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HANGING ROCK AND VICINITY. 
Hanging Rock is situated at the mouth 
of Echo canon. It is of Conglomerate or 
Pudding Stone. It forms the base of a high 
mass of rocks of tho same character more 
than three hundred feet in height. The hill, 
or mountain, rather, rises nearly one thou¬ 
sand feet above the top of this conglomerate 
base, and is covered with grasses of different 
varieties. The U nion Pacific 1 tail road lies 
fifty feet below it, and forms a sharp curve | 
to the northwest, coming out on a level plain ! 
about three miles long. Chi this level valley 
the so-called City ot Echo is situated. There 
are about one hundred and fifty inhabitants 
in the city, besides the regular workmen on 
the railroad. There is one drug store, three | 
dry-goods stores, four groceries, a black¬ 
smith-shop, and a few oLher small establish¬ 
ments of similar character. These, with two 
hotels and the post-office, comprise the busi¬ 
ness portion of the place. One billiard 
saloon, with four tables doing a good busi¬ 
ness, however, should come in, I suppose, 
for its due share of honor. The rapidity 
with which these “ adjuncts to civilization" 
follow in the wake of progress would be 
surprising had it not been so long noticeable. 
This town is located in tho Weber Valley, 
and at the present time (Aug. 17) the farmers 
are cutting their grain. One field ot wheat 
I visited wilt yield at least forty bushels to 
the acre, and the oats will net nearly one 
hundred and fifty. There is the town of 
Hemfervillc, located four miles to the north, 
down the river; and five miles above, is the 
town of Coolville, situated at the junction of 
Chalk Creek with the Weber River. There 
are good farming lands for a long distance 
up the river, and a number of little settle¬ 
ments below. Tlie farmers raise a goodly 
quantity <>f vegetables and cereals, although 
they depend principally on their herds and 
flocks for maintenance. The grasshoppers 
have injured the crops somewhat this sea- 
on, but not materally damaged the aggre¬ 
gate A. •/. R. 
IN THE WILDS OF UTAH. 
Lake Scenery. 
I have just returned from an extended 
tour iu the Great Uintah Mountains. I 
struck them about forty miles south from 
Bear River Station, and took a number of 
photographs of magnificent mountain peaks. 
Found beautiful lakes eleven thousand feet 
above the sea level, and one among the num¬ 
ber having an altitude of over twelve thou¬ 
sand feet, snow coining down to the very 
water’s edge, and ice extending quite into it. 
Among the loose rocks that lay at the base 
of bold, high cliffs, we found ice cementing 
the fragments together—good, solid ice, that 
would do credit to a New York iec wagon. 
Some of these cliffs rise over three thou¬ 
sand feet above the lakes. From the summit j 
of one 1 could count twenty-six lakes of all 
sizes, from one mile in length down to ten 
rods; bat they are lakes, nevertheless. They 
are clear and cold, have inlets and outlets, 
I and are surrounded with grass and timber. 
On the Backward Trail. 
The grass at this season of the year is short 
and sweet. There is a very thick mat of it, 
to which our animals took a great liking, so 
much so that I was obliged to make a trip of 
twelve miles to recover two of them which 
strayed back from our first camping ground 
after having left its locality, and that, too, 
t hrough a heavy growth of timber and on a 
tiresome and difficult trail. 
1 found them nipping the rich blades as 
quietly and comfortably as could be, not 
seeming to realize that they had done any¬ 
thing wrong or had caused me extra trouble. 
I was provoked, and the first impulse was to 
give them a good whipping; then I thought 
of Mr. Bkrgii, and not k lowing but he might 
have some emissary or 'elective sitting ou 
one of these over-hanging crags, I concluded 
that a little coaxing would do as well. So I 
1 coolly started them on the return trip, took 
one more good look at. this great arophithe- 
I ater, felt paid for all my trouble, and van¬ 
ished in the woods, behind my recreant, 
mules, who, I have no doubt, telt as well paid 
j for their trip as I did. 
A moil? the Timber. 
