The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-02-22
DIRTY DEVIL REGION OF UTAH.
Where Vegetation Grows Luyuriantiy an,.
Echocs fImltlply u Thomsnndrnlh.

Where Vegetation Grows I.uxuriantiy ant.
Echoes Multiply II Thousandiold.
1t is safe to say that few people have
heard OF the Dirty Devil region. An
archWoloWiSt who had been cXplorin,r
out-of-thc-Way corners in Utah in the
interests Of the worlds fair wandered
up into the country with that shocking
nanc and writing about ii he says that.
if moro generally known. tourists would
seldom iuil to include ii in their Tim
crary. In feet. according to the New
York Evening Post. he puts the matter
more strongly. saying that the country
coutains sights surprising those of the
Yosemite The principal settlement
by courtesy known ms the country seat
is Loa. situated in the Rabbit River
valley. The Bucllhorn mountains are
divided al this, point" he says. by the
narrow valley down which the Dirty
river flows. AS VIC leave Rabbit valley
the route goes down along the river into
narrow valley for twenty miles.
Lower and lower dcsccnds tho 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
IL,
deep gorgcs, narrow canyons and little
sunny valleys that seem to enjoy eternal
summer. These valleys are usually but
hundred feet wide and rarely extend
along the river more than Il quarter. Of
4 mile, but thc soil is rich and the wore
tation grows iuvuriuntly in this semi.
tropical climatc"
The writer says he mad never seen be-
fore such awful walls OF rock and such
vistas OF beauty as nc found in this part
OF Utah. "'ralll 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 are leading ont of the
Grand Wash. u stream tributary to the
Dirty Devil. narrow canyons whose
pRssagcWays are but ten to thirty feet.
but whose sides run up perpcndicularlv
Two thousand feet, and two of these
narrow canyons lead into mighty am
pMtheatcrl framed out OF the sand
stone. These vast umpbitheaters are
made larger and larger through tho
years as tho storms wash down their
sides and carry the sand thus washed
away down through the marrow gorge
into the Dirty Devil. and thence down
20 the Colorado and into the sea" He
found spanning one Of the canyons n
natural bridge seventy feet wide and
twelve hundred feet above the bed of a
torrent. Echoes in the reccsses were
multiplied q thousand times, the bark
OF dog seeming to be taken up by
multitude of ours. He came across a
family settled upon tract of twelve
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 as June, although
late in the fall of the year. and the note
Of the whippoorwill was often heard az
night by the writer Turning to the
practical side OF things, he discovered
abundant evidences of coal. sulphur and
gypsum. II was Fremont who gave to
this marvellous nook its name, in dis
gust because he was Obliged to cross the
tortnous stream no less than ono hun
drcd and thirteen times on one OF his
expeditions.