The Pacific tourist:

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7,540 feet. In summnier, the scenery along this
part of the road is delightful, while in winter the
storms are severe, the wind blowing almnost a
constant gale, while the snow drifts mountains
high. There are several snow sheds along this
part of the road, the longest being on the sum- c
nit, 2,700 feet in length. The road having to
wind around the spurs and into the depressions
of the hills, is very crooked, in one place doubling back oil itself. We are now crossing a high
ridge in the
Uinltah Mount- i o g
ains, and the
second highest
elevation onil the
Union Pacific. Iie
Off to the left
these mountains fraino h
inl higher, grander forms, lift e r
their summits /, ble, anrh
toward the
clouds- and aret
most always t waym
covered wi i t h notony o the
their sides ar-e i nv w h
slinoed with darkie
green-the col- In Down the grape
or of the pine o we now pass
forests, whichoriyw
partially envel- i
op them. While /etesieo
the r oad was be-1 t torr
ing built, large w/ first a lov
quant itie s o f s vandy bick whic
ties, telegraph
poles and briadthoge,a
timber,were cut
on the Foot
.Hills, near these
moun~tains, and anwsain
delivered to the
company. About n
two miles north- 4
west of Pied-' ~ _Omh,wta
mont, is a won- <! ~: e
derful S o d a,_i 7 fe..The
Spring. The
sediment or de-, /; m
posits of this INTEROR OF SNOw
spring have built up a conical-shaped body with a
basin on the top. In this basin the water appears,
to a small extent, and has evidently sometime
had a greater flow than at present; but, as similar
springs have broken out around the base of this
cone, the pressure on the main spring has, doubt'
less, been relieved, and its flow, consequently, otbatflansofrahabendon
lessened. The cone is about 15 feet high and is srtd etl aly fteRcyMutis
well worthy of a visit from the tourist. At Twthnsectthcuistoftetaee
Piedmont, the traveler will first observe the per- ifhhaneesentebeoeonisteca
manent coal pits, built of stone and brick, which pisanthoteisteeeaeflmune
are used in this country for the manufacture of
charcoal for the smelting works of Utah. There
are more of them at Hilliard and Evanston, and
they will be more fully described then.
LIeaving Piedmont, the road makes a long
curve, like a horse-shoe doubling on itself, and,
finally, reaches the summit of the divide in a
long slnow shed, one of the longest on the road.
Aspen,-the next station. It is 938.5 miles
from Omaha, and has a reported elevation of
~'~ —- 7,835 feet.; It
is -not a great
distance - only
about two miles
-from the sum mit. Evidences
of change in the
=m.~. —---—.. ~, —~ ~,~ formation of the
country are
-~~ everywhere visi ble, and the
change affords a
marked relief to
the weary mo notony of the
desolate plains
over which we
have passed.
Down the grade
we now pass
rapidly, w i t h
high hills on
either side of
t h e track through a lovely
valley, with an
occasional fill,
an d through a
deep cut, to the
next station.
-milliard, —
a new station,
opened for busi ness in 1873. is
943.5 miles from
Omaha, with an~
..~....,....._:.~~e lev a ti on of
7,310 feet. The
town owes its
importance t o
SHEDS, U. P. R. R. the Hilliard
TIKE racrplc TOURIST.
Flume & Lumber Company, which has extensive
property interests here, and in the. vicinity. In
approaching the town from Aspen', the, road
passes down a 11 draw" or ravine, through
a cut on i a curve, and near this place
enters the Bear River Valley, one of the
most beautiful, and so far as has been deinonstrated, fertile valleys of the Rocky Mountains-.
Two things excite the curiosity of the traveler
if he has never seen them before; one is the coal
its, and the other is th
pi, e elevated flume uil er