. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . railsin the streets,before our eyes,by the hardcrystals whichthey crushedinto glacier-likeice. With fiveof them behindthe largestsnow-plow o nthe road, westarted towardthe snow flewand eventhe groundtrembled, andevery piece ofthe short snowsheds was wel-comed with joyand blindingsnow, I thought,will cease tofly, but suppos
. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . railsin the streets,before our eyes,by the hardcrystals whichthey crushedinto glacier-likeice. With fiveof them behindthe largestsnow-plow o nthe road, westarted towardthe snow flewand eventhe groundtrembled, andevery piece ofthe short snowsheds was wel-comed with joyand blindingsnow, I thought,will cease tofly, but supposethat, whencrushed into icelike granite, it lifts the ponderous plow of 30 tons, or that we gocrashing into the shed prostrate beneatli twentyor forty feet of snow; or that an avalanche hascome down 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 WME ^mmWW W&WMIBW. 227. TTTITNEL NO. 12, STRONGS CANON. time; that forty and fifty feet are sometimes tobe seen, where the road-bed is secure beneath it,and that the canons often contain a hundredfeet. These capacious reservoirs are the pledge ofsummer fruitfulness. A winter scene in theseSierras without even the sight of unfriendlyJrum, will beget a fondness for the snow shedsthat the summer tourist cannot imagine, and abetter appreciation of the boldness and daringof 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-est, haggard and worn, yet never ceasing in theirbattle against the tremendous storm, and wasoverwhelmed thinking of our ind
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