. Over the range to the Golden Gate : a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the great North-west. PUEBLO TO THE GOLDEN GATE. m portions of this narrow valley, only about twenty miles in length, features ofgreat interest to the eye occur, equaling the walls of Comanche, whichwas itself ignored until the railway brought it to the light. The river hereis about sixty yards wide, and pours with a swift current troubled by in-numerable fallen rocks. At times it is swollen and yellow with the drift oflate rains, but in clear we
. Over the range to the Golden Gate : a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the great North-west. PUEBLO TO THE GOLDEN GATE. m portions of this narrow valley, only about twenty miles in length, features ofgreat interest to the eye occur, equaling the walls of Comanche, whichwas itself ignored until the railway brought it to the light. The river hereis about sixty yards wide, and pours with a swift current troubled by in-numerable fallen rocks. At times it is swollen and yellow with the drift oflate rains, but in clear weather its waters are bright and blue, for it has notyet soiled its color with the fine silt which will thicken it between Texas andMexico. On the opposite bank, near the level of the river, runs the wagonroad that General Edward Hatch, formerly commander of the departmentof New Mexico, cut some years ago to give ready communication betweenhis headquarters at Santa Fe and the posts in the northern part of theTerritory and in southern Colorado. This is the track now followed by allteamsters, but the old road from the south to Taos ran over the hills far tothe eastward, pass
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