. Salt Lake City : where to go and what to see . comfort has been provided by themanagement, which is enterprising and holds theplace up to the highest standard of are more than twelve hundred dressing roomsand many times that number of bathing suits; andthe whole cost of a trip, to and from the resort,including a bath, is 50 cents. So far, in the preparation ofA SIDE TRIP these pages, the thought hasTO been to deal only with the THE MINES historic and natural attractions along the way of the traveler;but the writer is reminded that, to a growing Statelike Utah, many are l
. Salt Lake City : where to go and what to see . comfort has been provided by themanagement, which is enterprising and holds theplace up to the highest standard of are more than twelve hundred dressing roomsand many times that number of bathing suits; andthe whole cost of a trip, to and from the resort,including a bath, is 50 cents. So far, in the preparation ofA SIDE TRIP these pages, the thought hasTO been to deal only with the THE MINES historic and natural attractions along the way of the traveler;but the writer is reminded that, to a growing Statelike Utah, many are likely to come who have inmind a little business as well as pleasure; and, tothese, the suggestion is made that the great minesof Utah lie almost at Salt Lakes door, and that inBingham, Tintic, and Park City—nearby camps—may be seen mining and milling on a modern andmammoth scale. A visit to these will show thetraveler how mountains are taken down and robbedof their values, and what a really great and profit-able industry American mining = - O 3 — ca *o — a SALT LAKE CITY Whether one is bound east orOVER west on the Overland Route, THE SEA he will see the Great Salt Lake BY RAIL Cut-off, the stretch of track that spans the Great Salt Lake. Fromdry land to dry land it covers twenty miles of pileconstruction, and the traveler is carried on wheeland steel so far out to sea that the nearest landwill be in the hazy distance. As an example ofengineering, and of ingenious and substantial con-struction, there is nothing comparable with it any-where. It was a master-stroke to thus diminishoverland distance by forty-two miles, and it cost$4,000,000 to do it; but what are a few millionswhen a new and wonderful scenic feature can beadded to the attractions of a great railroad, and amountain swept from the path of commerce? A small handful of hard commer-SALT LAKE cial facts may not be amiss afterCITY IN dwelling so long on the scenic FIGURES glories of the City of the Saints. S
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