. 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 .. . This was a three-foot, narrow gauge rail-road, 15 miles in length; commenced May,1872, and completed 12 miles during theyear. The grade for the whole distance isheavy, in places 312 feet to the mile. Leaving the station at American Fork,the road turns directly to the east, and fol-lows up Deer Creek, through a general as-sortment of sage brush, sand and boulders,for six miles to the mouth of the the
. 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 .. . This was a three-foot, narrow gauge rail-road, 15 miles in length; commenced May,1872, and completed 12 miles during theyear. The grade for the whole distance isheavy, in places 312 feet to the mile. Leaving the station at American Fork,the road turns directly to the east, and fol-lows up Deer Creek, through a general as-sortment of sage brush, sand and boulders,for six miles to the mouth of the the way up, to the right, a fine viewcan be had of Mt. Aspinwall, rising frornthe lower range of the Wasatch to an alti- ANJ> PACIFIC COAST GUIDE. 97. ml; brxgham youngs residkxcs. tudc of 11,011 feet above the sea. From the mouth of the canyon, abouttwo miles north, is the little village of Al-pine, containing about 250 agriculturalists. Entering the canyon, the passage isquite narrow between the towering cliffs,which rise up in sharp peaks 600 feet inheight, leaving only about 100 feet be-tween, through which the road is built,and a sparkling little stream comes rip-pling down ; the road, on its way up, cross-ing and re-crossing the stream many times. Uur train is rapidly climbing, but thecanyon walls seem to be much more rap-idly rising, and at a distance of one, twoand three miles, gain an additional 500feet, until, in places, they are full 2,500 feetabove the road bed. In places thesecliffs are pillared and castelated granite, inothers, of slate, shale and conglomerate,seamed in places as though built up fromthe bed of the canyon by successive layers,some as thin as a knife blade, others muchthicker; then again, the rocks have
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