TREES AND MORMON BEARDS 149 



Mount Carmel, a small Mormon settlement 

 twenty miles north-northwest of Kanab, in one 

 of the valleys of the Rio Virgin, locally known 

 as Long Valley, was the next village upon my 

 route. The road to Mount Carmel carried me 

 past the new dam, which had so long held the 

 fortunes of Kanab in suspense. I should judge 

 its length, which is the canon's width here, to 

 be three hundred feet, and its height from the 

 creek bed fifty feet. Several hundred feet of 

 tunnel had been cut through solid rock. The 

 dam and works, constructed by hand and with- 

 out the aid of machinery, make it indeed a re- 

 markable monument to the perseverance of the 

 ranchmen who built it and an example of what 

 men may accomplish with bare hands under the 

 spur of necessity. 



The canon road was very good to a point 

 where I turned from it to cross a mountain 

 ridge lying between Kanab Wash and the Rio 

 Virgin. Here soft, loose sand made progress 

 slow and tedious, and the horses, sinking deep 

 at every step, soon wearied. It was the most 

 tiresome stretch of trail encountered upon the 

 whole journey. 



The scenery, as one ascends the ridge, is 

 varied and entrancing. To the eastward, be- 

 yond Kanab Canon, great white and pink cliffs 



