. 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 .. . e abandonmentof the line and the south-side routeof travel. But we are told thatsettlers are coming in fast, and itwill soon Iegain its old time figu-res. Eeturning to Kearny Junction, 59-10 miles brings us to SteveiisoBi—a side-track,—unim-portant. Again, four miles west is <!essa—another small station,—from which it is 6 3-10 miles to KlsBi Creek Station—a smallplace of several stores and a fewdwellings.
. 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 .. . e abandonmentof the line and the south-side routeof travel. But we are told thatsettlers are coming in fast, and itwill soon Iegain its old time figu-res. Eeturning to Kearny Junction, 59-10 miles brings us to SteveiisoBi—a side-track,—unim-portant. Again, four miles west is <!essa—another small station,—from which it is 6 3-10 miles to KlsBi Creek Station—a smallplace of several stores and a fewdwellings. Soon after leaving the station, wecross Elm Creek, a small, deep, andquite lengthy stream. It was wellwooded before the advent of the rail-road, the timber consisting almostentirely of red elm, rarely found else-where in this part of the country. From Elm Creek station it is ninemiles to <Overton—This is another smallstation of a few buildings. It is situ-ated on a branch of Elm Creek. The Platte Yalley along here, andfor the fifty miles over which we havejust passed, is very broad; nearly allthe best land has been taken up, or pur- / ■-■!\^^^ /. To be well armed and ready for a fight, is tobe heeled. The Indians on the j^lams call the locomotivesand cars bad medicine wagons. CROFUTT^S NEW OVERLAND TOURIST chased, but ouly a small portion is undercultivation. Passing on, 4 miles brings us to •Fosselyii—a side-track station, namedafter the paymaster of the road, a muchmore important person to the employesthan the station, as trains do not alwaysstop here, but roll on tive miles further to Plum Creek—the county scat ofDawson county. It contains a populationof about 800, has a line, brick court-house,two churches, a school-house, several lio-tels, four stores, a bridge across the Platte,to the south, and a weekly newspaper—thePioneer. The town w^as named after anold stage station and military camp, situ-ated on the ^^outh side of the river, on P
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