The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone . o. Fig. 31. Platte Canon. 40 The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone. is said to be healthy. No oxen are seen here in the streets, and every oneuses horses or burros. No cats are here, they have fits and die, owing againto that air ; the inhabitants are not feline people. It may be remarkedof this Clear Creek road, that in 13^ miles it falls 1700 ft., and it wasgraded at a cost of 20,000 dols. per mile. Georgetown gave us a good dinner, and we returned to Denver torest and prepare for the trip to Leadville on the following day. The next day we bade
The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone . o. Fig. 31. Platte Canon. 40 The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone. is said to be healthy. No oxen are seen here in the streets, and every oneuses horses or burros. No cats are here, they have fits and die, owing againto that air ; the inhabitants are not feline people. It may be remarkedof this Clear Creek road, that in 13^ miles it falls 1700 ft., and it wasgraded at a cost of 20,000 dols. per mile. Georgetown gave us a good dinner, and we returned to Denver torest and prepare for the trip to Leadville on the following day. The next day we bade farewell to Denver and started for Leadville,the train having to be run in two sections, as the grades are so severe as tolimit the number of cars one engine can haul. On entering the PlatteCanon, one of the most beautiful in this wonderful country, the DomeRock is one of the most striking and conspicuous objects. After following the creek at a rising grade and around curves of a verysmall radius, similar to that shown in Fig. 31, till some
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