OEEGOTsT SHORT LINE^ — OGDEX TO YELLOWSTONE. 



137 



settlement 



Potatoes are 



conimon 



the leading crop near Rigbj and a 



acre. Under especially favorable conditions of soil treatment 700 



from 1 acre. Wh 

 . oats 65 busliels an 



20 tons an acre. 



miles 



bank of Snake River (South Fork), at the foot of the wall formed by 

 rhyohte tilted and overlain by horizontal younger lava flows. A log 



ill accommo 



t) 



two concrete pools have been built at hot springs which issue from the 

 bank of the river. The sprmgs have temperatures of 126° to 140 



Fahrenheit 



ulphur and is strongly mi 



Bathing m it is said to relieve rneumaiism. nsning is popular 

 this resort in summer and elk hunting in \vinter. 



like 



the railroad ( 

 stream bring: 



from the mount 



River plain, where the grade of the stream is decreased and its 



much 



As 



a low broad fan has been built up, across which the river now flows in 



a number of channels. 



oms 



miles 



Between Rigby and Lorenzo the railroad crosses the ''dry bed'' of 



Snake River. 



formerly 



the current shifted to the channel it now occupies, north of Lorenzo. 



m the old chann 



is used as an irrigating canal. 



The beet-loading platform at Lorenzo indicates one of the principal 

 crops in this vicinity. Just after passmg the station the train crosses 



mam 



Lorenzo. 



Elevation 4,S66 feet. 

 Population 379.* 

 Ogden 202 miles. 



Toimdin 



is 500 feet wide.^ 



The Market Lake Craters, 4 miles west of Lorenzo, 

 are two low buttes, broad of base, with gently sloping 

 sides and broad tops, rising 500 to 600 feet above the 

 liii. Each butte has an oval base measuring about 



fined 



diamet 



The beds of ejected 



material sloDe away in all directions 



Heise 



mil 



bridge, iu 1910-1913, averaged 8,920 cubic 

 feet a second. The maximum and mini- 



000 



2,310 cubic feet a second. 



The river passes through several can- 

 yons where dam sites could be found. 



Jackson 

 000 



Lake 



and 

 A large 



amount of potential poorer therefore exists 

 along this stretch of Snake River. 



