Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-04-12
DIRTY DEVIL REGION OF UTAH.
whero Vegetation Grows LuSurlantIy and
Echoes Multiply n Thousandrold.

Whero Vegetation Grows LuIurlantIy and
Echoes Multiply n Thousandfold.
It is s;fc to say that few people have
heard of the Dirty Devil region. An
archnologist who had been exploring
out-of-thc-way corners in Utah in the
interests of the worlds fair wandered
up into the country with that shocking
name and writing about it he says that,
if more generally known, tourists would
seldom fail to include it in their tim
ernry. In fact, according to the New
York Evening Post, he puts the matter
more strongly, saying that the country
contains sights surprising those of the
Yosemite. The principal settlement
by courtesy known as the country seat
is Loa, situated in the Rabbit River
valley. ''Thc Bucllhorn mountains are
divided at this point" he says, "by the
narrow valley down which the Dirty
river flows. AS we leave Rabbit valley
the route goes down along the river into
n narrow valley for twenty miles
Lower and lower descends the road,
warmer and warmer grows the climate,
higher and higher rise the mighty walls
of sandstone, until we find ourselves
shut out from the busy world and travel
ing down into what seems labyrinth,
deep gorges, narrow canyons and little
sunny valleys that seem to enjoy eternal
summer. These valleys arc usually but
n hundred feet wide and rarely extend
along the river moro than 4 quarter of
milo, but the soil is rich and the vege-
tation grows lnxuriantly in this semi
tropical climate"
The writer says he had never seen be-
aT.h yf,,l.. Il
vistas of beauty as he found in this part
of Utah. Talk of Yellowstone park,
talk of Yosemite, talk of the Grand can
yon of the Colorado" he declares, ''this
region Is moro in majesty than all of
them. There arc leading out of the
Grand Wash, n stream tributary to the
Dirty Devil, narrow canyons whose
paSsagcWaysS arc but ten to thirty feet,
but whose sides run up perpenGicularly
two thousand feet, and two of these
narrow canyons lead into. mighty an
phithcatefs' framed out of the sand
stone. These vast amphitheatcrs are
made larger and larger through tho
years as the storms wash down their
sides and carry tho sand thus washed
away down through the narrow rorge
into the Dirty Devil, and thence down
to the Colorado and into the sea-" lie
found spanning one Of tho canyons q
natural bridge seventy feet wide and
twelve hundred feet above the bed of q
torrent. Echocs in the rcccsses were
multiplied thousand times. tho bark,
of q dog sccning to be taken up by a.
multitude of ours. He came across Il
family settled upon Il tract of tvvclye
acres on the banks of the Dirty Devil
that lay between walls two thousand
feet high. The climate in that scuucs-
tered spot was mild us June, although
late in the fall Of the year. and the note
of the whippoorwill was often heard at
night by tho writer. Turning to tho
practical side Of things, he discovered
abundant evidences Of coal, sulphur md
gypsum. 1t was Fremont who gave to
this marvellous nook its name, in dis
gust because nc was obliged to cross tho
tortuous stream no less than one hun
drcd and thirteen times on one of his
expeditions.