The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-09-14

= top Of the Delectable noun
tains. commonly known as
the Wasatch? Ever got lost
in Strawberry valley and taken the
temperature Of frozen ground by moon !
light without blankets OF tents or any /
shelter but the airy raiment OF SUM
mer tendertootc Ever watched Johnny
Reed cas-, for trout or heard Cuinatche
serenade after the Ute fashion?
These. and other things. befeli the
nine Of us who accepted an invitation
to visit Major and Mrs. Myton in camp
ON the reservation. Four of us were
from Park city and i've from Salt
Lake: four mature married couples and
one lone summer widOwer. We lore
gathered al Heber city over spread
ln the loft of Bishop Hatch's Hospital
BILE store. tn luncheon came over from
Park city, the team that hauled II was
tagged and anybody who saw the prov
ruder could understand why.
After luncheon the party started IN
two wagons for the drive up 10 the
reservation. The route lay through
Heber valley, a land OF green nelds.
comfortable homes and serene people,
up Daniels canyon % the summit ana
thence down the strawberry river 10
the camp OF the guar dams Of the Utes
and Uncompahgres.
The trip looks short and easy in that
one paragraph, but 10 wasn't. In the
first place Daniels canyon is longer
than the moral law and rs crooked as
q rams horn. \ profile drawing OF that
canyon would look like a corkscrew
twenty miles long. We got through II
and an sight OF the summit by dusk.
and stopped % take supper at sawmih
Just below the crest. Great balsam
logs furnished "a table. and mountain
stream close by put the nnlSh on the
scenery. An that was lacking was a
surig ~ mint and a straw apiece. The
summit of the divide brought Us IN
view a. panorama Of mountain peaks.
valleys and pines beautiful 10 behold
Seemingly We had reached the roof Of
th. Wasatch and were driving along
the ridge pole. Down the Strawberry
We Vgudal our way looking ahead Tor
the NytOn camp and enjoying the crisp
mountain air. To some of us IL seemed
thouChtlesS not 20 have brought camp
cQuipage and food supplies Cor an
emergency In case We missed the Ny
tons Later the same thought occurred
more forcIhly.
Our driver was good man and the
confidence that party OF innocentS be
slowed on him would have made gold
brick vendor weep for envy. sam was
his name and he had had instructions
az about fourth hand 10 look FOR the
camp az the point where Mud creek
comes into the Strawberry river. Sam
drove and drove and drove. Then he
drove some more. About 9 O'Clock
somebody asked sam Il he knew where
he was going. sam opined that he did
hut his declaration was a little vague
About 10 o'clock he modified his ain
Of certainty and suggested some eN-
plOratlon % locate the Mytons.
We explored.
Straight across a valley Of sasehrusi
swaleS. washes. aTroyos and other toPo
graphical Nightmares We took thos,
two wagons. We crossed the Straw
berry river and eleven estuaries. wen
down hanks and climbed up hanks a
an angle Of 45 degrees. and mall,
paused for debate as 10 where W
were at" BY this time sam Candidl
admitted that ne didn't know where IN
Nyton camp was. where we were O
where anybody else might he.
Then we drove some more.
About II O'Clock the ladies Of IN
party entered A plea FOR camp. son,
sore ~ n camp, any kind 81 an al
camp. That settled IT, We drove hac
10 the river unhitched the teams an
prepared 10 sit up.
First place, the sagehrush was "a
wet 20 burn. and two Of the party wit
sam good old sam. hiked out for n
hills two miles away 20 get WOO
Moreover. they got IL. After the nj
was started. some ~ the party tried
sleep in the wagon beds, The thermou
eter had hit the tohoggan early in u
evening. aud by this time IL was ska
ing around 'Wav below freezing pOin
A breeze from the peaks Sifted throul
tSe pines down 70 the river hank VII