Show Marvels Marvels' of Geology Found Near Mar Ogden Magnet Magn t for Tourists Dr Or Pack Points Out O t Evidence of Terrific Upheavals Up Up- Upheavals and nd Faulting Which Took Place Ages Ago Advises Placing of Concrete C Posts to Reveal If Fur Fur- Further Further Further ther Slips Take T ike Place Canyon Disclosed As Center of Scientific Interest By JOHN M M. MILLS Y afternoon a pleasant and anti instinctive c isit visit was w wasL s L J made to Ogden canyon ean on by a number of people from Ogden and Salt Lake with Dr D Fred Fied J. J J Pack professor of geology of f the University of Utah What a wonderful thing timing it is to sit at atthe atthe atthe the feet of the master and ind nd hear the old old story retold I 1 How we wc are arc thrilled when he touched touch s our eyes c s 's and we arc are made ma c to sec see and our understanding and we are arc made to know kno And I so we wc travel travel- on oli and on to see sec more and anti more We Vc feel that never again will our minds mineTh be shut while our eyes are wide wide- open in Ogden O d n canyon and on our mountain sides And yet we know that we saw little of what there was to see sec Dr expressed tho the hope that Ogden would sometime do as California has lone done with their geological fault set fault set cement pillars pil lars at tt intervals als on each side of or orand It and make mako careful surveys sur and measurements front from each one to every other one on sides of or orthe the fault C to see what If It any an movement is taking tal n place on either cither side of or the fault tault Ho also suggested that where our water mains crossed the tho fault flexible Joints bo be Jo used as In Call Cali fornia Cornia This would probably pro save our city In case of a new slip A big slip would cut oft off Ogden s water meater supply at t once causing sickness and disease to the in in- inhabitants inhabitants In habitants and destruction of or prop prop- property property erty crt by fire lire as In the case of or San Francisco He lIe showed that where the power water mater main crossed the fault a a. break breal a few tew J years ears ago caused great damage pearly Nearly every city has something of or which It is proud something It ItIs Itis ItIs Is glad to o show to visitors visitors visitors-a a mon man monument a a building an institution a grave gra Not long Ion ago a loyal loal resident of ot Ogden moaned that Ogden had nothing to show and half halt wished that Brigham youngs young's gr grave ye could be bo moved hero here for tor awhile Ho lIo is one one of ct who having eyes s sees sees' not and having ears cars ars hears hear not noL No o pity city has more to t look at than tl an Ogden She Is La built soil thousands of ot feet teet deep deeD torn from the crags eraca and ant that tower high above ab vc her steeples Wo We look Jook out of or our windows o 8 and see glacial deposits that have havo beep been carved car from the from the mountain sides Just above and dumped Into the th old lake take that covered our streets and our fields elds with Ith a n thousand feet teet of or water Wo We visit our canyon and see how v stratified strat rock laid down ages ago aga as uJ sand and oil oll has been benl bent and crumpled and twisted and contorted into all alt kinds Kind of at fantastic shapes by heat and pres pres- sure The river has cut Its way wy W through these gigantic mountains in the ages that th have havo J ave passed pass d and has left us us' a a. beautiful cross see lots tion of or What hat has haa taken place inside of or the tho earth The rise of oC these mountains out of of the ocean bed havo have been had there been men roen on tho time earth at that time lime to record it but the retold record is III more complete than mere man Irian could have made mado it and anda a million times more enduring Yet another record r cord made at the foot toot of or these mountains shows sho us that at times tho ho mountains wore vOre w re pushed up tip suddenly a few teW feet In the great earthquake that de dc- destroyed 11 c. c san an Francisco in iii 1806 the tho earth slipped 30 Inches while the tho great Wasatch slit slip records a distance of ot as much as as' as feet I This great re t fault tault may be seen by anyone who will look If It he lie knows how to ta see If It Ogden had a sightseeing sis company with a a. guide or guides well veil versed on ems how these moun moun- mountains mountains were vera made how the tho can can- canyon yon yop 01 waS w-as- made and with Continued on Page age Five Fife MARVELS OF GEOLOGY FOUND Continued From Irom l La c One lion ton on tho ancient lake lale and the great fault no one ono would need apologize for Ogden's having nothing to show Every tourist who passes passel this way Wa should be made to know our story stor The Tho earth at this point has been ex ex- exposed exposed e posed and dissected What a wonderful won won- wonderful wonderful I thing Nature has done dono for tor us People who live lino Jn In a II flat country have learned learn d to shout their advantage from the tho th house lops tops We Ve who live 8 hero should shout from the tho mountain tops The Tho whole world Is In Inthe tho the things that Ogden could tell All cities have graves and ments In a few generations they pass IU away awa All cities are built upon the same deep layers and strata as Ogden but surrounding Ogden arc are a thousand places where Nature has writhed and groaned with a a. load so tre tre- tremendous tremendous tremendous that we wo stand In awe 0 of what we see sec appalled by our own Insignificance and exclaim What That hath God wrought |