. 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 .. . ad Com-jiany has a round-house of 15 stalls, andmachine shops and repair shops, locatedliere,which in the early years of the road,ware at Bryan. It is claimed that the surrounding coun-try is rich in mines, but one thing is cer-tain—it is rich in cattle; it has cattle onmore than a thousand hills. The bluffs near this station present apeculiar formation called, by Prof. Hay-den, the Green River Shales. For ab
. 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 .. . ad Com-jiany has a round-house of 15 stalls, andmachine shops and repair shops, locatedliere,which in the early years of the road,ware at Bryan. It is claimed that the surrounding coun-try is rich in mines, but one thing is cer-tain—it is rich in cattle; it has cattle onmore than a thousand hills. The bluffs near this station present apeculiar formation called, by Prof. Hay-den, the Green River Shales. For abeautiful illustration of the bluffs, the sta-tion and the bridge, see Anjstex No. 16. The walls of these bluffs rise perpendic-ularly for hundreds of feet, are of a grayishbuff color, and are composed of layers, ap-parently sedimentary deposits of all thick-nesses, from that of a knife-blade to twofeet. At the ba e of the bluff tlie layersare thin and composed of arenaceous clay,with laminated sandstone, mud markingsand other indications of shallow water ormud fiats; color for 100 feet, ashen brown;next above are lighter colored layers, al-ternate with 2;reenish layers, and fine. INTERIOR VIEW OF SXOW^ SHEDS OX THE SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS. a:n^d tacific coast guide. 73
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