Excerpt from Guidebook of the Western United States: Part C. The Santa Fe Route With a Side Trip to the Grand
Soon after entering Utah the traveler crosses the Wasatch Mountains, one of the great ranges of the continent, through the canyon cut by Weber River, and then enters the valley of Great Salt Lake.
Leaving Ogden on the westward journey the traveler is fairly within the Great Basin, one of the major natural divisions or physiographic provinces of the United States, and he will be passing through it for more than 16 hours. The Great Basin is called a desert and as a whole gives an impression of dreariness and desolation, but it has a peculiar interest not possessed by any other part of the transcontinental route. It is one of the most productive mining regions of the world. That it is not all a desert is shown by the fact that large numbers of cattle and sheep are raised within its limits. It is developing, moreover, to an increasing extent in agriculture.
Beyond the Great Basin lies the Sierra Nevada, which on this route marks approximately the boundary between Nevada and California. Through the forest zone of the Sierra the traveler descends into the Great Valley of California and, crossing its broad plains, passes, by way of the one tidal outlet through the Coast Ranges, to the metropolis of the Pacific coast.
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