Show A PEN PICTURE of an old subject treated by the hand of a 0 master is like a new mew theme editor deseret news how do you like our utah lake the query was put by one of the obliging and attentive porters of the pull itan annex to an eastbound east bound passenger train over the popular D K R G western whirling past the little tows town of pleasant grove on a bright and beautiful morning in the latter part oi of july 1888 thy lake at this point it will be remembered by ail who happen to recollect makes its nearest approach to the railway from which placid waters shimmering in the sunlight like a mirror of venetian glass flass or giant buckler of polished stee steel left by some titan upon the field of battle presents a spectacle of splendor beaute ous behold how do you like our Utah Uta Take hake the was a son of the gunny Sunny south the shady side of it whose residence in utah was perhaps limited to bis periodical runs between ogden and the Col colorado prado line the one addressed was your correspondent pon POD dent a son of the sod and one of the numerous progeny of the pioneers was I 1 saddened at the thought that here upon lipon my native heath I 1 was unknown that I 1 had bad been mistaken for a pilgrim to this mecca of the west a STRANGER T TOBE BIC STUFFED FED a gersham to be gulled by any and every poll parrot or mulloy dious singer of zions dispraiser dispraises dis praises to whose practices dodging do deins that brick we have been so long hack back customer not at all I 1 wanted a quiet time and was glad alad to travel for a season in cog with lips sealed but eyes and ears open to all that was passing I 1 therefore bowed and smiled acquiescence acquiesce lace told the porter his utah lake was lovely and consoled whatever of wounded vanity I 1 may have felt with the thought th that at perses the newspaper correspondent like the prophet the only point of resemblance was n not ot without reco recognition save in his own country gle besides I 1 knew that the question of my colored friend a bright and amiable gulatte boy unlike the blood and thunder tales of the aforesaid parrots on wheels and yet to be parrots on toast was not an effort to dispraise fair utah her scenery or her people but simply the expression of a spontaneous courtesy which I 1 find to be quite general among the officers and em employed emp fh loyes 1 of the tamed famed scenic route the e above surname for this wonderful road is well warranted and appropriate probably no other railway in america perhaps not in the whole world offers to the tourists eye an equal extent of variegated grandeur and loveliness A natural panorama A miracle of engineering skill art and nature joining hands bands over the chasm of the erstwhile impossible utah and colorado are natures kaleidoscope leido scope and the denver deaver and rio grande railway is the pivot upon it turns the first NOTABLE SIGHT in view after leaving scenes too near home to need describing la Is the famous castle gate in castle cation canon some miles beyond the P V junction A pair of towering cliffs rearing their lofty ramparts heavenward to so d dizzy a height that a flag waving from its mast on one of the far summits seems like a fluttering in the mountain gale between the cliffs a tumbling torrent cleaves its rugged way rolling and dashing over rocks ana and boulders bo alders and fllming the air wi with h flying flakes of feathery foam to to the left of the str stream earn a narrow ledge ledge balong along which runs the track our t train r ia pursuing hugging the base of the higher cclif cliff and gliding gilding gracefully as a serpent around the rocky curve the castle gate gareis is passed and on we speed up the calion cagon and into the valley beyond 1 aboard the train bound like myself for the Golora Colora doan doin capital and equally admi admiring ring the majestic scenery of the mountains through which we are passing are a number of very PLEASANT PEOPLE one ane couple of whom I 1 met forthe for abe first though I 1 sincerely hope not for the last time I 1 refer to mr and mrs john bohu C de la vergne of new mew york fork who in company with wilh a mr weber are returning home after a tour of some eight or en weeks in the west mr de la vergne is the founder and president of the de la vergne refrigerating machine company of neur new york some five years since he tell fell in with ron hon john W young of our city and became interested with him in the cattle raising industry in arizona their ranch now owned entirely by mr de la vergne and other eastern east era capitalists is si situated tu in the san francisco mountains and covers acres of land crossed b by the atlantic and pacific railway the he company at present own about head bead of cattle with an increase last spring of from 1500 to 1600 calves flagstaff flagstad Is their shipping station in the southern california market last year their surplus of neat near cattle commanded the paying figure of three cents per pound gross gros a contiguous to this companas comp anys prop erty are oth other er large stock ranches also owned by moneyed men of the east mr de la vergne is a gentleman past middle age of frank an and easy manner genial address and courteous deportment of that true gentil gentility tty which at af affecting affe eting nothing has the happy faculty unknown to of making one leel feel perfectly at home in its presence this the admitted secret of politeness is also well understood by his estimable wife both are good friends to utah and her people h having ing visited the west repeatedly peat edly and studied the situation themselves mr D with many other intelligent gentlemen I 1 have met DENOUNCES THE confiscation suits tor for church property e as atle dittle less than barefaced bare faced robbery in pleasant unpleasant conversation with this amiable party the day wore rapidly away supper at green river for which the regulation twenty minutes delay is given and on we whirl into the gathering darkness shall ahall I 1 call cali you in time to see the BLACK CANYON asked conductor becker one of the most attentive and acdwell well informed of our train officials as I 1 drew the curtains of my section preparatory to surrendering to for the night it if you please I 1 answered unguardedly and after he had gone reamed learned to my horror that I 1 had agreed to get up at 4 a in an hour to make a any eittle e canon allon look black or any person either r who got up to loos look at it regardless gard less of what their normal color might be of course there ther ewas was no BO sleep for me that night huge black phantoms shaped like figure danced on spindle le legs s around my pillow till daylight day li light 1 could think of nothing but B blaas aca cation and 4 a in all night long I 1 lay awake listening to the snoring noring chorus of in my fellow tr travelers celers interlarded inter larded w with occasional 64 I 1 as 11 sa khos there 11 f from r om some timid female as an of the train would pass through brushing unavoidably in the narrow aisle the curtains veiling her slumbering form or steadying himself by laying a light hand upon the edge of the sleepers berth oh tor for a wink of that luxury which judging from the sounds seemed so general throughout the car but no BO the wheels of my mind were wound up aud and warranted to go until 4 a m and not till the finger of time indicated that witching hour could I 1 hope for any running down of the machine As anticipated just as I 1 was getting etting to drop off into the carld fand of dreams the porter was sent seat to wake me tor for the black canon daybreak day break panorama which was then passing there b being ei ng no boot jacak handy with which to brain him for his obligingness I 1 concluded to accept his polite invitation and meet my martyrdom with becoming lornit fortitude t de so rubbing my eyes hurrying on my clothes I 1 hustled out into the raw morning air the sight well repaid the sacrifice we were speeding along through a deep dark gorge walled in b by precipitous cliffs standing stan dinc ye ike giant sentinels at the gates of morn and seeming by their bold fronts to dispute our eur further passage above them the majestic hills prickled over with pines below the green waters of the gunnison now turbulent now placid in their onward sweep yonder a cataract hanging like a silvery veil over the black face of some perpendicular heightland heigh tand swayed to and fro oy by the fresh mountain breeze over all the glory of the rising sun gilding the summits of the distant peaks flinging lances of light into the dark gorge below and touching with magic wand the tremulous wave turning all its green waters into gold such was my a daybreak day ay break glimpse of the black cation of the gunnison in my next I 1 may tell tall you something of the renowned marshall pass the grand cation canon of the arkansas and some of tue the sights and scenes in and around the rushing capital of colorado Q L DRIVER august 2 1888 |