Scenery of the Pacific railways, and Colorado (1878) (14783869853)

Identifier: sceneryofpacific00ride (find matches)
Title: Scenery of the Pacific railways, and Colorado
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: (Rideing, William Henry), 1853- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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4,227 feet), 804 miles, from which point a comprehensive viewof the Great Salt Lake may be obtained ; Seco, quite unimportant; Kelton (altitude 4,223 feet),790 miles, which is the depot of freight for Idaho, and the point of departure for tourists who wishto visit the SHOSHONE FALLS; Ombey, 778 miles; Matlin, a side-track; Terrace, 757 miles,population 300; BoviNE, 10 miles farther west; LuciN (altitude 4,486 feet), 734 miles; Tecoma(altitude 8,212 feet), 724 miles, the nearest station to the celebrated Tecoma mines; Montello(altitude 5,010 feet), 715 miles; Loray (altitude 5,960 feet), 704 miles; Toano (altitude 5,973 feet),698 miles, the depot of several mining districts; Pequop (altitude 6,184 feet), 689 miles; OteGO(altitude 6,154 feet); Independence (altitude 6,007 feet), 676 miles; and Moores (aUitude 6,166feet), 669 miles. The distances given are from San Francisco. We cross the Utah boundary-line between Lucin and Tecoma, and enter the Desert State, THE PACIFIC RAIL WA YS. 6l
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Bear River, Utah. which is true to its name. The dreariest day of the seven occupied in the overland journey is spentin crossing Nevada. Geologists tell us that the Great Salt Lake is probably the mere residue of a 62 THE PACIFIC RAILWAYS. greater sea which spread from the Wahsatch Mountains in the east to the Sierra Nevada on the west.The recession of that sea has left a wilderness than which Sahara is not more desolate, nor a furnacemore parched. Out of a vast tawny plain rise a few broken ranges of mountains, which are onlybeautiful as they recede in the distance, and take purples and blues from the atmosphere. The earth