Show MOEMON MORMON settlements bright spots that the saints with infinite rat patience lence have wrested from tile arid wilderness correspondence of the world CONCLUDED A rough hill road strewn with uncompromising rocks jolted us for some miles and then we wo crossed a stream bed with some fine eld old pines ties i standing in it and beds of ph blue lue dupins brightening the margin and so caine down to the river level and alone along a lane running between hedges gesie oi wild rose roso and rel berry the ople opie of the indians tangled with clematis and honeysuckle and haunted by many birds and brilliant bu butterflies t ter flies the river bubbled along among thickets currant and red willow and ana in mallards with russet heads floa the quiet backwaters back waters by the side of their dames all dressed in dainty gray it was altogether a abarm charming i passage in a day of such genet general IN dreariness reminding one of a pleasant quotation from some pretty pr t y poem in in the the middle of a dull chap charter by some prosy linny writer but the dullness soon succeeds succeed i again and wo find ourselves at a wayside farm where a fawns agns awns with bells round their necks are keeping the calves company and some bays boys are fishing on a little I 1 log 06 c bridge the fish must have lave been born idiots idiot or been stricken with u unanimous nani lunacy in in varly youth far for the manner of their capture was this the angler lay on his stomach en on the bridge it wasa was a three foot and a half stream with one eye down between two of the logs when he saw any fish he be thrust ha his rod it was more like a penholder pen holder bolder through the space and held itin it in front of the fishes noses at the end df of the rod was some six inches of sprint string with a hook tied on with a large knot botand aud baited a dab of dougli dough when the fish had got thoroughly interested in the dough the angler would jerk up his rod and by somo some unaccountable oversight on the part art of the fishes it was found that a about out once in fifty berks a fish had bad come up out of the water they seemed to me tile to bo be young trout but whatever the species they must have been tho most imbecile of finned thi things birs I 1 suggested catching th the finger and 0 a at me as the fish aou yet let ye but I 1 am of a different opinion AV while hile at dinner here I 1 heard tho the story of a dreadful tragedy that occurred at a ranch close by A man misled a married woman and she left her husband for him ho he ill treated her and it broke her heart she died soon soon after her child was born cursing its father for tho the misery he be had brought upon her tho the child a it boy grew up in in spite of its parents savage treatment of it but one night after a terrible flogging it had bad received the child for it was only thirteen or so murdered its father F from rom here to panguitch the road lies through stony country of the prevalent exasperating ty type pe until we reach the precincts of the settlement heralded long before we reach it by miles of fencing that incao S es the grazing land stretchy str stretching etchi I 1 ng down to the river A detestable road broken up and swamped by irrigation channels leads into the settlement and the poor removes im impression thus received is not removed as we pass through the treeless s A streets and among the unfenced lots batitis but it is an interesting spot none the less lem for apart from its future it is a good starting point for many places ef of interest but I 1 should like to have visited red lake and pang aitch lake especially panguitch by the way means fish in the red mans language and it is no wonder therefore that at breakfast we enjoyed one of the most splendid dl dishes i lesof of fresh mountain lake trout that was ever set before men it is a great fish certainly and I 1 prefer it broiled to put any sauce to it is sheer infamy the beaver by the way l is still to be trapped here tie aed 1 t the e grizzly bear is net not astra riger to t panguitch looking out of the window in the evening I 1 saw a cart standing by the roadside and a number of men round it their demeanor aroused my curiosity for an extreme dejection had bad evidently marked them for its own some sat in the road as if waiting in despair for doomsday others prowled around the cart and leant in a melancholy manner against it the car cart t it appeared appeared d had bad come from st george in the vine growing south of the Territory and co contained a cask of wine but as there was no license in for the sale ef of liquors it could not be broached I 1 I 1 never saw men look so wretchedly thirsty in my life and if glaring at the cask and thumping it could have emptied it there would not have been a drep drop left in it it was a it delightful improvement upon the tortures ef of tantalus but the victims accepted the joke as being against them and though they watched the cart going away gloomily enough there was no ill temper from panguitch to ordera Or derville ille fifty miles the scenery opens with the dreary hills that had bad become ao so mi miserably familiar alternating with level pasture lauds among which the serpentine sevier winds a curiously fantassa fantastic tic coursed course 1 but grad u ally there grows upon the mind a sense of coming change verdure creeps over the plains and vegetation vega tation steals on to the hillsides hill sides and then suddenly bong valley bursts bunts upon the traveler I 1 cannot cann ot in a few words word say more of it than that this valley through which the rio vergin flows and in w which bich the comma communists nis ts of ile have pitched their tents rivals in its beauty the scenery seen of ca cashmere amere springing from a hillside beautiful fu I 1 with flowering shrubs and instinct with bird life the vergin trickles through a dec deep meadow bright with blue hiis plants i ants and walled in on either side by ty hills that are clothed clot lied with a it varied vegetation and find then collecting its young waters into a little channel braag breaks away ay pratt prattling liti into the valley corn fields an orchards and meadows filled with grazing kino kine succeed ed each other in pleasant series and on the right hand and on the left the mountains lean proudly back with their loads of magnificent pine and other springs spi ings come com e tumbling down own to join the pretty river and so the they y flow on gradually widen widening ing as they go past whirling sawmills and dairies half buried burie d among fruit trees through part parl like glades studded wt with h pines of splendid girth and pretty breaks of berry bearing trees all flushed with blossoms and the valley breaks away on either side into grassy glens from which tho the tinkle of cattle bells falls pleasantly on the car or into bold canyons that are draped close with sombre pines and end in the roost most magnificent cathedral cliffs cliffis of ruddy sandstone what lovely bits of landscape 1 what noble studies of rock architecture I 1 it is a very panorama of charms and traveled as I 1 have I 1 must confess to a novelty in in delight in this exquisite valley of the Or derville brethren |