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Show Trip to Local Points Of Interest Proves Very Interesting (iMUtors note: Tho following article written by Mrs. Jessie K. Wmllry Is printed to Illustrate Illus-trate how Inton'sting a trip -.iii be taken in the uurround-coiintry, uurround-coiintry, and yet not go far from home. Saturday, March 31 was a very interesting day for an Easter Hike. It was a cloudy day but warm enough for driving into the mountains. moun-tains. A long-looked-for opportunity opportun-ity to make a short trip to places where we had worked came unexpectedly. un-expectedly. Alex's work had taken him to Kamas and while it was not far away it was hard to find time to take his family whom he had promised prom-ised to take, to see the place. "There are many things to be done, but we'll just leave them and go," he said "and take Mom along. She has wanted to see Heber for a long time." So without any fuss, we were soon in the car, Alex, his wife and children and Roland Haycock and I. It was a trip we shall long remember. re-member. At the mouth of Provo Canyon work was being done on the road. The huge rock mountain at the entrance was being moved away to provide a better entrance, and with such apparent ease. Yet it is work but those huge machines could work so fast and do such a heavy load that they seemed almost human. hu-man. They picked up great loads of heavy rocks and soon took them away. We marveled at what can be done now. Truly man is subduing subdu-ing the earth. While the roadi was rough for about a mile there was promise of something much nicer. Modern machinery and automobiles automo-biles have almost replaced the old "Heber Creeper" that I knew and en which I had traveled to Heber 49 years ago to take my first job teaching. The train track is there and the train goes up occasionally as need requires, but the memory of that train that made one trip a day from Provo to Heber and returned re-turned still remains. How lonesome I felt when I heard the train leave knowning that I could not get away until the next day. Then how happy I was when I heard it come in and hoped that it might have a letter for me. We saw Deer Creek Dam. Here Alex had worked. He had helped to build the dam from its very beginning and was interested in telling us of its growth little personal per-sonal things that made it more interesting. in-teresting. There is not so much water in the reservoir as there has been but it can surely hold a lot of water when it is filled. We enjoyed seeing the wild ducks swimming and wanted to go down to the shore but time did not permit. On up a short distance we decided de-cided to see Wallsburg our first trip there. We could see how the name came to be Wallsburg when we saw the 'wall of mountains around the place. We could tell by old bams and fences that it had been there a long time. Cattle were grazing in the meadows. We came out the same way we went in then on to Charleston where the Hyrum Carlson home was pointed out, then on to Midway. Mid-way. We had to make a quick trip to the "Hot Pots" still an interesting inter-esting resort as it was in 1907-08. Here we found two bus loads of young people braving the weather to have a swim and trying to coax SDrine tr hrrrrv nlnno- with others still has a warm spot in his heart. Because our time was limited we did not go into Salt Lake City but returned through Keetley back to Heber and then home feeling that our trip had been very enjoyable en-joyable as well as educational. Many beautiful things in this world of ours, and many new experiences ex-periences waiting for us if we just take the time to see and do them. We are never the same again. We see the clear streams of water, wat-er, the watercress in them, the cows and sheep grazing, the snow in patches among the trees, the work to make such fine roads and other projects. While this was a short trip and only in our own yard, we may say, it was an interesting way to spend the "family houi" Jessie R. Wadley From Midway to Heber is only a short distance. It was fun to ride down the main street and see the familiar things I had known before the Stake Tabernacle, the County Courthouse, the Post Office Of-fice in the same location but having hav-ing been replaced by a new building. build-ing. I had learned to love the old Post Office. It brought me news from home and others. A new one story building had replaced the old two story school building in which I had taught the 4th grade. Yes, some of the familiar places were there but the familiar faces were gone. From Heber to Francis then to Kamas. I was surprised to find: Kamas as large as it is. Here Alex hunted up an old schoolmate, Leo Bezzant, who owns a store there. Yes we had to have hamburgers and drinks and ice cream the usual us-ual lunch on the way. One place hamburgers, another for drinks and still another for ice cream. Then from Kamas we went to Marion, Oakley, Peoa and Wan-ship. Wan-ship. Here we saw the Wanship Dam being built to hold the water from the Weber watershed another an-other big reclamation project which was interesting to Alex who knew the amount of work required to build a dam. He has not lost his interest in and love for these engineering en-gineering projects. He has this sort of thing in his blood and enjoys the great out-of-doors and working |