Identifier: pacifictouristad00will (find matches)
Title: The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean ... : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ...
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T Miller, Joaquin, 1837-1913. Great Plains and desert. 1881
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad
Publisher: New York : Adams & Bishop
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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alled it Finger Rock. The chan-nel of the river has been turned from its bed bya heavy embankment—a work lendered neces-sary to avoid a short curve, and on we go over avery crooked piece of road for nearly six miles,when we cross the river and the valley againopens. AVe have now passed through the TwelveMile Canon, and soon arrive at Cltiro,—a way-station 565 miles from SanFrancisco, with an elevation of 4,785 feet.Trains do not stop unless signaled. The valleybecomes wider, the hills more sloping and lesshigh as they border the valley, but away to theleft are the higher peaks of the Cortez Mount-ains. We now enter an open basin, and on tlieright we see the old emigrant road making upthe hill from Gravelly Ford. One branch ofthis road, leading to the same ford, we alsocross,, but the old roadway, plainly visible fromthe cars, \\\) the hill on the north side of the river,marks the locality of the ford itself. The riverliere spreads over a wide, gravelly bed, and is 183 I o 15 COo o
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always shallow so that it is easily crossed. Theemigrants, in the days of ox and mule trains,took advantage of this crossing to send letters,either one way or the other, by outward bound orreturning trains. They would split a willowsprout by the side of the road and put their let-ters in it, w-hich would be taken out by some onein the first train and carried to the nearest post-office on the route. In 1858, it is said, that an Indian massacretook place hare, in which 18 emigrants werekilled; and other skirmishes with the gentlered men, were frequently in order. The old emi-grant road is fairly lined with the graves of emi-grants, who perished on their way to the land of finally come to believe it themselves; and thismay account for the many wonderful stories thathave been palmed oft on some book-makers, andby them, in turn, hashed up for the travelingpublic. Travelers can always hear all theychoose, but it is well to be a little cautious aboutbelieving all they hear. The Maidens Grave

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