The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25
ONSCENERY
One Of Utah'S Many
Attractions.
THE UINTA RANGE.
The Beautiful Lakes on the Noun
tain Tops.
A NIGHT ON OUR INLAND SEA.
Sights in Southern Utah-In the Cotton
woods-The Majestic Wasatch Noun
tains-SOme Distinctive Features.
THE UINTA RANGE.
The Beautiful Lakes on the Noun
tain Tops.
A NIGHT ON OUR INLAND SEA
Sights in Southern Utah-In the Cotton
woods-The Majestic Wasatch Noun
tains-Some Distinctive Features.
BY ALFRED LAMBoURNE.

BY ALFRED LASIBoURNE.
A glance at the map of Utah reveals the
following facts: That in shape our terri
tory is almost square, save for the bit
clipped out on the northeast corner, by our
neighboring territory, Wyoming; that the
Wasatch range of mountains traverses its
central part, almost from boundary line to
boundary line, running due north and
south; that the Uintas, the second in i'm
portance of our mountain ranges, extend
from our eastern border, close to the Green
river, to the Wasatch range, which they
confront almost at right angles; one of their
highest peaks, the Bald Mountain, being
exactly sixty miles east of Salt Lake City
base and meridian; that many minor
ranges, such as the Oquirrh, the Tintic, the
Grantsville, or Aqui, the Cedar, the
Terrace, the Raft River, the Sewer, the
Snowy, ETC., etc, are seen pursuing courses
at various angles to the two main ranges {;
giving, of course, a series of valleys, some
small, some narrow and elongated, and
others of great extent; that of the latter,
the great Pah Want valley, the Cedar, the
Utah, the Salt Lake, the Tooele, the Cache
and the Bear Lake, are the more important
and that of the former, there are far too
many to name; that the principal rivers are
the Green and the Grand, whose union
within our borders forms the Rio Colorado;
the Sewer, the Jordan, the Bear, the
Provo, the Weber and the DuChesne; that
beside these, there is a host of other
streams, not dignifed with the title of
rivers, yet winding in devious courses
; through many canon and valley; that of
fresh water lakes of Importance there are
the Bear. the Utah, the Sewer, and the
Panguitch. And that, hidden away
among the mountain tops, there are many
lakelets, snow-fed sources of unfailing
streams. Lastly, in the northwest corner
of the map, there is the Great Salt Lake,
the marvellous inland sea, whose wonders
scenic, climatic and sanitarian-have been
heralded abroad, from shore to shore of
our land, and across the seas.
1t would be strange if among all these
mountain chains, by these lakes and
streams, and in these countless valleys,
we did not find about every class of scenery
to be found in the west. And such is the
fact. With the exception of California,
whose thousand miles of coast line make
her pre-eminent in that respect, Utah
takes precedence in scenic diversity over
all the western states and territories
Wyoming, it is true, has the wonderful
Yellowstone National Park, and Idaho her
Shoshone, and Colorado, too, her canoRs,
her Garden of the Gods, and her peaks,
some Of them higher than any to be found
in Utah; yet, in spite of these, take it for
all in all, we can lay claim to the possession
within our borders of a greater amount of
the grand, the beautiful and strange scenery
of the west, than any one of our neighbor-
ing rivals. Our mountains show every ex-
preston of the higher picturesque. Along
their length are presented picture after
picture, in ''linked sweetness long drawn
,aput." Heaved up in pale, granite masses,
towering high in dark quartzite peaks,
rising in vast waves of many
colored sandstones, with cliffs and
ledges and precipices of slate, of lime
stone, of lava, of conglomerate, and
clothed with forests of pine, of fir and of
spruce; and riven by the course of the
yawning canons; and with the upper peaks
holding in their deep seams, through all
the heated months of summer the winter
snow, they challenge comparison with any
of the mountains of the west of which there
has been more Wanting. The Wasatch
range is beautiful as any. That portion of
it seen from our very doors has received
the admiration of tourists and artists from
all parts of the world; while the Uinta
range, though not so well known and sell
dom described, contains, nevertheless,
class of scenes of the widest grandeur.
Among the mountains to the south there is
a complete transformation from the scenery
of the north. There the scenes are sterile,
weird and almost un-earthly; there it is