. Crofutt's new Overland tourist, and Pacific Coast guide ... over the Union, Kansas, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage .. . ral feet above the salt deposits. Thechannel along the road, caused by excava-tion, is filled with a reddish, cold-lookingwater. Taste it at the first opportunity,and you will wish that the first opportu-nity had never oftered. f^aarry—is miles further west,beiug aside-track where trains seldom stop,but skirt along the base of the mountainswith the lake and broad alkali bottoms onthe left. The cars pass
. Crofutt's new Overland tourist, and Pacific Coast guide ... over the Union, Kansas, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage .. . ral feet above the salt deposits. Thechannel along the road, caused by excava-tion, is filled with a reddish, cold-lookingwater. Taste it at the first opportunity,and you will wish that the first opportu-nity had never oftered. f^aarry—is miles further west,beiug aside-track where trains seldom stop,but skirt along the base of the mountainswith the lake and broad alkali bottoms onthe left. The cars pass over several longand high embankments, and reach thehigh broken laud again at Bine Creek—which is milesfrom Quarry. During the construction ofthe road, this was one of the hardest Camps along the whole line. Leaving the station, we cross Blue Creekon a trestle bridge 300 feet long and 30 feethigh. Thence by tortuous curves we windaround the heads of several little valleys,crossing them well against the hillside byheavy fills. The track along here hasbeen changed, avoiding several long tres-tle bridges, and running on a solid em-bankment. crofutts new overlaxd tourist 117. Through more deep rock cuts we windaround Promontory Mountain until thelake is lost to view. Up, up we go, theengine pufSng and snorting with its ardu-ous labors, until the summit is gained, andwe arrive at the former terminus of the twoPacific railroads— miles from BlueCreek. Promontory—elevation, 4,905 feet;distance from Omaha 1,084 miles; fromSan Francisco 830 miles—is celebrated forbeing the point where the connection be-tween the two roads was made on the 10thof May, 1869. This town, formerly very lively, is nowalmost entirely deserted. The supply ofwater is obtained from a spring about fourmiles south of the road, in one of thegulches of Promontory 3Iountain. The bench on which the station standswould doubtless produce vegetables orgrain, if it could be irrigated, for the sandysoil is
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