. The Pacific tourist . part of a circle,formed like two mileseast is CampDouglas, estab-lished by GeneralConnor during thelatewa. It is beau-tifully located onan elevated benchcommanding the buildingshave been erected,and it is nowconsidered oneof the finest andmost convenientposts the govern-ment has. It issupplie d withwater from RedButte Canon, andhas a great manyRMON TABERNACLE.—THE GREAT ORGAN. conveniences. Below Camp Douglas, Emigration Canon next cuts the mountains in twain. It is the canonthrough which Oison Pratt and his comp
. The Pacific tourist . part of a circle,formed like two mileseast is CampDouglas, estab-lished by GeneralConnor during thelatewa. It is beau-tifully located onan elevated benchcommanding the buildingshave been erected,and it is nowconsidered oneof the finest andmost convenientposts the govern-ment has. It issupplie d withwater from RedButte Canon, andhas a great manyRMON TABERNACLE.—THE GREAT ORGAN. conveniences. Below Camp Douglas, Emigration Canon next cuts the mountains in twain. It is the canonthrough which Oison Pratt and his companionscame when they first discovered the valley, thelake, and the site for a city—through whichBrigham Young anil the pioneers came. an. 1 wastle> route by which nearly all the overland emi-grants arrived, on coming from the Fast. Belowthis, as you look south, is Parleys Canon,through which a road leads to Parleys Park andthe mining districts in that region. Then comesSouth Mill Creek with its canon, through the. TBE &&GIFIG T&Wm^T. 139 towering peaks, and then the Big CottonwoodCreek and Canon. Between it and Little Cot-tonwood Canon, next on the south, is the mount-ain of silver—or the hill upon which is locatedsome of the richest paying mines in the Terri-tory. Here is the Flagstaff, the North Star, theEmma, the Reed & Benson, and others worththeir millions. The Emma mine has becomenotorious in the history of mines, but there isnot a practical miner in Utah who doubts theexistence of large bodies of rich ore there, and,it it had been practically worked, would, in theo p i n i o n o fm a n y. h a v eequaled, if notexceeded, thecelebrated Corn-stock lode be-fore this. No visitor toSalt Lakesliou Id leavethe city with-out a trip to thelake and a rideon its placidbosom—a trip,also, to thesouthern ter-minus of theUtah SouthernRailroad, themountains andcanons alongits line, and tothe mountainsand m i lies ofStockton,O p h i r, Bing-ham, and aboveall, the Cotton-wood di
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