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Historic Benson Grist Mill – Winter – Tooele, Utah

Historic Benson Grist Mill - Winter - Tooele, Utah

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In 1854, on the orders of Mormon Church President Brigham Young, LDS apostle Ezra Taft Benson arrived in Tooele Valley to construct a gristmill that would serve new settlers to the area.

Located next to a spring-fed pond, the Benson Gristmill was made of rock and wood by skilled pioneer artisans over 150 years ago. From 1854, until the 1940’s the mill produced milled wheat and corn.

From 1854 to the 1940’s, the Benson Mill processed wheat and corn by the ton. The milling equipment can be seen inside the mill during the tour.

For more than 40’s after its closure, the mill stood idle. Then in 1983 a group of volunteers began restoration of the structure seen today.

The Tooele Valley sits directly west of Salt Lake City, along the I-80 Interstate corridor that stretches toward Wendover and the Nevada Border.

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Snow – Aspen – Pine – Winter Fog – Wasatch Mountains

Snow - Aspen - Pine - Winter Fog - Wasatch Mountains

A dusting of snow covers a forest of aspen and pine in Big Cottonwood Canyon, a canyon in the Wasatch Mountains, that is accessible in the summer and winter months from the Salt Lake Valley in northern Utah.

The Wasatch is a 250 mile long north-south mountain range in northern Utah, that is begins south of Mt. Nebo, the ranges highest point 11,928 feet (3,636 m), at the southern end of Utah Valley and ends near the Bear River close to the Utah/Idaho border. Its known for world class hiking, and what Utahan’s have called the greatest snow on Earth, during the ski season.

Geologically, the Wasatch are considered part of the larger Rocky Mountain range that features most prominently in Colorado to the East.

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African Spiral Horned Antelope – Ice Sculpture – Alaska

African Spiral Horned Antelope - Ice Sculpture - Alaska

“Chasing the Wind” Ice Sculpture, World Ice Art Championships, February 20-March 28, 2010, Fairbanks, Alaska

An African Spiral Horned Antelope Ice Sculpture at night illuminated by lights of different colors at dusk, just after sunset. The World Ice Art Championship, is an event held each spring in Fairbanks, Alaska. Sculptors from around the world come to the interior of Alaska to compete in both a small block and large block ice carving competition.