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Show . UTAH, UNIVERSITY OF s,v.mc,T''u'A VOLUME IV. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MARCH 1, 1893, NUMBER Hi THE with hieroglyphics, dating back of strange groves in foreign land?, perhaps a thousand years, and the So, too, I can tell you what that park around them is a natural sheet of water means in the hand OF pasture. Few know this trail, as of science. It means groves of the place was until lately a haunt delicious shade, the murmur of vine leaves, the beaded, whole-Th- e of Indians and horsethieves. igfptf II AT within twenty-fiv- e canon narrows to admit of some glory of wines that bring r Smiles of a transcontinental only a bridle path at the crossing back youth to the heart of the railroad route I here should of the Dolores. J)j On either side man and color to the pale invalid. lie unknown and desolate a fairv the river are carmine walls, There, in those still waters, are land of beaut v, fertilitv and crested, as with pillars, slowly the hopes of the land. There possible mineral wealth, is truly increasing in height till they sleep the fragant roses, the wide, iaracteiistic of Utah. I never reach a thousand feet. Hetwcen given fields, the blushing meant when I came to Utah to t'.iem lies the Grand Ri?r, a orchards of the years to be, when remain more than six months, but curve of silver and rose, of gold Ut.ih is no mo;e a haunt for so great were the charms of and sapphire, darkened with shame and a cloud upon the climate that I lingered; and, brown and gray and green where brightness of the Hag. Ye had left Gunnison one lingering, become interested past the reflections of cliffs and sky recoverv in the fate of south- - are mingled with those of the morning in October with the eastern Utah. rocks and shrubbery. At high glaze of thin ice on the streets, You' may take horse or wagon water the river is here a thousand This afternoon our horses waded Irom Grand Junction and reach feet wide. For the whole six through blooming white mustard. the Mirror Canon of Grand River miles of the canon that noble breast high, and the yellow over a level road, or take your stream, into which has poured flowers of the rabbit brush. To- chances of being put off the cars t!ie rush and foam of all the ward evening the white-toppeof the Rio Grande somewheie mountain torrents of western La Sal is seen, with walls of along its route on the desert, in Colorado, lies still and breathless purple between and the last which case vou must arrange as a lake. The sob of the wild sunbeams falling on two pinnacles carefully beforehand for vour dove, the splash of a twig falling of stone. The color darkens up- reception. There are scattered iiito it, are to be heard as plainly on the river, but the tops of the ranches from Grand Junction as if in some vast room. The cliffs catch light which crimsons sorrow of Utah seems to have them like the heart of a rose, the down, a! long distances apart. This Mirror Canon contains fallen upon it, the cloud of distant cliffs are violet such some rare Indian paintings or silence which in that land takes violet as painters give to pansies the mountain snows and sign writings on a cliff wall near the ldacc of Colorado's life and the upper end. It opens, too, on hr.i.riiVer. glimmer pale among the stars. We feel the chill of the night You look into the calm, glassy one side into a park where are wind as we enter our own valley, in most dream which and visions caves the the water wonderful, and the river, unlocked from its ,Yest; the arch of the principal shall come true. The Arab boy, long spell, sends up to us its one being a hundred and ninety- - the books tell us, can look into steady roar. five feet. rl he walls are covered the future through water and read (To be Continued.) RESOURCES UTAH. i d ' |