--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Rust, D. D. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 13 number: 5 published: 1910-03 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Rust, D. D., "From Salt Lake to the Grand Canyon," *Improvement Era* 13, no. 5 (March 1910): 408–411.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera135unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera135unse start_page: 408 end_page: 411 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1910-03) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera135unse publication_year: 1910 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1910, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # From Salt Lake to the Grand Canyon From Salt Lake to the Grand Canyon. BY D. D. RUST. Fredonia, the nearest settlement to the north rim of the Grand Canyon, exhibited about as much commotion last June upon hearing the exhaust of an automobile as did the early inhabitants 0%/ ZlBS ''dl'-^m, 1 ^^r^Jsam / . i «.py» ^ ^ - f . Photo by D D. Rust CAMP AT BRIGHT ANGEL — ON THE NORTH RIM OF THE GRAND CANYON. of the Hudson at the chug, chug of Fulton's Folly. And a month before there was about as much faith in the promise of such an opportunity as Bridger had in the production of corn in the Salt Lake valley. But such are the surprises wrought by the miracles of mechanical improvement and industrial advancement. Since his visit to the Kaibah country with Senator Smoot and FROM SALT LAKE' TO THE GRAND CANYON. 409 others, in the autumn of 1902, Mr. Gordon Woolley continued to express and cherish a desire again to look into the marvelous Titan of chasms. To satisfy this longing, two motor cars were steered down through the counties, rougher and wilder as you go, towards the Buckskin Mountains, that might as well be a thousand miles away. It is not expected, nor wished, that the Grand Can- yon will ever become as fa- miliar to people of Salt Lake City as is Garfield Beach or Lagoon. The God of the wilderness will see to that. But space will shorten. The actual distance between the two places is four hundred and twenty-five miles. Ox teams went in twenty days; horses in two weeks; a com- bination of railroad, stage and pack outfit, six days; automobiles did it in four days, and may do it in two; Photo by D. D. Rust. Pullman cars may run it from The Forerunner of a Railroad Canyon. to the sun to sun; — and the end is not yet. There has been a call to the There is now a call to the city. wilderness. The temples, spires, turrets, monuments, domes, - all the forms of architecture of the mountains— are more inspiring than the works of man. Solitude is as necessary as society. The awful depths, the pinnacles of glory, and the gloomy shadows of the canyon, give the keenest impressions, and would be fitting for a sacred excursion. With Mr. Woolley were his wife and four children Mr. David Affleck, Mrs. Woolley's sister, and "Sandy," the "chauf" Photo by D. D. Rust WHERE A MAN FEELS HIS INSIGNIFICANCE. all of Salt Lake City. They were joined at Kanab by E. D. Woolley and others. The roads were discouraging enough. The people were worse than the roads. All along they were met with that old FROM SALT LAKE TO THE GRAND CANYON. 411 "You'll never get there," both from those who knew and those who didn't know the requirements of automobiles. There were rocks and slumps and washouts; there were creeks to ford, and deserts of deep sand; there were narrow, crooked dug- ways that would puzzle Ben Hur. Yet they went and re- w° turned with slight need for repairs. The cars deserve spe- cial mention. One was a big ^'B^ffl^'-fspy' £ "Thomas," 60-horse, a type ^^ms } M of the famous car that went around the world. The other was a pattern of the Vander- * bilt cup-winner. They were pioneers —and they looked the 1 jtWk part. The racer took the lead through the forest, with Gor- don Woolley at the wheel. w