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Title: The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, U.S. Forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads and all points of business or pleasure travel to California, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Montana, the mines and mining of the territories, the lands of the Pacific Coast, the wonders of the Rocky Mountains, the scenery of the Sierra Nevadas, the Colorado mountains, the big trees, the geysers, the Yosemite, and the Yellowstone
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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. The differ-ence in elevation between this place and Chey-enne is 2,201 feet, and distance nearly 33 miles.The average grade from Cheyenne is 67 feet per NEAR SHERMAN. called from one of the civil engineers who laidout the road. The man who deprives news-papers of their proper advertising patronage, hasbeen along and defaced the upper layers of thisrock with sentences more suggestive than ele-gant. You will obtain a fine view of it as youpass west. Dale Creek Bridge—is about two mileswest of Sherman. This bridge is built of wood,and seems to be a light airy structure, but isreally very substantial. The creek, like a threadof silver, winds its devious way in the depths be-low, and is soon lost to sight as you pass rapidlydown the grade and through the granite cuts andsnow sheds beyond. This bridge is 650 feet long,and nearly 130 feet high, and is one of the won-ders on the great trans-continental route. Awater tank, just beyond it, is supplied with water TMM ffUCIFW? tqw&isw. 83
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DALE CREEK BRIDGE. from the creek by means of a steam pump. Thebuildings in the valley below seem small in thedistance, though they are not a great way off.The old wagon road crossed the creek down aravine, on the right side of the track, and theremains of the bridge may still be seen. Thisstream rises about six miles north of the bridge,and is fed by numerous springs and tributaries,running in a general southerly direction, until itempties into the Cache La Poudre River. Theold overland road from Denver to Californiaascended this river and creek until it struckthe head-waters of the Laramie. Leaving DaleCreek bridge, the road soon turns to the right,and before you, on the left, is spread out, like amagnificent panorama, The Grent Laramie Plains, — Theseplains have an average width of 40 miles, andare 100 miles in length. They begin at thewestern base of the Black Hills and extend tothe slope of the Medicine Bow Mountains, andnorth beyond where the Laramie River cutsits way through

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