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West Weber (sec sheet 15, p. 102) is a farming community in the 

 midst of a broad, gently sloping plain, where water for irrigation 



may be distributed by ditches ahnost anj-vv^here. 

 West Weber,Utah. Artesian wcUs bored along this side of the lake, to a 

 Eiovation 4,240 feet. depth of 300 or 400 feet, yield natural flows of pure. 



Population 823.* -^, .xi^i i *• i ^.' 



Omaha 1,006 miles. ircsli watcr that lias come do^\'n from the mountams 



m porous laj^ers of rock that lie underneath some 

 relatively impervious layer. Along the east side of the lake this 

 fresh water may even be tapped in wells put down through the salt 

 water of the lake itself. Be3'ond West Weber the 

 more and more salty on the surfaqe, and the cultivated lands dimin- 

 ish in area, .the salty meadows or marshes being used for pasture. 



with crusted salt. 



during 



Mountain, the name of a railroad siding at milepost 709, refers 

 w, rounded terraced hill north of the track. The terraces here, 



around 



Bonneville 



To the south, near the shore of the hike, are the remains of evapora- 

 tion vats, formerly used in the manufacture of salt by crystaUiza- 

 tion from the water of the lake. The industry of this place was 

 ended by a general rise in the lake level during recent years (see 



still m 



Salt air, at the south end of the lake. 



com 



making event in railroad construction. By this great fiU and trestle 



mam 



San Francisco was shortened about 44 miles and the steep and 



im 



Promontoiy siunmit, were eliminated 



Hue is level for 36 miles and the srrade is almost 



ciable for 36 miles mc 

 less than 0.5 per cent. 



first 



low marginal portions of the lake and as trestle work through the 

 deeper part. Much of the trestle work has 



since 



fill. 



came 



Promontorv Point. Rock 



nly on the surface of the embankment 



m places where reconstruction was nece.ssarv. rock was 



exclusivelv. 



from 



and from the immense quarries near Lakeside. The dark-gray 

 almost black limestone from the Lakeside quarries now covere the 

 sm'f ace of the fiU aU the way across the lake. 



