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Show U A GEOLOGIST IN THE CANYON , In a drive through Ogden canyon, Mrs. Wasson, Yellowstone park geologist, said Ogden had a wonderful opportunity to capitalize I one of nature's most attractive show places. j "Nowhere in Colorado," she said, "is there a gorge where the formation presents so much (? the student of geological formation." j Going into the canyon, to the south of the portal, is the Wasatch 1 fault, recognized by geologists as the largest faulting in the world Along the mountain side is the well defined shore line of old Lake Bonneville, which covered the present site of Ogden to a great depth. In the mouth id the canyon are conglomerate beds, formed by Ogden rived when the river flowed into Lake Bonneville. One of the conglomerate bodies was formed of salt water and fresh water. Then eomes the tilting of the strata, where mighty rock masses have been lifted out of bedded planes and poised high in the air. There are folds so perfect as to make a picture and intrusions which tell of powerful forces at play when the western part ot the United States was being formed. Ogden river is one of few streams that, rising on one side of a mountain range, finds its waj through. The theory is that Ogden river cut its channel as the convulsions of nature kept lifting the : masses of rock. Mrs. Wasson, like all visitors, was much interested in artesian basin where the city obtains its water supply, and she inquired as to the result of the tests made to increase the flow of the wells by I air-lift, and was informed that they were highly successful. j Mrs. Wasson declared it w as a mistake not to get the greatest j possible advertising out of Ogden canyon, as it could be made to attract thousands of tourists. |