Ogden Daily Standard | 1893-03-12 | Page 3 | A Bridge of Salt

of salt in grading a road of solid salt in what la known as tho death valley wo found a stretch of salt about eight miles across there was scarce a level square inch on the whole bed tor the salt probably through abo influence of heat from nuovo and moisture from below been torn and twisted and thrown up in the most jagged peaks and crisscrossed ridges imaginable judging that the crust would sustain the weight of wagons tho workmen swung the sledge hammers day after day until they bcd beaten down these pinnacles into a einloth way fix feet wide it was perhaps tho most laborious engineering work ever done in the country for the climate and location tar from civilized habitations combined to retard the efforts of tho workmen the roadway when completed bcd over what properly bo called a naturally formed bridge of aalt right miles long the only bridee of abo kind in tha world