Show missionary MESSAGES on the Ille denver A itlo RI grande through tile rocky mountains EDITOR IlEK ALn our party comprising om siuk 24 missionaries to the southern rn at atu culled called ahyou as you are tire aware at the late general concer conference left suit salt lake city at I 1 p fit on oil friday the dinst en route via via the denver ario G grandc rande R R for chattanooga Tennes tennessee sev the present headquarters of THE SOUTHERN MISSION arriving at th this ia point the company will bo be assigned respective fields of labor due notice of which we shall be pleased to send you to make mak e a pa passing pasing sing n notice otice of our continental journey first over the scenic ecenia line of america we must feces necessarily ar 1 I 1 l pass ass b by y a any ly uan comments on the pro prolific mo tain and valley attractions afforded all along the line from our handsome metropolis through spanish fork canyon to castle valley station the divide of the wasatch range at this point darkness began to close about us and forgetting our kind friends and our dear mountain home which was now every moment receding far fl far ar behind beli ind we ve enlisted in plea pleasant sapt social convene converse and began to become acquainted with our fellow fell owl passengers gers and willbe will be co laborers ili one colmen cause A GREAT AND NOBLE WORK the tho next morning discovered us whirling along over the seemingly everlasting plains of the green river country an uninhabited desert and a consequently dulios inhospitable p ita and uninviting region for the tramp clement element but withal as one of t the party arty inadvertently remarked d a very very excellent land for the manefa manufacture of the common sun suit dried terra cotta cottam b iii buling lino material at 7 a m june junction tion city twenty minutes for breakfast is announced thia this station is situated at the junction of the grand and gunnison rivera and is about fit ty miles east from the western bou boundary u of I 1 colorado from this point we CROSS THE GRAND RIVER and begin to enter the foothills of the tile great rocky mountain system the massive snow crowned peaks of which can be seen 0 one n e hundred miles ahead for seventy miles our course lay in a southeasterly direction following the serpentine banks of the tile G gunnison un and then swinging with fearfully fu re echoed uproar into the black can canyon y on of the gunnison said to be one of the grandest of natures miracles and it is grand grund what with its perpendicular and fearful heights at times overhanging overhang ina the railway these frowning arribi terribly down upon the tile green foam beneath beneath which in its fury lashes the tortuous chasms we arbe are led to exclaim in oscar wilde phraseology it is indeed 1 too utterly gloriously terrible I 1 I 1 shall not cannot attempt to describe the picture further we will therefore pass on and up c emerging in IS g from these scenes of of gran grandeur ra ur to contemplate others of different style A AFTER FTER DEVIOUSLY WINDING and twisting backward and forward rising higher nig herand and higher feet to the mile up the sides of the tile dizzy swooping valleys we attain the summit it of the continental divide called marshall pass pasi f feet beet the tile greatest railroad altitude on the northern continent you may presume the sight which now burst up upon on our view was vaa truly gorgeous no it was not darkness was soon about us and a snowstorm had already enveloped us so that we WC felt quite comfortable within the car in blissful ignorance of 01 the otherwise ma magnificent 9 ent panorama about us descending into the arkansas pronounced ar kan sah valley we arrived at p in at the electric light illumed town of calida Iida here where we changed care cars for pueblo and where we wye met by elders john morgan and B H roberts the former on his way HOME TO UTAH the latter to join our party and escort ua urs easely fely through the cies of a first trip 2500 miles from home F following ol lowing down the tile Arkan arkansas sits river rier which is here some yards wide we enter royal gebe george and the moon comes out to aid t the prospect soon the river is narrowed to less than thau half its width and the stream is ia forced to every swift and agile device water is capable of iu in do dodging aging and overleaping over leaping the and obstructions in its way now the river fills every inch of space from wall to wall and the railway only proceeds by means of a bridge which I 1 am told ia is not supported upon piers but is hung underneath gable shaped braces of iron spanning nin the canyon from wall to wall inthe w chifo overhead the cloud piercing walls on either hand beem M to topple and th threaten reaton to shut together above AWE HEAD reaching up more than two thousand feet in vertical and reverting jig height thic canyon the grandest railway thoroughfare h orough lare in the world perhaps i 3 the same pasi which as your rea readers ers will doubtless re remco lier a few yeura years since was tile bone of contention between the present owners and nud the U P R II 11 company r resulting u t ng finally ilia y ili in its bein guarded tiar ded at the tile cast entrance nt ance rance by t atie w furnier finer party attacked by the ie latter latte several everl ti live lives lit baing ifie lost in the melce which ensued WM if jo TONIS 3 chattanooga tenn april 14 1883 |