Identifier: annualreportupon00ruff (find matches)
Title: Annual report upon explorations and surveys in the department of the Missouri
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Ruffner, E.H Strecker, Herman, 1836-1901
Subjects: Natural history Natural history Insects
Publisher: Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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rapid freight-trains, with greater carrying facilities, high prices for commod-ities of life and business are diminished, and the stage-coach appears upon the scene.Easy access, well-rewarded labor, and profitable investments invite the laborer andimmigrant, as well as the speculator. The country increases in agricultural and min-ing industry until, with the lapse of time, the railroad approaches and the frontiersettlement assumes a metropolitan air; and on the march of civilization continues. The roads of San Juan are, therefore, of prime importance, and whatever can bedone to shorten the lines of communication and open as yet undeveloped sections willbe of the first and most material value. The lines of communication in Colorado areof three kinds—railroads, wagon-roads, and trails—and in their relation to the de-velopment of San Juan will be considered in the order named, the passage of a river,whether by ferry or bridge, being included in the route upon which it lies. l*late 5.
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APPENDIX SS. 1785 The advance during 1877 of the Denver and Rio Grande (a narrow-gauge railroad)over the Sangre de Cristo Range has enabled it to control all the freight and passengertraffic destined for the San Juan, as well as all of New Mexico, save the northeasternpart. Its present terminus (May, 1878) is Garland City, 6£ miles from Fort Garland,situated in the eastern part of San Luis Valley, at the foot of the western slope of themountain, whence travel for the upper country passes northwest to Del Norte and viathe toll-road up the canon of the Rio Grande to the settlements beyond, while that forthe lower takes its course due southwest, passing Conejos, a Mexican plaza, knownalso as Guadalupe. In the crossing of the mountain range by the line of the narrow-gauge, some pointsare presented of interest to the general observer as well as to the engineer. The elevation of La Yeta, lying at the eastern base of the mountain, is 6,900 feetabove the sea; that of the track on the summit

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