OBEGON SHORT LINE— OGDEX TO YELLOWSTONE, 107 



of Mantua Valley, which lies within the range. Durmg this time 

 much of the material washed from the mountams around Mantua 

 Valley was deposited in that valle}^ and not carried through the canyon, 

 which at that time held a quiet strait instead of a rapid stream. As 

 the lake dried up the waves on its lowermg surface cut terraces on 

 the old delta^ and a new Boxelder River came mto existence and 



\ the delta its ancestor had built. In 



»wn tnroug 



mor Brio^ham. which is sometimes 



completely hidden in peach orchards. The trees grow luxuriantly, 

 because practicall}^ every street has an irrigating ditch for its entire 

 length. About 400 acres of land beyond the reach of ditches from 



more 



motor. Bri^ham 



tember annually since 1907. Peach Day is to Boxelder County what 

 the 24tli of July is to the State of Utah and the 4th of July to the 

 Nation, On that day there are free peaches and plums and melons 

 for all the thousands of people who visit the city. In 1913 this station 

 shipped 467 ears of peaches. Tomatoes also are grown in large 

 quantities. A factory near the station 

 season 60 to 75 tons of tomatoes every day. 



Tile old transcontinental railroad line of the Central Pacific went 

 west from Brigham over Promontory Range and around the north 

 end of Great Salt Lake. It is little used now, for the trains go from 

 Oirden strai<rht across the lake. Brigham is the southern terminus 



cans m 



o^^" """""o 



side of the Bear River valley 



serves 



^ham gomg north the traveler gets a fin 



view of old lake beaches along the face of the mountam. (See PL 



XXIX, A,) The upper or Bonneville terrace is particularly conspic- 

 uous on each side of Boxelder Canyon. 



A few miles to the "west is Little Mountam, an isolated butte com- 

 posed of limestone containmg abmidant fossil coral and shells. This 

 butte was a small island when Lake Bonneville was at its 

 heio-ht. Six miles west of Brigham is Corrine, a station on the old 



o 



from which freight was 



western Montana in 



settlement. From Brigham to Idaho Falls the railroad 



nly 



made by the freighters from Corrine. About 4 miles north of 



o 



ih'oad crosses Boxelder Lake, a small 



inch or 2 inches of water, in which gulls 



usually wadmg about. 



mg 



ime was passed manv 



av 



ed 



migrants' first crops from a scourge of grasshopp 



