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Rexburg (see slieet 15Dj p. 148) was founded in 1883 by Thomas 

 Eicks, and the present name is a corrui^tion of Rieksburg. Up to 



1896 Rexbm'g was composed mostly of one-story dirt- 

 Rexburg. roofed honseS; but it is now a prosperous and welh 



Elevation 4,866 feet, appointed villagej the county seat of Madison County, 



ogden 210 miles. and the ccntcT of an irrigated agricultural district 



where crops never fail. Seed jDeas constitute one of 

 the important crops. The produce foi^wardcd from Rexburg in the 

 15 months between Januarj^ 1, 1913, and April 1, 1914^ was: Grain, 

 679 cars; flour, 256 cars; sugar beets, 226 cars; live stock, 190 cars; 

 miscellaneous, 92 cars; total, 1,443 cars. Rexburg station is built 

 of the local rhyolite or pink laya. Soon after leaving Rexburg the 

 train crosses Teton River, ^ which drains Teton Basin and the west 

 flank of the Teton Mountains. 



Sugar City is a settlement around a beet-sugar factory which was 



built in 1904 at a cost of $750,000. This factory 

 Sugar City- contracts for the beets from about 7,000 acres and 



Elevation 4,890 foet. pr^^yg ^5 ^ tou for them. A branch of the railroad 



Population 391. ^ *^ p n ^- -m • i 



Ogden 214 miles. Tuns wcst irom bugar City to x^iano, tapping the 



lower end of the Egin bench, a celebrated and pros- 

 perous farming district on the west side of Ilcni'ys Fork. 



Four miles northeast of Sugar City is Teton City, a village of a 

 few hundred people on the bank of Teton River^ in the midst of 

 grain and pea ranches. This settlement also was founded hj ^lor- 

 mons, in 1883. The gently sloping hills from Teton City east to 

 Canyon Creek are made up of rhyolite interbedded with a few thin 

 layers of hard black basalt. The altei^atc layers of two different 

 kinds of lava in these hills show that in the time of volcanic activity 

 in this part of the country thick flows of rhyolite were succeeded 

 by lesser flows of black lava. That the flows were separated by 

 lapses of considerable time is shown by the presence of layers of 

 soil between "them. In a deep well hole sunk in the lava several 

 miles east of Teton City the driU passed tlirough a number of layers 

 of soil between beds of basalt and rhyolite. One bed of soil was 

 encountered at a depth of 400 feet. 



A few miles north of Sugar City is a railroad siding known as 

 Wilford. St. Anthony, the county seat of Fremont County, is 

 liidden in the trees ahead. The building with a white dome seen 

 on the left on entering the town is the county courthouse, and the 

 large gray building just beyond the station is a Mormon temple. 



^ At the mouth of its canyon, a few miles 

 east, Teton River has a mean discharge of 

 about 900 second-feet. The maximum 



and minimum discharges recorded are 

 7, 620 and 88 second-feet. There is a small 



lTir/Trrtoliir>fnV -nrnvpr -nlarit on this stream. 