Speaking of the timber, there is quite a 
variety of the pine family; the tamarack and 
balsam grow the largest, I saw one balsam 
tree four feet, in diameter, and nearly one 
hundred and fifty feet high. Tho limbs of 
all, or nearly all, the timber in this country 
grow low down, to the ground. This valley, 
at the head of Bear River after you enter the 
mountains, is about, fifteen miles long. T he 
foot hills, for miles before reaching the high¬ 
est range of peaks, are covered with timber, 
and for miles it is an impossibility to ride 
through it, there is so much timber fallen; 
indeed one can hardly go through it on 
foot. ' 
There are windfalls of timber on the left 
of the valley, or canon, as it is called here, 
extending for miles, and a thick, heavy 
second growth makes them almost impene¬ 
trable. It is here that the bear, deer and 
elk have their homes. 
A Grizsly in Camp. 
On the 12th day of this month two Griz- 
zlys came marching lazily through camp. 
There happened to be but two soldiers in at 
the time, and the driver of one of the teams. 
One of the soldiers was cook for the day. 
He saw them first, and gave the alarm. The 
other soldier was sleeping, at the time, with 
two good needle guns and other arms of like 
efficiency laying around him. The driver 
came out of his tent, took a good look, and 
valiantly retired in an opposite direction. 
Off went Bruin, with never a shot fired. 
The. cook, in describing the battle, says he 
was afraid to shoot, for the bears were so 
near his sleeping companion that he feared 
for his safety; and then the bears were as 
big as a mule. And the driver could not be 
expected to do anything in the fighting line, 
as he was a Dane and could not understand 
English! The bears still live, and the whole 
party lack a savory meal of rich bear steak. 
The tracks of these bears were enormous; 
but they were not edible, and we consoled 
ourselves with the thought that beans and 
bacon were much better than any bear meat, 
especially alive and ugly. The cook declares 
that he was not afraid, notwithstanding lie 
trembles and turns white whenever he talks 
about them. He sayB also that suck big 
bears don’t make good meat! 
Game, and Moore’s Lake. 
There art; a great many deer and a few 
elk in this ainpitheater, with trout and white 
fish in the streams. We found no fish in 
the lakes, but plenty of fresh beaver marks. 
Down in the marshes saw trees fourteen 
inches through cut off by the industrious 
animals. They live principally on the bark 
of the cotton-wood and quaking asp. Traces 
of Indians’ encampments, with the remains 
of bear, beaver and deer, were also seen. 
I will send you a view of a beautiful lake 
that sleeps close under a high cliff, which 
seems to staud, a sleepless sentinel, guarding 
its repose. Huge fragments of rock are 
continually falling from its perpendicular 
sides, and keep tho night and day awake , 
with their numberless echoes. This lake I 
have named “Moore’s Lake;’’ and it you 
should visit it you will find a number of 
Moore’s Rural New-Yorker cached away 
under a shelving rock, near the foot of a 
huge pine hard by. A. J. Russell. 
Echo City, Utah, Aug. 17,1*09. 
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SPLENDOR OF DAMASCUS. 
The oldest city in the world, — Tyre and 
Sidon have crumbled on the shore; Baalbec 
is a ruin; Palmyra is buried iu the sands of 
the desert; Nineveh and Babylon have dis¬ 
appeared from the Tigris and Euphrates. 
Damascus remains what it was before Abra¬ 
ham—a center of trade and travel—an 
island of verdure in a desert—a predestined 
capital, with martial and sacred associations 
extending through more than thirty centuries 
It was near Damascus that Saul of Tarsus 
saw the light from Heaven, above the bright¬ 
ness of tlie sun. The street which is called 
Straight, in which it was said “ he prayetb,” 
runs still through the city. The caravan 
comes and goes, as it did a thousand years 
ago; there are still the sheik, the ass, aud 
the water-wlieel; the merchants of the Eu¬ 
phrates and of the Mediterranean still occu¬ 
py these streets with multitudes ot their 
wares. It is still a city of flowers and bright 
waters; the streams from Lebanon, tlie riv¬ 
ers of Damascus, the rivers ot gold, still 
murmur and sparkle in the wilderness of 
Syrian grandeur. 
flie jjlttnftoEr. 
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