. 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. OVER THE RANGE. and in a region familiar with the clouds. Thenhe beholds, stretching away to the left, the mostperfect of all the Sierras. The sunlight fallswith a white, transfiguring radiance upon thesnow-crowned spires of the Sangre de CristoRange. Their sharp and dazzling pyramids,which near at hand are clearly defined, extendto the southward until cloud, and sky and snowypeak commingle and form a vague and bewil-dering vision. To
. 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. OVER THE RANGE. and in a region familiar with the clouds. Thenhe beholds, stretching away to the left, the mostperfect of all the Sierras. The sunlight fallswith a white, transfiguring radiance upon thesnow-crowned spires of the Sangre de CristoRange. Their sharp and dazzling pyramids,which near at hand are clearly defined, extendto the southward until cloud, and sky and snowypeak commingle and form a vague and bewil-dering vision. To the right, towers the fire scarred front of old Ouray, gloomy and grand, solitary and forbidding. Ouray holds the pass, standing sentinel at the rocky gateway to the Marshall Pass. RailroadingAmong the Clouds. A Marvelof Engineering Skill. Elevation, 10,856 CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN AND LAKE. fertile Gunnison. Slowly the steeps are conquered until at last the trainhalts at the station, upon the Summit of Marshall Pass. The awful silenceof the storm-tossed granite ocean lies beneath. The traveler looks downupon four lines of road, terrace beyond terrace, the last so far below as tobe quite indistinct to view. These are only loops of the almost spiral path-way of descent. Wonder at the triumphs of engineering skill is strangelymingled with the feelings of awe and admiration at the stupendous gran-deur of the scene. Marshall Pass Station, fs directly on the summit of the pass,and the track is enclosed by a large snow shed. Fine views can beobtained, however, from the loop holes, from either end of the shed orfrom the observatory, erected above the station. The elevation, is 10,856
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