| Show 0 MORE OF THE NORTH COUNTRY OUR previous chapter left us speeding away in the north end of the valley towards hamptons Ham here to the west a mile or eo away and wending southwestward south westward we perceive the deep channel chann elof of the bear river velch aich looks somewhat like the chan channel nel nei of the jordan at and near dear the point of the mountain at the south end of the valley A mile or two further west we see the channel of malad river biver on which further south bear biver river city is situated a place apparently where the people have not practiced practised tree planting extensively the cars begin to creep up the incline of the bills hilla dividing salt lake from cache valley which lies east of us having crossed the string of farms we leave them to the west and push our way datil we arrive at hamp tons a small way station where we meet the down train and stay twenty minutes to dinner we can run up from salt lake to hamptons Ham by the up train and return by the down train in one day and see a IL large extent of country in that time but the best of all we shall miss seeing cache valley we are now pretty high up though not yet at the summit of the ridge dividing the two valleys we have an extensive view to the westward across the bear and malad rivers over the plain tu to the mountains ten or fifteen miles away A mile or a so west of us right down on the bear is hamp tons old bridge over that river now kept by henry anding standing At late ot of the ward of this city over this bridge was wont to pasy pasa the montana traffic and travel of years agone when that territory was rising in the world and utah supplied her with considerable bread and dinner and other things and received in return a goodly quantity of her gold dust and nuggets the old montana road goes along partly a arty in sight northward from fron the ra bridge fdge idge towards malad valley an extensive range of pasture land Is spread out before us extending a dozen miles aniles or so to the promontory mountains westward and the fhe same northward to the suin summit natt bounding the south end of malad valley A dry land it appears to be though it has a noble river flowing in the bottom and a lesser blae one also alsa there is ft very solitary ranche here hero and there visible on the distant wide spreading plain if it were well watered there might inight bip be several large settie settlements made and a large number of flourishing g farms as there is am plu piu room while the cattle range on the tho thousand hills and elsewhere hi is very e extensive away northward two or three or more miles for dist distances auces ances tive here la isi the chanuel channel which the bear river has cut tb through roligh the mountains in its passage from cache valley and the east apparently a deep precipitous gore gorp ge the twenty minutes for dinner having elapsed and the dinner having baving been dispatched we are ali ail all call aboard once more and our sturdy little engine baus hauls up and over the divide the pasa pa passage sa ge across or through these hills is several miles long they are usually rounded and smooth it tt is through and along these hills that the troublesome snow blockades oc occur i curin ln the winter time for there are many malpy places where the road runs through a groove of one two three or several more feet in depth which are quickly quickly filled up and blocked with drifted snow when the wind blows so as to render them impassable for the trains until the tho snow has been cleared out at a great expenditure pend iture of labor it is held that ultimately this cut over the divide and through these hills will have to be given up and the road be taken through the Be arRiver bear river biver eafton cation into cache valley on which route it Is claimed there will be less of these snow blockades to encounter |
