OEEGOIS' SHORT LT^-E — OGDEN TO YELLOWSTONE. Ill 



Tho broad valley continues northward and is occupied by Malade 



railroad 



W 



irrigates 



vail' 



Hammond canal on the near side. Although 



to 



the irrigator has not yet learned how to get around gr 



devices 



do^^1lhill. 



The Utah Power & Light Co/s 4,000-horsepowcr electric plant, with 



Wheelon, 



great flumes takin^ , . - 



( river bank at the mouth of the canyon. The 



Elevation 4,409 foot. ^ gtatiou was named for John C. Wheelon, a civil 



Ogcieii 44 miles. , p ,^ i 



engineer wlio constructed part of tnc canal. 

 Such scenery as that for the 2 miles above Wheelon is to be found 

 at no other pL^cc on the railroad between Ogden and Yellowstone. 

 Here is one of the two tunnek on the route ; here are the highest trestles 

 and the sharpest curves. With a great flume of water just below 

 the track and Bear River roaring over bowlders that unpede its 



bottom 



m. 



numerous 



features 



with 



imestone whose beds 



west; but there is httle likehhood that the traveler vnW. notice the 

 cavities made by solution of the limestone or the numerous small 

 faults which break the normal continuity of the rock beds. He will, 

 however, be attracted by a waterfall made by the overflow from a 



m 



am which 



flumes 



lime 



tone. Above the dam green leriiary saaiea uic »t.cxx .^ 

 opposite wall. These shales, are the hardened mud wliich was 

 riA.T'T. ^n fTia l.r.ffnTn nf n Inkps that covered this area before the m 



progress 



That 



they are older than Lake BonneviUe is sho^-n by their continuation 



m 



mountain 



.xmtain-iornmi 



from theh original position along with the mountam 



block. 



transmission line that crosses the hiU brings 

 om a Dower plant in the upper Bear River canyon 



above Preston, Idaho. On leaving the canyon the tram swings 



