. A glimpse of Utah, its resources, attraction and natural wonders /by Edward F. Colborn . the way to Salt Lake. Here, the west-bound traveler is treated to a scenic surprise. Thetrain descending from the heights of the Wasatch, emerges suddenlyfrom the mouth of the last rocky gorge upon an exquisite , this is during the morning hours, when the air is clearand man and beast are going to the fields. On every hand andreaching well up the high mesas that fringe the valley, are squaresof green and gold sprinkled with homes. And in the center, shim-mering in the sun, lies Utah Lake.
. A glimpse of Utah, its resources, attraction and natural wonders /by Edward F. Colborn . the way to Salt Lake. Here, the west-bound traveler is treated to a scenic surprise. Thetrain descending from the heights of the Wasatch, emerges suddenlyfrom the mouth of the last rocky gorge upon an exquisite , this is during the morning hours, when the air is clearand man and beast are going to the fields. On every hand andreaching well up the high mesas that fringe the valley, are squaresof green and gold sprinkled with homes. And in the center, shim-mering in the sun, lies Utah Lake. There may be sights more sooth-ing and restful, lovelier and more peaceful than this, but if there be,this writer has not seen them. Travelers who have looked upon theValley of the Mohawk, the vale of Chamouni and other famed pas-toral scenes, say that Utah Valley shames them all. Frame thisvalley with the treeless, canyon-seamed mountains that rise abruptlyfrom the plain twelve thousand feet high, and you have a picture assplendid as any that God has hung upon the walls of the Birdseye View of ( Fruit Growing
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