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mile distant, but farther to the northwest the railroad approaches 

 more and more closely, until at the siding of Geneva the waters come 

 to the right of ^va3^ The lake is very shallow, and consequently 

 bathers can go out a long distance without danger of entering water 

 beyond their depth. 



From Provo to Lehi the railroad passes through some of the best 

 farming land in the valley, and orchards and fields of grain, alfalfa, 

 and sugar beets are on every hand. After passing the point of the 

 lake the next object of interest is the great sugar mill on the right 

 in the suburbs of Lehi. Xot only are the beets 

 Lehi. crushed and the syrup extracted here but much 



Elevation 4,550 feet, gyrup is refined that is produced at other plants and 



Population 3,078. , , , , , ... _<i x 



Denver 717 miles. pumped here through long pipe lines, ihe town 

 abounds in shade and fruit trees, which give it a 

 very pleasing and restful appearance, especially when seen on a hot 

 midsummer day. 



East of Lehi the foot of the mountain is 5 or 6 miles from the rail- 

 road, but north of the town the mountain bends suddenly to the west 

 and a long spur is thrust out into the middle of the valley. This 



FiGCEH 61. 



-ProTo and Bonneville lake terraces at the Narrows of Jordan Valley, looking 

 southeast, 



long spur on the west face of the Wasatch Range is matched by an 

 equally long, low spur which projects eastward from the Oquirrh 

 Range, nearly cutting off the valley of Jordan River. These project- 

 ing points are merely remnants of a lava flow (andesite) that long 

 ago, in Tertiary time, probably filled the valley from the base of one 

 range to the base of the other. This flow may indeed have originally 

 dammed Jordan River, forming a large lake, but if so the river 

 later succeeded in cutting through the barrier a channel that is now 

 known as " The Narrows." During the existence of Lake Bonneville 

 these barriers of lava caused the currents in the lake to set in certain 

 directions, and large quantities of gravel and sand were deposited 

 around and over them in the form of bars or beaches. These ter- 

 races, as they appear from the northwest, are shown in figure 61. 



Just before reaching Mesa siding (milepost 716) the Denver & Rio 

 Grande Western crosses first the interurban trolley line, which spans 



