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.

BEYOND THE WEST.
with great difficulty. The fifteen tunnels are the
best evidence of the rocks. The mountains climbed
to the home of eternal winter, and a road for the
steam horse made through their tops; so that when
seen in August, at a distance, the tunnels look like
a hole made through a great snow bank with gray
lining.
Here among the highest of the Sierras, where the
avalanches slide, are the sheds, made strong that
the snow may pass over. Where the snow falls
from twenty to thirty feet deep, are sheds supported
by large, round tree-trunks placed securely beside
the track, and supporting a double roof made of
inch boards, so that the snow falls on either side
away from the track. These sheds are now about
forty miles in length and answer a good purpose.
The mountains passed, we came to one of Nevada's everlasting white alkali deserts, forty miles
wide, when the road reaches the Humboldt flats.
where the grade is not difficult to build the road
the balance of the way.
The Pacific is the best built road. The Union is
the longest and began later. When we consider the
unparalleled shortness of time in which the work was
done, they are monutments of remarkable achievement in this nineteenth century.
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