Clean, attractive gray-tinted plate Station East End of the Base Line showing the expedition's surveyors at work. From Stansbury's 1853 Exploration and Survey of the Great Salt Lake of Utah. Howard Stansbury, a Captain and topographical engineer, was assigned in to survey the region of the Great Salt Lake in search of a possible transcontinental railway route and of a better route between Fort Bridger (Wyoming) and Salt Lake City (Utah).
Station East End of the Base Line, Stansbury, 1853
Station East End of the Base Line, from Stansbury's 1853 Report