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life as do the people of nearly any country vil- 

 lage of its size in the East. It can no longer be 

 classed a frontier town, and upon riding into it 

 I left the frontier behind. Marysvale, two 

 days' journey to the northward, is the nearest 

 railway station, and from there regular freight- 

 ers with wagons drawn by four and occasionally 

 six horses haul merchandise to Panguitch, 

 which is the distributing point for Hatch and 

 the other settlements to the south. 



The road to Marysvale winds down Pan- 

 guitch Valley through the beautiful canon of 

 the West Fork of the Sevier, where it breaks 

 out into Round Valley, and thence passes on 

 through Paiute Valley. It leads through the 

 village of Junction, the county seat of Paiute 

 County, so named because of the fact that it 

 stands at the junction of the two forks of the 

 Sevier, and thence the road crosses a ridge into 

 Marysvale. This is a mining town of some im- 

 portance and a terminus of a branch of the Rio 

 Grande and Western Railroad. Some Chicago 

 engineers were here, just returned from a sur- 

 vey of a route for a new railroad to the Grand 

 Canon in Arizona by way of the series of val- 

 leys through which I had ridden. 



At the end of the lower valley, or "vale," 

 the wagon road rises upon the mountains to 



