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Show 216 SUMMARY 09. THB WORE. sons the appearapce 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 fit the cafion, very accessible for teams; and here the river could be led out along the western or eastern bade of the hi] Ls, 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. S. The survey of the Great Salt Lake, the shore line of which, exclusive of offsets, extends to » 291 4. The snnfcy 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 ..,,..„.. 60 * Making hi all.. ,. ..... '....;...... 518 7. The observations from different triangular stations, extending from the northern extremity of { he- 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 neces- . sity of traversing a large extent of country, both hy land and " by water. . . -\ . The triangulation of the valley south pi the Salt Lake and the observations for the asimuth of the base line were finished Qn 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 |