THE OVEELAND KOUTE COUNCIL BLUFFS TO OGDEN. 



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Ogden is the western terminus of the Union Pacific system. 

 Through passengers on the Overland Route here pass without 



change of cars to the Southern Pacific line which 



Ogden. 



Elevation 4,301 feet. 

 Population 25,580. 

 Omaha 1.000 miles. 



Passengers for 



coimects Ogden with San Francisco. 

 Yellowstone Park change to the Oregon Short Lino, 

 and those for Salt Lake City * have the choice of the 

 Salt Lake & Ogden electric road, the Oregon Short 

 Line, or the Denver & Rio Grande. The railroad 'time changes here 

 from mountain to Pacific time, and the westbound traveler should 

 set his watch back one hour. 



Ogden is the county seat of Weber County and the second largest 

 city in Utah. It is said to have been named for an old trapper and 

 was laid out under the direction of Brigham Young in 1850. Ogden 

 has a variety of industries, owing in part to its good transportation 

 facilities and cheap electric power. Canning is one of the most 



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Ogden lies at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains, which rise 

 abruptly just east of it, and is on the border of the flat floor of Great 



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of the city is on one of the later terraces cut by the waves of the 



* Salt Lake City, 37 miles south of Og- 

 den, is the capital of Utah and the seat of 

 govern ment of the * * Church of Jesus 

 Christ of Latter-Day Saints," whose ad- 

 herents are commonly called Mormons. 

 It is a city of 92,777 inhabitants, beauti- 

 fully situated between the shore of Great 

 Salt Lake and the lofty and precipitous 

 front of the Wasatch Mountains. Many of 

 the natural features are unique, especially 

 the great lake of brine so salty that no fish 

 can live in it and so dense that the bather 

 floats on it like a cork on ordinary water. 



they "vrent out to possess the land. The 

 story of this migration and the establish- 

 ment of the new sect in the wildez«iess is 



The fortitude with 



But this city is of interest mainly as the low-grade disseminated ores in porphyry 

 headquarters of the Mormon Churchj are now more important than the ores in 



of absorbing interest. 



which these people endured hardships and 



suffering and their unwavering devotion 



to a fixed purpose compel admiration. 



Bingham Canyon, the principal copper 

 district of Utah, is easily reached from 

 Salt Lake City. The ores occur mainly 

 in limestone of Carboniferous age and in 

 an intrusive igneous rock (monzonite por- 

 phyry) which cuts the lim^tone. The 



which has grown so rapidly that in place 

 of the 40 who organized it in 1830 it now 

 has a membership of about 500,000. 

 Here are the Temple, the Tabernacle, 

 and many other objects of interest. The 

 city was founded in 1847 by the first com- 

 pany of Mormon emigrants under Brig- 

 ham Young and was the point to which 

 later companies came and from which 



the limestone- In 1913 the disseminated 

 ore mined, chiefly by steam shovels, 

 amounted to 8,300,000 tons, yielding 

 about 0.75 per cent of copper and some 

 gold and silver. 



The Park City and Tintic districta, 

 wliich produce large quantities of ores 

 carrying chiefly lead and stiver, can also 

 be visited from Salt Lake City. 



