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Just beyond this lake is Bakers sidetrack and the plant of the 



This company owns a large area which 



Ogden Portland Cement Co. 



Bakers, 



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Elevation 4,222 feet. 

 Ogden 25 miles. 



was supposed for many years to be worthless on 

 account of alkali, but which on testing by drill holes 

 was found to be imderlain by 2 to 8 feet of marl, a 

 limy earth, averaging 85 per cent lime carbonate, 

 beneath which is a bed of clay — an especially valuable combination, 

 for the two materials together have the proper chemical composition 

 for making Portland cement, and for a number of years the plant 

 has been using them successfully. In 1914 it had an average daily 

 production of 700 barrels. The company supplied some of the 

 cement for the Arrowrock dam, built by the United States Recla- 

 mation Service near Boise, Idaho- 



The broad brown and gray striping of the rugged moimtain face 



north of Brigham is due to alternating shale and limestone formations. 



At the 2S-mile post the railroad passes under a steel transmission 



line carrying electric power from the plant of the Utah Power & Light 



Co. in Bear River canyon. 



The residents of Honeyville* are principally descendants of Bishop 

 Abraham Hunsacker, the original settler, who was the father of 52 



children. The name of the town is a euphonious 

 corruption and shortening of Hunsackerville. About 

 2 miles north of Honeyville, in fields east of the rail- 

 road, are some weed-grown pools formed by hot 

 springs that have been kno^vn for many years, though no conunercial 

 use of the water has yet been made. The water is salty, and 

 strongly impregnated with iron and is described by a neighbormg 



Honeyville. 



Elevation 4,266 feet. 

 Ogden 30 miles. 



rancher as being '^hot enough to scald a pig." Fremont reported 

 the temperature of these sprmgs at 134° Fahrenheit in 1843, and 

 Gilbert found them varying from 121'' to 132'' in 1872. The dis- 

 charge from the hot springs, mixed with water from cold springs in 

 the same gully, is used for power at a gristmiU on the bank of 

 Bear River 1.^ miles west of Honeyville. 



This part of Bear River valley is a former sagebrush desert that has 

 been changed by irrigation * to a thriving agricultural district in which 



famiUar 



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interest. The common practice is to se- 

 lect a site at the edge of the mountains, 

 where, by throwing an inexpensive dam 

 across a stream, the current may be di- 

 verted a little to one side, into a ditch 

 where a headgate is placed and made se- 

 by the use of bowlders or concrete. 

 During the winter and high-water seasons 

 the ^te is kept closed, so that no water 



flows into the ditch, but in the dry season 

 the gate is opened and a part of the stream 



ts natural 

 course, f; 



The 



stream to be at a higher altitude than the 



be irrigated 

 determined 



a uniform 

 mile. As 



.ms of this r^on 



to the mile, the he 



