The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-03

with pines and quakingasps, and standing in
Its centre, one could fancy himself in huge
amphitheatre of nature, with the receding
rows of trees forming the myriads of seats
that ran up TO tile top. The air here is ever
dreamy, pure and calm; the nights so cool
that the hotel guests cluster around the
parlor stove every evening, and if it is too
crowded there they repair to the kitchen.
Think of it, We toilers in town! The time
July, and the scene but thirty miles from
your doorsl Fifty people sat down at the
tables the day our hungry band arrived.
There was trout-the lake aboun0s with
them, though it takes a crack fisherman
like my friend Burton. Wells or Spencer to
lnveigle them to the surface-cream that
falls with thud and a slosh into your
coffee, milk and butter galore, hot biscuit
and potatoes. What more would the gods
require, if served in amplitude. and mine
most brighton and mis- worthy dame-ldeal
ana hospitahle "Scots who hae'' never yet
had 1t laid TO their door that the larder gave
out before the next express arrived from
town.
From Brighton's two choices confront
you: You may either push on by horse
back over the picturesque three mile trail
to Alta, catch the tram down to Granite
and come home on the Rio Grande at night
| fall, thus completing the circle wlunln
Twelve hours; or you may rest all night at
Brightons, breakfast there next morning
then strike away from the circle on tan
| gent to the south, to Lake Mary. and reach
Alta IN time for the afternoon tram, hav
| ing Travelled two miles farther, and it is
true over rather rugged road, but having
seen what is a thousand fold recompense-
the calm and magnificent grandeur OF
Mary's lake. Our party divided in its
choice; some pushed on to make the circle
within the day; the remainder, nine In all,
stald over at Brighton's, underwent the
luxury of sleeping under blankets and
quilts in midsummer, and mounted on nine
ponies next morning, scaled the heights In
the direction of
| LAKE MARY.
With this party [ cast my lot, and never
was a choice more fully rewarded. Who
first gave the name of Mary to tue DARK
blue body of water that lies so still in the
tops of those peaks, lam unaware; il
may have come from the thought Of
the beautiful Scottish queen; it recalls the
dark robed pictures of that calm and tran
gull beauty, and | would not be surprised
If the christener had Mary Stuart il his
mind when he bestowed his title. Yor
must see Mary's lake with its rock ribbed
shore, its stony islet, it's surrounding
peaks, its fringe of pines, and it's great
dark unruffled bosom of infinite calm, Il
feel what we felt as we gazed upon it
Something OF its tranquility seems
to reach out x and impart itself tt
and over one as he gaZeS steals the memory
of the beautiful words of Longfellow:
| And the night shall be filed with music
And the cares that infest the dav
Shall fold their tents like the Arab,
| And as silently steal away.
Our painters, the best Of them, Lam
bourne, Ottinger and Culmer think, hav,
transferred some of the beauty of Mary
lake to canvass; but Michael Angelo him
self could not give an adequate idea o
what that beauty really is, and no on
could really sense 1t, who has not stoot
upon its banks and surveyed it for him
self.
After leaving Lake Mary it is all q pro
digious climb through region so rugget
that one might almost imagine he was tn
first of his kinu to travel it. Lake Marth
and Lake Catherine, two smaller bodies o
water than Lake Mary, lie in the steppe:
above it, and both have aloveliness of thei
own-but not like unto that of Mary
Climbing on past Catherine and you com.
to the summit of the divide, within few
feet of the highest peaks that we may be
hold to the southeast of :! the city, and
point from which commences the tire
notable canons, American Fork, Big Cot
tonwood and Little Cottonwood From
where we pause to rest our ponies we Cal
gaze far away to the blue mountains abov,
Ogden-see the range beyond Kamas, an,
that On the west of Salt Lake valley. 1t il
here that a tremendous snow bank almos
bars the way, and the MONDAY sun tina
beats upon it only causes small tricklin
stream to leave it and fall into the LAX
below. The thaWing process only goes Of
a few hours each day, and before the siz
Of the big pile is appreciably reduced thu
SHOWS of another winter are upon it again
AS fast as the snow melts, out of the blacl
soil springs myriad of the richest am
most delicate bnttercups, whose yelloI
color forms the strangest sort of Inargina
fringe to the bank of snow.
Another hour of riding, this time dow
steep declivities, brings us to Alta, tn
home of the Emma and the Flagsta
mines and the region of the terrible snow
slide, a little spot where more lives hav
been lost in the mountain avalanches tina
in the whole oitUbah's mountain ranges bt
sides. But the town is dead and siler
enough today, only few men restin
about the main store Of the place, Tucke
81 V|allace's, the population all being 6
work in the tunnels and shafts of the mine
that dot every hillside within reach Of th
, eve. DOWn ule Tram 10 OIranlto Win MI
King, who has the line under lease, is on
of the most exhilaratlng experiences of tn
trip; the car is let loose, safety brake q
tached, and you are whirled down the grad
with a velocity that makes you long I
burst forth into good old Porter ROCK
well yell. Granite gained, and we find tn
train gone, but the time we obtain allow
US to visit the fairy grottos where SUNNI
Turn aud Mrs Spencer, Mrs. Rossiter an
Mrs. Thatcher's lovely hooks are situate,
, and "there in cool grot" to lave the QUITE
. and refresh the inner man. Mr.. Kin
. sends his tram car with US from Granite
, Bingham Junction, the descent being
, rapid that no motive power is needed. an
. down we come whizzing for ten mile
through fields and past farm houses who's
occupants come out and stare in ope
mouthed wonder at the latest wonderf'
, achievement in electricity. At Bingha
:, junction we are IN civilization once NOR
, We fling ourselves into the luxurious r
cliuing chairs of Mr.. Benefits new bros
guage coaches and are whiried into tt
J city we had left thirty-siX hours befor
exhausted from sheer enjoyment.
!, Touring the tourists circle ia the ever
!, of lifetime: to have accomplished it Oh
. feels that he has at last been face to ia,
with nature, and to have accomplished
! as we did was giving liberal education
, the soul. GAN.
,, The WEST-B0UND TRAIN.