Items

• Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge P.3
  West of Brigham City, Utah. Sick ducks being treated at the Refuge. Utah Writers' Project
• Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge P.1
  West of Brigham City, Utah. View of the Headquarters. 1932? Utah Writers' Project
• Birds at the Great Salt Lake
  Bird community, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Great Salt Lake, Utah
• Bear River Station showing the Bear River Hotel and the Wells Fargo Station, circa 1867.
  Photo of the Bear River station showing the Bear River Hotel and the Wells Fargo station about 1867.
• Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge birds (Utah)
  The sounds of birds recorded at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge near the Great Salt Lake, mid-April, approximately 9:15 a.m.
• Bird flying over Bird Island
  Photograph of birds, mostly seagulls, some standing and others flying over dusty hillside of Bird Island (Hat Island) with arid-looking plants. Great Salt Lake, in background
• Group of birds among foliage at Bird Island
  Photograph of a group of birds, likely American White Pelicans, standing together in a dirt path between rows of foliage on Bird Island (Hat Island). Wooden structure or house can be seen to one side of the birds
• Birds in water near Bird Island
  Photograph of many birds, maybe pelicans, floating in water away from shoreline of Bird Island (Hat Island), covered with rocks and pieces of wood
• Birds around rocks on Bird Island
  Photograph of seagulls, and possibly White American Pelicans, sitting or walking around rocks on a sandy hillside of Bird Island (Hat Island) with dry looking plants
• Gulls on Hat Island, Great Salt Lake
  Photo of Hat Island on the Great Salt Lake, Utah, late 19th century.
• GSL - Stansbury Island
  Donor & Photog. Charles Kelly. 124 "S" Street Salt Lake City 3, Utah
• Geologic map of Stansbury Island, Tooele County, Utah
  Stansbury Island, Tooele County, Utah, is 12 miles long, 3 to 4 miles wide, and is the second largest island in Great Salt Lake. It is at present a peninsula because it is connected to the mainland by mud flats and sand bars. Consolidated sedimentary rocks exposed on the island range in age from Late Precambrian to Mississippian. The PreCambrian System is represented by about 2,800 feet of strata belonging to the Big Cottonwood series and consisting of metaquartzite conglomerates, metaquartzites, and phyllitic shale. The mapping and complete identification of individual formations constituting the Cambrian System was difficult due to intense deformation. However, 2,500 feet of the Prospect Mountain Quartzite and 500 feet of the Pioche ""Shale"" were identifiable in the basal part of the System. The Ordovieian System Is represented by 1,675 feet of strata belonging to the Garden City Formation and composed of a lower member of silty and cherty limestone, a middle member of cherty dolomite, and an upper member of silty limestone which contains intraformational conglomerates. The Silurian System consists of 450 feet of Laketown Dolomite; and the Devonian System consists of 975 feet of strata belonging to the Stansbury Formation which is composed of a lower member of interbedded dolomite and quartzite, and an upper member of almost pure quartzite. Strata of the Mississippian System are over 5,530 feet thick and consist of dolomite, limestone, and minor quartz sandstone and chert. Five formations were recognized In the Mississippian System, namely, the Fitchville(?), Madison, Deseret, Humbug, and Great Blue. The Quaternary System consists of gravel, sand, alluvium and colluvium, and lake bed deposits. Quaternary deposits are largely unconsolidated and unconformably overlie Precambrian and Paleozoic strata. Structurally the island can be divided into three units, namely, the northern, central and.southern structural units. The northern structural unit is composed of Upper Precambrian rocks of the Big Cottonwood series; the central structural unit is a zone of intense deformation; and the southern structural unit is composed of a sharp, north- northeast-trending anticline which is slightly overturned to the west. Folds on the island are the result of tectonic forces on a regional scale. The Island lies at the eastern margin of a miogeosynclinal trough which developed during Late Precambrian time to the west of the Wasatch Line. The subsidence of the miogeosynclinal area was interrupted by the Northern Utah, Western Utah, and Sevier uplifts during late Precambrian, Permo-Pennsylvanian, Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Early Tertiary time. Two relatively minor uplifts, the Tooele and Stansbury uplifts, occurred to the south of the Island area during Late(?) Ordovician and Late Devonian time respectively. These uplifts constituted the primary type of deformation in the area. Geomorphologically the island may be considered as a horst block bounded by roughly north-trending normal faults to the east and west. Topographically the island is a north-trending ridge having a sharp and sinuous crest line along which occur several high peaks. Numerous short intermittent streams run down steep slopes and end in alluvial fans along valley floors. Several terraces mark levels of the pleistocene Lake Bonneville. The most prominent of the terraces are the Bonneville, Provo, and Stansbury terraces. The present Great Salt Lake is a remnant of Lake Bonneville.
• Birds at the GSL 4
  Forster's Terns nesting in Ogden Bay, Great Salt Lake, Utah
• Birds at the GSL 3
  Great Egrets fishing in Ogden Bay, Great Salt Lake, Utah
• Birds at the GSL 2
  American Avocets in Ogden Bay on Great Salt Lake
• Birds at the GSL 1
  American Coot flying over Ogden Bay, Great Salt Lake, Utah
• Combined Metals Reduction Co., Bauer P.1
  Bauer/Combined Metals Reduction Company Circa 1923. Located about 8 miles south of Tooele and looking northwest toward Stansbury Island. Water from the Honorine drain tunnel supported one of the largest apricot, peach and apple orchards in the state. For a number of years carloads of fruit were shipped out. Today the water and orchards are gone, as well as the trees in the Stockton area that were cut during early settlement years for charcoal smelters. Gift of Grant Anderson.
• Great Salt Lake Minerals & Chemicals Company promotional materials 2
  Photo shows a part of the Great Salt Lake Minerals & Chemicals Company
• Salt Industry 2
  Salt Refining-- Water is pumped from the Great Salt Lake into large concentration ponds where the salt, averaging 99.5% pure is precipitated by solar evaporation. Salt is loosened by tractor-drawn plows piled in long mounds for curing and later hauled to the mill for refining and packing. Credit: Utah Tourist & Pub. Used in Utah Historical Quarterly, Summer, 1963. Photo by: Hal Rumel.
• Great Salt Lake Minerals & Chemicals Company promotional materials
  This is an aerial view of the salt extraction ponds on the Great Salt Lake in Utah
• Salt Industry 3
  Salt Mining in the West Desert area.
• Great Salt Lake--Farmington Bay p.1
  Construction at Farmingtion Bay, National Park Service, Mar. 17, 1937. C-275-1. Cliff Bray Photog. 804-H
• Salt settling ponds, Utah
  Photo shows salt ponds along the Great Salt Lake (precise location unidentified)
• Southern Pacific Railroad P.16
  Southern Pacific troop train wreck on Lucin Cutoff, January 1, 1945. L.V. McNeely photo.
• Great Salt Lake Cutoff, Utah
  Color drawing of a train crossing the Great Salt Lake railroad cutoff. Back of card is captioned, "The Great Salt Lake Cut-off extends from Ogden to Lucin a distance of 102.9 miles, crossing over the north end of the Great salt Lake. It was finished Nov. 13 1903 after 1 1/2 years of effort at a cost of $4,500,000.00. It saves S. P. R. R. Co. 43.8 miles of distance, 3,919 degrees of curvature, and 1515 feet of grade."