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Title: Crofutt's new overland tourist and Pacific coast guide : containing a condensed and authentic description of over one thousand two hundred cities, towns, villages, stations, government fort and camps, mountains, lakes, rivers, sulphur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, and summer resorts : where to look for and hunt the buffalo, antelope, deer and other game; trout fishing, etc., etc. In fact, to tell you what is worth seeing--where to see it--where to go--how to go--and whom to stop with while passing over the Union, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage, from sunrise to sunset, and part the way back, through Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, California and Arizona
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Crofutt, George A
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Publisher: Chicago, Ill., The Overland Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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nced,some with wire. Passing on 4 6-10 miles,we come to Fountain—here the sage and brushland shows the effects of irrigation. Thetown is a few hundred yards to our right,contains about 30 places of business andresidences, situated on an elevated table-land, most of which is under cultivation. Between the railroad and the mountainson the west, is spread out as fine a grazingsection of land as there is in the State, ex-tending southward 100 miles along the .eastern base of the mountains, and from fiveto 15 miles in width. The old wagon roadfrom Colorado City runs along the foot ofthese mountains to Canyon City, 25 milesdistant Continuing down, the sand-bluffs closein on the left, and our train rolls downon to the creek bottom, where the cotton-woods and willows are very dense, andafter crossing the creek, we stop at Little Buttes—Near this station, Lit-tle Fountain Creek comes in from thewest, upon which is some fine farmingland, which produced abundant crops—never failing a crop.
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devils gate, WEBER CANYON, U. P R. R. 72 CROFUTTS NEW OVERLAND TOURIST The country for the next twenty milesis not much improved, as it cannot be de-pended upon for crops without irrigatingthem, and as water is not to be had, unlesswells are dug and wind mills used for ele-vating the water, it will doubtless remainas it is—a stock range. From Little Buttes, it is 11 5-10 miles to PiNON—a side-track, and 11 7-10 milesfurther to North Pueblo—but passenger trainsseldom stop, as the town lays nearer SouthPueblo station than the one bearing itsname. On the east side of the Fountain is situ-ated East Pueblo, reached by a bridge onour left. From North Pueblo station, our route isalong the creek, through deep cuts madethrough a round butte, that seems to riseup in our way, cross the track of the Atch-ison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, and theArkansas River, and a run from the laststation ot 2 5-10 miles brings the train to South Pueblo—This is a regular eatingstation, where a full

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