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WESTEEN 



On the east there are peach orchards, and back of them 



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culminating: in Ben Lomond Peak C'W 



of the Fortieth Parallel Survey) . 



Bonnevill 



carved in mountain waste deposited along the base of the range, are 



erved, and above them 



forming 



pink band that extends far up the mountain side. The overlying 

 Ihnestone and shale, by reason of their softness, have weathered 

 farther back than the much harder quartzite. 



Willard is a quiet old village; its main streets Imed with poplars 

 its homes surrounded by orchards. The principal industry is 



the growing of peaches and tomatoes. The traveler 

 TMllard. ^^^ g^^^ ^^^^.^1^ ^^ Yellowstone Park f 



Elevation 4,260 feet, ^jn gee many villages that were started "._ ,.. 



Population 577. • o ^ i 



ogden 14 miles. emigrants. Some of them are at the mouths of moun 



and 



om Ug 



tain canyons, where perennial streams afford water 



for irrigating the arid land near by. Willard 



stream, as were also Brigham^ WellsviUe, Log 



towns in this reg 



From Ben Lomond northward the pink Cambrian quartzite slopes 

 down abruptly (PL XXIX, B)^ crosses the mouth of a sharp canyon 

 back of Willard, where a stream leaps over it in a beautiful fall, and 

 disappears under the terraces. The crest of the range also becomes 

 lower, and the front of the range as far as Brigham shows older rocks 

 (Algonkian quartzite and slate) thi'ust over the Cambrian. A short 

 distance north of Willard Canyon the mountain face chano-es from 



crags to a fauiy smootli grassy 



tation soon gains a foothold. 



m which veg 



North of Willard the old lake terraces are well preserved and peach 



more numerous. Anion^ ...^ . 



white tower of a church in Brigham. 

 permanent settlers came to the mouth 



in 1853 and named the site of Brigham for their leader Bri<^ham 



Elevation 4^307 feet. 



Young. The Greens, Ilunsackers, Jolinstones, and 



arnses 



plp^'tonS!"*' country was a great desert covered with°sagebrush, 



miles. 



they sayr the advantages of the location, diverted the 

 mountain stream into iirigating ditches, and trans- 

 formed the desert mto a veritable garden. 



Brigham stands on a delta built m Lake BonneviHe when the 

 water was nsmg to the Prove level. (See p. 98.) Allien the lake 

 was at Its greatest height at the Bonneville level, the water extended 

 back through Boxelder Canyon, drowned the river and made a bay 



