Show 82 STUDENT LIFE shallow having a depth of not more than 20 to 40 feet and rarely reaching more than 50 to 100 feet in depth The small pond lakes in the drift often have vegetation growing in the water especially in the form of water lilies The lilies that grow there are of the finest type The flower itself is of a deep crimson yellow and from 21 inches to 3 inches in diameter Space will not permit of a description of many of these lakes but a few points may be interesting Lake Washington one the largest in the Provo basin is located in about the central part It has a length of about I of a mile and a width of 1 mile It is completely surrounded with a dense forest of Colorado blue spruce In the evening when the air is quiet the lake forms a perfect mirror Reid’s Peak and Mt Baldy are about two miles east of this lake Fig 3 of plate 2 shows the two mountains in reflection (Photo taken from the west shore about sunset) Fig 4 of plate 2 shows the outlet of the same lake at a point about two miles below The stream bed is of solid rock and in many places the stream makes perpendicular leap? of from 20 to 50 feet Fig 1 plate 2 is a lake at the head of the north fork of the Provo River and represents one of the type in a solid rock basin It is about the same size as Lake Washington and has two islands which are better wooded than the shore line The basin is of polished quartzite and the striae made by the glacier are still very perceptible even under the water Fig 2 plate 2 is one of similar type at the head of Boulder Creek canyon This lake has an elevation of 10300 feet Of the lakes in the Duchesne basin Lake Grand-dadd- y is the largest and most beautiful It is in a solid rock basin 3 miles long and 11 miles wide It has three quite large islands well wooded with tall spruce Along the whole south side of the lake is a precipitous cliff which is from 500 to 1000 feet high The west and north sides are heavily wooded with here and there small plots of green meadow At the east end the rock projects a few feet above the surface of the water and from 50 to 100 yards from the water edge drops down 500 feet to the edge of another lake about half as large The outlet of Lake Grand-daddforms a beautiful cataract as It dashes down this ledge There arc many such large lakes in the Duchesne and Rock River basins and those with an open outlet abound in trout waiting to be caught If any one wishes to appreciate the grandeur of this region and live for a short time In a real wild country where roads and trails are unknown save for the trails of the deer and bear let him spend a few weeks of August in the Duchesne basin at the crest line of the range The lakes of the Wasatch are quite as pretty as those in the Uinta’s but not so large Plate y represents a lake from Big Cottonwood and Fig 5 of plate 2 is from a lake at the head of basin in Logan canyon the White-pin- e 1 The Referendum In Utah The recognition of popular sovereignty as the basic principle of democracy impelled the framers of the Constitution of Utah to Insert in that instrument in a declaration of rights that “All political power is inherent in the people and all free governments are founded on their authority for their equal protection and benefit and they have a right to alter or reform their government as the public welfare may require Yet a moment’s reflection upon the political status of our state causes thoughtful students to wonder if the people are really sovereign or if the quality of sovereignty lies in political bosses A few years ago the people of Utah were called upon to vote for or against a constitutional amendment providing for the “referendum” and a large majority of the qualified voters of the State expressed themselves as favorable to the proposed amendment The referendum is therefore nominally a part of the Constitution but it requires an act of legislation to put the amendment into effect and give it the force of law A few members of the last legislature made praiseworthy efforts to pass the referendum bill but in spite of their enthusiastic labors in that direction and in spite of the fact that a majority of the voters of the State had previously expressed a desire |