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Title: Salt Lake City : where to go and what to see
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Union Pacific Railroad Co
Subjects: Utah Salt Lake Salt Lake City Description Utah Description and travel
Publisher: Omaha, Neb: Union Pacific Railroad, 1910
Contributing Library: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Digitizing Sponsor: Corporation of the Presiding Bishop, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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.There were deaths along it — God only knows howmany — and want and hardship, and every step ofthe way the savagery of Nature and men contendedagainst it; but, heedless of all, the pilgrims of theWest moved over it with their long processions ofwhite-covered wagons, conquering the deserts yearby year, and storming the mountain barriers, untilthe desolation of half a continent was driven away,and the country beyond the Missouri was terra in-cognita no longer. The traveler enters Utah throughECHO Echo Canon where the winds and CANON the waters have carved out the rugged and picturesque for ages.The waters and the train descend together into thedusky depths and, winding in and out through manymiles of changing scenes, emerge at last into thefamed valley of the Great Salt Lake. All along theway are Natures cathedrals, and, in the midst ofthem, to remind us, perhaps, of the sin in the world,is the Devils Slide — a trough of solid rock tossedinto form when the mountains were upheaved.
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SALT LAKE CITY After the canon comes Ogden, theOGDEN second city of Utah—the meeting- place of the Union and SouthernPacific and Oregon Short Line Railroads. The citydates its history back to the time of the completionof the first trans-continental railroad, and lies half onthe mountain side and half in the valley at thejunction of the Weber and Ogden Rivers. Cleaving the Wasatch, from al-OGDEN most the center of the city, is CANON Ogden Canon through which, for fifteen miles, a broad boulevardfollows the windings of the roaring river. Thiscanon is the most beautiful in Utah. At variousaltitudes are resorts where camping, boating, fishingand hunting are enjoyed, and where the hotels arefamed for their chicken dinners and the cookery oftrout fresh from the stream. Automobiles go thewhole length of this boulevard, and electric carsleave the Union Depot every twenty minutes forthe canon. It is only a travel-hour from Ogden toSalt Lake and the pictures of rural home-life andfertile fiel

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