Show i OQUIRRH CIRCLE TOUR TOUR i i I Editors Editor's Note This is Ina in ina ina a series of articles on 21 Tours Through gh the Different World of Utah These Tours have been planned d by the Utah Tourist and Publicity Council to show you Utah's most outstanding attractions with the least I amount of driving in the shortest time and over the best j roads Toads available By taking each II one of the tours a person could conceivably see the entire entire en en- I tire state on week ends within a year Ghost towns of yesteryear and modern mining operations tell the story of Utah's mineral minerai on the Oquirrh Circle Tour southwest south west of Salt Sail Lake Luke Valley VaHey The tour begins begins- and ends in Salt Lake City and covers miles of paved highway with about 40 miles of side trips It takes about one to two days and can be taken anytime of the year although Middle Canyon near Tooele Is closed during the win win- ter And as an added hint take along a basket lunch to eat long blong the way Though not as spectacularly rugged as the Wasatch the Oquirrh Range forms forme a striking western horizon for Salt Sail Lake Valley The range is hardly known by name outside of ot Utah but it has produced more mineral wealth than mountains of ot far greater fame Since huge Bingham Dingham Copper CopperMIne CopperMine CopperMine Mine is the high point of this tour it is wise to leave that at at- traction till Ull last laet as al a titling tilting climax So the tour Is described In that order Route Outlined US U.S. 40 skirts the new International Inter Inter- national Airport one Airport one of the nations nation's nations nation's na na- na- na tion's most modern modern and and heads westward across the almost completely completely com com- flat bottom of Bonneville Basin toward Great Salt Lake From FrolI the highway can be seen large salt producing plants and anda a short distance west woot rise the curious shapes of or old Saltair Salta 11 a one onetime time popular lake resort no longer In use The highway cur ves around the lake which can be seen not far away also visible visible vis vis- ible are huge mills smelters smelter and refineries at Magna and Garfield which process ores from Bing Bine- ham If you care to swim in the lake Sunset Beach is open during during dur dura ing summer months It is impossible sible Bible to sink in Great Salt Lake The tour route leaves Highway 40 at Mills Junction and passes through Tooele Valley Note sprawling Tooele Army Depot to the west and anel Tooele Smelter against t the mountains to the east Detour at Tooele for a thrilling climb up Middle Canyon to the Oquirrh summit over looking Bingham Mine Salt Lake Valley and Utah Valley in one 61 dt t the states state's most Impressive impressive sive panoramas This drive ie a not for those having a fear ot of heights Historic Places South of Tooele the highway enters vast Rush Valley and passes passed through Stockton a his mining town Short detours lead east to Ophir one of Utah's colorful old mining communities i still almost intact and the ruins of Mercur another mining I town of or yesteryear I At Fairfield visit the military I i Cemetery Old Stagecoach Inn I and Army Commissary al all three comprising Camp Floyd Historic Historic State Park Then drive on to State 6 68 turn north into Salt Lake Valley and follow tollow State along the Oquirrh foothills to Bingham Canyon locale of the largest mine In the world i an an Immense hold which produces pro pro- I duces almost a third of at the nations nation's nations nation's na tion's copper Continuing northward northward north north- I ward pass the huge Hercules mis silo eile installation at Bacchus where stages of at the Minuteman and Polaris rockets are produced At Magna view the great ore are proc processing sing mills then return to toI I Salt Lake City via US U.S. 50 South which affords a grand I panoramic sweep of the Wasatch peaks Those wishing to obtain an Il 11 Illustrated U. U cop copy of ot all aU 21 Tours In III Inthe n the series can do so by sending 25 5 cents to the Utah Tourist and aneS Publicity Council Council House State Capitol Salt Lake City 14 U. U Utah |