Show t DIXIE IN AND OUT ott ida luf OF ht THE CAMERA ana aoa nna glauber halts salt blacic moun noun bains pillars ol 01 bulack iasu lasu ash nna and Cacti jitt jett ghe she fhe 1000 reet feet 1 1 in Bell merl elleyne evoe evne i 81 siam slam am banff bang dixie wipe and It its sPeen peculiar deflects virgen elty eity ety mules nua nud retreat beater beaver dam indian unil unit other washer women nomen northop eburg tittle mon zion yali Vall eyThe to senile ot of utah willllr buu biu ys eddleton city colton cotton colony st georae J K E johnsona coulm sona garden dexle wine in cern tho the Temp leThe retno thap de cle the tho clinna tc tu rat uni productions grand onieh galen copper nna and goal coal the who rau Rap Indians The desert deserts the needle keedle paim Palm The thip spanish bayonet nore more acneta SALT nake LAKE crry april lith 1875 5 the tho roa ron road rond d from Ka narra slopes slops gradually to the bouth south on the right is the black mountain from whose summit you inny may look into arizona and anil nevada OH on the south and wet oa on iha tha th lert left bridgel a ride alde of mountains skirts the load joad acome home twenty miles T etwo WO lna inA immense mense shafts of red rock pol poi point n t heaven heavenward warda a few miles south of Ka ranar Kanar narra rj these h have havo uve dve besen beien called the pillars of or hercules the canyons K abarra are full of wonderful rocky chasms and narrow passages alt all al conf couf composed posed of glaring led sand baud stone from the pores of which exude a white substance called here mineral but I 1 believe it has been determined chemically tb be glauber salts it is a neutral substance and therefore not alka ape hpe further south where its pres ence 1 is mo more moro re easily seen been it is hurtful to vegetation in many places the land is flooded with water waler to carry off the surplus ini sd a aa to render it available for cultivation A As we descend the black blaek vudge ridge we pass over a volcanic mass of rock down a beautiful dugway constructed at a heavy cost following down ash creek phe the traveler will be surprised at the many changes in tho the looks of the vegetation that nov now appear I 1 think N it is the tho only part parl of ut utah etah that you can ean find a useful article of hard hardy wood the ash is found inmost in most of the streams running south from thy mountains meun taina on the rim arim of the basin though not in large quantities the coni constant tant c companion 01 ol the traveller the sage brush in utah and nevada begins to disappear in its stead we find ali ail all kinus kinds of undergrowth such as the tho bayonet cactus the booso yucca baccala bac cata tree cactus opan tia tid carpa and several kinds of greased greasewood in every case covered with nin fin nine fine 8 thorns in fact on the native undergrowth of this sou them clime 1 1 thorns infest everything there are also several other kinds of ch cae cac CJ tua growth that are very curious and interesting to tha th botanist and the general observer the plant is a very usef user useful ul one for many reasons the root ia Is ased used for washing fine fabrics the leaves are composed of a bibro fibrous UA substance that is made mado use of in ili tying up grape grapevines vine I 1 saw a maui mati with a halter halten made of the green greeli stalk away down in mexico a kind of or plant is dried and the fibrous parts are packed in bale and sold to be used in making blushes atia it la known in the trade as tamp tampico leo ico whether our plants ants can n bo e made available for the same me purpose or not I 1 do not know I 1 am told that a resident of leeds makes ropes from the dried T found that we had bad descended 1000 00 feet from karl Kari arra arna to the first piu pine tree binash in ash creek cows are nibbling off the green grass and tb the 0 buds are swelling on the tho cottonwood trees march loth away back in the unrecorded past pasti Streams of molten lava poured over the mountains en on the left bf of us in many places on the summits of the hills beds of volcanic rock may be seen perched upon tho the tops of white and red sandstone bluffs some geologists maintain that tho the valleys essof of dixie axie were then moun mountains talus mey they b abing been washed away the va valleys 1 leys are now found where tho the mountains otoo d but I 1 must beg leave to differ all great men will do so as in many places just enough and no more lava java has run over the edges of the bluffs to fill up little hollows and crevices the pathway of the stream is plainly seen an what did run over oven just reached a certain point and stopped inthe bl bluff hall hau not been ther the laya could boula not have taken ahe abe form it has hash from thi inper infer en PV tani inui I 1 am iric fric inclined lined ta believe that thi the e v valleys of bixio are as old as the hills the tho first village we como come t to on burway dawn is bellevue on evey 1 1 ar hanla hanja the husbandmen ehi efi are PV trimming 1 1 i qing ming up their theli grape gripo ynes and putting gardega gardens in order the mt aly is warmer it the egand mond rond deeper the rocks thicker as we descend we ive diverge from irom the main road and pas pass over a rocky ridge to boquer yuie vule af t I 1 am rightly