The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-19


Ho! for The mountains. This is thu
season OF the year for the migration t'
some favored spot where can be secured
u change of air, Many of the gooc
folks blessed with enough of the
world s goods to make the "trip tc
Santa Cruz. Del Monte, Clatsop beach
Yellowstone, or even Atlantic City ol
New York, have already hied them
selvcs thither. but tho greater number
equally enjoy the places nearer home
and from now until August the nearby
esorts will be crowded
Ras il ever occurred to the average
Sait LaiJsr that no city IN The nHiou is
,avored to greater degree than this
inc town? Within a day s journey AT
most can be found hunting, fishing
ooat;nP, camping and almost any kind
II climate. And they are accessible
points. too, places reached by railroad
ard possibly short drive or horseback
ciGc.
Nearest are four or five CANYONS lead.
ing directly into this county and in
each Ope Of which are good camping
places. Silver Lake has its hotel and
cottages, and can be reached by rail
aud wagon or auto The canyons OF
Nephi, Manti and other cities are too
well known to need additional descrip-
tion They viii each shaTc in the camp
ing parties during the summer. The
Great Salt Lake is always popular.
Provo has motor boats which have
been exploited in the last few seasons,
and hundreds who 20 to that city for
their automobile drives do not even
know that tic finest scenery and most
ENJOYABLE outing is at the mouth of the
river On the Utah lake To Get there go
to Provo and drive out on Center street
toward the lnke. ask the small boy how
TO get TO knudsen swimming hole,
and there you are. But owing TO the
crowd il would be wise TO telephone
ahead for motor boat To give you the
real surprise. Anyone at the hotel can
tell you how to reach the owners The
trip down tle river at dawn is sublime,
ard when half n dozen foot-long trout
are caught and cooked for breakfast
the day has an auspicious opening.
For n picnic the plnes at the head of
Emigration canyon offer an inviting
field This trip can be made any day
and back at night by electric car,
For real camping the upper Weber
canyon is the best This is away be-
voud Pcoa, and the mountains Of the
Uintah range surround it. The fishing is
coed and everything is wild and rugged.
Many make the pilgrimage each year,
For something new the canyon back
of Beaver is wonder. Then the camp
ing trip TO tho Hurricane and the
Grand canyon is the finest that can be
planned, This is not trip for white
flanneis, but wild, western tour that
calls for good fellowship and manhood.
Ice cream soda can not be bought en-
route, but a supply of Van Camp IS and
other canned articles. with supply of
farm produce AT ranches here and there,
with fish and game, will make the trip
one replete with true western life,
climate aud health
Suppose for moment that within a
day or so of New York they had the
Great Salt Lake, Yellowstone, the
Grand canon. hot springs, warm
springs, cold springs and drinking
springs. Utah lake, with trout ard bass,
mountain streams, reached by bicycle,
such canyons as those reached by Salt
Lake trolleys, or any Of hundred
other attractions, would not society of
that city imagine itself favored above
all places2 We have them all here at
home, and in time they will each be
graced by q modern hotel to accommo-
date the thousands of visitors. For the
present, however, it is Brighton 8, or
one of the canyons or lake retreats.
The event OF this week will be the
dancing party to be given at the Coun-