The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-03
THE CIRCLE
Seventy Miles of Grandeur and
Novelty.
OVER THE MOUNTAIN TOPS.
Park, Brighton, Lake Mary, Alta
and Granite.


Park, Brighton, Lake Mary, Alta
and Granite.
From dumb winter to spring
In one wonderful hour;
From Nevat,a's white wing
To creation in flower.
December Mt morning.
Tossing Wild in his might
A juno without warning
And blown roses AZ night
1 thought of these lines as lay on snow
bank twenty feet thick the other day and
pluclzed punches of the yellowest butter
cups from the soil alongside the snow.
That sounds very like a paradox | know;
but no more paradoxical than that this bank
of snow lay and still lies only thirty miles
from Salt Lake (and good deal less than
that as the crow iies), and that our party
crossed over it on boiling day in the last
of July, when you in the city were sasping
for air, gulping iced tea, or sitting at your
lunches under those tangled electric
fans.
Yet it is all gospel truth, and you or any
of your swelteriIg friends can pass through
it and battle in all the glory of it, as we
did, simply by purchasing ticket over
that realm of the marvellous which Tom
Macintosh and Mr.. Bennett have united
in calling 1.-THE Tourists Circle"
That is not at ali a satisfactory name for
it, to my way of thinking. After one has
been over it, his mind involuntarily gropes
out towards 1.-THE Garden of the Gods, y
1.-THE Home of the Winds" 1.-The Eagles
Eerie Abode'' or some other kindred title
Besides, it is no more especially the
tourists route than the bankers, the
merchants, the bookkeeper's, or the real
estate mans: indeed, the future of the
circle-and it is sure to be great one
will be made by those very classes in this
very city, when they come to know that
! within three hours from their Office doors
lies-in hottest July or Augusta NINA
| ture Switzerland, with its mountain lakes,
its signing pines, its eternal SHOWS, and its
air of blended May and October.
DESCRIBING THE CIRCLE.
1.-The Tourists Circle" is described by
taking the new Utah Central railroad anC
running up Parleys canyon thirty miles tt
Park City; thence over the tops Of the
mountains by tram and wagon eight miles
to Brighton; thence over more mountains
three miles by horse to Alta; thence down
Little Cottonwood by tram twelve miles tt
Granite; thence by Rio Grande Western
rail eighteen miles to Salt Lake-in all s
tour of about seventy miles, and in al
| crowding into seventy miles more grandeur
novelty and var. ely than one could conjurt
up out of any oJner 400 miles of travel he
could lay out for himself. The richest sub
urban land of all Utah-the district where
the boom struck first and fingered longest
| is that through which the first steps of the
| Utah Central are taken. Past Liberty
| Park, through Lincoln Park, Grand View
along the canal banks, through Sugarhouse
in the midst of fields Of grain. orchard
and verdure, one finds conStan
source of delight in gazing upol
the prospect and inhaling the early morn
| ing breath from the fields, as he is whirlet
! through it. The mouth of Parlev's canor
is entered at eight or ten miles from tn,
city, and the historic spot is passed wher
the pioneers stood forty-three years ago
and drank in their first view OF their fail
promised land Then the climb is all III
and upward. Occasional stops are made Il
let those of who have come out to spent
the day at such places as Mountain Dell
the Mountain Resort, Hardy's, the Scent
Resort, Kimbalrs Park hotel and Snyder
vile, all of which are on the line of tn
road, and all of which are heavily patron
lied by those, who, like our party, wer
fleeing from the heat of the city. The en-
CINE finishes its climbing feat, and
mighty one it is-at 1.-The summit" an
looking back it is enough to make one dizz
to see the snakelike windings the trail
has pursued, the precipices that hav
yawned under it and the huge bridge
1t has SPAWNED. But once on tn
summit, and it is all rattle and buzz til
the train pulls up in Park City; the grad
is as stiff a decline as that on the other sid
was an incline, and the engineers mai
duty now is to keep the cars back of hin
from crowding him to perdition.
We left Salt Lake at 80 a. IN. and l
o'clock finds us landed in the famous hom
Of the Ontario, where silver and Graf
Chambers are king. The schedule com
prehends our jumping into carriages her
and being borne over the hills to Brigh
toms but the size Of our party, numberln
sixteen, and the fact thai it included two c
the big candidates at the February election
several newspaper men, one or two &C
tresses, an actor, q theatrical mans
ger, mixologist, and several charm
ing young society bellies has cause
Tom Macintosh and 10 Young who receiv
us at the Park, to arrange with Mr.. Withe
of the Crescent to run special train {
tram cars up To the mines with our par ty
passengers and the wagons are sent on t
wait for us ahead.
THE CLIMB UP THE TRAM,
as the Snowman says, is alone worth tie
times the price of admission. Starting frol
the foot of Park City's Main street, tn
putting, snoring train of box cars with in
provised seats, goes up the mountain sid
winding, winding, and all the .ime grad
ually ascending, till after an hours har
painting the engine pauses beside wate
tank and allows you to gaze upon such ia
away world of hills and dales spread out
your feet, that your mind involuntaril
turns to what Satan must have shown II
Son of Man from the top of that far o
mountain when he babe him fall down an
worship. Such a sight is witnessed by tn
} aeronaut, not often by any one else. Sti
upward and upward we went, our pat
5 taken through vast fields of the most goi
{ geous wild flowers of colors, scents an
, varieties that sent up ecstatic cries Of &C
5 miration and wonder from the fair occl
/. pants of the box cars. Wild roses, daise
columbines, buttercups, wild peas. and a
expanse of blue bells, red bells, and III
1 known white, purple and yellow flower
in profusion almost bewildering. III
4 Crescent mine is reached at last. just as tt
whistle in the engine house blows Tor nool
v and the yellow, earth begrimed miner
come pouring up from the shaft to so TO IL
1 dining room. But we have no Crescer
stock-our sympathies are mostly Apex,
e and we do not linger there, but taking
' farewell of MIR. Whitney, with shout
: thanks for his courtesy, we Chamber in
e the wagons, there held in waitiu
r by prince of drivers and mounta;neer
I Lawrence Klmball, and once mora cor
= nence our drive towards Brighton. "
have come five miles by the tram and SIT
have three to go before dinner. Tho
three we so over, as only those who ha'
A. tasted long and WHO see dinner in sight ca
j go; the ride is divine one over the mou
L tain roads, aud the immense altitude
: which we are travelling, some nine thousai
:, | fanf ranIerc the Il IN,