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gases, which usually go off into the air to poison and kill vegetation. 
(For further information regarding smelters, see pp. 252-254.) At 
several places along the line the traveler may obtain glimpses of 
the Wasatch Mountains, and at almost every place he will see the 
Bonneville shore line as a faint line across the mountain front or 
the Provo shore line marked by great terraces or embankments of 
gravel. 
The smelting industry has for many years been an important one 
in the Great Salt Lake Valley, and many smelters have been built 
at or near the station of Murray. Many of these smelters have 
been abandoned or consolidated, so that only one 
now remains—the Murray smelter, of the American 
Smelting & Refining Co., which may be seen on the 
right from the train. This plant smelts only silver- 
lead ores, and the great bulk of the copper ores 
from the Bingham mines are being treated at the Garfield smelter, 
the smoke of which may be seen rising over the extreme northern 
point of the Oquirrh Range on the west (left). 
The most prominent object seen by one approaching Salt Lake City 
from the south is the new State Capitol (Pl. XCII, A), which 
stands on a commanding terrace north of the city, daeaiy beneath 
Ensign Peak. The tall buildings also attract attention, though they 
are not particularly different from tall buildings in giher cities. A 
little farther to the right the traveler may notice the large letter U 
on the mountain slope far back of the city. This letter was put 
there by some class of the University of Utah, which stands on the 
terrace directly beneath it. 
Mutray. 
Elevation 4,310 feet. 
Population 4,584. 
er 739 miles 
tween the Platte and the Sweetwater 
in the latter part of October. Food 
became so scarce that the marrowless 
bones picked up stag ine prairies were 
their supplies in handearts. * * * 
For pluck and endurance this is a 
ll undertook 
the journey that first year, but the two 
that started last had a dreadful time. 
James G. Willie commanded one and 
Edward Martin the other. 
River and were caught in the piercing 
parte oh winter a the Platte and 
Sweetwater. * * Some of the 
aheee broke meds ; Sickness and 
lack of proper 
marchers. 
then they were put on half rations 
when not more than half of the 
journey was completed. Despair seized 
them. The company under Edward 
Martin made a camp in a ravine be- 
a for soup. 
“Brigham Young received word of 
the sufferings of the emigrants on the 
lains. 
able condition, fed them, and brought 
them to Salt Lake City. That is, they 
brought the survivors, for 250 * * 
had died on the plains. 
During the four years extending 
from 1856 to 1860 more than 4,000 
Resta crossed 
the plains in this 
, and the total number of 
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