kmmoxm Geological panorama of the wasatch range. 391 



(3 667 m.)>20 miles (32 km.) to the south and about 12 miles (19 km.) to 

 the west of the Timpanogos line of elevation. This peak is formed by a 

 sharp anticline of Paleozoic beds, the axis of which is near the summit. 

 The eastern member of the anticline stands almost perpendicularly and 

 soon disappears under unconformable Mesozoicand Tertiary beds, while 

 the western member dipping' 40° to 45° west forms a long and more 

 gentle slope. This is the geological termination of the Wasatch range, 

 as a complex mass of folded and faulted Paleozoic strata. Its topo- 

 graphical continuation to the south is found in a series of high table- 

 lands or mesas, formed of Mesozoic and Tertiary beds, known as the 

 High Plateaux. r ' 4 



GREAT SALT LAKE VALLEY. 



By G. K. Gilbert. 



Salt Lake city. — A body of Mormons, or members of the Church of 

 Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, founded this city in the midst of 

 a wilderness in 1848, more than twenty years before the construction of 

 the first railway. From that time it has received a eontinuous»growth 

 by Mormon immigration, and from it have been colonized nearly the 

 whole of Utah and portions of adjacent Territories. Agriculture and 

 grazing are the chief industries, and the development of mines has been 

 discouraged by the church. But mines were, nevertheless, developed, 

 and the mining industry drew into the Territory a considerable body 

 of Gentiles, by which title non-Mormons arc known. Municipal control 

 in Salt Lake city has recently passed for the first time from the hands 

 of the Mormons into the hands of the Gentiles. 



The head of the Mormon church is called president, and the office is 

 now fdled by Wflford Woodruff. The members of a high council of 

 twelve are called apostles, and other officers are known as elders, hun- 

 dreds, and bishops. The bishops have important secular functions, 

 one being placed in charge of each settlement and of each ward of the 

 city. The church is sustained by tithes, a tax of 10 per cent on the 

 incomes of its members. Payment is made chiefly in produce, which is 

 gathered in tithing houses and placed on sale at fixed rates. The prin- 

 cipal meeting house of Salt Lake city is called the Tabernacle, and its 

 auditorium has a seating capacity of about 8,000. It is architecturally 

 unique, having the form of half an ^<i}X shell. A more imposing struc- 

 ture, known as the Temple, is used for secret ordinances of the church, 

 and visitors are not permitted to examine the interior. Other objects 

 of interest connected with the church are: the Lion house, where a 

 large part of the late Brigham Young's polygamous family resided; the 

 Emma palace, built by him as a residence for his favorite wife, but 



