. 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 .. . le in width. Now ourtrain is at EvAKS—a simple side-track, importantonly to a few settlers near, who are culti-vating small fields and watching herds ofcattle and sheep, which find good ranges onthe hills, ravines, and neighboring fields are fenced, for the protectionof the grass, which is cut for hay. TheCortez Mountains are on the west—theright side—and the Diamond range on theleft. Willards—is
. 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 .. . le in width. Now ourtrain is at EvAKS—a simple side-track, importantonly to a few settlers near, who are culti-vating small fields and watching herds ofcattle and sheep, which find good ranges onthe hills, ravines, and neighboring fields are fenced, for the protectionof the grass, which is cut for hay. TheCortez Mountains are on the west—theright side—and the Diamond range on theleft. Willards—is 15 miles from Palisade,and four miles from Hay Ranch—This station is the firstfrom Palisade where anything like busi-ness is to be seen. Here the Railroad Com-pany have 2,500 acres of bottom landfenced, on which they cut annually about1,000 tons of hay, which they bale andstore away in those long warehouses to beseen on the right of the road. The com-pany run freight teams from the end oftheir road at Eureka, and—in connectionwith it—to Pioche and all intermediateplaces. These teams are composed of 18mules each, with three and sometimes four 130 PACIFIC COAST AMERICAN RIVER CANYON. Near Shady Run, Sie ra Nevada Muuutain=. wagons coupled together—as illustrated onpage28 —employing from 300 to 400 mules,each team hauling from 30,000 to 40,000lbs. In Avinter, when their mules are notin use, they are kept at this station, andthe hay is harvested by the company andused for their own stock. Continuing on up the valley miles,we come to Box Springs—but trains do not stoponly on signal, and nine miles furtherstop at Mineral—This is a regular eating sta-tion, and in fact is the only one on the meals cost , and are of the sub-stantial order, that makes bone and sinew. To the east is located the Mineral HillMine, once the most productive in theState, but it proved to be a pocket andthe original owners, after taking out sev-eral millions of
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