The Norfolk Virginian's annual, for the year 1884 . the sightseer will find amplereward for his tour. Any citizen, or applicant for citizenship,over 21 years of age, may enter one-quartersection (that is, 160 acres) of any unappropriatedpublic lands, which are subject to pre-emptionat $ per acre ; or he may enter by pre-emp-tion So acres of such unappropriated lands,valued and classed at $ per acre by theGovernment. It is estimated that the total supply of hidesof all kinds used in the leather manufacture ofthe United States exceeds ,000 hides are little used here,
The Norfolk Virginian's annual, for the year 1884 . the sightseer will find amplereward for his tour. Any citizen, or applicant for citizenship,over 21 years of age, may enter one-quartersection (that is, 160 acres) of any unappropriatedpublic lands, which are subject to pre-emptionat $ per acre ; or he may enter by pre-emp-tion So acres of such unappropriated lands,valued and classed at $ per acre by theGovernment. It is estimated that the total supply of hidesof all kinds used in the leather manufacture ofthe United States exceeds ,000 hides are little used here, but in Europeare largely manufactured, some portions of thehide making a fine, soft CLIFF SCENERY OF UTAH. No pen can well describe— lin h thnu—rt-^-have attempted the work—tin \\ 1 I ui 1 \ mlbeauties of the canyons by \ ni ii ^ili L iko ^_^^ -_City is approached from the ^ 1 li > iDi ^ ~- Weber being names destined to iimujit liiij ov -z^^z^canvas and between covers quite as assuredly as any ^-M competing point in the Eu-ropean Alps of Switzerlandor the American of Color-ado. It is in Southern Utah,however, that the grandeurof the Territory may besaid to culminate — in thatbroken chain of mouritains,running parallel with theWahsatch and apparently apart of it, in which the greatColorado has its rise, to Iunsouthward and southwest-ward thence to the Gulf ofCalifornia. It is in thatmarvelous region of rockand water, at and about theRio Virgen, a confluent ofthe Colorado, that the sceneof our picture is found. Themind of man cannot con-ceive of anything in naturemore truly blending thebeautiful and the awful thanthis spot, happily namedValley of the Babbhng
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