The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-12

and Dragon. Dragon is the forwarding
point for passengers, freight, express
and mail TO Rangely and 10 the lower
White river valley in Colorado and in
Utah, 10 VeTnal and the Ashley valley;
to the Ute Indian agencies at OuTay
and White Rocks; to the United states
military post at Fort Duchesne; and TO
the erstwhiie Uintah Indian reservation
lying In the valleys of the Strawberry
and Duchesne rivers.
Good Hotels Already Built.
The Untah Railway company, for the
convenience of its patrons, has con-
structed most comfortable hotels both
al Mack and Dragon. Harmonizing
with the country in which they are
placed. they are in what IN ght be
termed Adobesque Renaissance style
of architecture, with walls of concrete.
The loUnging rooms and parlors are
equipped with books, gaines
and daily papers. the dining rooms are
most inviting and the bed rooms models
Of cleanliness and comfort. Lighted by
gas, heated by steam, with the neceS-
sary Injuries of tub and shower baths
and with most excellent cuisine. there
is abundant invitation to both traveller
and tourist 10 not only come, but lin
ger The railway. hotels and all con-
meeting lines are operated throughout
the year.
The Green River basin. from its
southern confines in the Book Cliffs on
the south 10 the Wind river and Big
Horn mountains of Wyoming on the
north, was once a great inland seSt. No
other section Of the world is so prolific
IN its yield of fossils. Monster sau-
rians- many of them varieties not 2-e-
Niously known to exist, have been TAX
en- thence to places in the worlds mu-
seums. Careful and systematic as
these Inquiries have so far been by
government and cOlleg ate expeditions.
they yet have been but superficial At
and around Dragon fossils are scattered
i'll prOfusiOn and in great variety. Only
few miles away. resting horizontally
in great rift of rock. lie the vertebrate
OF an immense snake or lizard fully six
" feet in length. To those whose minds
turn with interest in directions such as
these, a prolonged stay at Dragon will
bring most interesting and profitable
results.
Stage and Automobile Trips.
Connections are made at Dragon for
points beyond by stages and autOmO-
biles operated in conjunction with the
railway company. traversing well-made
roads twelve feet in width of easy and
beautiful curves and grades. These
highways offer experiences that no
where else are duplicated.
From Dragon, the route follows Evac-
uati0n creek six miles through gray
buttresses of lofty hills and mesas to
the cOmmodious cOrrals that the rail-
way company has constructed for the
convenience OF the annual shearing of
the vast herds of sheep that are
brought To this point for shipment and
for the shipment of their wool
Just beyond is the beginning of Evac-
uatiOn canyon, to avoid which the road
rises rapidly 10 the rolling ridge above.
Here again bursts into view the great
eXpanse of Green River basin, the Book
Cliffs and Thimble Rock on the south
and west, on the right. Helrs Hole. ex-
traoTdinary in its ragged lahyTinths.
and, in the foreground below, the
Weirdest outlines of weathered sand
stone lodges, while the road follows the
smooth, undulating surface Of the mesa.
Further on, the crossing of Eyacua-
ton canyon on a Well-constructed
bridge, the ascent on the other side.
and n view of the canyon 10 its very
bottom as the road stretches out along
the western edge. Then a rapid de-
scent into the tortuous Grand canVOn
of the White river, its walls hundreds
of feet deep, great masses Of coiors in
reds, browns, grays and yellows, all
ruthlessly riven, grotesque and terrible.
as if they were the troubled dream Of
q Dore.
Counterpart of Grand Canyon.
AS words and pictures can give no
adequate conception of the Grand Can
yOn of the Colorado, so do they fail in
any ATTEMPT to express the stupendous
VagaTies of nature here. for the Canyon
of the White river. though on a smaller
scale, is a counterpart of the Grand
Canyon Of the Colorado. the formations
are the same and the processes of maxi
Inc all alike. 1t must be seen TO be
appreciated; it must ne felt 10 be I'M
derstood; and once seen. once felt. it
will never be forgotten, for the solemn
awe which fills the soul of the onloOkcr
may never be effaced.
The crossing of White river at Igna-
ito is on d two-S0an truss bridge,
whence for a mile the road skirts the
bank before entering Nalhalla. Here
the gods have played sport with noun
tain sides and tons, and IN the echoes
throw out again deep chucldes of their
mirth. Vast amphitheatres, Obelisks,
TEMPLES. towering pinnacles, all in con-
fusion worse cOnfOundedi Owls and
ravens silently slip from their perches
and flap uncannily of TO some remoter
resting place.
Four miles from White river brings
one again 10 the upper level of the
Green River basin and to the very COM
Portable station of Bonanza, where
meals arc served and where limited
may find sleeping accGmmOda-
tons, should they so desire.
Branch Road From Bonanza.
The road branches at Bonanza, one
route leading eastward. crossing White
River canyon again, to Rangely. Colo;
another nOrthWesteTly to Nernal and
the Ashley valley. and the third to the
Indian agency at Ouray and Fort Du-
Chesne beyond. Leaving Bonanza, the
road 10 VeTnal crosses Coyote BASIN
name-Where that restless
denizen of the plains, ve~sed in many
Of the wiles Of modern business life.
Is accustomed relentlessly 10 harass
the droVes of sheen. with results that
are At once satisfying 10 himself and
impoverishing to the owner. Thence
over Dead Mans bench, of gruesOme
history, u another hotel and way-sta-
ton at Kennedy. ten miles beyond Boz
n8uZa. also q point where the traveller /
will ind most comfortable accommOda-
tons. Fourteen miles further on. fer
r'es have been cons 'ructed which pro-
vide a crossing. 600 feet in width, over
Green river at ALEXANDRA. whence again
by Easy grade the road leads on 10
Vernal. thirteen miles Or. from RO-
lanZa, BY the southern route ten miles
10 a hOsUitable wavside inn ut ChiDeta
station, and on 70 the lower Green river
ferry At Ouray, former agency and
present tribal center Of the Urcompah-
gre Ctes. Thence it is thirteen miles
% Fort Duchesne.
Nernal is the county seat Of Cintah.
county and the location of the United
States land Office fcT all the lands in
Cintah county and that mart of the