Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

THE UNION PACIFIC COMPANY.
forward, summer and winter, with an energy unprecedented; gradually rising up ninety-two feet to
the mile from Cheyenne to the summit of the Rocky
Mountains, when a road is made through and they
pass onward.
No railroad could have been successful through
this woodless country if coal had not been found
suitable for the locomotive. But fortunately, here
in the mountains, it has been found so near the
track that it can almost be shoveled into the cars.
It is soft, and of a middling quality, which is good
for the engine. No section of country could be
more destitute of wood. On the whole road from
Omaha there is not a tree on the route. The first
one stands marked, "The Thousand Mile Tree I"
In the construction of the railroad, Brigham Young
took a large contract to do the grading for the
track, fifty miles each way from his people, hoping
thus to keep his "Saints" the more secluded and
draw money into his settlement, or more especially
into his own possession. This gave him a favorable
opportunity to let out the emigrant to work, and
thereby get back the money he had advanced for
his passage, as all emigrants bind themselves to refurnd ths mone as soon as they cank+ obai t.
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