The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-24
various divisions of the system to the
many points of interest.
THE RIO GKANDE WESTERN.
Points of Interest Along the Great Scenic
Line of tho World.

Points of Interest Along the Great Scenic
Line of tho World.
The tourist and pleasure seeker in a
trip across the continent, or to the City OF
the Saints, will avail himself OF the many
advantages offered by the Rio Grande
Western railway, the scenic line OF the
world. Coming from the east or return
ing, trip should be made OF this line OF
road, where marvellous feats of railway en-
gineering can be seen, in tact COMPARE
son is found nowhere else. The Rio Grande
Western traverseS Utah from Ogden to
Utaline, distance of 294 miles. 1t is a
picturesque ride. The scenery is wonder
fully diversified. Pat Donan in his
"Utah, Peep into a Mountain Walled
flying trip over the Rio Grande Western,
with Salt Lake City as a starting
point. He says:
1.-The train sweeps on btween
long avenues of shade trees and
past charming suburban homes en-
emboWered in foliage, fruit and flowers,
and seven miles out it begins to pass the
great smelters at Franklyn, Germania
and Bingham Junction strung along the
track for four miles. They reduce about
rs, COO tons of silver ores a year.
cat Bingham Junction, one branch
line strikes of to the rich Bingham mines
sixteen miles southwest. Another branch,
ten miles long, runs to tne Wasatch at the
mouth of Little Cottonwood canyon,
where all the white granite for the Nor
mon temple in Salt Lake was quarried.
''The main line train halts but an in
slant at Bingham Junction, and speeds on
up the fertile and beautiful Jordan River
valley, past Draper and Jordan Narrows,
into Lehi, a beautiful little city of 5000
people, with all its houses hidden in the
green OF trees and vines. 1t takes It's name
from Lehi, according to the book OF Nor
mon the ancestor of the American Indians.
The country around it is like vast
garden. Within from twenty to forty
five miles are all the mines of Cotton
wood, American Fork, Bingham and
Tintic. There are a number OF flourish
ing manufactures, and the Utah Beet
Sugar factory, is the largest concern Of
the kind in the United States, costing
nearly 5000, 600.
'sOn four miles to American Fork, a
pretty town of $500 people, the whole
place, like every other in this region, lost
in fruit trees and flowers. Here start the
wagon roads to American Fork mines,
about twenty miles away.
''Four miles further and Battle Creek is
passed, ana further Whlrl or nine miles
brings Provo into view-and charming
view it is. The city of 5000 people, on the
shores OF tho lovely Utah Lake, with the
mighty wall of the Wasasch mountains
as background. Handsome buildings,
all buried in their wealth of fruit trees,
flowers and vines. A surrounding coun-
try that is vast garden, teeming with
every variety OF grain, fruit and vege
table. Here is the largest wooden mill
west of the Missouri river.
con, with whir of flying wheels, six
miles to Springville, where the Tintic
Range branch of the Rio Grand Western
leaves the main line and pushes through
Spanish Fork, city of 8, 500 people. On
through Payson and Goshen, a region
rich in all agricultural productions.
West of Goshen the new branch line en-
tiers Pinon Canyon and runs for ten
miles through as wild and
rugged scenes as can be found in all this
region of scenic wonders. The track
the canyon is a dizzy puzzle in
It winds aud climbs,
twists, turns and wriggles, and at last
absolutely crosses itself backward and
forward, tying itself into a loop like
double bow-knot. There are but two