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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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ilroad Com-pany has a round-house of 15 stalls, andmachine shops and repair shops, locatedhere,which in the early years of the road,were at Bryan. It is claimed that the surrounding coun-try is rich in mines, but one thing is cer-tain—it is rich in cattle; it has cattle onmore than a thousand hills. The bluffs near this station present apeculiar formation called, by Prof. Hay-den, the * Green River Shales. For abeautiful illustration of the bluffs, the sta-tion and the bridge, see Annex No. 16. The walls of these bluffs rise perpendic-ularly for hundreds of feet, are of a grayishbuff color, and are composed of layers, ap-parently sedimentary deposits of all thick-nesses, from that of a knife-blade to twofeet. At the base of the bluff the layersare thin and composed of arenaceous clay,with laminated sandstone, mud markingsand other indications of shallow water ormud flats; color for 100 feet, ashen brown;next above are lighter colored layers, al-ternate with greenish layers, and fine
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CROSSING TRUCKEE RIVER, C. P. R. R. white sand. Passing up, clay and limepredominate, then come layers of bould-ers, pebbles, and small nodules. There are also seams of very fine blacklimestone, saturated with petroleum. Nearthe summit, under the shallow, calcareoussandstone, there are over fifty feet of shalesthat contain more or less of oily material.The hills all around are capped with adeep, rusty yellow sandstone, which pre-sents the peculiar castellated forms which,with the banded appearance, have givenso much celebrity to the scenery aboutthis station. The point where our photographerstood to take the picture, was about one-half mile below the bridge and immedi-ately opposite the mouth of the notedBitter Creek, down which, in years past,rolled the wagons of the pioneer-emigrantsof the far West, on their weary wayseeking new El Dorarioes towards the settino; sun. Old Town—A short distance from thestation to the southward is the site of theold deserted city of Green River, near

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