. Crofutt's new Overland tourist, and Pacific Coast guide ... over the Union, Kansas, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage .. . of a miniaturestream, known as the North Fork of hills are abrupt, and near the road,leaving scarcely more than room for aroadway, including the grassy land re-ferred to. Along these blulfs, on the left-hand side of the stream, the road-bed hasbeen made by cutting down the sides ofthe hills and filling hollows, in some pla-ces from 50 to 75 feet deep. Before the tunnel was completed, theroad was laid
. Crofutt's new Overland tourist, and Pacific Coast guide ... over the Union, Kansas, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage .. . of a miniaturestream, known as the North Fork of hills are abrupt, and near the road,leaving scarcely more than room for aroadway, including the grassy land re-ferred to. Along these blulfs, on the left-hand side of the stream, the road-bed hasbeen made by cutting down the sides ofthe hills and filling hollows, in some pla-ces from 50 to 75 feet deep. Before the tunnel was completed, theroad was laid temporarily from the divideinto Echo Canyon by a Z or zigzag track,which let the cars down to the head of thecanyon—under the trestles above great difficulty to overcome by therailroad company in locating the roadfrom this point into Salt Lake Valley wasthe absence of spurs or sloping hills tocarry the grade. Every thing seems togive way at once, and pitch headlong awayto the level of the lake. The rim, orouter edge, of the table-lands, breaks ab-ruptly over, and the streams which makeout from this table-land, instead of keep-ing their usual grade, seem to cut through. PRICKEY, THE PET HORXED TOAD OF THE PACIFIC COAST. See Page 126. 82 CROFUTT S XEAV OVERLAND TOURIST the rim and drop into the valley below,there being no uplands to cany them. By the present line of road, the carsenter Echo Canyon proper at the little sta-tion of €!astle Rock— miles fromWasaich. This station derives its namefrom the long line of sandstone blufls onthe right-hand side of the canyon, whichare worn and torn away until, in the dis-tance, they have the appearance of the oldfeudel castles, so often spoken of, but soseldom seen, by modern tourists. For along distance these rocks line the right-hand bank of the canyon, their massivered sandstone fronts towering from 500 to1,500 feet above the little valley, and hear-ing the general name of Ca-tle Rocks. The cars descend the canyon ami
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