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GUIDEBOOK OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES. 
Soldier Creek, which the railroad has been following from Tucker, 
is here joined by Thistle Creek, and together the two streams form 
the Spanish Fork. The canyon at Thistle is narrow, and its walls 
are composed of bluish limestone on the east and banded red and 
gray sandstone or quartzite’ on the west. 
tains marine shells which show that its age is Jurassic. 
The blue limestone con- 
It normally 
belongs beneath the Cretaceous rocks, which are so conspicuous along 
the railroad from Green River nearly to Kyune. 
Near Thistle 
the rocks ey steeply to the east, but toward the north the dip de- 
creases un 
they le nearly flat. 
They also change in character, 
for they Bork much softer downstream and ave composed almost 
done by the bishops, it was difficult for 
the — - riage that such was the 
se, The Saints regarded 
their courts as divinely commissioned 
and inspired tribunals; but not so the 
Mor 
us ame advisable ie slat 
for the benefit of all some judicial 
authority that could not be questioned 
by h 
To accomplish this 
tains” was called to meet in Salt Lake 
City on March 4, 1849. A constitution 
mbly co! 
vened, and on the next diy Willard 
Snow, being appointed speaker of the 
“Thus did the brethren establish, in 
t 
on the part of the Saints, mustering 
then little more than one-sixth of the 
number required for the admission as 
a State, Gs to constitute themselves 
enden 
calmly await the action of’ Congress 
in the matter 
“Al mon W. Babbitt was 
adopted, a 
and President Fillmore appointed 
ba Young its first governor. 
uartzite is a term applied to a 
sandstone that has been changed into 
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