Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-02-09
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orchards and vineyards In which the
ripe fruit hung in wonderful perlec-
tion of sire and color. We were soon |
90 test ia quality with zest OF some |
weeks dining out Of tin cans.
The villages along the Virgin river |
were started In the flfties ana carry |
sixties BY Mormon settlers called 10 |
70 there and grow cotton. The mas
sive stone houses arc as quaint as the |
villages OF the old world, and the hs /
ana mulberry and alanthus trees have /
grown TO huge size and almost over
lap across the wide streets so that We
drove down tunnels OF green shauoW.
Cotton was grown successfully anu
sold for dollar pound tlh the close
OF the Civil war revived the Industry
In the south and cut on the proht' nut
one cotton mill still stands as witness
Of q lost industry.
Bevond this remote and hidden val
ley we dragged through miles of deep
red sand to the town OF 81 George
where stands the oldest Mormon tenn
pie I'm Utah. From the hills looking
across the valley land Il is curionsly
like the Mission San Xavier. and II
was built under conditions hardly less
severe and wild and By a handful OF
pcOple no less Jealous. lt Is one Of the
mos. impressive monuments In the
southwest: a miracle when one re-
members that the tlmbers were drawn
| from the Ne Trumbull forest nearly
G hundred miles south in Arizona--cut
on a sawmill hauled In on wagon
the lumber hauled out over roads that
would tire an oagle 10 Fly over.
st. George was celebrating the mr.
| tieth anniversary OF It's settlement
when we arrived-from all directions
covered wagons were coming In with
people who had been there nifty years
before. or whose parents had-and
The village was thronged with thou
sand or more strangers. II was rare
opportunity to meet the pioneers Of
Southern Utah and Northern Arizona.
Southwest from ST. George we
turned TO nnd a road back into Arl-
zona--not so easy as might be thought
lin q remote mountain region where
the roads and trails are seldom tray-
eied and never repaired. For nun
! bred miles we saw no one; then we
, came To the Grand Gulch mine, which
for forty years has been shipping orc
. that averages below 80 per cent cop
I lper. and was known to the Pah- utes
, as a source OF paint and oolored
stones for centuries
Southwestward still we edged into
, Nevada. seeing the same hills thai
Jeddlah smith and the trappereXplor-
, / rs must have seen and, perhaps fol
/ lowing their very trails, for we sklrtes
, 1.-THE great backbone between the Nir-
gin and the Colorado rivers and again
bent southwark 10 Scanlon's Ferry on
p the Colorado. some hundreds OF miles
: below the Lees Ferry crossing, viii
the whole Grand Canyon between "
, and that wonderful sweep OF rivel
+, which had dismayed Father Escalant'
q In the year OF our American inde
!, pendence.
. I doubt n the good padre would have
relishcd our crossing. which wal
made on rickety pile Of rottei
boards held together with iron BARI
: and poled along the muddy curren
by two cottonwood poles with btu
OF slabs nailed on for oar-blades i
was all so exciting that : was no
afraid. but think the cautious prizes
would have said his prayers instead
Of trying 10 keep tho camera heade,
toward The most exciting scenes u
the crossing.
Southwark still we came through
great valleys known 20 the old eXplOr'
ers and almost unknown t0day-iil
from hilltop we saw the dark smOk'
OF a putting railroad engine and ! 81,
indeed say some prayers OF gladnes
for a thousand miles In a cam
wagon Us no joke. even when ever
day ~ filled with interest and tn
n oseBt of fresh historical gnue