The ox team : or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906 . framebuilding, two stories, we are told, was trans-ported from Kansas City at a cost of $100 per tonfreight by ox teams. There seems to be no planeither in the arrangements of the buildings or ofthe buildings themselves. I noticed one building,part stone, part concrete, part adobe, and partof burnt brick. The concrete walls of one build-ing measured twenty-two inches thick and thereis evidence of the use of lime with a lavish hand,and I think all of them are alike massive. The location of the barracks is in Sec. 28, N., R. 61 W. of 6th P
The ox team : or, The old Oregon trail, 1852-1906 . framebuilding, two stories, we are told, was trans-ported from Kansas City at a cost of $100 per tonfreight by ox teams. There seems to be no planeither in the arrangements of the buildings or ofthe buildings themselves. I noticed one building,part stone, part concrete, part adobe, and partof burnt brick. The concrete walls of one build-ing measured twenty-two inches thick and thereis evidence of the use of lime with a lavish hand,and I think all of them are alike massive. The location of the barracks is in Sec. 28, N., R. 61 W. of 6th P. M., United Statessurvey. SCOTTSBLUFP. We drove out from the town of Scottsbluff tothe left bank of the North Platte, less than a milefrom the town, to a point nearly opposite thatnoted landmark, Scotts Bluff, on the right bank,looming up near eight hundred feet above theriver and adjoining green fields, and photo-graphed the bluffs and section of the river. Probably no emigrant of early days but re-members Scottsbluff, which could be seen for so. THE OLD OREGON TRAIL 167 long a distance, and yet apparently so near fordays and days, till it finally sank out of sight aswe passed on, and new objects came into as with Turtle Bock (see illustration) theformation is sand and clay cemented, yet softenough to cut easily, and is constantly changingin smaller details. We certainly saw Scottsblufif while near thejunction of the two rivers, over a hundred milesdistant, in that illusive phenomenon, the mirage,as plainly as when within a few miles of it. Speaking of this deceptive manifestation ofone natural law, I am led to wonder why, onthe trip of 1906, I have seen nothing of thosesheets of water so real as to be almost within ourgrasp yet never reached, those hills and valleyswe never traversed, beautiful pictures on thehorizon and sometimes above, while traversingthe valley in 1852; all gone, perhaps to be seenno more, as climatic changes come to destroy theconditions that c
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