Identifier: marvelsofnewwest1889thay (find matches)
Title: Marvels of the new West : a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri River : comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels of mining, marvels of stock-raising, and marvels of agriculture, graphically and truthfully described
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898
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Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : Henry Bill Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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we asked. Eleven thousand six hundred and twenty-three feet above the sea,the highest railway in the world, except one in the South AmericanAndes. MARVELS OF ENTERPRISE. 289
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290 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST. The tunnel is one thousand seven hundred and seventy-three feetlong, with approaches which add eight hundred feet more, and is sixhundred feet beneath the Pass. It conducts the passenger fromthe Atlantic to the Pacific Slope in a few minutes. •Nearly two years were occupied in building this tunnel. * Itstwenty thousand lineal feet of Cahfornia red-wood lining was broughtup on pack-horses over trails which had known the touch of no hoofbut the mountain sheeps, and where man himself had scarce daredto venture. Operations were carried on from both ends, and, despitethe curvature, when the respective gangs first caught the flash ofeach others lamps, they were less than one inch out of the way asthe engineer had mapped it for them. The great expense was onlywarranted by the greatness of the country, which is now fastened tothe outer world by this link of stygian darkness. The point in the tunnel where the train passes from the Atlanticto the Pacific Slope is

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