The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-30
IN SUMMIT COUNTY.
Some of the Charming hooks LO-
Gated by a Correspondent.
THE SCENES AT HOLIDAY PARK.
Salt Lakers Who are Enjoying Life Amid the
Pines and Lakes of the Noun
tain Ranges.

PEoA, Summit county, Utah. Aug. %,
1885, correspondence of THE HERALD. l.
a small company of Salt Lakers, left tae
seta of Liberal political trickery and skull
duggery shortly after the county election,
fatisfied that if it were within the scope of
possibilities, the powers that be down
there would steal George M. Cannon's
shoes, A. J. Burt's stogas, and John c.
Cutters slippers and give them to
the representatives on the Liberal
ticket. But at the same time
we hoped that Vou Populi would
have been allowed a hearing and
that the last three names would be sup
planted by Rumel, Burt and Toronto. We
came to the conclusion, however, that
which ever way the Liberal leaders wllled
=, so it would be and we could not help it.
In the words of the memorable Missouri
governor: "Your cause is just, but l can
do nothing for you.n
The valley in which Peoa is a center
piece, and through which the Weber flows,
is very pretty spot for both settlers and
rusticaters. Good land to the left of 1t,
good land in the rear of it, its inhabitants
are well blessed. Meadows and meadows
stretch out and up and down the bottoms,
and there Just now, are alive with merry
lawmakers, who are making hay while the
sun shines, though for few days old Sol
has been obscured and Jupiter Pluvius
has had dampening effest on the toiJers'
labors, wetting and blackening the hay al
ready cut, and spelling lots of it. The
grain looks well everywhere wheat and
oats chiefly being the crops. Considering
the length of season. about seven months
winter, the Peoaans are to be congratu
lated and praised for the evidences of
Nil a,,+n ifact in ytynt1
tivated farms, fine horses and cattle, M
merous poultry, good fences, substantial
dwellings and out-houses. etc. Land that
few brief years ago was deemed impos-
siole to plow and cultivate, is now bearing
fruit suchas would do the eyes of city
bloke good to gaze upon.
RocKPoRT.
Three miles nearer your city from here,
is another lovely place, though somewhat
older than this town, and, consequently,
containing more substantial improvements
The river winds around one side OF 1t, and,
lined with tall, leafy trees, forming natural
parks, the campers-out find there spots
and shady hooks that are enchanting.
600-inhabitant town, on the east of this,
is excellently located for an agricultural
centre. The broad acres of its people are
rich; not poor spot anywhere below the
base of the hills. Everybody was busy
when we footed it there from our camp a
few days ago. Every man and boy was out
in the fields or on the range, haying OF at
tending to stock, and as we tramped
through the heart of the village to Citizen
Jesse Burbidge's ranch at the mouth of
Beaver Greek canon, the curious gaze of
women, girls and little ones caused US to
suspect that we were suspected of being
''deps.n Speaking of this place of Mr.
Burbidge's, l do not exaggerate when 1 say
1t is the most lovely home and has the most
perfect appnrtenances of any in this region
His farm of forty acres Is yielding abund-
antly; his pasture of the same size keeps a
large herd of stock fat and plump, and his
meadow of the same extent furnishes rich,
wild hay enough for all purposes of stock
feeding when the weather forbids cattle
grazing 'Jess" is well fixed.
AS L before mentioned, the people out
here have good horses, and it is customary
now and then to speed some of them.
There was running race here last week,
two cows being the stakes. The horses
were a sorrel belonging to E. F. Palmer,
and bay the property of the Maxwell
brothers. 1t was a pretty run and was
won by the aforementioned animal by a
length, But by the merest technicality in
an agreement the owners of the bay de-
clined to pay their bets, and it seemed i'm
minent. at one time, that free for ali
fight would result, but it didn't The at
tendance was large and the interest in the
match great. People from as far as
twelve miles around came, in all sorts Of
conveyances, from the humble cart and
the barebacked cayuse to the spring seated
wagons and buggies. The outcome of the
race was signalized by a series of yelling
screecbing, whoopng and shouting a.
would do credit to band of Comanches on
the war path. The winners and the losers
were alike turbulent and noisy. and at one
time the track was a veritable bedlam
The dispute as to the technicality and tue
first race was '.iawed'' away, and the two
horses went over the track again. The
winner of the Maxwell Cow being agar
the winner.
One Gay last week, in company with you
agent at this place, Mr.. o. +. Lyons, VIII
is postmaster, notary, etc, and withal
very agreeable man to meet anywhere, w,
rode in a cart behind one of his three year
old animals, to the head of the Weber Il
was one of the most delightful episodes O
my career.
THE SCENERY is GRAND
ard most charming. Not rugged and rock,
as In most OF the canon summer resorts O
Utah. but pleasant to the eye, agreeable Z
every sense, and charming beyond expires
sion. Near the mouth the tall, majesti
pines and cottonwoods, with an under
SIONbH VI WluONS anu OruSu, III places a.
most impenetrable with the roaring, rush
ing water, in which the speckled beautie
abound rolling down over cobbles, boulders
and past messy banks. down to its wester
terminus, the scenery furnished woul
gladden. the hearts of artists and give then
subjects for the canvas which would cnric
them and adorn the walls of their pur
chasers.
For twenty miles the ride up the cailo,
is delightful Ranches here and there al
the way; some patches under cultivation
others utilized as ranges for cattle Abou
twelve miles up there is sawmill an,
ranch, owned by MIR. George Wardell
whose hospitality to passers-by is know
TO all who travel that way. The next sec
tion farther up is about TO be taken up b
Mr. Lyons, and the writer hereof expect
TO go into partnership in the tract, beliey
ing that not an acre of available land i
this delightful retreat will be obtainable i
few years. Next east is a ranch recent
owned by MIR. Burbank, a sort of recluss
but now MIR. Oscar Young is the luck
possessor, he having bought it at yer
reasonable figure not many days ago.
Near the extreme head of the canor
your correspondent and agent halted fo
the night at the ranch of Mr. Marchan
and were treated most kindly by tn
hostess and her hospitable relatives.
After caring for our tired animal, w
s'hoofed" it TO
HOLIDAY PARK,
where we found about hundred of Sa
Lakes young business folks, with the
families, enjoying themselves in numerou
ways-feasting on fish chiefly, On the wa
up we passed several expert nimrods b.
longing to the Holiday Park company, on
of whom had the hardihood to assure U
that he had been ont the day before an