informed jt isis one ono of 0 the oldest settled mettlea places jn dixie on ba our arrival therece the there rewe wa heard sounds of mirth and aud dancing some folks had bad been getting married and about 80 or 40 men bad had suspended wor wo kand were pla Oll ylli the scientific g game ne of slam bang bang with the staves of empty sugar augar kegs ag to p celebrate the event prom from all ali appearances some bome wine li had td been disposed of they were all till as jolly as hs men could be As rowein tye lye ro werm vele were in tri theland lib jib ednd of wine we j bought a crit puit for ten cents and found foun eppu enough gh nire fire in it to make our party oli thre feel peel peculiar I 1 cannot say that the wine I 1 have tasted made me feel jolly it had theaon the tho contrary li effect I 1 felt as sleepy as ir though b 0 rah I 1 had been drinking laudanum tea but this is la possibly on account of the way I 1 haye have hye aye been bien raised toquerville ajsa is isa a neat trim and ind brutty pretty vill village dge it has reached its fall development as such there is so more room for emigrants every bro of 0 available land is swallowed up ul it is watered by a beautiful sip spring its principal pro ro duct duet is wine virgen city is our next stopping place this is another village wrested fro from orom m a esad land hill bill by indomitable energy it is on the banks bank 8 of 1 the 1 1 tw 4 virgen a mean in insigne siant of moving 1 bu but under the influence of a freshet a roaring torrent torrents this is a n nice plade ewhen when the wind dont blow but when it dos does the town 1 is aln nin all nil in motion the sand as is flying everywhere her tn n 1870 1 I saw a house partly buried burle up with sand after a heavy blow but this thia is changed cowand now and virgen city is a fixell fixed fact our first ford of the virgin river developed the perversity of pu r erd els no igo sooner lad had we started across the quicksand than they stopped short which gave usa us a chance to wash wish our bur feet and help out the fast sinking wagon grafton and nun Dun duncans eana cana retreat are little settlements anthe on the strip of land bordering the river every spot of which is ader cultivation beyond Bey are stark black volcanic rocks and high rocky ridges in the distance i eveny every every new change in n the river b bed ad cuts away bread and butter in a few places freshets tresh fresh bets ets and the arver had taken away aarts of nice mice farms in im a 1 feW fow hours bours A man mari is likely to be impoverished at alnio almost st any moment the beaver dam settlement was once H u small swill paradise but ull all at once it took a botio notion ai to go do down w n stream and is ino jno no more Boc roc rockville kville and rightly named is higher up jup thea the iver river than the two preceding places and is also a pretty hegt nest in ln the boblis improve In ment brits sare tire tiro going on here that indicate d a stirring community our andian brethren may ady cleaning in ou out oue i t ditches and working borki n a at dt all kig kinds lids rids 0 of f jobs this ia certainly a more civilized occupation than gathering chignons chignone chig I 1 learn that the tho squads squaws ua play alayu 1 upon p on the washboard wh 01 considerable and awk or all dy day figr for z k yard or IWO two of calico I 1 lake city needs an immigration immigrate grat I 1 on of bue buo such h cheap washer ashir women 1 I look upon a first cla cia class ts washerwoman as the most independent of mortals many a strong minded woman has to knuckle down to tb their imperious Imper lotis demands the mountains bordering the river are higher and more precipitous as we leave rockville rock boek ville A few houses make up northup and a mile or two further Sp ringdale looms up we are following the left fork of the rio bio virgen and leave burg en on the right hand fork the road gets worse as we ascend the stream for little zion valley but the increasing grandeur of the scenery makes up u p for it the rocks on each side bide of us ils are getting higher and tho the canyon narrower untilla until it finally culminates in a small valley of bf very rich soil soll oi surrounded on gli ail all all sides by wall rocks from two to three thousand feet high of white and red sandstone e many of ile the lie peaks are arc very fine anti anil tiie ilia bed of tho the creek is the paradise of studies studie for a landscape pain painter painten tei at this season of the year the sun does docs not shine in the velley valley ten welock and ets mt three BO so that ono one is well weil Js haded la A fo few wears years ago adew afew families lived jived here but hut they had to succumb and leave what with freshets fresh ets aud and the ex ar aremo loneliness of the tho place iley could stand I 1 it tho so I 1 longer on gel 1 th their air cab ins are now for torrent reut rent we stayed there three days and nights rhe the wind howled through the canYO fat tAt at night hight terribly and the goldwag cold coid was wag 9 J ur mr bemb tense it would make a nice atene i prison irison for those who are fond foria of loneliness I 1 think it may justly be called the of utah with willi this drawback the absence of water in the heights heigh ta above who admire the wonders of nature should pay