. A glimpse of Utah, its resources, attraction and natural wonders /by Edward F. Colborn . ble. Moran and othergreat painters have recorded the colors from the palette of the sunwhen at nightfall he sinks behind the great Salt Lake, and havedeclared the spectacle to be one of the most beautiful ever pre-sented to mortal eyes. The richest and softest and altogethermost satisfying of the scenery is along the Denver & Rio Grande,which enters through the stately portals of Castle Gate and follow-ing the gorges, climbs over the Wasatch and drops down into thetranquil mountain-bound Utah Valley, the
. A glimpse of Utah, its resources, attraction and natural wonders /by Edward F. Colborn . ble. Moran and othergreat painters have recorded the colors from the palette of the sunwhen at nightfall he sinks behind the great Salt Lake, and havedeclared the spectacle to be one of the most beautiful ever pre-sented to mortal eyes. The richest and softest and altogethermost satisfying of the scenery is along the Denver & Rio Grande,which enters through the stately portals of Castle Gate and follow-ing the gorges, climbs over the Wasatch and drops down into thetranquil mountain-bound Utah Valley, the like of which, for pas-toral beauty, no other land affords. Cl, After the tremendous presentations of the Rocky Mountains,the Utah Valley, with its Alpine setting, is most inviting. It isa fitting finale to the grand panorama through which the travelerhas long journeyed. After Utah Valley he will see the GreatSalt Lake, and after that the deserts of Nevada await him, overthe lonely wastes of which he will carry a restful feeling, inspiredby the pleasant scenes he has last Main Street,Salt Lake City. About Some of Utah s Cities and Towns SALT LAKE CITY is known around the world. Histori-cally, it is a place of great interest, not only because it haswitnessed the vigorous growth of one of the most peculiarreligions known, from a mere handful of adherents sixtyyears ago, to more than half a million believers; but because itwas nursed into life in the wilderness of the far west,a thousand miles beyond the then farthest outpost of civiliza-tion. It was intended by its founders to be a community and nota city, and was laid out with broad streets, and in blocks largeenough for farms. But what was proposed was not realized—irresistibly a city grew upon the community site—a city as beau-tiful and prosperous as any in our land. Its situation, not far dis-tant from the shores of Great Salt Lake, in an elbow of the moun-tains, with great peaks towering over it on the north a
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