. The Pacific tourist . int onthe line of theroad, it is nextto it. You havebeen travelingin a south-west^erly directionsince leavingEvanston; younow round thee 1 b o w, t u r ntoward thenorth-west, andarrive at K rlio, — abeautiful spot—a valley nestledbetween thehills, with evi-dences of thrifton every station isnearly nine anda half milesfrom HangingKock, 993 milesfrom Omaha,and 5,315 feetabove the levelof the sea. Thetown and thecanon are right-ly named, forthe report of agun or pistoldischarged i n PULPIT BOCK, ECHO CANON—LOOKING WESTWARD. fjjjg canon wjl] bound from side to sid
. The Pacific tourist . int onthe line of theroad, it is nextto it. You havebeen travelingin a south-west^erly directionsince leavingEvanston; younow round thee 1 b o w, t u r ntoward thenorth-west, andarrive at K rlio, — abeautiful spot—a valley nestledbetween thehills, with evi-dences of thrifton every station isnearly nine anda half milesfrom HangingKock, 993 milesfrom Omaha,and 5,315 feetabove the levelof the sea. Thetown and thecanon are right-ly named, forthe report of agun or pistoldischarged i n PULPIT BOCK, ECHO CANON—LOOKING WESTWARD. fjjjg canon wjl] bound from side to side, in continuous echoes,until it finally dies away. Bromleys Cathe-dral rears its red-stained columns in rear ofand overshadowing the town, while oppositeis a lofty peak of the Wahsatch Range. Tothe right the valley opens out for a short dis-tance like an amphitheatre, near the lower ex-tremity of which, The Witches, a group ofrocks, lift their weird and grotesque are about half way to the summit of the. 120 FMM W&€IFW T@W®IST, ledge behind them. Weber Valley, from itssource to the Great Salt Lake, is pretty thicklysettled with Mormons, though quite a number ofGentiles have obtained a foothold in the minesand along the line of the railroad. Upper Weber Valley.—From this stationthere is a narrow gauge railroad up the WeberValley io Coalville, seven miles in town has two or three stores, hotels,saloons, ete., and a school-house is to bebuilt this year. Accommodations for fish-ing parties, with guides, can here be Echo andWeber Rivers,with their tribu-taries, aboundin trout, whiletheie is plentyof game, elk,deer, bear, etc.,in the mount-ains. RichardF. Burton, theAfrican explor-er, visited thiscanon and SaltLake City , anil wrotea book calledCity of theSaints, whichwas publishedby the Harpers,in 1862* Hespeaks of thewonders of thisvalley as fol-lows : EchoKanyon has butone fault; itssublimity willmake all simi-lar feat ii its
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