Show r 2 Duchesne the Second Youngest Y Utah County Land of Promise By Dy Frank Franl R. R Arnold Salt Lake Tribune Duchesne Duchene county Is probably better better bet bet- ter known to transcontinental tourists tour flits who TOSS pass U through It dall daily In summer on the Pikes Peak highway than itis It Is is to Salt Lakers And yet it itis I is as worthy worth of a visit as Switzerland I and o cr every Salt Laker would woul do well to have havo an acquaintance In the county county coun coun- ty tt to send him new now potatoes honey chickens and turkeys by parcel post New potatoes there the last week In July sold for tor C G cents a pound and they were superb for tor size and ty gallon Five-gallon cans of at honey sold for tor 11 ail and as the postage Is only 1 cent cont a pound the price by man mall is not much increased Every Salt Lake who wants to reduce reduce re re- re- re duce duco the price of or living had better hitch Duchesne onto his back yard Ho can do It by means of at the forty forty- two trucks that the mail service uses for tor carrying parcel post In and out of the tho country For first-class first manthey man mall they have trucks with a ton chassis and ton five-ton motors geared up to sixty five miles an hour Mail Mall can leave the county In the morning beat be bo boat at Price in the evening and in Salt Lake late that night read ready for tor distribution distribution dis dis- the next morning Visit Is Necessary r Dui But to know the resources of ot Duchesne Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- chesne you ou have havo got to over go-over and visit tho county yourself and once you see ECO It It you will bo be amazed at nt its productivity and picnic possibilities It Is the tho youngest of or the tho Utah counties counties counties coun coun- ties except Daggett but Its Ita lovers areas ares are areas as as s nr ardent ent as the native sons of Cali Call fornia One Ono young man from Duchesne Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- chesne while charging the enemy across a wheat heat field near Chateau Thierry found time to remark that the wheat on that field would probably probably ably run sixty four bushels to the aero acre just like Uko the wheat on some somo of I tho the fields in Antelope Another i young oung arm army man tells how he be often oUen had bad lain in European shell holes I and longed to be back fishing in the tho I Uintah lakes takes Why in Moon lake i there Is la a fish under every bush and any my fool tool can catch them And from froma a 0 mountain near by you can catch sight eight of twenty five lakes Just like Uke It U That is how Duchesne lingers lovingly loving In tho the hearts of Its Us citizens hero Here Is la how It Impresses a Salt Lak Lak- er tor ho goes over oyer the Wasatch or UIntah Uintah Uintah Uin UIn- tah tops for the first time Beauty I Rivals vals S 'S Switzerland S The trip The trip over oyer to Duchesne county from Salt SaU Lake Is not unlike going from Milan In Italy up to Switzer Switzer- land You leave the pleasure loving city of ot Salt Lake you OU climb vine- vine clad foothills b by you ou see seethe seethe seethe the Park City railroad curving on it itself itself It- It self like the Saint Gothard you ou have au an automobile road equal in spots to the Simplon you pass through dalr dairy valleys like Snyderville Snyderville Snyder Snyder- ville and Heber perfectly capable of producing Cailler's CaUler's milk chocolates od have views of across Heber City valley which are reminiscent reminiscent reminiscent cent of or the across Interlaken Interlaken Interlaken Inter- Inter laken meadow and whether you go go gooyer over oyer Into Duchesne by Daniels canon canyon canyon can can- yon on and the Strawberry valley or whether you go by Kamas over the you ou will find especially on the latter route spruce forests that would not be out of at place In Switzer Switzer- land And to complete the analogy analog just as the Rhine and Rhone rise in Switzerland so 50 the biggest rivers ers of at Utah the Bear the Heber the Provo Provo Pro Pro- vo YO and the Duchesne rise In the But when you ou drop down Into the county count of Duchesne Duchene the re resemblance resemblance resemblance re- re semblance ceases You know you ou are In the Pacific basin In the Green river rl country I if you have hae ever taken taken taken tak tak- en the Rio Grande to Denver and andl l passed through Carbon and Emery counties First Impression sion Wrong Most people drop down do Into nto Duchesne Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- Du- Du chesne from the Strawberry valley b by Deep creek creck canyon though there is a far tar better beUer road by Kamas and Wolf creek Their first impression is that t. t the main products of Duchesne Du- Du chesne must be posts posta pine nuts and perfumery for tor the road winds endlessly endlessly end end- lessly through a maze mazo of cedars and pinion pine If It you ou break a twig of pinion you get a 0 drop of resin that hat has a delicate perfume of pine flavored with lemon or orange blos bios The on only wonder Is that some enterprising Utahn is s not manufacturing manufacturing manufacturing turing perfumery on those slopes elopes dedicating It to Maud Adams Adam or Lucy Gates and sending It to New NewYork NewYork NewYork York to help make the state famous along with Utah celery honey honer scene scene- Continued on Page Seven Seen |