The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-10
ROAD ISSUES
HANDSOME BOOK
THE Story Of the Trail a Work of
Rare Merit.
TELLS OF THREE STATES
SALT LAKE ROUTE SETS HIGH
ADVERTISING STANDARD.
TELLS OF THREE STATES

No such ambitious literary and pic
toral effortias The Story of the Trail"
just published by the passenger depart
ment of the Salt Lake Route. has ever
been attempted by a local railroad
company before. The book is compiled
by Douglas White the weIl-knOWn spe-
eial writer and comprises more thar
100 pages, SXl2 inches in size. The book
is OF heavy, calendared paper. with a
striking cover page in cOlors, depicting
an Indian, wrapped in gaudy blanket
and standing amid giant cacti, with his
back turned 10 a railway train speeding
across the valley in the distance, while
his set jaws and narrowed eyelids re-
fleet the emotions within him.
The Story Of Trail is divided into
TWO parts-''The Breaking of the
Trail" and THE Story of the Builders"
IT is well written and contains a wealth
of historical and descriptive matter
In the first part is told the story of
the trip of the party of Mormons sent
out by Brigham Young in 1851. Their
perils and hardships on the four
months journey from PaysOn to the
san BeruardinO valley. The later years
of the train, when il was used as a mail
route Before the railroad and telegraph
came To the Salt Lake valley are told
with many graphic accounts of Incl
dents Special attention is given in
this part TO the great San BernardinO
arrowhead, the remarkably natural
phenomenon from which the Salt Lake
Route derives its trade mark.
Story of the Builders.
The second part tells the story of the
building of the railroad. beginning with
the first line south of Salt Lake CITY,
the earlier attempts to build through
the desert to southern California and
the many discouragements and failures
that followed, before Senator w. A.
Clark and his associates took up the
matter and pushed the project to cOm-
pletiOn. This part of the book is the
most comprehensive and accurate his
tory of the early railroad schemes. the
fight for the grade in Meadow valley
wash and the great financial operations
that resulted in the securing of a right
of way to Los Angeles that has yet
been published.
Following the story of the Mormon
trail and the railroad. the book takes
up Utah, Nevada and southern CalifOr-
mia in order. with much historical mat
ter on the three states. Special atten~
tion is given to the great industries and
the leading cities of the three states.
Utah's mineral resources and agricul-
tural growth. Nevada's wonderful min
ing camps and southern CALIFORNIA;
varied industries all are fully treated.
Salt Lake City, Lehi, Provo. Manti, the
Tintic district NeWHOuse, Milford. Cali
ente. Las Vegas and on into California
all the leading places are treated in
turn.
Many Beautiful Pictures.
The book is lavishly Illustrated with
haIf-tOueS and mans The half-tOneS
are from photographs by ]. a. Ramsey,
official photographer of the Salt Lake
Route, Harry Simpler and Savage, Salt
Lake City; Claude 5. Turner of Los
Angeles Heath of Riverside and Shaft
ner of San BernardinO. The scenic at
fractions of the three states are given
fun prominence in the Illustrations,
while views of the leading towns. pic
lures of residences, business blocks,
mines. beet fields, orange groves, etc,
are scattered all through the book. A
fun page is given TO a splendid view
of MI. NebO. taken from the tracks of
the railroad the WaSatch range near
Salt Lake City, the pictured rocks i'm
Meadow valley wash the great arrow
head near San BernardinO and dozens
of other natural attractions are given
a prominent place.
San Pedro Harbor Fight.
The story of san Pedro harbor and
the bitter fight that was necessary to
enlist tie aid of the government is fully
told, with pictures of shipping scenes.
Toward the end of the book. several
pages are devoted TO the connections OF
the salt Lake Route with interesting
reading matter and illustrations on the
Yellowstone National park. the Colo
RADIO mountains. San Francisco. etc.