. The Pacific tourist . ncy. The differ-ence in elevation between this place and Chey-enne is 2,201 feet, and distance nearly 3-3 average grade from Cheyenne is 67 feet per ^EAR SHERAIAN called from one of the civil engineers who laidout the road. The man who deprives news-papers of their proper advertising patronage, hasbeen along and defaced the upper layers of thisrock with sentences more suggestive than ele-gant. You will obtain a fine view of it as youpass west. Dale CreeJc BtuJge—is about two mileswest of Sherman, This bridge is built of wood,and seems to be a light airy struct
. The Pacific tourist . ncy. The differ-ence in elevation between this place and Chey-enne is 2,201 feet, and distance nearly 3-3 average grade from Cheyenne is 67 feet per ^EAR SHERAIAN called from one of the civil engineers who laidout the road. The man who deprives news-papers of their proper advertising patronage, hasbeen along and defaced the upper layers of thisrock with sentences more suggestive than ele-gant. You will obtain a fine view of it as youpass west. Dale CreeJc BtuJge—is about two mileswest of Sherman, This bridge is built of wood,and seems to be a light airy structure, but isreallv 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 gi-ade 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 TSE ^aCIFI€ DALE CREEK BRIDGE. 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 oveiiand 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 Greit Laramie Pfaiun. — 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 Larami
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