Show PROVO VALLEY acte and curiosities of N this mountain nook il 41 A aitho two beau tours rs ride by team f from rom park the terminus of the summit 1 I anty ty branch of the U P railway rail way 8 one to provo valley as pretty a 4 retreat as can caa well veil be f found ing amon gently sloping hills een the wasatch and uintah sea of mountains at an jele elevation 1 feet with the Timpa la su dering through the western part it and well watered by other P earns ms the valley presents a very at calve t ive appe appearance araw e owing how if to the long winters which h ch pre 1 there and the early duly and late frosts e anich ach it was form formerly erly noted it has t gained much celebrity as an ag ul tural region but been devoted cipully to SUMMER GRAZING a 1 the production of h hay y for which awas a vw well adapted but bat the climate 11 i so modera moderated tid that cereals can now e grown there with tolerable certain I 1 ind it is quite possible that the same ay iy be true of the hardier fruits as d fl U at some time in the future though bouch ti ept la in the case of currants SO and d oae se berries the persevering inhabit its s have met wita but poor enczur i meat mentin in the planting pl antias of fruit or 0 a shade trees ike ae valley Is well supplied wilb el gliding iding material as lumber of very good quality is mana maud aured tur cd in abundance near 24 B the best red sand stone s be found in this region in slabs e any desired thickness and size is to had bad in the eastern part of the valley y r the quarrying and marble of a fair allty abounds in the mountains on e west of the valley in addition t j s ese advantages a very good quality brick lip iff made there and first class a ne e burned fram the stone with which 1 e west end of the valley is t i a result the well to do inhabitants a we ve substantially built and attractive biases ases and barns and the settlements besenta prosperous appearance chief among tile tee improvements in eber city the principal settlement of e valley and the capital ol of wasatch v uty Is is toe the new i STAKE HOUSE 1 aw w bearin nearing comp completion letioa which when dished will wah cost coat about it is 18 tilt of red san sandstone ostone 50 x 95 feet L atti ith a tower projecting at one end ot feet making the total lengan bengta et trie the main hall ball is feet beet with f JO 30 foot ceiling and has a gallery cx x lading adin around two sides and one end 1 lit it it it has a seating capacity of 1000 id d the stands three in number are elevated that the speaker ry pay be easily seen from all parts ol of the I 1 ill in the rear of 0 the hall ball and con epting with it are convenient vestry tod d council rooms and altogether the guilding luil luald ding ing Is IB very nicely arranged and ad a kedit to the of that stake who lave ve built it by voluntary donations va u well as to brother Alexi alexander uder aortic it ir tile tae archi architect by tile the way th thi de locative tora lora tive painting ol of the ceiling is be ig done dene by a younk young idan man who to is self allgot a natural artist in tact fact by the lame of joseph kirby who resides in walls wallsburg burg and evinces good ability A short distance west ast of 61 reber heber city lies ies the villa village ge of midway the inhabitants of which are principally swiss with ath whom taj the A alpine due habits are atil Ati to Is ev evident defit by their cultivated sields extending we well up on the hill oides hides an example by the way which might be followed profitably bly wal in many starts darts of the te territory the resources resource 8 A our territory have not all been discovered co ered yet and it Is quite possible that att in the not tar far distant future the GENTLY SLOPING HILLS 1 most of our valleys may be made to yield crops of egyptian corn M rye lucern or perhaps rapes grapes u the mountains of italy and switzerland do i midway is surrounded by natural and is bound at some time 11 11 the future to become a famous remit for tourists and pleasure seekers pt at is built upon ji a peculiar lime formation which evidently overlays a hot uke the water from which finds vent all it springs so strongly impregnated abed britti lime that as the water bubbles babbles kor orth le through the rock a scum rl rises ato to the surface and ai ad gradually grows AM a stony bank thus forming are known i as pot lill mounds 0 o limestone 0 fe narrow at lt the resembling an indian in aa t up an and d rai ilir and shelving elving on the nisida nolde many 0 of f t these h e pots poth areno are now w dry the wr mer which formed them bay haying found 0 r outlets or oi the h boles ole through pw h h it rose to the a surface art e having mown chown over but others are full a of warm filter and tor for years past save have been for bathing purposes over aulle lulle 8 of the largest lari of of these pots a bath house tor for the accommodation of e bublic has recently been erected ibyl y tears lukea luke busby whose en terP ter rite is likely to be rewarded as it djs well patronized the man arom 01 whom they bought the premises occupied ADRY A DRY POT wear pear ty by which is perhaps twenty feet im 40 diameter at the go bottom insi inside and papers kupers t to 4 about twelve feet at the ato at as a dwelling tw elling by surmounting it with a tent e R to shed the storms an obber ather large dry pot served as his kli table and a still another of smaller di as hu ate vig pig pen imn A large I 1 pot an elevated position and lull fall ot of warm water is used by the present proprietors as a reservoir from which to water their garden for w which b ich purpose the water seems well adapted oy 03 having a hole bole drilled through one side which when the water is not required is easily stopped up with a wooden plug A curious feature about this locality is the close proximity of springs rugs 0 of var various us tempt matures ranging fro from hot t to cold the largest ol of the 4 1 which aich Is to pots 0 so conspicuous as be seen en from a considerable distance is said to be so deep that its bottom has not yet been sounded although ropes with weights attached have been lowered to a depth of fector feet or more mom one of the largest of th theory dr y pots when the valley was first was a den of at rattle snakes but the reptiles have now been killed off or have sought other quarters and the limestone ot of which the pot is composed is being quarried and hauled away to burn into lime it was probably because of rattlesnakes being so numerous here that the creek which issues from the wasatch mountains and runs through the settlement is called SNAKE CREEK CHEEK into this creek which is as cool and pleasant to the taste as any of our mountain streams at a point some distance above the thea settlement there empties quite a volume of hot water which issues forth the hillside beneath shelving rocks whose cavern ous depths invite the curiosity seeker to enter but from which he be is soon warned to escape by the intense beat and the feeling of suffocation which overcomes him and aad he be hurries out wio the assurance chat a few moments stay there would result in as many ny of the houses bouses and most of the fences of midway are built of the limestone quarried upon the surface of the land upon n which they stand which has evi evidently dupoy antl at various periods in the past been overflowed by the hot springs as in ging downward a process that is quite difficult to tue lower strata of rock being so hard a and n d tough alternate layers of li limestone meston e soil sand and gravel THE SURFACE suffice LAYER cao can be quarried without difficulty aud and when built with lime mortar makes a very rood good wall when the surface is sufficiently cleared of its covering coveri BR of limestone or the latter sufficiently pulverized to cultivate the soli soil is found to be quite productive the subterranean heat evidently asp to force the growth of vegetation as it does to melt the snow which falls during daring the winter altogether provo valley is a very verv pleasant a and nd interesting te place to visit scarcely less les 8 so because of its natural curiosities than because of ef the genial denla 1 whole hospitality manifested by baits its inhabitants |