92 GUIDEBOOK OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES. 



On emerging from Weber Canyon the train crosses the line of the 

 great fault by which the rocks on the east were uplifted many thou- 

 sands of feet relative to those on the west. Here we 

 '"'^' enter a broad, fertile valley that is well watered by 



SpSn if .r*' ^^'^ "^^^- I^ *^e traveler covered with alkali dust 



Omaha 993 miles. from tlie descrts fartlier east rearhes t,hk Trnllmz wTmn 



inhabitants call it '^Zion/^ 



are bending to the ground 

 will not wonder that some 



from a broad delta of gravel 



and silt built up by the river durmg the Pleistocene epoch, when the 

 waters of Lake Bonneville covered the region. The form of the delta 

 is not visible from the tram, because the railroad follows the trench 

 that the river subsequently cut in the old delta. The 



map 



accomp 



the lake, a distance of 17 miles. 



armmgton nearly to Brigham 

 from the foot of the mountams westv 



W 



o 



smaller 



prominent 



oan\-on. The higher one, known as the Bonneville 

 1,000 feet above the river and marks the level vf^s^c 



maxmium height. The lower one, known 



Bonneville terrane and 



denotes a later stage of the lake. From points 



some 



Bonneville 



hard rock, may be seen aU along the western face of the mountams. 



with them 



terraces 



The valley of Weber River, which appears so attractive in the 

 yicmity of Umta, is a smaU part of the Great Salt Lake vaUey which 

 includes a large part of northern Utah. This is the home land of the 



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Holy 



to the historian Hubert H 



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