. The Pacific tourist . etween this place and Chey-enne is 2,201 feet, and distance nearly 33 average grade from Cheyenne is 07 feet per NEAR SHERMAN. called from one of the civil engineers who laidout the road. Something like two hundredfeet to the eastward of the station, and onthe north side of the track, there may beseen a post, bearing the important announce-ment that this is the •Summit of the Rocky Mount-ains. Station is named after General Creek Bridge—is about two mileswest of Sherman. This bridge is built of iron,and seems to be a light airy structure, but isre
. The Pacific tourist . etween this place and Chey-enne is 2,201 feet, and distance nearly 33 average grade from Cheyenne is 07 feet per NEAR SHERMAN. called from one of the civil engineers who laidout the road. Something like two hundredfeet to the eastward of the station, and onthe north side of the track, there may beseen a post, bearing the important announce-ment that this is the •Summit of the Rocky Mount-ains. Station is named after General Creek Bridge—is about two mileswest of Sherman. This bridge is built of iron,and seems to be a light airy structure, but isreally very substantial. The creek, like a threadof silver, winds its devious way in the depths be-low, and is soon lost to sight as you pass rapidlydown the grade and through the granite cuts andsnow sheds beyond. This bridge is 650 feet long,and nearly 130 feet high, and is one of the won-ders on the great trans-continental route. Awater tank, just beyond it, is supplied with water TME &&€IFt® WQWmiSW. 83. DALE CREEK liRIDGE. from the creek by means of a steam pump. Thebuildings in the valley below seem small in thedistance, though they are not a great way old wagon road crossed the creek down aravine, on the right side of the track, and theremains of the bridge may still be seen. Thisstream rises about six miles north of the bridge,and is fed by numerous springs and tributaries,running in a general southerly direction, until itempties into the Cache La Poudre River. Theold overland road from Denver to Californiaascended this river and creek until it struckthe head-waters of the Laramie. Leaving DaleCreek bridge, the road soon turns to the right,and before you, on the left, is spread out, like amagnificent panorama, The Great Laramie Phi ins.—Theseplains have an average width of 40 miles, andare 100 miles in length. They begin at thewestern base of the Black Hills and extend tothe slope of the Medicine Bow Mountains, andnorth beyond where the Laramie River cuts
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