. The Pacific tourist . uge road, (three feet) and hasprospects for an extensive business in the general route is westward until it passes thesouthernmost point of the Great Salt Lake, andthen southward, along the western base of theOquirrh Range, and into the rich mining dis-tricts which have been developed on the westernslope of those mountains. Leaving Salt LakeCity, on a heavy downward grade of ninety-fivefeet to the mile, but which is short, the roadcrosses the River Jordan on a common pile bridge,and then over a barren sage brush country, un-til it reaches Millstone Point,—nea
. The Pacific tourist . uge road, (three feet) and hasprospects for an extensive business in the general route is westward until it passes thesouthernmost point of the Great Salt Lake, andthen southward, along the western base of theOquirrh Range, and into the rich mining dis-tricts which have been developed on the westernslope of those mountains. Leaving Salt LakeCity, on a heavy downward grade of ninety-fivefeet to the mile, but which is short, the roadcrosses the River Jordan on a common pile bridge,and then over a barren sage brush country, un-til it reaches Millstone Point,—near the base of themountains, and 11 1-2 miles from Salt LakeCity. This place is named from the fact thatthe first millstones used in grinding grain inUtah, were quarried from the mountains nearthis point. The old overland stage road fiomSalt Lake City to California passes along theline of the road, as does one line of the WesternUnion Telegraph Company, to the present ter-minus of the road. The station is of no partic-. Wmm ^^€iFW WQWBIBW. 149 ular imijortance, and beyond the incident men-tioned, is without a history. We are now at thebase ot the Oquirrh Range, and tlie first stationof the Old Stage Company ^here they changedhorses is pointed out to the traveler on the southside of the road. Bej-ond ^lillstone Point, abouttwo miles on the south side of the track, is alarge spring, which furnishes a good supply ofwater, and which has been utilized by a dairy-man. A little beyond this spring on the sameside of the track, there is, in the first point ofrocks, quite an extensive cave which a shepherduses as a shelter for his sheep, during the inclem-ent season ofthe year. A railfence with gatesurrounds t h eentrance to thecave, and it issaid to be largeenough to turn afour horse teamand wagon with-o u t extent ofthe outer part ofthe cave is about40 feet, where ahuge fallen rockprecludes f u r -ther access with-out inconven-ience. The lakeand its mount-ain islands,
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