. 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 .. . ving the springs, our course is south,up a narrow valley, in which is some goodfarming land, with high bluffs on eachside; cross and re-cross Steamboat Creek,curve to the right through a narrow caLyou10 ties from the cities to the southward. FromFranktown it is miles to JMiLL, Station—near the site of an oldmill, where another V flume comes downfrom the mountains on the right, makingsix since leaving Reno
. 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 .. . ving the springs, our course is south,up a narrow valley, in which is some goodfarming land, with high bluffs on eachside; cross and re-cross Steamboat Creek,curve to the right through a narrow caLyou10 ties from the cities to the southward. FromFranktown it is miles to JMiLL, Station—near the site of an oldmill, where another V flume comes downfrom the mountains on the right, makingsix since leaving Reno. Proceeding south, the valley narrowsand is soon crowded out completely, andwe rise up onto the southern rim; an^then, a look back will take in the wholevalley and lake from end to end, and ?l)eautiful view it is. At this narrow gorgithe railroad track crosses the great Water Syphon, through which th<water is conducted from the Sierra NevadsMountains, on the west, across this narrowgorge, for supplying Virginia City, GoldHill and Silver City. It is an achievementwhich finds no parallel in the history ofhydraulic engineering. The total length UQ CROFUTT S NEW OVERLAND TOURIST. of the pipe used is but little less than seven the poiut where the water is taken from DallsCreek, up in tiie Sierras, it is brought in au 18-inchflume, four miles long, to the point of a spur on thewest side of Washoe Vallej, the height of which is2,100 feet above the railroad track. At the pointwhere the water in the flume reaches the spur it isreceived in an iron pipe, which, after running alongthe crest_, descending, crossing and ascending twelvesteep canons on its route, finally descends into thisgorge, crosses it from the west, and ascends the cliffon the east side to a height of 1,.510 feet, where it istaken by another flame and conducted to a reservoiron the Divide between Virginia City and Gold i)ipe has an orifice twelve inches in diameter,and where the pressure is the gre
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