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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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re peace has undisturbed domains;And here a rural, peaceful raceHas found a fair abiding place;Its homes and plazas, simple, rude,The walls of stately pine trees hewed,Or rough adobes, crudely piled.The roofs with * dirt securely tiled,Are primitive, and cool and warm.Secure against the winters storm.And gainst the suns devouring raysWhen with the summers heat ablaze. (There, that is the first poetry we ever AND PACIFIC COAST GUIDE. 75 quoted, and it tliereader will excuseus this time, we willpledge never to becauglit doing soagain.) Wahatoya — is ^the next station, g,and a very appro-^priate one it is. Itis 6 9-10 milessouth of Walsens.To the left, afterleaving the station,a beautiful viewcan be had of theSpanish Peaks. Thealtitude of the eastpeak is 12,720 feet;that of the west peakis 13,620 feet. Con-tinuing a little far-ther, we have a fineview of Yeta andthe Sangre de Chris-to Mountains on theright. From thelast station it is8 2-10 miles toLaVeta—The firstsettler in this sec-
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OVERLAND PONY EXPRESS—SEE ANNEX NO. 7.1, tion of country was Col. Francisco, a Span-ish gentleman who came to La Veta 19years ago, and built the house that henow lives in. La Yeta is situated at an elevation of6,970 feet, on the south branch of CucharaCreek, at the northern base of the moun-tains, with the Spanish or *Twin Peaks^as immediate back-ground. The popula-tion is about 300. It boasts of some goodbuildings—a postofiice, a grist mill, and,if reports are true, good prospects for thefuture, as well as gr»at present expecta-tions. It is reported that a silver mine hasbeen discovered near, producing ore thatmills $118 per ton; 100 claims have beenstaked; copper is also a late discovery, andcoal seven miles west, on Middle Creek,and White Sulphur Springs, five milessouth. At La Yeta all extra cars are left behind,an extra locomotive is added, and thetrain starts out on an average grade of 2 L1feet to the mile, for 21 1-2 miles- In someplaces the grade is much higher, but thepa

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