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midst of tKe valley and takes its name from Battle Creek, the scene 

 of an Indian fight near its eastern base. Much of the ridge is made 

 up of very old shales (hardened mud rocks), but the soutli end and 

 some of the top are composed of diorite, a kind of granite which, in a 

 molten condition^ was forced up into these shales from below. This 

 molten rock may not have reached the surface, for the surface at the 

 time of the intrusion was considerably above the present one. 

 Whether this ridge is an upUf ted fault block or a remnant left by the 

 forces of erosion has not been determined, but it certainly was an 

 island when Lake Bonneville stood at its highest level The north 

 end of the ridge consists of soft Tertiary sandstone. 



Opposite the middle of Battle Creek Butte is Gamer, a station for 

 the vUlage of Chfton, which lies at the edge of the flat 1 mile west. 



Clifton is an old Mormon hamlet of about 100 people. 



Late in the afternoon the mountains on the west ap- 

 Eievatiott 4 751 feet. , pear a hazv blue, details are obscured, and it may not 



Ogden 75 miles. ^ . "^ '. , • . "^ 



be possible to distinguish the low roimded foothills 

 made by Tertiary conglomerate and sandstone or to see the promi- 

 nent lake-cut benches which continue along the edge of the valley as 

 far north as Oxford. 



A large reservoir among the Tertiary ridges just east of Garner is 

 filled from a ditch that brings water from Mink Creek, several miles 

 to the northeast. An inverted siphon carries water from this reser- 

 voir across the creek at Garner, and a wooden pipe line that goes under 



first 



Clifton 



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system 



About 31,000 



Bear 



low Tertiary "hills in front of it. The railroad passes 

 a big marsh, one of the few areas in this part of the 

 vaUej which is not yet much utilized, and continuing 

 along the practically level lake floor comes to the sta- 

 tion for a Mormon village, Oxford, which stands among 

 the trees 2 miles to the west. The Provo shnro h'np 



Oxford. 



Elevation 4,748 feet. 

 Population 591* 



Gaden 81 miles. 



mav be seen near 



the village. If Cache Valley should be filled again to the higl 



level of Lake Bonneville, Oxford village would be 400 feet ui 



water, and the temple at Logan would stand in water 500 feet d^ 



A low ridge just north of Oxford station extends eastward from 



mountains and makes 



Swan Lake. 



Ele\^tion 4,772 feet. 

 Oeden 84 milcR. 



the valley bottom much narrower. Directly 

 about 7 miles distant, there are two prominent 

 points, which mark Red Rock Pass, the old 

 of Lake Bonneville. West of the track is Swan 

 a small body of water on which it is common 



many ducks either resting quietly or, frio-htened 



