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Title: The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, U.S. Forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads and all points of business or pleasure travel to California, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Montana, the mines and mining of the territories, the lands of the Pacific Coast, the wonders of the Rocky Mountains, the scenery of the Sierra Nevadas, the Colorado mountains, the big trees, the geysers, the Yosemite, and the Yellowstone
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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, and wherever possible, the trackhas been raised above the cuts, so the snow,unless in immense quantities, now causes butlittle impediment to travel. At Sherman, thesnow never falls very deep, but there is a con- mile, and the maximum grade of any one mileis 90 feet. From Sherman to Laramie, the dis-tance is 23.4 miles; the average grade is 50 feetto the mile, while the maximum grade of anyone mile is the same as on the eastern slope—90feet to the mile. These grades indicate whythis route across the Black Hills was selected inpreference to others where the altitude was notas great—the approach on either side being moregradual, though the elevation is greater. Nearlyall trains between Cheyenne and Laramie havetwo engines attached so that they may be easilycontrolled. It is a steady pull to the summit,from each side, and the heavy down grades fromit require a great deal of power to properly con-trol trains. About a mile west of Sherman onthe left side of the road, is Reeds Rock, so
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SKULL ROCKS, stant breeze, that most Eastern people wouldpronounce a gale, and the snow is constantlydrifting and packs so hard wherever it findslodgment, that it is exceedingly difficult to dis-place, requiring an immense power of snow-plows, engines and shovelers. As you approachSherman, you will see the balanced rocks, and tothe right of the station, about one-quarter of amile, is a rugged peak, near which are graves ofsome who are quietly sleeping so near heaven,and a solitary pine tree, like a sentinel keepingguard over them. Sherman is a telegraph sta-tion, has a hotel, one or two saloons, severalhouses, and a roundhouse where an engine iskept for use in cases of emergency. The differ-ence in elevation between this place and Chey-enne is 2,201 feet, and distance nearly 33 miles.The average grade from Cheyenne is 67 feet per NEAR SHERMAN. called from one of the civil engineers who laidout the road. The man who deprives news-papers of their proper advertising patronage, hasbeen al

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