Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-22
Emigration Canyon Railroad An
Inlet to a Beautiful
Wonderland.
IT WILL OPERATE THIS WEEK
Passengers VIII he Carried To n Can
yon That L. Rich in Tradition
And Scenic Beauty.


road as it shoots for half minute
through the trestIed figure eight, en-
ioy a ride like that for over an hour
and half?
And that is exactly what the
fatigued Salt Laker win have ut his
disposal next summer. Climbing It's
way through the hills eastward from
Salt Lake. running with curve to al
most every dozen rods, and starting
and stopping in three different KICK
backs" where it has run as far as 1t
could at one angle and then started
off with a switch and frog at another,
the immigration canyon road is length
ening its way to the LIE Grand Young
stone quarries.
The stone quarries are two magnln-
cent mountains of sandstone, one gray
and one red, indefinitely back among
widowed gulches and deeper canyons
where little streams of ice cold water,
running between banks thickly fanked
with berry bushes, bespeak the love ot
summer tourists, come another season
of familiarity
THE RIDE AT SUNSET.
This is the story of ride over the
construction train last night, when the
after glow Of sunset was on the noun
tains. and when the historic trail over
which the pioneers slid ana silpped
down the side of Little Mountain into
Immigration was just To be ulseerheu
through the cleaning.
1t was Il ride which ever VIII be
worth while, and which has its thrills,
if only for that. at last after over halt
n century. a steel road is cutting its
way back into the country of the great
trail, to make those mountain walls
that first indicated a promised iand
laying beyond in the valley, accessible
for the people of a great play-loving
city
To get the canyons near TO the people
has long been growing pecessity.
Parleys could be reached only over
miles of deep, draggy sand. The road
to Big Cottonwood was so poor IL
was a matter of bravery to dare ii.
Little Cottonwood was so remote that
II took IL days journey to get there
City Creek was pre-empted by Pat Mo-
ran, and hopelessly ruined by being
made a gravel factory.
AN IDEAL CAMP SITE.
Therefore there was much joy in an
Invitation to ride through Immigration
last night on the construction train OF
n railroad where the ties are now be
ing laid 15 miles from the roads be-
ginning at Mt. Olivet cemetary. Be
fore this the road had seemed merely
a way to reach the Inn at the mouth
of the canyon. and to be attractive
mostly to those who crowd about such
an inn for refreshment and an eve
ning's dancing.
Put IA ma &C ar T. DPen
left behind, and fast team was spin
ming it's way along the grade line, leav-
ing mile after mile of delightful seen
cry behind all soon to be at the dis
posal of the seeker after recreation,
merely for the stepping off of car,
1t became evident what possibilities
there are beyond the securing of stone
for buildings, and trade for the canyon
cafe
Then when the wagon had turned IN
to a side canyon and reached the lower
line of SUBMITS, from which doomed
Salt Lake valley, the East canyon
range the Cottonwoods, With Little
Cottonwood, Big Cottonwood Neff'
and Parley's walls all ranged tier upon
tier with the highest the farthest away,
and dozens of cool arroyas running to-
wards the foot of the Pioneer Little
mountain trail, ii was easy to populate
the whole landscape with summer tents
and cottages, come another summer,
But alas! Another had seen the vision
of the coming years, for the driver an
swered a question on the possibilities
with the information that real estate
men had been up the week before and
curnered every foot of land not already
owned. with the intention of selling Ia
the summer settler, and the camping
party.
AERIAL CONSTRUCTION"
The railroad and the wagon tran dc
not cut through the same gulleys tC
the northward, but when II seemed
that a distance had been gone of hal
a dozen miles north from Little noun
tain's base, there doomed ahead th'
Red Butte canyon and enVirons, an'
here the driver announced was TN
sought-for terminus. A little neafe
the wagons and gangs of the cohstrue
ton party could be located, ana WIZ
half AN hours climb on foot the Brau
| line was reached. Aerial construction
Was the term designating the particula
workers encountered. They We're string
| ing trolley and power lines, and rish
| I'm front of them wore blasted holes
| where the quarry Is to be opened, Gren
| blocks of construction stone being al
ready prepared for the freight ear
when me nns t nrals Iavine 0''0''' gu
otl aro, im,,' the mountain the formatio
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sandstone AS reu as ms w. mas p.u w
and to thls pra az Ioau was llah,ii
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| them when their leased quarry supple