. Salt Lake City: where to go and what to see . .There were deaths along it — God only knows howmany — and want and hardship, and every step ofthe way the savagery of Nature and men contendedagainst it; but, heedless of all, the pilgrims of theWest moved over it with their long processions ofwhite-covered wagons, conquering the deserts yearby year, and storming the mountain barriers, untilthe desolation of half a continent was driven away,and the country beyond the Missouri was terra in-cognita no longer. The traveler enters Utah throughECHO Echo Canon where the winds and CANON the waters have
. Salt Lake City: where to go and what to see . .There were deaths along it — God only knows howmany — and want and hardship, and every step ofthe way the savagery of Nature and men contendedagainst it; but, heedless of all, the pilgrims of theWest moved over it with their long processions ofwhite-covered wagons, conquering the deserts yearby year, and storming the mountain barriers, untilthe desolation of half a continent was driven away,and the country beyond the Missouri was terra in-cognita no longer. The traveler enters Utah throughECHO Echo Canon where the winds and CANON the waters have carved out the rugged and picturesque for waters and the train descend together into thedusky depths and, winding in and out through manymiles of changing scenes, emerge at last into thefamed valley of the Great Salt Lake. All along theway are Natures cathedrals, and, in the midst ofthem, to remind us. perhaps, of the sin in the world,is the Devils Slide — a trough of solid rock tossedinto form when the mountains were SALT LAKE CITY After the canon comes Ogden, theOGDEN second city of Utah—the meeting- place of the Union and SouthernPacific and Oregon Short Line Railroads. The citydates its history back to the time of the completionof the first trans-continental railroad, and lies half onthe mountain side and half in the valley at thejunction of the Weber and Ogden Rivers. Cleaving the Wasatch, from al-OGDEN most the center of the city, is CANON Ogden Cafion through which, for fifteen miles, a broad boulevardfollows the windings of the roaring river. Thiscafion is the most beautiful in Utah. At variousaltitudes are resorts where camping, boating, fishingand hunting are enjoyed, and where the hotels arefamed for their chicken dinners and the cookery oftrout fresh from the stream. Automobiles go thewhole length of this boulevard, and electric carsleave the Union Depot every twenty minutes forthe canon. It is only a travel-hour from Ogden toSalt Lake a
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