The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-09-27
TIE NORTH COUNTRY.
A Legal Auminary Far Away
From HglDe.
SCENES .EN PORT NEUF CANYON.
A Quart o. Spoiled Water for Zen
Cents-.Kt Touches Neither APP
.setite Nor Pocket.

| 8tis a matter of pore,Oc less uaoer
1slntv to meas to whe it.was that wrst
l4rhe Fields are Green that are IA
AWAY" put there is notthe slightss
doubt that be never Eged,in Salt Lake
and meanGered through. Southern Idah,
always surprising that, like othe
meets he was strictly truthful and dix
not evolve the Emerald-huad pasture.
frem his own mental condition. Herr
and there, like an oasis as 1t were, is 1
patch of verdure, the beauty and invit
inc nature of which is brought int
holder relief than it would be in tine
populous parts of Utah,by reason of its
barren surroundings. Great stretches
of real estate, populated only by dis
tantlr- divided bovines, with sage brush
the only vegetation and sand7hills the
principal scenery, are the rule, the ex-
ceptien being where there is q stream OF
water. and then little congregations OF
the human family or stock ranches
varying in magnitude and importance
in nronortion to the value of the aque-
GUS fluid, are found. On reaching Nc
Cammon (167 miles north of Salt Lake,,
however, things in general taken on a
somewhat different aspect. Here we
f~st strike the Portaeuf River, one of
the mosthaautiful streams in the north
ern Confederacy; a fine hotel with
annie accommodations for a hundred
guests, and the Oregon Short Line Rail
way. The traveller this way has to stay
at MeCammon all night, II he travels by
rail, leaving at $40 am. per the Short
Line, and spinning along due east at a
rapid pace for about twenty-five miles,
through Portneuf canyon. This cele
brated assure in the everlasting hills is
in places as pretty as dream of Para
disc, in others as ugly as the Utah Pen
itentiary. Here and there pretty little
cascades sparkle in the sunlight, while
the current is as placid and
silent in its onward sweep as the bosom
OF the Father of Waters. At intervals
there are openings in the serrated hills,
the sides OF which openings are them
selves furrowed with marvellous regular
ity by the hand of nature, the back
ground of the view disclosing a precipit-
Gus eminence almost at right angles
with the the ridges running up to 1t,
the whole scene being wonderfully like
the stage of the theatre set for rural
play; this effect is heightened by the
many-hued patches of foliage, shrub
berry and grass everywhere apparent
the frost having impaired a brilliant
scarlet, to the leaves of the poplar,
tinged with a golden cast the quaking-
asp, left the silyery sheen of its touch
upon the bushes, bronzed with its lev
breath the luxurant grass, and left I'M
touched only the indestructible green
of the cedars and the dark leaden-
brown of the soil itself. To see such a
array of brilliant shades
portrayed ON canvas would
cause one who had not seen the original
% pronounce the work too highly
,olored, the different shades too abrupt /
n their commencement and terminal /
ion, and the whole work extremely I'M
'eal; but there it is, executed by the |
Master hand, and no mortal painter
;ould make it more fanciful in its
hromatic beauty, if he were to give
rec rein to the most vivid imagination
md add to the lustre of his colors all
hat the resources. of his craft could |
provide. Not a soul out of the many
IN board that train, who saw these de-
ightful spectacles but what said audi
,ly or silently, Beautiful beyond de-
1t was such discouraging
emarks as this that induced me to not
tempt description.
Portneuf Canyon finally opens out
nto an ample valley which, but for its
bundance of grass and being bisected
" the waters of Bear River. would be
s nearly realization of absolute desc
atom as anything pictured in Dante's
Inferno" 1t has enough grass to sus-
ain thousands of head of stock, and is
old enough in winter and scorching
nough in summer to make up the
verage Indians ideal of what a home
lould be. The aborigines could here
habit soil which the pale faces don't
ant; their cayuses might effect a con-
ealment of some of their fine points
Y grazing q few consecutive DAYS. I
here are seasons when old SOILS blister. I
g breath would emphasize the tobacco !
lice hue of the natives hides and times ,
hen enough snow and drizzle prevail
"set" the enhanced color, and, in
lort, all the advantages and accom-
odations which these niggers-ln-law
old Satan ought to ask for-but they
ont have it, won't look at it nor have
lything whatever to do with 1t until
lie aggressive white trash drifts that ,
ay-then they are robbed and cheated
I'd their ignorance IS taken advantage
!. Nor is there to DC found so much as
one hoof-print-neither a low nor [
0 anywhere. | would rather own
building spot in Salt Lake
ian the whole valley. Even the grass
hich it produces so abundantlY has {
imy, sickly appearance, and the con- {
usion seems irresistible that nature was ,
ace troubled with nasal expectoration
nd had hole IN her handkerchief. {
As we proceed southwark, there is {
OF an improvements de-
ded one when Soda Springs is reached
nOugh has been said about this place
nd by those whose descriptive faculty
poses several pegs higher on the liter !
y wall than mine does. 1t would be !!
of town if it had enough
OuSes and people-these trihing draw. /,
lcks, however, being characteristic OF !
| the towns in this part of the vine ]
ard. A boy, boarded the train and :
led to sell me a bottle of water right ]
1T OF the springs for ten cents. 1t was
N times as big as my sinking fund and !
quart more of spoiled water than 1 re- I
hired, so we didn't trade. a French /
an sitting next to me bought bottle I
Id tried lt-ouce He then turned to