. The Pacific tourist . ents are increasing every year. Yards andchutes have been erected for their accommodationand use. Near the station are one or two stonehouses. The road here crosses Hams Fork, atributary of Blacks Fork, which rises some 70 to Evanston, in gi-eat profusion. The most ofthem, however, are valueless, but occasionallyspecimens of rare beauty are picked up. Onwhat are called the bad lands, about 7 milessouth of the road, however, the finest agates,with other beautiful gem?, are obtained with lit-tle difficulty. In Hams Fork water agates,creamy white, and amber colored, may be
. The Pacific tourist . ents are increasing every year. Yards andchutes have been erected for their accommodationand use. Near the station are one or two stonehouses. The road here crosses Hams Fork, atributary of Blacks Fork, which rises some 70 to Evanston, in gi-eat profusion. The most ofthem, however, are valueless, but occasionallyspecimens of rare beauty are picked up. Onwhat are called the bad lands, about 7 milessouth of the road, however, the finest agates,with other beautiful gem?, are obtained with lit-tle difficulty. In Hams Fork water agates,creamy white, and amber colored, may be. occa-sionally picked up. They are quite rare, andwhen cut by the lapidary, are held to be of con-siderable value. View of Uintah Mountains.—The viewwe give an illustration of, on page 80, is one ofthe finest in the Far West. The scene is takenfrom Photograph Ridge, at an elevation of10,829 feet. In the foreground is a picturesquegroup of the mountain pines. In the middledistance flows Blacks Fork. The peaks or cones. CHURCH BUTTES miles north-west, and which, the old settlers say,is really the main stream of the two. The banksof this stream, as far as you can see, are linedwith bushes, and farther up, its valley producesluxuriant grass, from which hay is cut, and uponwhich numerous herds of cattle feed. An ovalpeak rises on the north side of the track, beyondwhich, in the distance, may be seen a range ofbluffs, or mountains,which rise up between HamsFork and Green River. From Granger to thenext station, are buttes on both sides of thetrack, while, to the left, the high peaks of theUintah Range tower up in the distance, affordingone of the grandest views on the line of the is the region of moss agates, gems of vari-ous kinds, and precious stones. Agates are foundall along the line of the road from Green River ox BLACKS FORK. in the distance have their summits far above thelimits of perpetual snow, and from 1,500 to 2,000feet above the springs that are the sources o
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