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Show 216 SUMMARY OF THE WORK. sons the appearance of rising smoke and steam from a manufacturing hamlet. A limestone quarry is located here. The water on the west side of the lake is bold, and much of the way a towline might be used to propel boats. The Jordan is too crooked and shallow in places for boating. A magnificent water- power exists at the cafion, very accessible for teams; and here the river could be led out along the western or eastern base of the hills, for either manufacturing or irrigating purposes." The following summary exhibits the amount of work done in prosecuting this examination: 1. The selection and measurement of a base line, six miles in length. 2. The erection of twenty- four principal triangulation stations, the lumber for many of which was hauled a distance of upward of thirty miles. Many of these, put up in the fall of 1849, had to be renewed in the summer of 1850, having been torn down and used for fuel by the Indians during the winter, as well as by some of the inhabitants, who probably supposed they had already fulfilled the purpose for which they were erected. Miles. 3. The survey of the Great Salt Lake, the shore line of which, exclusive of offsets, extends to 291 4. The survey of the islands in the lake 96 5. The survey of Utah lake 76 6. The survey of the River Jordan connecting the two lakes and some tributaries 50 Making in all 513 7. The observations from different triangular stations, extending from the northern extremity of the Salt Lake to the southern boundary of the valley of Lake Utah, comprising an area of more than five thousand square miles, and involving the necessity of traversing a large extent of country, both by land and by water. The triangulation of the valley south of the Salt Lake and the observations for the azimuth of the base line were finished on the 12th of August, and the time until the 28th busily occupied in preparations for our return. I had determined, if possible, to find a practicable route to the |
