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GUIDEBOOK OF THE WESTEEN UNITED STATES. 



Ogden 



and garden truck. From the outskirts of the city an uninterrupted 

 view of the Wasatch Range can be had (PL XXVIII). 

 Canyon is seen as a great notch with bare chffs of pink quartzite on 

 both sides, and tier on tier of gray limestone farther up the canyon.^ 

 In the distance on the west is the hazy blue outhne of Promontory 



from 



Lake. 



The traveler who is for the first time west of the Rocky Mountains 



melodramatic 



movie 



7f 



screen really exist to-day along the route 

 between 0«:den and Yellowstone Park should remember Francis 

 Parkman's introduction to ^^The Oregon Trail": 



Tlie buffalo is gone, and of all liis millions notlilng is left but bones. Fences of 

 barbed wire supplant bis boundless grazing grounds. Those discordant serenaders, 

 tlie wolves, tbat howled at evening about the traveler's camp fire ha^-e succumbed to 

 arsenic and hushed their savage music. The wild Indian is turned into an ugly 

 caricature of his conqueror. The slow cavalcade of horsemen has disappeared before 

 parlor cars and the effeminate comforts of modern travel. The all-daring and all- 

 enduring trapper belongs to the past and the cowboy's star begins to wane. The wild 

 "West is tamed. 



The great desert wliicli Fremont explored in 1842 and to wliicli the 

 Mormons came in 1847 is still a desert, but orchards, gardens, and 

 grain fields now mark its border. 



A large brick plant at Ilarrisvillc (see sheet 15a, p. 114) is using clay 

 that was deposited as sediment on the bottom of Lake Bonneville. 



This is one of the few mineral industries along this 



route. Many years of prospecting in the mountains 



Eiovatioii4,29jfeet. all the Way from Ogden to Yellowstone Park have 



o^densmiies? brouglit to light LI few Small metalliferous deposits, 



but not one from which ore is being shipped. Among 

 the nonmetals clay, sand, gravel, limestone, marl, coal, building stone, 

 and water are utQized. Water is the one mineral to which above all 



Harrisviile. 



^ The geologic structure of the Wasatch brian quartzite. Next higher, under 



brush aud scattered trees, are ledges of 

 gray Uinestone; thea comes the pink 



Mountains, from Ogden north to Brigham, 

 ha« Li.x.*n described by Eliot Blackwelder 

 as "shinrfed structure with overthrust 



slabs or wedges dipping eastward 



}} 



(See 



fig. 13, p. 100.) Although tliLs structure 

 can not be seen from the railroad, the 

 various formations can be distinguished. 

 At the base of the range, showing above 

 the lake benches, is the oldest rock forma- 

 tion here exposed, the iVrchean gneiss 

 and schist, making dark-colored ' ragged 

 ledges. (See PL XXYIII,) Above ^this 

 is 1,000 feet of bare rock cliff of pale 

 pink or faded iron-stain color, the Cam- 



aerain 



band of gray limestone. In the morning 

 sunlight the west face of the range is 

 somber and does not reveal the striking 

 differences in these fomiations, but under 

 the hght of the afternoon sun they stand 

 out in marked contrast. 



The Cambrian quartzite can be traced 

 by the eye from Ogden Canyon northward 

 for several miles, but not continuously, 



east 



north-south 



