Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-19
Gorgeous Scenery on
The Road to Vernal.

I away; to the south, the Sierra La Sal
| IN southern Utah, 165 miles distant
rising IN understandable grandeur on the
| hither side of the valleys that lends
| to the Grand canyon OF the Colorado
Inc train passes around curves OF
| Ut degrees and finally reaches Baxter
pass where another panorama appears
at the north, equally as surprising and
even more beautiful. Below is seen
Evacuation creek winding out to the
Grand canyon of White river. and, over
the old Uncompahgre reservation, Ra-
ven ridge and Blue mountain so miles
away. Many miles farther, to the
northeast stretches the White river
piateau IN Colorado; and IN the north
west, looking over the Uintah reser-
Nation we see the towering Uintah
range, $50 miles away.
COMBINATIONS OF COLOR.
The aspen leaves CULVER and groves
or pine fill the shaded ravines; every
Where there is grandeur accentuated
lights and shadows, marvellous conbi-
hatlons or color. It is substituting,
poetic, stimulating, satisfying-a never
ending appeal to the artistic sense.
Inc rallroau winds down through ra-
vines filed with quaking asps and
pines, past McAndrew's lake, through
me west fork OF Evacuation creek to
the terminus at Dragon.
Dragon is the forwarding point for
passengers, freight, express and mail ia
fangely and to the lower White River
valley. in Colorado, and to Vernal and
the Ashley valley, to the Ute Indian
agencies at Ouray and White Rocks,
to Fort Duchcsne and to the straw.
berry valley In Utah.
MONSTER FOSSILS.
Here at Dragon the Uintah Railway
has hotel the counterpart of the ono
at Mack, awaiting our pleasure one
rests over night, and is told that no
other section of the world is SO prolific
In lis yield of fossils. Monster saurians.
many OF them being varieties not pre-
viously known to have existed. have
been carried from Dragon to places IN
the worlds museums. Only few miles
away, resting horizontally in a great
rlft of rock, lie the vertebrae of an i'm
lnense snake or lizard, fully SO feet
IN length. To those whose minds turn
In these directions, an extended stay
at Dragon will bring most interesting
and profitable results.
OF UNEkCELLED GRANDEUR,
Horses are changed; the river at
ishatlo Is crossed on a two-spun truss
bridge and one enters upon a scene
Where the gods have played sport with
mountain sides and tops. Vast amphl-
,neaters, obelisks, temples, towering
Flnnaeies, are all looming before us in
u scene unexceiled for grandeur. Owls
ana ravens silently slip from their
perc1es and flap uncannily off to some
resting place.
BY Bonanza where Veins Of gilsonite
stretch In black lines across the mesa.
onward one rides through Coyote basin,
suggestive name--wherc that restless
iehizen of the plains, willy and caus-
Lious is accustomed to harass the
froyes OF sheep, with results that are
1t once satisfying to himself and im-
ooverlshing to the owner. Thence over
Dead Mans bench, sometimes called
he Devils playground"-a desolate
5orbiddlng series of bare putty-colorcd
mounds. dark spot in a drab colored
solitary sink tells the story of the grad
lal sinking OF an Indian pony which
,entured thither to quench its mad
lening thirst.
AT kennedys hole dinner and a
'hange of horses are III order, ana
hence fourteen miles further over
nesas where wild horses roam and
'rairie dogs meet one unafraid to
ireen River, where the stage crosses
n a ferry.
With fresh horses again the stage
Don covers the remaining IS miles to
Fernal over road of easy grade. Be-
ore rise the Uintah mountains, and
valley of fresh streams, and green
elds of surprising fertility is entered.
What an Arcadia, what q scene OF
eauty and prosperity after such
ide over natures wilderness!