Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-21
WESTERN WONDERLAND.
Newspaper Men Being Royalty Enter
tanned on Their Rocky Mountain Trip.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
OGDEN, Utah. September 16, 1903
Since leaving Denver the Washington cor
respondents who are studying industrial
and political subjects in the western coun-
try have been in a veritable wonderland
They have been the recipients of hospitality
and distinguished consderati ton to a degree
that hardly can be realized, although much
appreciated. -zh--
Sunday and Monday were spent at Salt
Lake City. After attending services in the
great Mormon Tabernacle the visitors were
taken through the city. winding up at Sem
ator kearns' magnificent home After din
ner at the hotel they were entertained at
the Alta Club by Editor Iglehardt Monday
was busy day. trip to Provo, the home
OF Senator Smoot, an afternoon on Salt
lake, an organ recital in the tabernacle,
dinner at the Commercial Club a box party
at The BurgomaSter, and then high
jinks' at the Commercial Club where the
visitors were presented to the leading men
of the city.
Tuesday the party came up to Ogden,
where the irrigation congress assembled.
The governors of five states all the United
states senators and representatives from
the Rocky mountains and the Pacific coast
The Father of Irrigation" as each one
aspires to be called, and prominent captains
of Industry and agriculture were in attend
ance. The correspondents attended the ses-
SionS of the congress and visited irrigation
works in the neighborhood
In the afternoon the correspondents were
given one of the most delightful EXPERIENCES
OF the entire trip thus far. Mayor Glass
man took command of the party and loaded
them into vehicles for a drive I'D the mag
nlficent Ogden Canyon. A round trip COW
ering twenty miles exhibited to the Wash.
lngton men one of the most glorious pano-
ramas to be witnessed in all America AS
the party progressed up the canyon the
wonders grew, and everybody was delighted
Late In the afternoon the bungalow of old
man Billy Wilson was reached, near the
head of the canyon. Here supper was
served, prepared by Mr.. Wilson's wife and
daughters. Mountain trout, fresh from the
canyon stream, blue grouse and venson
from deer killed on the mountain the day
before were served About l7S pounds of
trout We're served. The trout were the
speckled beauties running half a pound
and We're Tipped from the frying pan to the
table, the only way to get good trout The
ROCKY mountain grouse were a revelation
10 the fasteners, and the venison was q
dream. Some speeches and songs were de-
hVered, and the party started on the home
of the trip.
The sun had long ago dropped behind the
mountain through which the canyon cIeayes
It's way and the shadows were deep in the
gorge. The road is cut out of the side of
the cliff In places, the Ogden river roaring
over its boulder-strewn bed on one side
and the mountains towering to snow
capped peaks on the other. Down the grade
dashed the four horses of our team. Billy
Keith putting the whip into them, swing
ing around the corners while the CORE
spondents held their breath.
Them emerging from the canyon into the
Salt Lake valley, a scene of grandeur burst
upon the view which brought great shout
of delight from the beholders The west
ern sky was a sheet of planished gold, un-
fecked by single cloud. Against that
background the notched outline of the Wa
satch mountains, which inclose the valley
on three sides, traced an inky outline
hundred square miles of irrigated ana cul.
uvated valley lay at our feet the little
homesteads so peaceful in the soft evening
light. and the yellow sky reflected in lake
and stream. To the eastward the reflection
of the sun tinted the snow caps of the
peaks a tender pink.
Wednesdays session of the congress was
attended by the correspondents in full
force. Several interesting papers were
read. among them a dissertation by Com
mander Booth Tucker of the Salvation
Army on the colonization scheme of the
| army, which was described at length in
The Star few weeks ago.
Maj. John M. Carson, dean of the corps
of Washington correspondents, addressed
the convention on the evolution of irriga-
ton, his remarks being most cordially re-
ceived. The remainder of the day was
| spent by the visitors in going over the beet
| sugar factory and irrigation works of this
wondrously fertile region, every foot of
which was redeemed from the sage brush
| and salt desert by irrigation undertaken
| by the Mormon pioneers. N O. M