. The Pacific tourist . f every year. Yards andchutes have been erected for their accommodationand use. Near the station are one or two .stonehouses. The road here crosses Hams Fork, atributary of Blacks Fork, which rises some 70 to Evanston, in jjreat profusion. The most ofthem, however, are valueh;.ss, but occasionallys|Kciinens of rare beauty are jiicked up. Onwhat are called the bad , alx>ut 7 milessouth of the road, however, the finest a;,^at<s,with other beautiful K**-* ^^^ obtained with lit-tle diHicuUy. In Hams Fork water agates,creamy white, and amber colored, may be occa
. The Pacific tourist . f every year. Yards andchutes have been erected for their accommodationand use. Near the station are one or two .stonehouses. The road here crosses Hams Fork, atributary of Blacks Fork, which rises some 70 to Evanston, in jjreat profusion. The most ofthem, however, are valueh;.ss, but occasionallys|Kciinens of rare beauty are jiicked up. Onwhat are called the bad , alx>ut 7 milessouth of the road, however, the finest a;,^at<s,with other beautiful K**-* ^^^ obtained with lit-tle diHicuUy. In Hams Fork water agates,creamy white, and amber colored, may be occa-sionally Jiicked up. They are quite rare, andwhen cut by the lapidary, are held to be of con-siderable value. View of Uintah Motiutftiiis.—The viewwe give an illustration of, on jiage H), is one ofthe finest in the Far West. The scene is takenfrom Photograph Kidge, at an elevation feet. In the foreground is a jiicturesquegroup of the mountain pines. In the middledistance flows Blacks Fork. The peaks or cones. cnfRCH BrTTEs ox blacks fokkmiles north-west, and which, the old settlers say,is really the main stream of the two. The banksof this stream, as far as you can see, are linedwith bushes, and farther up, its valley producesluxuriant grass, from which hay is cut. and ujxinwhich numerous herds of cattle feed. An ovalpeak rises on the north side of the track, beyondwhich, in the distance, may be seen a range ofbluffs, or rise up between HamsFork and (Jreen Kiver. From Granger to the in the distance have their summits far above thelimits of jierpetual snow, and from (K) to 2.(M»0feet above the springs that are the sources of below. These cones are distinctly strati-fied, mostly horizontal, and there are frecjuentlyvast piles of pjirplish, comj>act quartzite, whichresemble Egyptian pyramids on a gigantic scale,witlmut a trace of grit, vegetation, or water. Oneof these remarkabl,.stnictures stands ont the rest, in the m
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