to You Glacier Furnishes Toboggan. Soon the top of the glacfei is relied. It looks like suicide to go lurtl.ei, bill some nervv one sits down and gets loose in an instant he Is sprawling at the lottoni of the toboggan slide, trying to regain Ins feet. You say if dangerous or foolhardy, but nevertheless it looks like lots of fun. Maybe ten or twelve stait Andown In tandem and a away y they go. express elevator in building has nothing on this for making wisdom 'eeth teach down and grab your your breadbasket. Maybe you land in the some older in which you started, and maybe you do not. The ilinmes are you uon t know winch is you and whuh i I'.- After regaining youi o' bet fellow nearly and equilibrium, wan h the next tuiii.ii tonic nown. then you appreciate how much fun you had. e A more across the snow lirings tou to Emerald lake. Looking one how ever he wonders up. got up onto tiial cal,. .'DUO feet straight above. 4 It may be o'clock or it may be dark when- your vvearv limbs drag into camp. You rear a tarietv of comments somewhat as follows It was wonderful, but I'm glad I don't have to do it again. "Don't call me for breakfast: 1 am going to sleep until noon." tI wouldn't haVa missed It for 11001 "him going to get to make thnt trip if I have to snake him dl the way. "As soon as I get another dav off I am coming baik and bring the whole family." fnrty-ator- Our unequaled credit terms on any selection. STOSSES' TOMORROW GIVEN AWAY s ftJ' Sq 'll! half-mil- Sir I , President of Board Sends seum Makjng Collection Letter to Taxpayers Urgof Cliff Dwelling Material ing Issue of Bondi. Mu- X C. Nelson, the curator In archaeology of the American Museum of Natu-ta- l History, New York, Is spending a day or two hi Salt Lake as the guest of Professor Levi Edgar Young of the Univer- sity of Utah. Hr. Nelson is one of the In the United foremost archaeologists Stales, and has Yione research work in For Europe and the Asiatic countries. the past right years he has been working among the ruins of the southwest, particularly in New Mexico. During a short period of the past autumn. Dr. Nelson lias been examining the ruina of the Ran Juan river dlatrlct in southeastern Utah, ana ie returning to New York with a large and valuable collection of material from Arizona and New Mexico. He visited the university museum Friday and made drawings of some of the material, which he will use In future reAfter a short ports on the southwest atav in New York. Professor Nelson will go to China mid other parts of tha Orient to do research work in the ruins of the Asiatic countries, lie expects to be gone aoout five years He Is greatly interested in the origin of the American Ind'ana. and la carefully and aulentlflcally working on that subject. Dr. Nelson and Professor Young may examine the Iqdlan mounds that are known to exlat not far from the Jordan river Just west of Halt loika. Through the courtesy of the curator, tha university museum will receive soma valuable exchange material In the near future. professor Young was honored recently Kv the Pacific ill being Chosen coast branch of the American Historical aaao' elation to represent the organisation at tha annual meetings of tha American Historical association, to be held In Washington- D. C, ltecember 27, 26 and ;8. Professor Young recently returned from the meetings of the Pacific roast branch held at Pomona college and the Untver slty of Southern California at Los Am galea. where, as president of the organ' ix.it Ion. he presided over t he meetings and gave the president a address, which was on "The Religious 'Influences In the History of the West." fir. Edward (.'banning of Harvard uni varsity Is the president of tho listlnnal nt aanlxatlon, t lie and M Jusacratnl. Yench ambassador to the United Mates, Is tlie vlte president. Papers and will lie given by the noted Amer-Icw- n s hlstorisna. and many Impoi tan! will he discussed. professor Young expefts to attend twe of Hie meetings of tlis American Folk lore society, to be held In Philadelphia. This society will dtvi Jum ember JO no t boils br which the folklore and iradl-- , of the Indiana can best Amerioetv tions lie preserved. I ques-tion- , In order to present the facts of the present condition of the Granite sthool district and the importance of the bond Issue whli h will be voted 'on by the next Wednesday, December 22, tho president of the board of eduiatlon has. issued the following circular: "Dear Taxpayer Are we going to close' our schools In a few weeks? Uur present resources will Compel this early closing linleaa substantial aid la given. To nice, the emergency, the board has called n Lond election for December 22, 1820. T-bonds are to run for a period of twen.) years, with an option after the period. The payment of the bonda, there-forwill cover a number of years. The amount required to pay these obligations, providing the full bond Issue Is sid. will be about S7t cents por year on every (UK 0 taxable property, i How many parenta of Granite district Jwlll attempt to justify the depriving of 's their children of a schooling for the sake of a few dollars? The losa sustained by the children ran never be redeemed. can never be The half-yerecalled. 'The closing of school early in February will mean a seven months enforced vacation until achool resumes next fall. In what way will the hundreds of our pupils be occupied during this long Hod "The closing of schools at midyear, of course, means no regular promotions at the end of the year. 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