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RUSH VALLEY TOWNS— STOCKTON, CLOVER, ST. JOHN, AND VERNON Stockton Stockton is approximately seven miles south of Tooele, and is at a slightly higher elevation. It is about an hour's drive from Salt Lake City, and it is reached by exiting Interstate 80 west to Utah Highway 36, the road to Tooele. 1 Passing the east entrance to Tooele Army Depot, the road continues south. SR36 continues south to Rush Valley and then Vernon and on to Eureka. Utah Highway 36 into Stockton from points north passes above the underground tunnel at Bauer, to the right of the highway. Within the tunnel many different mining passages branch out into veins of metal-bearing ores. Highway 36 follows closely the old route of the Overland Mail and the old Lincoln Highway. The Union Pacific Railroad line parallels the highway. A r o u n d e d hill dominates the Stockton skyline. Known as Tabernacle Hill because of its resemblance to the M o r m o n Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, the formation is in the process of being changed because of the excavation and hauling of gravel from it by commercial contractors. To the west side of this 286
