THE OVERLAXD EOUTE COUNCIL BLUFFS TO OGDEN. 85 



miles east of Emory liglit-colored conglomeratic sandstone 



m 



Emory. 



Elevation 5,925 feet, at t-i 



Omaha 950 miles, <^^^^^ ^g^- Near Emory 



(north), steeply inclined 



Wasatcli group. Those 



mts that indicate Creta- 



thousand feet of these bods is exposed. The conglom- 

 erates are very coarse near the top and are colored light red, so that 



Wasatch group 



distincniished 



o 



some 



esque scenery on the Overland Route. After passing over the great 

 stretches of flat, unbroken desert farther east, where httle but sage- 



seemg 



1,000 feet high. 



dimension. Some of the cliffs are nearly 



vmid, working i 

 because of inequ 



carved 



many 



adequately described and is only poorly represented by the camera. 

 Many of the forms have received fanciful names suggested by their 

 shapes, such as ''Jack in the Pulpit,'' ''the Sphinx," "the Giant's 



Steamb 



k," and "Gibraltar," (See PL XXII, A: 

 may be able to distinguish the forms sug 

 it the more observant will rather bft inr 



pressed by the evidences of the working of the great forces of nature 

 here so conspicuously displayed. 



Echo Canyon is in places ver}^ narrow and long stretches of its north 

 wall are almost vertical. (See PL XXII, B,) On top of tliis wall 



may 



Mormon 



iim 



States soldiers into Salt Lake valley. Here 

 and waited for the battle that was never fo" 

 standing 



adjusted before the troops reached the canyon. 



Just before entering the to^vn of Echo the train passes close to 



History of Utah" — was 



XXIII, B) whi 

 name iniphes. this 



As 



Echo. 



wid 



Elevation 5,471 feet, circulated that from it Brigham Young preached his 

 opua ion ^^^^ sermon on cnterino' the "nromised land'' iti 1S47. 



imaha 960 mfl^ 



However, those in 



this 



not stop at Pulpit Rock and that Young was sick ^vith mountain 

 fever during tliis part of the journey.^ 



by Mr. Andrew Jenaen, of Salt Lake City. 



migration have been kindly f urnlslied 



