Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-19

| 11b lover or change can well
enjoy the variety of Utah's
| scenery He may, at one time
come upon a delightsome little
valley protected by parallel mountain
ranges and watered by dashinp
stream, or upon strip of sloping fertil-
ity lying between mountain and lake;
but no portion OF the state looms up
with such striking celebration and such
changing horizon as does the region OF
the southeast.
On the road to Vernal from Salt
Lake, via tho Rio Grande lies Price.
where one enters upon the land OF
geological wonderment. From there to
Mack, Colorado, the scene is one to
fascinate the eye and battle descrp-
ton. The train rushes by colossal
perpendicular. tlat-topped blocks Of
earth that tower above the lowlands
like the acropolis of the Gods-the
massive remainders OF a pristine lake
bottom which, when overnown, gave
way to the endless work of erosion and
was cut up SO that the remaining por-
lions give the country the appearance
of having been formed on two levels.
Everywhere the eye sees an rrides-
cence OF color superior to any found
elsewhere in the world.
1t is, however, in the stratitied table
lands that the most surprising varie-
CATION appears. In the distance they
appear light stone or golden yellow;
but near at hand they present nearly
every describable hue. One layer Of
earth may be purple, and another,
above it, gray, The whole side or a
distant table may be pinkish gray and
another dull putty or terra Gotta red
The next may be old gold color. or the
same talus may be alternately old
gold and gray. One weird castle may
have alternating horizontal stripes OF
color and another be of only one shade
throughout.
Even the greasewood, sagebrush and
weeds by the roadside present an In
credible polychrome painted by the
devils own artist. Yellow, gray. golden
brown. chestnut red, gobcln, cypress
green. blue, gray and golden often dot
the base of the same bald mound OF
putty which rests like a bare earth
blister at the foot Of towering cit
adel.
MODERN HOTEL AT MACK.
One passes on through this home of
the lonely lizard and finally arrives
at Mack. Colo, Where the Uintah rail-
way has its terminus. Here one enters
a neat hotel constructed on the Adob-
esquo Renaissance style; and finds
lounging rooms and parlors in the
mission effect. with gas lights. steam
neat and current magazines adding to
ones comfort. The dining room and
cuisine are OF comparative excellence
IN fact there is an air of culture and
refinement about the Mack hotel sell
dom equalled in similar outlying places
Of the west.
At the station are great quantities !
OF sacked gisonite awaiting the ar
rival of the freight trains. One takes |
the train and speeds northward over a J
narrow gage on the way to Dragon. |
80 miles away. At first the same I
table lands are encountered as !
before. but soon slowly increasing
ertJlity--more weeds, more sagebrush, |
more greaseWood and in the shaded I
Tells even an occasional patch of
'tnnted oak or solitary pine are in
evidence. The whole country seems
merely TO be awaiting the magic hand
II lrrigation-the God-send of the west
md in fact the High Line" an inn
nense canal, Is already in progress of
obstruction by the government for
his very territory. Once more thu.
omeseekers' attention is called to this
arcadia
PICTURESQUE SCENERY.
Through land OF this nature the
ilntah railway passes for distance
IL miles, at which point it enters a
anyon in the foothills of the Book
lifts; and thence for 16 miles on a
teadily increasing grade 1t passes
trough scenery strikingly pictur-
sque. The stiffness Is profound, being
roken only by the operation of the
GAL mines at Carbonera, IS miles from
lack. The charm of the view is oc
asionaly enhanced by the sight OF
attic grazing about.
AT Atchee, 90 miles out, are the
hops and roundhouses of the railway
the base of the main range of the
ook Cliffs. Here is the crookedest
tretch of railroad in the world.
TERRIFIC GRADES.
Here begins a heavy climb to-
ard the summit of the Book Cliff
fountains, with one mile of five per
snt grade and thence on an uninter-
lpted grade of seven and one half
er cent 90 for five miles to Baxter
ass Two thousand feet of elevation
tanned in these six miles by an en-
accomplishment that is
,autiful in the natural characteristics,
the country. There are no other
ountains nearby to shut out the view.
eadiiy up the face of this great range /,
ere Is never moment when the aye
-nnot rest with perfect delight and +,
upon a gorgeous panor-
ma of slopes below. of valleys and
'sert table lands beyond. and Of
ow-clad ranges in the Tar off horizon. !
70 the eastward rises the great con-
'ental divide and the Grand Mesa; 10 ,
e southeast the PERCEPTIONS San {
IAN mountains OF Colorado. $50 miles I