. The Pacific tourist . alled it Finger Rock. The chan-nel of the river has been turned from its bed bya heavy embankment—a work rendered neces-sary to avoid a short curve, and on we go over avery crooked piece of road for nearly six miles,when we cross the river and the valley againopens. We have now passed through the TwelveMile Canon, and soon arrive at Cliiro,—a way-station 565 miles from SanFrancisco, with an elevation of 4,785 do not stop unless signaled. The valleybecomes wider, the hills more sloping and lesshigh as they border the valley, but away to theleft are the higher
. The Pacific tourist . alled it Finger Rock. The chan-nel of the river has been turned from its bed bya heavy embankment—a work rendered neces-sary to avoid a short curve, and on we go over avery crooked piece of road for nearly six miles,when we cross the river and the valley againopens. We have now passed through the TwelveMile Canon, and soon arrive at Cliiro,—a way-station 565 miles from SanFrancisco, with an elevation of 4,785 do not stop unless signaled. The valleybecomes wider, the hills more sloping and lesshigh as they border the valley, but away to theleft are the higher peaks of the Cortez INIount-ains. We now enter an open basin, and on theright we see the old emigrant road making upthe hill from Gravelly Ford. One branch ofthis road, leading to * the same ford, we alsocross, but the old roadway, plainly visible fromthe cars, up the hill on the north side of the river,marks the locality of the ford itself. The riverhere spreads over a wide, gravelly bed, and is ^ME ^^aiww always shallow so that it is easily crossed. Theemigrants, in the days of ox and mule trains,took advantage of this crossing to send letters,either one way or the other, by outward bound orreturning trains. They would split a willowsprout by the side of the road and put their let-ters in it, which would be taken out by some onein the first train and carried to the nearest post-oiffice on the route. In , it is said, that an Indian massacretook place here, in which 18 emigrants werekilled; and other skirmishes with the gentlered men, were frequently in order. The old emi-grant road is fairly lined with the graves of emi-grants, who perished on their way to the land of finally come to believe it themselves; and thismay account for the many wonderful stories thathave been palmed off on some book-makers, andby them, in turn, hashed up for the travelingpublic. Travelers can always hear all theychoose, but it is w^ell to be a little cautious aboutbelieving all th
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