. The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the Far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads, and
. The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the Far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads, and all points of business or pleasure travel to California, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Montana, the mines and mining of the Territories, the lands of the Pacific Coast, the wonders of the Rocky Mountains, the scenery of the Sierra Nevadas, the Colorado Mountains, the big trees, the geysers, the Yosemite, and the Yellowstone . , and wherever possible, the trackhas been raised above the cuts, so the snow,unless in immense quantities, now causes butlittle impediment to travel. At Sherman, thesnow never falls very deep, but there is a con- mile, and the maximum grade of any one mileis 90 feet. From Sherman to Laramie, the dis-tance is miles; the average grade is 50 feetto the mile, while the maxinmm grade of anyone mile is the same as on the eastern slope—90feet tc the mile. These grades indicate whythis route across the Black Hills was selected inpreference to others where the altitude was notas great—the approach on either side being moregradual, though the elevation is greater. Nearlyall trains between Cheyenne and Laramie havetwo engines attached so that they may be easilycontrolled. It is a steady pull to the summit,from each side, and the heavy down grades fromit require a great deal of power to properly con-trol trains. About i mile west of Sherman onthe left side of the road, is Reeds Hock, so. SKULL ROCKS, stant breeze, that most Eastern people wouldp
Size: 2102px × 1188px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorshearerf, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookyear1881
