. The Pacific tourist . he well culti-vated fields con-tinue until wearrive at Junction,—12 miles fromSalt Lake City,where the Bing-ham Canon &C amp Flo y dRailroad inter-sects the UtahSouthern. Pas-sengers herechange cars forBingham Canonand the miningdistricts in thatvicinity. Thisroad i s abouttwenty-twomiles long andi s extensivelyused in trans-portingore, bull-ion, coke, coaland charcoal toand from themines andsmelting worksand railroad. It is afeet) road and is now Sandy,—13 miles from the city and the pointof intersection of the Wahsatch S: Jordan Val-ley Railroad,—narrow gauge (three f
. The Pacific tourist . he well culti-vated fields con-tinue until wearrive at Junction,—12 miles fromSalt Lake City,where the Bing-ham Canon &C amp Flo y dRailroad inter-sects the UtahSouthern. Pas-sengers herechange cars forBingham Canonand the miningdistricts in thatvicinity. Thisroad i s abouttwenty-twomiles long andi s extensivelyused in trans-portingore, bull-ion, coke, coaland charcoal toand from themines andsmelting worksand railroad. It is afeet) road and is now Sandy,—13 miles from the city and the pointof intersection of the Wahsatch S: Jordan Val-ley Railroad,—narrow gauge (three feet). Thisroad turns off to the left and goes up LittleCottonwood Canon, which can now plainly beseen from the cars. The Big Cottonwood Canonis also in sight. There they are, with the mount-ain of silver between them. There is silverenough in that mountain to pay the nationaldebt of the United States, with enough left topay for a huge fourth of July celebration. Thisroad has some very heavy grades, and, on the. SNOW SLIDE MOUNTAIN.—LITTLE COTTONWOOD CANON. narrow gauge (threeloing a fine business. upper end of it, horses, instead of engines, areemployed to haul the empty cars. These twonarrow gauge roads are now under one manage-ment. The Little Cottonwood Road is abouteighteen miles in length. Sandy is a flourish-ing little town. It has several smelters, orreduction works, where crude ore is convertedinto bullion. The celebrated Flagstaff minehas its smelting works here ; its ore is broughtdown from the mine on the Wahsatch & Jor-dan Valley Railroad. Every visitor to Utah,who is at all interested in mines, or metal-lurgy, will obtain a great deal of informa-tion, and be amply repaid for the time and ex-— pense of a visit to its more cele-brated miningdistricts. Avisit to the Bing-ham and LittliCottonwood Dis-tricts, certainlyshould not beneglected. Leav-ing Sandy, weenter into a des-ert c o u n 11 yagain; the farm-houses are scat-| tering, thoughthe land on theright,
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