. Over the range to the Golden Gate : a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the great North-west. alt Lake are highly medicinal, and the large baths areresorted to for many ailments. Within a short radius of the city theattractions are varied and numerous. Fort Douglas, the Lake, EmigrationCity, Bingham, Little and Big Cottonwood Canons are easily Ensign Peak a panoramic view of the surrounding country is may look from it down the greater part of Utahs length, while near athand lie the city and lake. The Fort
. Over the range to the Golden Gate : a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the great North-west. alt Lake are highly medicinal, and the large baths areresorted to for many ailments. Within a short radius of the city theattractions are varied and numerous. Fort Douglas, the Lake, EmigrationCity, Bingham, Little and Big Cottonwood Canons are easily Ensign Peak a panoramic view of the surrounding country is may look from it down the greater part of Utahs length, while near athand lie the city and lake. The Fort is also a popular resort, and not onlycommands an extensive view, but affords excellent opportunities of study-ing garrison life. The rides, drives and rambles are innumerable. Everytaste is catered to. For those who love grandeur, there are the mountains,with their narrow trails, secluded parks, wild canons and deep gorges ; forthose preferring gentler aspects, the valley, glowing with freshness, affordscontinual pleasure ; for those craving the mysterious, there is the lake, large,silent and strange. The hotels are excellent, the climate unexcelled, and. Great Salt Lake. Area, 2,500 square miles. Mean Depth, 20 feet. Specific Gravity, Length, 126 m iles. Breadth, 45 m iles. 70 OVER THE RANGE. days may be passed delightfully in exploring and in studying the wealth ofattractions. There are theatres, reading rooms, good horses, perfect orderand universal cleanliness. Many of the private houses are palatial, andaltogether the city is one of rare beauty and interest. As far as can be learned, the first mentionin history of the Great Salt Lake was by theBaron La Houtan, in 1689, who gathered fromthe Western Indians some vague notions of itsexistence. Capt. Bonneville sent a party fromGreen River in 1833 to make its circuit, but theyseem to have given up the enterprise on reach-ing the desert on the northwest, on which theylost their way, and after weeks of aimlesswandering f
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