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Title: The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean ... : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ...
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T Miller, Joaquin, 1837-1913. Great Plains and desert. 1881
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad
Publisher: New York : Adams & Bishop
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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re thiow^Hfrom the railsin the streets,before oui- eyes,by the h a i dcrystals whichthey crushedinto glacier-likeice. With fiveof them behindthe largestsnow-plow o nthe Ioad, westarted towardthe s u m m i t.The snow flewand eventhe groundtrembled, andevery piece ofthe short snowsheds was wel-comed with joyand misgiving.The blindingsnow, I thought,will cease tofly, but supposethat, whencrushed into icelike granite, itlifts the ponderous plow of 30 tons, or that we gocra^hing into the shed prostrate beneath twentyor forty feet of snow; or that an avalanche hascome (iown and our way lies through the tangledtrunks of these huge Sierra pines; five boilersbehind that may soon be on top of us. Never before did I realize the need of thesnow sheds, but I often rebelled against the shut-ting out of natures mountain charms from theweary or unoccupied traveler. Let the discontented not forget that five feetof snow may fall in one day ; that twenty andthirty feet may lie all over the ground at one
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TUNNEL NO. 12, STRONGS CANON. tim3; that forty and fifty feet are somgtimes tobe seen, where tlie road-bed is secure beneath it,and that the canons often contain a hundredfeet. These capacious reservoirs are the pledge ofsummer fruitfuhiess. A winter scene in theseSierras without even the sight of unfriendlybruin, will beget, a fondness for the snow shedsthat the summer tourist cannot imagine, and abitter appreciation of the boldness and daringo\ the men who brave the hardships of thesemountain storms, and peril their lives at everystep for others safety. Day and night I sawthe servants of the public, from highest to low-e.it, haggard and worn, yet never ceasing in theirbattle against the tremendous stoim, and wasoverwhelmed thinking of our indebtedness totheir energy, skill and endurance, as well as byviewing the wonderful works of God. Thefeeding of the rivers and the purifying of thewinds are the least of the services appointed tothe hills. To fill the thirst of the human heartwith

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