The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-04-07
DIRTY DEVIL REGION OF urAu
Where Vegetation Grows LuNuriantIy AM,
Echoe. hnIlIply a Ihan.andLuIu

Where Vegetation Grows LuNuriantIy ana
Echoes Multiply Thou-andIold
II il s.fe 10 say that few people hav.
heard Of the Dirty Devil region A.
archaologist who had been cxplur.pa,
out-Of-the-way corners in Utah ia t...
interests Of the worlds fair waua.-.5
up into the country with that sha.,.fH.-
name and writing about il he say- fI...
if more generally known, tourist .....If
seldom fail tO include il i'm their hin.
erary. In fact, according tn the N...,
York Evening Post, he puts IA, matter
more strongly, saying that the coilr,~.
contains sights surprising thos. OF ,t..
Yosemite. The principal settlcm.ut
by courtesy known as the couutr. -..,,
is Loa, situated in the Rabbit E...-
valley. The BuclthOrn mountain ..-.
divided at this point, " he says. ..b. taa
narrow valley down which th, b.rr-.
river flows. A. We leave Rabbit ya".r
the route goes down along the. river .-r..
narrow valley for twenty miI.
Lower and lower de~ceud- tl.. r...a
warmer and warmer grows the cI.maf..
higher and higher rise the might. ...,r.
Of sandstone until we find our..Ir..
shut out from the busy world and trt.....
ing down into what seems Iab.r.a-I
deep gorgcs, narrow canyons and I.rrt.
sunny valleys that seem % ru JOS eternal
summer. These valley are l-aa. III. E..,
a hundred fcet wide and rarsI. extend
along the river more than "a ,lar...-...s
a mile, but the soil Is rich and tl. g..,.
tatiOn grows luxuriautly iu This semi
tropical climate"
The writer SAYS he had never seen f..
fore such awful walls Of rock and -u..
vistas Of beauty as he found iu this bar,
Of L tah. Talk Of Gellow~tau.. 8sr.
talk Of Yosemite, talk Of the Gr4ud Tan.
yOn Of the Colorado" he declare .rr..
region il more in majesty than 20
them. There are leading out ~ ft..
Grand Wash. a stream tributary tl.
Dirty Devil, narrow canyons who's.
plssageways are but ter L. tl.rt. f..-
but whose sides run up perprua..a.,r.g
two thousand feet. and two af tgr..
narrow canyons lead into mighty ann.
phitheatrr- framed out Of tl. -.uH.
stone. These vast amphitararar- ar.
made larger and larger through ta..
years a. the storms wash down their
sides and carry the sand thus washed
away down through the marrow -.rr-
into the Dirty Devil and thence l..B
u the Colorado and into the sea H.
found spanning one OF the eauluH- d
natural bridge seventy feet wide and
twelve hundred feet above the nrd .f p.
torrent Echoes in the r-.,--~,.- s,...,.
multiplied thousand times the bari.
Of a dog seeming 10 h- taken up by "a
multitude Of ours. he came across a
family settled upon tract of tg,rIy.
acres on the banks Of the Dirty ua.
that lay between walls two tllu.4uI
feet high. The climate In that -r.4u,.-
tered spot was mild a. june. although
late in the fall Of the year. aud the note
of the whippoorwill was often heard al
night by the writer Turning o. the
practical side Of things. hr discovered
abundant evidences Of coal sulphur aud
gypsum. IL was Fremont who gave lY
this marvellous nook its name, iu dis
gust because he was Obliged tOcrJ~- the
tprtuDus stream no less than one hun
dred and thirteen times on one OF his
t.nlpelitiDus