Show KNOW K UTAH H 1 I By y ALBERT F. F PHILIPS I I What hat are the basic rocks locks of tl the e majestic Wasatch range This question was asked last evening at a gathering or of old old timers The geol geologist of the party part came t to the front with the statement that the basic rocks of the Wasatch range are mica and In Next above these is a heavy bed of oC stratified nex next above aboe a bed of oC gray limestone probably probably- of oC Silurian age and a a. group of oC clays and s Intervene between this and another nother limestone formation which belongs belongs' to the carboniferous age The range rang extends throughout through through- out Utah and far Montana l but is seen to the greatest advantage Salt Satt Lake L' City Its canare can can- are the result ot of and are due to the quantity of oC snow precipitated upon hIgher regions of oC the range Many l of its summits exceed feet In altitude There are Peaks overshadowing r Jordan valley which soar feet above above- the sea There are others reaching an ah elevation of feet Everywhere it is an imposing arid but overlooking o the Snit Salt Lake basin from Mount l Nebo to Dear Bear river gates it ls Is a titanic monument of natures nature's rearing C j. j Then the geologist said n attempt to to l picture the evanescent beauty of the mountains in autumn the grandeur of the evening sky with Its manifold towers cloud of gorgeous bileR the effect of light and shad the reflections of the setting sun cast from the tinted trees and shrubs bs on mountaIn and hill hili serve only to show how limited are I human uman powers and how painful is the of oC language e to express express ex- ex press that which the eye beholds on all sl sides es and which displays s 's in marvelous wonder and magnificence magnificence cence the the- works of oC the Great Father C The Wasatch like lile other great ranges ranges of oC mountains or chains or of mountains are in many places a series of parallel ranges enclosing the head of lateral which form canyons only occasionally occa- occa in hf through Into the Great lias basin In the Colorado Colora o rIver river- or OJ the S Snake river basin The divide between waters the flowing into the ColorAdo and the Great basin it Is crosse crossea by the Union Pacific railroad at feet above the sea rhen de a miles milc tire the railroad crosses it At an altitude or of feet here flowing g northward follows it lown ten miles Leaving Leav- Leav ling ing feet above thE sea and ind Echo pass f vt rt in height It begin the direct into the Great b bisin through Echo and Weber canyons can can- ons crossing teber river at an elevation of feet and nd strikIng the he lev levI 1 of Great Salt lake at Ogden den feet Echo canyon where is now being constructed a rat great l' l reclamation project Js Is no in the true trues s sensE ns It is a wall of sandstone rising perpendicularly on the on-the the north or 01 teet on the south there is no wall lIttle rock but a succession of grassy Tassy ridges es sloping smoothly toward th the stream It strikes Weber 11 riye another north flo sti-eam sti am a about out midway In its couze COUlSe and the railroad follows it down through a alley for five or six miles below helow Echo City to the Thousand Mile tree which marked that on th the overland route from Omaha Omaha- where the mountains draw together and the first canyon commences s1 s At 1 the Mile tree the first can canyon on corn com and tile the valley alley narrows to a gui orge the rocks s tower tower-to the ky Iy anI almost overhang overhang over over- hang the trains and nd roid L |