The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-08-15
Mountains-and many more, are all fitting
ly named and each is distinctively interest,"

Mountains-and many more, are all fitting.
ly named and each is distinctively interest
ing.
Even the novel readers woke up here and
crowded out upon the platforms. They ele.
waited their would be aristocratic noses in
disdain when opened my mouth and called
out to the mountains. But they opened
their eyes, also, this time in establishment,
when the,echo came back clear and distinct,
the sound reverberating from bluff to bluff
until it seemed as If all the mountains we're
calling out to US.
O, the beauties of Echo canyon! What
pen can picture them. Mountains, rocky and
bear OF all vegetation on every side snow
capped peaks standing out against the sky,
dazzling the eye with their whiteness, while
lovely, fertile valleys nestle between them.
Echo river, with its waters like the colors of
the rainbow, is narrow, changeful stream,
meandering about regardless of the expense
of bridges, putting itself in our way so fire.
quently we CROSS it rhirty-cne times in twen-
ty-six miles.
DEVILS Slide is little further on, and
while there is no positive proof that His
Majesty chose this spot to slide into the
world, there is small prospect of his leaving
unless an easier way is provided climbing
CREASED pole would be fun in comparison
to climbing DEVILS Slide.
Iquote G.. q. Fuller's description Of this
freak OF nature, as it is very accurate sim
agine a mountain eight hundred feet high
composed Of solid, dark red Sandstone, with
asmooth and gradually ascending surface to
its pinnacle, and only eight or ten degrees
from being perpendicular. From the base
Of the immense red mountain up its entire
height is the DEVILS Slide, composed OF
fa r. nf
white stone floor from base to summit, about
fifteen feet wide, as straight and regular as
though laid with line and plummet. On
either side Of this smooth, white line is what
appears to the eye to be well-laid, white
stone-walI, varying 10 height from ten to
thirty feet.''
Rev. DIR. Simmons. . Methodist divine,
who recently made the trip overland, OBJ
jects to the name given this wonder OF ma
ture, and suggests instead s'The Angels !
/ beg the Rev. gentleman's pardon, but
reckon lie is stranger in these parasitic |
name he suggests would be at all events.
"A guide book tells as that Devils Gate, |
little further on, Is only side tract, with a
switch. A side tract, aoitb a switch Moth
ing more. But it runs so close to the mar
low one we are trying to follow! But a
Kind Providence protects us this time and
We keep straight onward, soon emerging
INTO the broad valley in which the city of
Ogden is situated-the terminus Of the I'M
on Pacific Railroad.
Here again we bid adieu to our fellow pas
engers from Green River, for, dear friends
4 the VIRG1NIAN, this trip is being made
With an eye single to your enjoyment and
and as we are only thirty-six
niles from Salt Lake CITY, famous the world
'ver for its peculiar Institutions" we sure
y must not pass it by.
While we wait Tor the Salt Lake train let
ne tell you that this is also the diverging
'oint for persons going to the Territories of
Wyoming and Idaho, both lying north OF
Utah. both rich in minerals and capable OF
'eing made rich agrlcultu,ally. But their
Innate, though usually we'll enough, is now
90 much Of an Indian-summer for timid
,eople-it affects the scalp. TRUFAX.
Out Vest, August 9Th, 1878.