History of Utah: comprising preliminary chapters on the previous history of her founders, accounts of early Spanish and American explorations in the Rocky Mountain region, the advent of the Mormon pioneers, the establishment and dissolution of the provisional government of the State of Deseret, and the subsequent creation and development of the territory . d that day among thehigh tides of the calendar. The occasion was observed in variousparts of the Territory, but the grand celebration took place on thebanks of Silver Lake, at the head of Rig Cottonwood Canyon. This delightful retreat—now on
History of Utah: comprising preliminary chapters on the previous history of her founders, accounts of early Spanish and American explorations in the Rocky Mountain region, the advent of the Mormon pioneers, the establishment and dissolution of the provisional government of the State of Deseret, and the subsequent creation and development of the territory . d that day among thehigh tides of the calendar. The occasion was observed in variousparts of the Territory, but the grand celebration took place on thebanks of Silver Lake, at the head of Rig Cottonwood Canyon. This delightful retreat—now one of the most popular summerresorts in all Utah—is a cosy little glen surrounded liy snow-cappedpeaks and pine-covered hills, situated in the very tops of the WasatchMountains, eight thousand feet above the level of the sea. It isabout twenty-five miles south-east of Salt Lake City, and twelvemiles east of the Valley, whence it is reached by a rugged canyonroad so rocky and declivitous in places that the name stairs hasbeen bestowed, and not inaptly, upon a portion of the way leadingthither.* At that time, though the route was not entirely new, sincethe previous Twenty-fourth had been celebrated at Silver Lake, itwasmuchmore difficult than at present. The way up the canyon, * Silver Lake is now known as Brightons,-so named for its HISTORY OF UTAH. 601 originally impassable for teams, and nearly so for horsemen orpedestrians, had been made practicable by the Big CottonwoodLumber Company, which had erected three saw-mills at differentpoints in the canyon, and constructed, above the highest one, as faras the lake, five miles of road expressly for the former Lake is a clear, crystal sheet of fresh, pure water, fed byinnumerable ice-cold rills, meandering from the rocky, pine-cladheights and snow-crowned hills on all sides hemming it in. Itcovers an area of about forty acres, and lies along one side of thecharming little vale which it serves to
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