. Exploration and survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah : including a reconnoissance of a new route through the Rocky Mountains. . the walls, is a stronghi^h picket-fence, enclosing a large yard, into which the animalsbelonging to the establishment are driven for protection from bothwild beasts and Indians. We were received with great kindnessand lavish hospitality by the proprietor. Major James Bridger, oneof the oldest mountain-men in this entire region, who has been en-gaged in the Indian trade, here, and upon the heads of the Missomiand Columbia, for the last thirty years. Se
. Exploration and survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah : including a reconnoissance of a new route through the Rocky Mountains. . the walls, is a stronghi^h picket-fence, enclosing a large yard, into which the animalsbelonging to the establishment are driven for protection from bothwild beasts and Indians. We were received with great kindnessand lavish hospitality by the proprietor. Major James Bridger, oneof the oldest mountain-men in this entire region, who has been en-gaged in the Indian trade, here, and upon the heads of the Missomiand Columbia, for the last thirty years. Several of my wagonsneeding repair, the train was detained five days for the purpose,Major Bridger courteously placing his blacksmith-shop at myservice. In a ravine to the right of the ford of Hams Fork, on the northbank, white sandstone was found cropping out, and here some speci-mens of very perfect, shells were collected. Under the sandstonewere argillaceous shales, and above them apparently a thin stratumof limestone and, rolled pebbles. The general surface of the coun-try appeared to be the result of the disintegration of argillaceous. FORT BRIDGE R. 75 rocks and some sandstones, the former greatly predominating. Insome places, layers of blue and red clay, of considerable thickness,were observed, and also gray argillaceous limestone; but owing tothe surface of the rocks being covered by the clay detritus, nocomplete sections of them were obtained, nor were any fossils foundin them. Farther on, upon Blacks Fork, a ridge was crossed inwhich the different layers of the rocks were quite apparent. Heretwo strata of coarse reddish sandstone, which disintegrated butslowly, were prominent. They were separated by layers of lime-stone, shales, and clay. The shales were so nearly horizontal thatno dip could be ascertained. Following the valley of Blacks Fork,we passed, in the afternoon, strata of green and white sandstone,whitish shales, and clay, but too much decomposed to afford us a
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