Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-12

1 est in the state. and it is as rocky and
hard to5&hayel in as 1T is steep. An.
ankle ran be easily sprained here. The
scenery is weird and wild-awey inspir-
ing in Pieces md half the way up,
one may look back and see the south
efn part of the great lake with the
wide cxpnllse OF alkaii iiats once COW.
cred by the water, but now dry. The
mountains beyond make a pleasant
picture. There are number Of pros
poets OF, the sides OF the upper hills.
but evidently not much is being done
therefor want of capital, 10 make
the ascent requires four hours Of
steady. hard walking, and mas the
climber reaches the crest Of the divide,
lie is ready to declare that the man
who5believes the Union Pacific road Mil!
cVertIS 10 nuke the much talked OF
cut-off to Salt Lake via Pennington
Such a thing is an absolute iin.pqssi.
bility II you'd take a cog@heel road
to make the climb. The view TO the
rorth is Impressive, With the beau
$tiful valley of the Weber, Round vail
aley, and the east Canyon valley lying
spread ont before the gaze with the
high hills as a {backg ground. Morgan,
iTorfcrville. and adjoining towns are
plninlN IN sight. 10 or Is miles away.
nesting in groups of trees, The gen.
tances,n extending away into Stlintah
county and into Wyoming. There is a
Travelled trail leading down the range
to the Weber valley. The return was
accomplished In two hours. witt, q big
dinner ut Lagoon to replentsh the
wRsted and enervated inner man.
The tramp through City Creek con-
4titlued ovcr the Hardscrabble divide
down that canyon. and on to Porter
Vile ard Morgan, City. To the north
fork Of City Creek IS Just seven niles lies,
accomplished III this instance IN one
hour and forty-iive minutes: TO
where the stream turns off to
the right it IS three and one-half
miles further. and 10 the top Of City
Creek divide 1t is Ia miles This last
was accomplished in five hours from
the start. There is n passabie wagon
road to the cabin Mt tile left after
dropping over, the first small divide,
II poor wagon road to the trail turn
ing sharply to the left further on TO
ascend the steep hill there, while be-
to the divide. and poor horse tran
at that.
SHEEP ON THE RANGE.
There are 5000 sheep scattered
along the range, guarded by dozen
III we'll cleaned out the brush there,
and if they could only be turned down
the canyons they would do q much
3to-be- desired work For three miles
In Hardscrabble there is no continu-
Gus trail; it is thick, almost impen-
otrable brush--just the place for me
lairs or wild animals, so that every
few hundred feet prospecting for any
sort Of trail is necessary. However,
a wagon trail is met with further
down, and from there on the walking
is good clear into the Weber valley.
III WHY NOT A WAGON ROAD?
+ There is no reason why there should
n:,t. be good wagon road between
Salt Lake and Morgan In 1899. the
Morgan county commissioners offered
to build to the divide II Salt Lake
would fin up the City creek end of the
route. Councilmen%E T.. Rich, G. 70.
Mainland and Judge Loofbourow
made strong fight for the improve
ment. showing that the Morgan
county people! were anxious to drive
into Salt Lake with their market pro-
ducts and to do their trading here