. Over the range to the Golden Gate : a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the great North-west. all. The experiment to which reference has beenmade is that of fruit culture, the effort being to prove this valley as wellfitted for this purpose as Utah. So far the experiments have been success-ful. (Population, ioo. Distance from Denver, 436 miles. Elevation, 4,523 feet.)The Colorado Desert. For a stretch of about two hundred andfifty miles beyond Fruita no agricultural country will be seen — over onehundred miles of this, in fact
. Over the range to the Golden Gate : a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the great North-west. all. The experiment to which reference has beenmade is that of fruit culture, the effort being to prove this valley as wellfitted for this purpose as Utah. So far the experiments have been success-ful. (Population, ioo. Distance from Denver, 436 miles. Elevation, 4,523 feet.)The Colorado Desert. For a stretch of about two hundred andfifty miles beyond Fruita no agricultural country will be seen — over onehundred miles of this, in fact, is known as the Colorado Desert. But wellinformed people assert that all this desert needs to be made fertile isirrigation. Water can be got on this land from the Grand River, and per-haps before another decade has passed away the Colorado Desert will 5S OVER THE RANGE be ranked with that geographical myth of twenty years ago, The GreatAmerican Desert- The Book Cliffs. The intervening space of one hundred milesbetween the Grand River and the Green would be monotonous were it notfor the glimpses one obtains, to the left, of the snow-crowned San Rafael. CASTLE GATE. and Sierra La Sal Mountains, and the constant presence, to the right, of themultiform and varicolored Book Cliffs. These Cliffs are the northern shoreof what in former ages must have been a great inland sea, across whosebasin the railroad runs. They vary in altitude from seven thousand to ninethousand feet and divide the waters of the Grand River from those of theWhite, extending two hundred miles from east to west. There are nostations of any importance between Grand Junction and Green River, thetrain pausing in transit only for water. Green River. This is an eating station, on the west bank of the TO THE GOLDEN GATE. 59 Green River, and on alighting from the cars the traveler is astonished atthe elegance of the hotel and the beauty of its surroundings, situated, as itis, away out on the edge of the desert. A han
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