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Identifier: marvelsofnewwest1889thay (find matches)
Title: Marvels of the new West : a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri River : comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels of mining, marvels of stock-raising, and marvels of agriculture, graphically and truthfully described
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898
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Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : Henry Bill Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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SNOW GALLERIES, SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS MARVELS OF ENTERPRISE, 297 sheds on the mountain sides are built so as to conduct the avalancheover the roof into the valley below; so that while the passenger trainglides safely through the artificial gallery, a mighty avalanche of
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INTERIOR OF SNOW-SHEDS, snow may be tumbling over it, and bury, forty feet deep, the hamletor village in the valley. If a snow-shed be necessary on a compara-tively level section, it is built with a sharp roof, like any other build-ing designed to support n heavy wei:;ht of snow. 2g8 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST. A good idea of the magnitude of a snow-slide may be derived fromthe fact that, in the winter of 1883-84, a slide completely buried amining town in one of the canons of the Rocky Mountains alreadydescribed, destroying most of the buildings. It is claimed that asnow-slide in the Animas Canon, two years ago, was a half-mile inlength, and when it landed in the deep gorge below, the snow wasforty feet deep. A still more disastrous slide, at the Virginius mine,near Ouray, was reported by a Colorado paper as follows : — When the avalanche descended upon the boarding-house at fouroclock, Saturday, there were eleven men in it, some asleep in theirbunks and others waiting to go on a night

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