Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-08-08
IN PARLEYS CANYON.
Z. Stevenson Pays a visit to tho Water
works and Mountain Dell.

MNA"ANAN bflalH AUX ftlf AnNfs
Edityr Dssorei AsCG
On sunday morning, the sih inst.
our party icit salt Lake CITY for
Mountain Dol, nfttnn miles. II has
been about h!leon years sinos pafsei
over this route aud many changes have
occurred riuce that lime. About $3.50
a. n. Parley's canyon, seven miles ny,
was reached, where We were enter.
tanned by Nj. b. +. Hil. In charge Of
the city wntorW0rkf. ! certainly b..
came very muol iutotoftcI in looking
over the works. These s1ccIlrJ nay
expectations considerably. MI Hiu
explained while pleasantly showing u,
around, The reservoir, no said, was
3JJxlbO feet md - iogt dscT; tho feed
pipe, which j. 30 iagaos ia diameter,
passes through q rock which IL about
go feet high and At the base about 800
iest wide ana $50 isot thick. 10 looks
like a solid sentinel aud iOTina q grand
wall tor the reservoir. The !tcutyiug
pipo runs through a portion " thia
IJck, entering the reserve u about ten
feet under the surface Of the gatsi
The fpill runs over "a cold apron, Close
70 this gtea, rock, down into the origi.
nal channel " Parlsy's CaHy0u creek.
WhAt mskes THIS lonely, nigh rock
/ have named all ihu moro historically
noted IL that while tuuuuling through
IL anu Cheating away Tor the reservoir
human skeleton was found
imbBddud ia the cold brown
rock, The skull ami bones were
carefully taken out IN perfect as post.
bic. Ih0sc who are curlgusly.mnd
and somewhat iuquisiiivu VIII have
many Ideas ns 90 how camU tins
human person locked up In this prison,
anu how many hundreds or thousands
OF year. they have been there. Doubt
less the body WIS buried iu clay or
some sort % earth which uuring the
various changes Of nature became
formed into stone, preserving "a sacred
charge no an evidence Of some OF GJI's
children having lived on tbs confident
long before tue discovery OF America
by Christopher Columbus ln lll1.
lt has become no unusual affair 20
mud traces OF this pfuulatyriC race iu
various parts OF America. While la
OHIO learned often VI q tall race be-.
ipg eKhumei, the bodies being from
u % feet 4 tnChta nigh, IN the
DHsEHET NEWS Of June ~, 1894, 10 an
account VI tweuiy.tw0 maze skeletons
averaging feet in height a rude
sltnr and many br0nzs utensils WeTue1-
posed. This flnd was IN Minneapolis,
Minu., June H.. 1894. This valuable
prehistoric discovery was iu q mound
ia a tOmb csfeiully prepared, La Sau.
dusky, ONO, twonty'throe similar
skeletons were discovered. The one 1
speak Of ~ above average hizu anu
IL probably not OF this tail race who
came from the tower OF Babel uut
OF a later race WIN CAM ffom Jafusa
lem ono years Is. G. some lllO years
later on, when tue race OF human
beings are known 10 be- Of "A smaller
Statue.
Returning again b the feed pipe.
IL emptius into a slide chamber 10 feet
deep aud o ioet wide. screens are
PLACED around me chamber through
which thn water passes Into a settling
tank 20 feet deep AMI " iret In
diameter. The CONDUIT ia 30 inches la
diameter anu Is attached 10 the so,tling
tank T. Inches from the bottom, Aud
inclines crossing tue crreE Ia an en-
closed Hume anu extending onward
iive anu ono hBlf miles 90 the tCliti
tank on the Fort Douglas reservation,
east Of Fret south street, Tue conduit
pipe IN thirty-siA uClus all the way
from the settling tauE, live anu half
miles lodg. Everything around tue
works IL Kept clean and lUOkH inviting.
We arrived az Mountain Dell ln time
10 visit the Sunday school anu gave a
short illustrated lecture, Elder Bincs
DIXON takts piiJe aB the Buposluleu-
dent, anu good order proved hls lutlu.
ence. Tue school manifested great
Interest in the painting, amt brought
out o good turnout NJ I 3. m, when
Eldet stevenson gave another lecture
which was listened " wish much iu-
tere1t.
Mountain Dell Is a quiet, prosperous
vlllsge, Bishop VIM, b. Hardy Is
always pleased 10 welcome visitors
who entertain his llttlu lUck.
The heavy rain OF Saturday lett
muddy roads until we passed tue prui.
tuntiary when we fouud plenty OF dust
up tho uugway, VITA ruUus badly cut
up with the heavy loads OF quuTlZltr
rock containing 80 per cent ir.n Tor the
state road gtRde. 4 no loaus coutaiu
from 1000 to 1000 pounds. Trail
wagons arc ollon used anu four horses.