In the Wasatch Mountains: Devil’s Gate Bridge, Weber Canyon

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of at least eighteen feet. Even farther down where the force of the stream had lessened sufficiently to allow the large pine trees to remain standing, the mud upon them showed clearly that they had stood in water from twelve to fifteen feet deep. These results the writer actually saw and wondered at. The description of how it was brought about, is as it appealed to his imagination while viewing the scene, after having before witnessed a water spout of smaller dimensions.

Col. Juarez, Mexico.

In the Wasatch Mountains— Devil's Gate Bridge, Weber Canyon, on the U. P. Ry.

This grand structure, with huge beams of riveted steel resting side by side, span- ning the deep, wide chasm, laughs at the hurricane's fiercest blast, and the baffled roar of the torrent. So firmly is it reared to endure, — a giant in strength forever- more! my soul, learn this hour a lesson from the bridge. Cease buildiDg unto thee unsubstantial structures that on the morrow will crumble and decay. Let your life's edifice be founded on the rock of virtue, that it may withstand the cold world's withering blasts, and be so firmly established upon the Rock that it shall endure for- ever. Claude E. Stuart, liintah, Utah.