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Show THREE DAY TRIP j FROM LOS ANGELES j INCLUDES MILFORD LOOP OF 1400 MILES PRAISED FOR ATTRACTIONS The Los Angeles Times, in a recent Sunday edition,, featured a motor loop which included the parks of southern Utah, swung over through Milford, and went back south to Nevada. Ne-vada. This publicity snould result in more California cars being on the highway through this section this summer. We are indebted to Karl S. Carlton, former publisher of this paper, for his sending us a marked copy of the paper containing the story. The article ar-ticle is amply illustrated with pictures end maps. We are reprinting that part of the log which includes Beaver county and Milford. HISTORY'S RELICS ARE VIEWED "Scenically speaking, Utah and Nevada are as different as they can be for neighboring states, considering consider-ing the highly colored sandstone formations for-mations for which the 'Beehive state' is famous, and the vast high deserts of the 'Silver state.' But combined they offer the southern California motorist a loop tour of unusual beauty beau-ty and remarkable variety. "The motorist lying out a course for himself through the two great basin states has many options, but since time is often a limiting factor the Times-Xash party followed a predetermined round-trip route that yielded nearly 1500 miles of travel in the course of but three days and two hours' elapsed time, or a very comfortable and interesting five-day trip for the motorist desiring to see all the sights of the route in a minimum min-imum of time. "Roughly outlined, this great basin tour included the Arrowhead Trail from Los Angeles on through Las Vegas, Nev., and St. George, Utah, to Beaver in the latter state, with a side trip to Zion National Park southward south-ward from Anderson's ranch on the main highway some distance beyond St. George. From Beaver the route was in a general northwesterly direction direc-tion through Milford and ghostly Frisco, on to Garrison (the last town in Utah) and Baker (the first town in Nevada) to Ely, the great copper city. Lehman Caves at the base of lofty Mt. Wheeler constituted a side trip of unusual interest from Baker. The return to Los Angeles from Ely wa3 made via the direct road to Ton-opah, Ton-opah, thence. ST. GEORGE FIRST STOP "Booming through Las Vegas, on the outward-bound route, the Times-Nash Times-Nash party made their way to St. George, the first general stop, where that city's Mormon temple, the first to be completed in Utah (1877) and the third Mormon temple to be finished fin-ished in the United States, was viewed, view-ed, its architecture being somewhat striking. "Twenty-two miles farther on, at Anderson's ranch, the car was headed head-ed south over the road to Zion National Na-tional Park through Toquerville and Spxingdale, the checking station being be-ing reached in twenty-nine miles from the junction, on a total of fif-:ty-one miles from St. George. Arriving Ar-riving after sundown, but with the great gorge even more strikingly beautiful in the fading light than in bright sunlight, the Na9h party drove seven miles on up to the canyon can-yon to the end of the road, the snow-crowned snow-crowned heights and snow-carpeted valley floor (down the center of which courses what is now known as Zion creek, though previously known as the Mukuntuweap) lending particular enchantment to the scene. No pictures were possible under such conditions, but the mental picture was one to be treasured. Retracing the road to Anderson's ranch, the travelers travel-ers sped northward to Cednr City for dinner, then continued on to Beaver, which is 542 miles from Los Angeles, direct by the Arrowhead Trail. "Having enjoyed quite chilly weather weath-er at both Cedar City and Beaver (at the former, boys were skating on ' e snow-frozen main street by the o." strict lights) the party set . . - t..o E:y road with the expectation ex-pectation of a genuinely cold day, but though citizens of Minersville, :iineteen miles from Beaver were Dut on their reservoirs cutting ice for summer use, and the ice was jood ani thi.:k, the day was pleas-n::t!y pleas-n::t!y warm for midwinter at that -.Iftude of 6000 feet. GHOST CITY VISITED At Frisco, ghost city of southwest-rn southwest-rn Utah, fifteen miles out of Mil-! 'jrd on the Union Pacific main line, ;.d forty-eight miles from Beaver, Nash was halted for some time, members of the party finding much1 of interest in the old mining camp. The huge 'bee hives' on the 'slope back of the town were perplexing at first, but an old-timer - engaged with several other men in - moving one of the old houses to another location, shed light on ' their purpose pur-pose by explaining they had been used for buiping charcoal for- the silver smelters when the-mines -we; e active and the town seething with life. "The famous Horn Silver mine of Frisco was discovered in 1879, and in 18S2, when well developed, produced pro-duced $6,000,000 worth of silver and lead, and is still being worked, a revival of activity apparently being in progress in the Frisco mining district dis-trict at this time. Both Frisco and the notable Horn Silver mine are located at an elevation of 6500 feet while directly west of the old camr. the San Francisco range rises to 822C feet at Indian Grave Hill, though attaining at-taining greater elevation farther north. "Dipping clown into the Wan-War valley, and climbing over the Wah-Wah Wah-Wah range via a typical saddle pass the Nash travelers drove onward tc Burbank and Garrison, settlement; in the Snake valley (with the ice cutting scene repeated at Preusi lake,) then crossed the Utah-Neva da line a short distance out of Garrison and arrived at Baker, th base for trips to Lehman Caves am the Wheeler Peak region. Bake is five and one-half miles beyond the Utah frontier town, and it ma) well be said that the use of th word frontier is not out of place, for an atnio-:piicro of piu:o.er days. "Backaacklrig for one mile from Baker,' the party traversed six miles of road from the main highway co the Lehman Caves resort (elevation 7000 feet,) at the entrance to the wor.drous caverns which are so little known to the aveiaJ motor touri-t of today. |
