Show EASTERN UTAH it would be hard to find a short ride that would give a greater variety of scenery and carry one faster to a higher altitude and cooler atmosphere than a trip over the utah central to the region of park city such a trip your correspondent took and was charmed by bythe the many pretty and at times startling scenes along this short piece ot of road abrupt cliffs towering mountains covered with verdure rolling hills adorned with grass and herbage and greeb gree meadows and cultivated fields were continually succeeding each other until park city was reached with its adjacent snow glaciers cooling the atmosphere so chat at night a warm bed is a necessity park city of itself is a point of great interest st its rich mines and great mills turning out wealth from the earth earths s hidden treasures to benefit mankind and beautify the world here we left the railroad for a private conveyance and continued our journey over a splendidly worked road to heber city a most enjoyable ride in the cool of the evening bordering as the road does a good portion of the way rich rolling meadows and well cultivated fields until the town is reached heber is one of the most flourishing of utah towns with many substantial evidences of the thrift ot of the people there are some good business houses A neat and well kept drug store is one of them hatch co are changing their mill to a full roller process and enlarging it ic making it one of the most complete in the territory quite a business in supplying mining timbers and lo 10 logging vai ng is done by the people of provo valley aley midway perhaps takes the lead in vegetables yet considerable comes from charleston and wallsburg Walls burg the crop prospects in wasatch county were never better than the present season reason the hay crop being greater than for many years past from heber we journeyed up the provo river to woodland As evening approached we found the need of an overcoat to keep off the chill of a july night great quantities of lumber and railroad ties have been floated down the provo this year and many ties were piled in places along the stream said to be for the extension of the utah central woodland ward la Is strung along the provo river for a distance of 15 to 18 miles the people being mainly interested in klock raising and the timber busi business nees from woodland we i returned e to kamas which is loc located eted on beaver creek a branch of the weber river and ou on the weber the valley where kamas is located was wag formerly called rhodes valley and was first settled by mr rhods and family in 1861 kamas does not show the thrift and enterprise of her neighbor on the provo heber city this may be owing to the better matured advantages of heber but greater unity of effort would accomplish com much for kamas from kamas down the weber river the first place is peoa geoa which of late years has grown rapidly in inhabitants the main causo cause of this is the bringing under cultivation of a large bench lying above the old town to the east and north of the river that here makes a turn from a southerly direction to one nearly due east below perm a distance of three and a half miles is rockport rockfort Rock port a small place with farms on either side of the weber prom from rockport rockfort Rock port we go seven miles and are back to Kimb Kim alPs ballOs in parleys park ready to take the train back to salt lake at kimballs Kim balls we find many salt lakers who have taken up a summer rummer abode at this cool retreat abere they threaten to exterminate the finny tribes and lessen the number of prairie chickens ar B G LAMBERT |