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Show 1 ; ' j A DRIVE TO MOUNTAIN PEAKS. I When Postmaster Shurtliff was a boy and full of life, he, with two companions, climbed to the top of what he named Lewis peak, that highest point just east of the Industrial School. He wanted to get up in the world and that was the beginning of the upward climb which ever since has been so successfully prosecuted. He had a de-Bire de-Bire to look out over the great Salt Lake valley and view the panorama pano-rama of lake, river, valley and mountain. And he succeeded beyond 1 his expectation. This was some 60 years in the past. We have not heard of the Postmaster taking that walk of late as a "constitutional" before breakfast, yet he appears rugged enough to be equal to the task. But would it not be a delightful transformation if, instead of I waiting for the custodian of our letters to repeat the climb of 1852, j a road were to be constructed to within a few rods of that mountain j top, and then some fine summer day, the pioneer should be invited l I g kack n ancv to tlie days of long ago while a six-cylinder ma- 1 1 chine under low gear carried him up to the base of the peak in the 'm 1 clouds. y jM j Why not build an automobile driveway to Lewis Peak or one of W I the ther higl1 mountains to tlle east of Ogden, so that even those ijm ; uot stout of heart and vigorous of limb can reach the heights, see 3 1 1 the grandeur of the mighty architectural work of Omnipotence and ',3 j hitch their wagons to the stars. |