What to see in America . in heaps that each contain about 2000 tons. For a short period it remains in the piles to thoroughly drain, and after that it is either shipped away just as it is to feed cattle and sheep, or goes into a refinery where it is ground and sifted and packed for household use. The Southern PacificRailroad, which formerly went around the north end of the lake, now crosses it inthe middle west of Ogden on a trestle twenty-nine mileslong that cost S4,500,000. Forty^three miles of distance aresaved, and a climb of 1500 feet. At Salduro, a hundred miles west of Salt Lake City, b
What to see in America . in heaps that each contain about 2000 tons. For a short period it remains in the piles to thoroughly drain, and after that it is either shipped away just as it is to feed cattle and sheep, or goes into a refinery where it is ground and sifted and packed for household use. The Southern PacificRailroad, which formerly went around the north end of the lake, now crosses it inthe middle west of Ogden on a trestle twenty-nine mileslong that cost S4,500,000. Forty^three miles of distance aresaved, and a climb of 1500 feet. At Salduro, a hundred miles west of Salt Lake City, beyondthe Oquirrh INIountains, is an enormous bed of solid saltsixty miles long with an average w^idth of fifteen miles and adepth of nearly twenty feet. That means not less than thirtybillion tons of salt, and this salt is ninety-eight per cent is so solid that when a telegraph line was establishedacross it, power drills drove small holes four feet deep, andthen dynamite was used to enlarge the holes so the poles. Devils Slide .-^92 What to See in America
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