. The resources and attractions of the Territory of Utah /prepared by the Utah Board of Trade. which has been improved and beautified with especialreference to the wants of pleasure seekers. Wasatch Bange.—It may be doubted, however, whether Salt Lake Cityaffords any pleasure equal to that of the perpetually varying picture present-ed by the magnificent range of mountains, which rises abruptly to a height of8,000 feet above the valley, with no accompaniment of foot hills to conceal•or dwarf its proportions. No words are competent to describe it. Much of■the year it is white with snow. In the a
. The resources and attractions of the Territory of Utah /prepared by the Utah Board of Trade. which has been improved and beautified with especialreference to the wants of pleasure seekers. Wasatch Bange.—It may be doubted, however, whether Salt Lake Cityaffords any pleasure equal to that of the perpetually varying picture present-ed by the magnificent range of mountains, which rises abruptly to a height of8,000 feet above the valley, with no accompaniment of foot hills to conceal•or dwarf its proportions. No words are competent to describe it. Much of■the year it is white with snow. In the autumn it wears all the colors of therainbow in succession as its shrubbery is touched more and more severelyby the frosts. In the spring only do its lower slopes present a green appear-ance. On northern exposures it is dark with pines. Its general summer hueis gray, although its light and shade and color are as variable as the windthat plays about its inaccessible summits, invades their recesses, and in itspersistent efforts to crumble them, has chiseled out gorges in the solid rock. ATTRACTIONS FOR TOURISTS. 61 thousands of feet deep, giving infinite variety of form and outline to face and1brow and crest. Form and color are but surface aspects, however. The in-terest in them is ever renewed because they perpetually change with the sea-sons or with the point of view. The mighty range gets a deeper hold of onefrom its suggestions of primary forces and principles, such as had to do withthe forming and shaping the globe itself, and are now busying themselveswith its destiny. Nothing could seemingly present the idea of immutabilitymore strikingly. Ever changing yet still the same; apparently indifferent tothe elemental warfare of which it is the grand arena; emblem of enduringstrength; solemn and awful. Yet the impalpable ether which bathes itsmighty brows shall in a few years spread its entire mass upon the floor ofthe ocean from whence it arose. The basic rocks of the Wasat
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