Show THE WASATCH AND JORDAN VALLEY B R E R yesterday at about twenty nive five minutes to I 1 a party of gentlemen on the invitation of hon vm wm jennings left tho the depot of the utah southern R it in this city on a special train on a trip to 0 fau fan fields feat the present terminus of the wasatch and jordan valley vailey R B R in little cottonwood canyon the tile party included presidents brig brigham liam llam you young n geo CO A smith and daniel H XV wells ells elis hons geo Q cannon jo joseph eph F 1 smith IV H hooper and W jen SE S E president of the deseret national bank bishops ward Hunt erand john and several other gentlemen th the e run from the depot of the utah southern to sandy bandy was made in twenty eight minutes minute 4 when the party changed cans cirs and immediately commenced their trip oil on the tho jordan valley narrow 9 gauge up into littie little the road lias bass a continual and heavy up upgrade orade grade and alid the track ili in places is close to the side of lofty natural embankments the tile traveler can scarcely help heip 2 feeling exhilarated while b breathing illig the pure mou mountain etain air and add if lie he has basany any love for the beautiful ho will enjoy the splendid alg view v of alg aig the country southward G rt x IT E tito tile first mining town in little cottonwood canyon was soon reached it possesses few if any features of interest to tile tilo tourist or pleasure seeker being like most young mining towns merely a collection of irregularly placed frame buildings most of them of a very unpretending and character life and bustle are there however and there are evi dences of considerable business being done not far from granite a little lower down the canyon quite a number of men are axe busy getting out rock for the temple fairfields pair FAIR FIELDS flae FLAT is about a mile and a half from granite between granite and Fair fairfields airfields fields the tilo line of the road is necessarily very crooked owing to the peculiar pecullar ar co conformation information I 1 of the can canyon on and the ascent considerable aule able rangin ranging to w wo 0 were informed from one hundred to two bundled and fifty feet to the tilo mile rot lot notwithstanding the steep stepp gradient tho the ground ia is passed over quickly the iron horse panting and pulling puffing and giving an occasional jeric as is if distressed sed the road runs on the north side sido of tile creek creck and between granite and tiie tile terminus there thero is a back switch fourteen hundred feet long which raises it about forty feet tile the continuation of the line to alta city will not bo be attempted until next season semon and at it Fair fielda preparations are arc in ili progress for tho the erection of a station and a wagon road ia is being mado to facilitate the transportation of goods to and from alta a i distance of some soven govon or eight miles milea the grade of which wo were informed is not ibm ibb lahs labs t bab than 16 JW or ir lw 1154 funa fund fent feet to tim mno mho to overcome all difficulty of transportation por port tation atlon by rail when completed from the present terminus to alta the company have purchased or ordered a locomotive of the patent improved climbing variety manufactured by french of virginia which it is said is capable of making accents ascents of four hundred fee feet t gradient to the mile the climbing appal apparatus atus acting as a bra brn brake he on th the e down grade ili in the construction of the wasatch va and jordan valley road it seems as if almost every imaginable engineering difficulty likely to be met within the construction of railroads through a narrow mountain gorge has been or will have to be met with thus far they have been overcome and the company are sanguine an alne of overcoming all others the e road as far as it goes is substantial the accommodations for pas passengers engers and trammie traffic are good and the ride is one of the most romantic conceivable Ba easiness siness is brisk two passenger trains going each way every day and sometimes four or five freight trains according to the amount of business to be done after staying a short time at tile the terminus yesterday examining the work no now going on the party started on their t air return to gandy bandy which was speedily reached when whan they at again gain changed cars care and they were landed on the end of the track near the tabernacle in this city a few minutes past A 4 having had a very pleasant trip of about three hours and a half duration |