. 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 .. . INTERIOR VIEW OF SXOW^ SHEDS OX THE SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS. a:n^d tacific coast guide. 73. CROSSING IRLCKEE RIVER, C. V. R. R. Wliite sand. Passing up, chiy and limepredominate, tlieu come layers of bould-ers, pebbles, and small nodules. There are also seams of very fine blacklimestone, saturated with petroleum. Nearthe summit, under the shallow, calcareoussandstone, there are over fifty feet of shalesthat c
. 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 .. . INTERIOR VIEW OF SXOW^ SHEDS OX THE SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS. a:n^d tacific coast guide. 73. CROSSING IRLCKEE RIVER, C. V. R. R. Wliite sand. Passing up, chiy and limepredominate, tlieu come layers of bould-ers, pebbles, and small nodules. There are also seams of very fine blacklimestone, saturated with petroleum. Nearthe summit, under the shallow, calcareoussandstone, there are over fifty feet of shalesthat contain more or less of oily hills all around are capped with adeep, rustj yellow s-mdstone, which pic-sentsthe peculiar forms which,Avith the banded appeaiance, have givenso much celebrity to the scenery aboutthis station. The point where our photog-rapherstood to take the picture, was About one-half mile below the bridge and immedi-ately opposite the mouth of _ the notedBitter Creek, down which, in years past,rolled the Avagous of the pioneer-emigrantsof the fai West, on their Aveary wayseeking new El Dorarioes towards the set-ting sun. Old Toavx—a short distance Irom thestation io the soutliward is the site of theold deserted citA of Gi\en l
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