The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-02
NEWS FROM NEARBY
4 CITIES AND TOWNS.
CAMPING ON THE BEAUTIFUL
PROVO RIVER.
RawIins and Roberts Mentioned at
the Paysom ,Prirnaries-Brigham
City Bits-ProvO Paragraphs.

One OF the most beautiful rivers IN
Utah is that of Provo. Rising among
the highest peaks of the Uintah, 1t
winds its way through magnificent
fields, hills and rugged mountains, TIL
it real hes Utah lake. 1t is the home Oh
an unlimited supply of the delicious
mountain trout and herring, and will
Continue to supply this godsent pala-
table food for many generations, or as
long as the river lasts, provided the
law in regard to the use of giant pow
der be enforced. If however the reckless
destruction by the use of powder be
permitted TO continue, as l understand
it has been carried on up to the pres
ent time, not many years VIII pass
away when the finny tribe will have
become extinct in this river as we'll as
i'll others. and both that interesting
paStime, as we'll as a most import
ant source of food, will have become
things of the past. All of this is indeed
too Dad, and should be looked into by
those having authority to punish the
despoiler. In riding from Park City
towards this beautiful stream on reach
ing the summit we are at once brought
in view of the grand scenery adjacent
to the river. In the distance are the
hills, mountains, here and there the
\ river bottoms, all bedecked with plhe'
quakenasp, cottonwoods, WILLOWS pre-
i senting a grandeur and beauty so
buoyant to the feelings and SO inspir-
ing to the mind that the very soul is
invigorated and elevated in purity and
sublimity. On our way TO Heber City
as we reach the river bottom, Morris
ranch Qhe old Halstrom ranch) puts
one in mind of the refreshing Maud
Muller For here is the genuine mead
owland and hay field. In the distance
is the willow, the cottonwood along the
river, the beautiful small grove of
Quahenasp across the river on the side
of the gently rising mountain, a mag
niflcent view up and down the liVer
bottom, where the trees grow thick as
the vision grows more narrow. To
the southwest the scenery reaches its
climax of grandeur in the snow-capped
mountains, colored with the rich hue
Of distant hill, and backed by cloud
and sky, grey and blue-all enchanting
and soul-inspiring to the true lover of
mature. Near the northeast corner
1 stands the rock house, with its barn
AYard and its fresh cut hay, typical Of
the genuine meadow and hay field.
Nearby the writer has been rusticating
for a week, enjoying the scenery and
the out-of-door life that makes life
worth living and intersperses the
sterner realities with pleasant dreams
of imaginations, refreshing and inyig
Grating as well as poetic Here the fin
ny ~ibe is pretty we'll located. Every
noo.S>and corner of the. stream is sur
veyed and named by the ranchmen and
fishermen of the Morris ranch. We
have Pine Hole, Upper Log and Low
er Log holes, Tree, Swift, Herring,
Fenton, Benny, and Tunnel holes, etc,
all liquid residences of the finny in
labitants that dread their enemy, man,
who is so merciless to all members of
their tribe and ready to hook them
up by mouth or tail. In many in
stances, too, their enemy is not salts
@ied to come singly and nab both young
ana old, by pretending TO be their
friends and presenting to them an ar
tl1cial fly or bait attached to con-
cealed steel hook, to thus entice and
catch them, but he resorts to giant
powder to Stay them wholesale and de-
stroy them on the right and left. ir-
respective of young or old, small or
large, contrary to civilized usage of
war, and characteristic of savagery
and barbarism. This Is a charge pre-
ferred against their enemy by not only
bone family but numerous families of
the fnny tribe, and they think some
measures should be taken by the bet
ter and more charita BILE portion of
might be shown. Herring and Pine
holes inhabitants are more careful
than those of other places of resi-
dence, although they occasionally meet
with great losses< Those of Swift hole
jump for the fly. but fortunately for
them, the swiftness of the water
seems to perplex the enemy in some
unaccountable way, as to prevent him
from, captivating them very often. In
most of the other holes they meet with
great losses although they fight shy''
of the enemy, to his great disappoint-
& ment. Besides the delicious trout and
herring, the camper here is abunIantlv
supplied with the rich, unwatered
milk from the farm house, all kinds of
fruit and vegetables nv the peddIer
on his way TO Park CITY from Heter
City and Provo. The hospi4 allty If the
Tanchmen and fishermen abound in
KINDNESS and ali goes merry and pleas
ant in the rusicators' open air resi-
oenee- To be continued in our next.
CAMPER"