Show MOUNT NEBO an interesting account of the ascent of this majestic pook our party was seven in it number dr park and J H paul of salt lake F W chappell J S rollo T L foote mr noble and mr field of nephi the five genial nephi nepal gentlemen had secured a riding horse for each of the par party ty and a conveyance to take tak 6 us up to the foot of the mountain whence we were to go on horseback to the summit we went first to the settlement of mona twelve miles north of nephi and thence up mona canon this canon calion is also called willow creek cation canon though for what reason we could not ascertain since no wi willows bilows grow there excepting a few at the head of the stream three years ago this canon cadion was filled with a great slide the effects of which are still distinctly to be seen in the bent and broken timber the isolated boulders and the scratched appearance of the mountain sides in ancient times immense glaciers must have moved down this cation canon the termination of the successive lee ice streams being marked by the terraces and mounds one oae terrace about ten feet in depth occurs at the mouth and the scattered mounds extend out oui into the valley some believe to be the work of A PRE RACE but bat upon a cursory examination while riding past them the writer concluded that they were the terminal moraines mo raines of successive glaciers worn down by the a action of rain etc about a mile and a hlf half up the canon we were pleasantly pleasa atly received and entertained by mr blackett who with several others islen in transporting provisions provis ioas to the surveying party at the summit here our barometer registered fee feeland tand we viewed the mountain we were about to climb clim b which in the clear atmosphere appeared even to the experienced eye to be only about a mile in ter vertical and horizontal distance together from our camp it was f fully ally six times dinies that far we rested for the night and next morning g july made for the top ascending over gravel beds rocks and drifted soil through oak brush maples pines and groves of quaking asps alps past witches rocks and over fields of of broken shifting slate along narrow trails facing a steep descent ot a thousand feet past great precipitous LEDGES and tolling toiling up the last cone like steep we reached the apex of mt nebo the giant of the wasatch range A cold wind win d from over several snow banks saluted and chilled us the light atmosphere mo sphere made the smallest amount of clambering around the mountain very laborious and most of the party complained of headache or dizziness and cold feet mount nebo was named after a celebrated mountain on the confines of the land of moab to which moses ascended when he viewed the land of promise probably on that mountain the great legislator died for near it he lies buried though no man of his sepulchre unto this day dak 11 seve ral mountains have been claimed to be the ancient nebo none of which present any remarkable physical aspects sot so that hatour our own nebo however inferior to the ancient mountain in historic fame and religions veneration far surpasses it in pay physical grandeur WT NEBO rears his head above all others in the vicinity excepting one a little to the north a few feet higher Anar A narrow rowand and dangerous ledge is the path to this near relative ot our stupendous friend and the wind being strong we did not venture to cross spread out beneath us were the alternating valleys and ridges of utah and the great salt lake and part art of sevier lake the desert an and high mountains beyond could be seen on the west and on the east the view extended to the colorado plateau we could see fountain green moroni ephraim Ep braim part of mauti manti mount pleasant leamington leavington Lea moria deseret goshen the west fields of santaquin San provo american fork lehi lebi and the cemetery of salt lake city mr wm eimbeck a scholarly gentleman tie niall who has charge of the government surveying division of this region made our stay up upon 1 on the mountain extremely pleasant aud and profitable he permitted us to look through his bis LARGE TELESCOPE signaled a passing train on the utah central cantral that we might see the signal it light lit explained the object and work of of the survey and pleased us by speaking of several great mathematical questions of the day at which astronomers tron omers and physicists are at work among these mr eimbeck remarked that the exact shape of the earth in i one of the difficult problems we know the earth is not dot a true sphere but we do not know just how great is the deviation from that A figure nor Is the deviation the same in affe differ ent eat places some measured arcs have been found to have a greater and some a less convexity than the estimated general are arc of the earths curvature and the unknown and varying amount of these deviations interferes with the correctness of the surveys THE s now being made imade by mr eime eimbeck eck and his men are for the purpose of IO locating CAting with great accuracy prominent places place oi 0 r on the face of the country and thus furnishing reliable data for the con st ruction of good maps such bach results V as these beme being now obtained it is thought will be used by future generations with perfect confidence as to their correctness there are in the region of the present survey thirteen stations the furthest from mt nebo being miles their mathematical inspru lm have havo cost many thousands of dollars the large used by mr eumbok is set upon a brick pier built lato into the earth it is so delicate that chat a slight press pressure lire of the hand on the brick pier causes the level attached to it to respond at once showing a change of level in the brick pier this is so V binary that we should scarcely have f believed it chadwe had we not seen it the expansion due to the dif difference terence in heat ox different sides of the instrument also causes a change of level with this instrument observations are taken on the stars and aad latitude is determined ter mined I 1 the peak we stood on OB according to the first determination moo made by bj mr eimbeck is FEET wot TIM the other peak is id pi probably W feet higher the thermos r 0 june 16 1 stood at 24 degrees imd nd even now occasionally cWon casio nally ally reaches 80 degree toe the air and earth during a thunderstorm are so charged with electricity 1 can feel its ape r fingers or h head wt wit lag ing croc crackling kling sounds a f T tt 11 lies in ia long bankar sak feet while on jeff davis leq county where another i sta n is lo 10 bated a real glacier exis exists ne fio I 1 0 composed mainly of at silurian rian t I 1 sandstone and 11 limestone es ne some ia of 61 rock contat containing anin nin fossils ila soil e to the top sin and numerous bea ancl alpine flowers color the spaces aid amba the rocks no timber nor brosh rows on the high cc acne several mountains in the uintah raub range are high higher than mt ne Nebo be one rathene rAt heni roe reeds A 14 feet above the sea libary lt BaRy is nearly aly as high amt as mt nea nelo a and d near bear mt baldy is a still stil I 1 higher oia peak we remained about live five hours hou r 8 on the mountain mou and then returned to td camp which we reached at dark the ascent campi occupied nearly tow four hours altogether mt nebo is not abt difficult altonet of ascent ce tier but is not safe to those unaccustomed accas tomed to the saddle and far too rough and hazai hazardous dotis for ladles ladies our oar train of seven borse horsemen nieu made a pretty sight along the steep ser serpentine jae trail down which some of the bro nephi I 1 horsemen occasionally roa acra at breakneck break bresk neck speed J JH H P |