. Le touriste du Pacifique : guide transcontinental illustré de Williams, de l'Atlantique à l'océan Pacifique : contenant des descriptions complètes des chemins de fer ... Un guide complet du voyageur des chemins de fer de l'Union et du Pacifique central ... . e immédiatement au sud de Salt Lake, et passé pendant plusieurs centaines de miles à travers un désert, à côté de laquelle la IlimiboldtValley n'avait aucune comparaison dans la tediousness et le dis-confort. Le capitaine Stansbury, un ancien explorateur, inscrit cette section, décrit de grandes parcelles de terre couvertes d'une incrustation de sel: La première partie des plaines consistait simplement

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. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . e immediately south ofSalt Lake, and passed for several hundred milesthrough a desert, beside which the IlimiboldtValley had no comparison in tediousness and dis-comfort. Captain Stansbury, an early explorer, indescribing this section, describes large tracts ofland covered with an incrustation of salt: The first part of the plains consisted simplyof dried mud, with small crystals of salt scat-tered thickly over the surface; crossing this, wecame upon another portion of it, three miles inwidth, where the ground was entirely coveredwith a thin layer of salt in a state of deliques-cence, and of so soft consistence, that the feet ofour mules sank at every step into the mud be-neath. But we soon came upon a portion ofthe plains where the salt lay in a solid state, inone vmbroken sheet, extending apparently to itswestern border. So firm and strong was thisunique and snowy floor, that it sustained theweight of our entire train without in the leastgiving way, or cracking beneath the pressure.. , T. T, o KEPRESENTAXrVE MEN OF THE CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD l.-E. B. Crocker. 2.-C. P. Huntington. 3.-Leland Stanford. 4.-Charles Crocker. 5.-Mark Hopkins. Our mules walked upon it as upon a sheet ofsolid ice. The whole field was crossed by a net-work of little ridges, projecting about half aninch, as if the salt had expanded in the processof crystallization. 1 estimated this field to be, atleast, seven miles wide and ten miles in length.The salt which was very pure and white, aver-aged from one-half to three-quarters of an inchin thickness, and was equal in all repects to ourfinest specimen for table use. Assuming thesedata, the quantity that here lay upon the groundin one body, exclusive of that already dis-solved, —amounted to over 4

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