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GUIDEBOOK OF THE WESTER:N' UNITED STATES. 



Wahsatcli, which consists of little more 



W- 



The 



Wahsatch, Utah 



Elevation 6,824 feet, 

 Omaha 935 miles. 



ame 



From many 



name of the mountains 



to 



Mo mi tains 



Wasatch 



maybe seen the northward extension of the W 



hills 



th 



merate of the Wasatch group 



/ 



,. Toward the west 



.satch Range. The 



and yellow sandstone, shale, and 



development 



Hay 



eosT 



named 



A short distance west of the station the railroad passes tlirouo^h a 



tunnel 



cur 



of its walls. 



lomerate 



Curvo 



Curvo. 



Elevation 6,824 feet. 

 Omaha 939 miles- 



railroad 



OTades of the 



Many 



first built have been eliminated 



smoo 



the rough places, especially where the road is confined in a narrow 

 valley. 



The station of Castle Rock takes its name from the castellated 



Castle Rock. 



Elevation 6,210 feet. 

 Population 131. 

 Omaha 944 miles. 



the 



erosion 



looks it. The red beds are here carved by 



into many fantastic shapes, and the peculiar forms 



seen here become more numerous farther west and 



cuhniuute in grotesqueness near Echo. 



Some of the xuost productive goM and 

 silver mines iu the world have l>een 

 developed in this inhospitable region. 

 With all this ad\ ancement, however, the 

 Great Basin ia still very sparsely settled . 

 Although not generally attractive to 



seeker, the Great Basin 



the region ia generally called a desert, its 

 climate comparer favorably with that of 



parts 



The 



Measure 



appeals especially to the geologist, both 



because 



unusual facilities for investigation and 

 because the problems to be solved are 

 peculiarly interesting and economically 

 important. There ia, moreover, an at- 

 traction in the region that grows with 



mate acquam 



low humidity prevents the liigh tempera- 

 tures of summer from being oppressive, 

 except possibly in some of the low-lying 

 southern valleys where the heat is almost 

 unendurable. It is true that the wind 

 blows fiercely at times, go that the air is 

 filled with flying dust and sand, but these 

 storms are infrequent. The country 

 probably appears to least 



viewed from the windows of a Pullman 

 car. Fron 



advantag 



such a position of comfort 



vast 



air, 



mxn 



seems 



Although 



unnaturally intensified and the apparent 

 lonesomeness of a strange and unknown 

 country is likelv to be ronellent. 



