Show CHAPTER XII SIMSBURY S LAKE SURVEY Captain Howard Stansbury of the United States Topographical Corps made the first complete survey of the Great His report first published in 1852 Salt Lake in 1849-5- 0 "is practically the basis of our knowledge of the lake and 1 and as Sent the chief is still quoted prime authority" to locate a better route between South Pass and the Mormon settlements to survey the route between Salt Lake City and Port Hall and to make a survey of the Great Salt Lake Stansbury arrived in Utah during the summer of 1849 He obtained his first view of the lake "the object of our search and which had cost us so many long-desir- ed steps to reach" from an elevation of a few miles north of the present city of Ogden Stansbury had gained entrance to the valley by way of Ogden's Hole (Ogden valley) and North Ogden canyon which was at that early date the easiest pass weary between Salt Lake and Ogden valleys Stansbury went at once to Salt Lake City to meet Brigham Young and to gain the support of the Mormon Church 270 1 George ‘l James Utah the Land of Blossoming Valleys and Survey of the Stansbury Exploration Valley of the Great Salt Lake 83 2 Howard |