THE OVERLAND EOUTE OGDEN TO SAN FRANCISCO. 155 



Beyond Lemay the route continues tlirough the l^arren playas. 

 Beppo is a railroad siding and section house only. The view of the 

 mountain ranges to the west, across the State line in Nevada^ is 

 characteristic of the scenery which will he displayed for several 

 hundred miles. Ahead, somewhat to the south, is Pilot Peak (eleva- 

 tion 10j900 feet), at the south end of the Ombe or Pilot Range. This 

 was a weU-known landmark in the early days. Oiie of tlie principal 

 overland emigrant routes led around the south end of Great Salt Lake, 

 then across the barren desert to the low pass south of this peak. The 



Western. Pacific Railway follows nearly this same conrse. The route 

 of transcontinental automobile travel now known as the Lincoln 

 Higliway follows that railway around tlie south end of Great Salt 

 Lake and then swings southwest around the Great Salt Lake Desert. 

 Jackson (elevation 4,241 feet), Teck (4,289 feet), and Pigeon are 

 mere railroad sidings and section houses. The route continues 

 through the flat, low-lying desert lands, from this point on more or 

 less covered with scattered»patches of brush. Owl Butte^ an isolated 

 peak north of the railroad, is composed of lava (rhyolite), and its 



slopes show jutting ledges, whicli are probably the edges of lava flows. 

 The top is in the form of a cap. Apparently it was a httle island 

 when Lake Bonneville stood at the higher levels and was sculptured 

 into this form by the waves. At Pigeon a spur track leads off to a 

 gravel pit, from which material is excavated by the railroad for bal- 

 lasting along the track. The gravels are ancient beach deposits, 

 remnants of the deposits laid down around the shores of the old lake 

 at its higher levels. Generally these gravel beaches extend out from 

 some rocky headland, the source of the rock fragments which, worn, 

 rounded, and sorted by the action of waves and currents, were dis- 

 tributed as gravel and sand along the adjacent shores. The bedding 

 of these deposits is irregular, showing that tliey were laid down by 

 shifting currents. The source of the original material at Pigeon was 

 evidently the lava on Owl Butte. 



The Lucin railroad station is somewhat bevond the old settlement, 

 where there is a store and a post office. Here the route leaves the 



Great Salt Lake Desert and enters a grazing country. 

 Lucin, Utah- Both sheep and cattle find sustenance in the sparse 



Elevation 4,474 feet, grass that grows among the sage, and it is said that 



omahf rias^'nes ^^^^^ ^^^^^ **- i^iillion sheep pass Lucin twice annually, 



SToing south to their winter range and north for the 

 summer. Lucin is the point of departure for a stage line to Grouse 

 Creek, a settlement 30 miles to the north. Beyond Lucin the rail- 

 road begins to chmb more noticeably, and the stream beds indicate 

 clearly that the surface or storm waters flow toward Great Salt Lake. 

 The actual junction of the present line with the original route of 

 the Central Pacific around the north end of Great Salt Lake is at 

 Umbria Junction (see sheet 17, p. 162), half a mHe beyond Lucm 

 station. Once a week a train is sent over the old route. 



