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Show 124 NATIONAL WAGON ROAD GUIDE. some forty or fifty times, and nearly every time over and through a small creek. It is about the worst road ever traveled with wagons. SALT LAI(E CITY ................................. 9 We shall attempt .no description of Salt Lake city or its people, because the world is kept well informed from other sources, in relation to both; ... and, as what might be said true of them one n1onth, may be very different the next; particularly can this be said now-February 20, 1858-as threats are made of desertion and total destruction of the city by the people themselves, in case the U. S. expeditionary army, en route for Salt Lake during ~he past summer, should enter ~he valley. We shall therefore speak only of one of the many natural objects of interest, in the valley of the Great Salt Lake, believing it to be one that will remain without great change, even though the whole of Utah, as a part of the U. S. Territory, should revolutionize and set up a government for itself. There are nutnerous large springs in the vicinity of Salt Lake City, some of them medicinal or containing a great variety of salts; others warm, and get HOT SPRING NEAR SALT LAKE CITY. NATIONAL WAGON ROAD GUIDE. 125 others very hot. One of the most remarkable of the latter class, is situated about three miles from the city, near the emigrant road. It issues from under a rocky spur of a mountain, and flows with a bold, strong current, forming quite a lake at the base of the hill, an'tl was formerly a favorite resort of immense numbers of water fowl, during the whole of winter; attracted doubtless more by the genial tern perature of the water, than ~s a feeding ground. In cool weather, it constantly emits a large volume of steam or vapor. You will now find numerous settletnents along the route, for many miles. As you follow along the base of the mountains that bound Salt Lake valley on the east, you will cross numerous mountain streams, sotne of them bridged, and toll is charged. A little over a mile from the city, you arrive at salt and sulphur springs, and about three miles from the city a famous hot spring. You are now upon the east side of Salt Lake going northward. NORTH COTTON WOOD CREEl{ ......... · · · · · · · .13 You will pass several small streams, and numerous set-tlers, before you reach WEBER RIVER ....................... · · · · · · · · · · · · · 20 There are Mills on this and Ogden Creek, and between the two is Brownville, quite a large settlement. 6 OGDEN CREEK ......... · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Ogden City is another fine settlement. HOT SPRINGS ....................•...........•.... Some .hot and some cold, in close proximity. 5 WILLOW CREEK ........ · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · To your right the mountains tow~r above you to a great hight. . GRASS CREEK ........ · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ..... . Good grass country all along here. BOX ELDER CREEK ......... · .. · · · · • · · · · · • · • · · · · 3 Fine grass here, and another Mormon settlement. |