a visit to little zion malle valley Y we 0 retrace our steps back over th esam oid to Virgen CitY rt follow down the river by tho Q new road over hurricane hill this is a bad road for nervous people and one of the places you do net not easily forget theroan the road follows the crest of a volcanic ridge so near to the edge as to make you wish you were on level ground if your team should be unreliable I 1 after the hurricane comes cornea a calm of deep sand for several miles through which you are obliged to wade the vegetation is of ot the most interesting character cacti caeti bac cactus everywhere i you wonder when the dream of the poet will be realized iso tiyo more will sn sin and sorrow borrow grow nor nop thorns infest the ground all around you east west north and south are ridges of of many colored rocks slack black rocks and white red rocks and alre girt gi rt extinct craters cinder heaps alkali barran barrens and every element to 6 make a country look godforsaken god forsaken and desolate desola 6 in this particular locality crossing the virgen again after atter pa passing 1 ng a nort fort ca I 1 le d B u rys S spring n gap I 1 built bull t asa aaa nan lookout post against I in ini n dlan dian raids raid sand and we finally re reach teh ich washington boasting a woollen and cotton mill and dud PL a good many manx nice mice residences fine vine vineyards yards yaros and gardens the peach and apricot trees are now in bloom but rather blackened by frost springs of clear nice looking water are abundant but th they eyare are best let llone alone there is very little good water away from the rivers and that is very sandy mid middleton bileton is passed ging going to st SL george and some bome nice booking farms ares aros eenon each side af pf the road As we have left ce cedar darand and aud pine timber behind us the brush comes in handy for making fences A colony of brethren from brigham city ara are located near til this isi place plade on the virgen riven river their oba object act is to raise cotton for use ip jp their woolen factory instead of importing it from the states st george as you approach it from the north looks quite im posing cosing the tall spire of the meet 1 ag house and a fine courthouse court house bu building I iding with the ponde ponderous roud walls of the temple in the lower part of the city give the look of an old settled town instead of one of only fourteen years growth the city is watered by large springs that are taken great care of and economized to water a large largo tractor tract of land as st Gt george orge is 43 well weli settled the cro g out here plentifully wherever the land has not been doctored to destroy deatron ir it and the streets in the lower p rt are white welte as though 0 they had a co atine afine of snow A high ridge of vole volca volcanic a n ic deks walls in stgeorge bu ton the we wet west t and another one of red gand tand sandstone stone on the northeast the land slopes down gradually to the virgen river biver and the distant vl view ow for luany anany miles looks south verily a desert has been spoiled to make productive spot but it is really wonderful to see the beautiful beau ticul gardens and fine vineyards foremost among them all is the garden of J 33 E JT inson esq the visitor here will find an epitome of all the vegetation abounding in this climate figs fruits andele vers aers from every countr country yare yaro are nursed with tender caie cafe care an and aud d among ong them all I 1 saw a banan banana plant the experiment has not been fully tried to raise oranges and leni ieni lemou lemon but with a little care carein ah winter I 1 believe belleve such delicacies may rosy lo be 10 successfully cultivated tiva ted the cactus growth of the country la Is represented here by specimens f brought from different localities whenever even a railroad from the north reaches the south routh wo we can alu fruits fruity bles wi jaste ihn ifa stead ik d off having baving the them from california ewltia that thal event bce bcd lira tira the people af dixie will viii have bave their day of rejoining ing as all their thein products will nind find h t ready market I 1 in n lb the 6 nei naj north 1 tb s 0 we 0 f t he residents have of gallons gillons of wino wind stored robed away hway III in their cellars and every ye year arAlio ardile the wine producing cap rapi rapacity capacity city felty of the country la Is lug tile tiie bof which ean can bo be estimated by tho the fact that an acre af good vines will produce some g galloff allon li of wine this will generally trade when when whon carried north for iwo bushels of grain for a gallon of wine which would equal bushels of grain grald to the acre rather a productive e the codling cothand moth and phylo xera have not yet troubled the fruit trees and vines so mar far south and as we never had tho the moth until wo we imported fruit trees rees the people south had better go slow in buying fruit trees north too much praise cannot be given to the patient early settlers of this legion keglon as the privations they have passed through have been of the most trying character before the advent of the cultivation of lucern it was almost impossible to keep a cow cour but that thrifty bershas herb berb has been one of the real blessings to the country A |