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SCENERY OF THE SIERRAS, NEAR SUMMIT.
States, at New York City, during the late civil
war. Cisco was for a year and a half the terminus of the- road, and lively with business for
the construction of the road, and for Nevada.
It had a population of 7,000, and some dwellings
erected at a cost of $5,000; large warehouses, and
all the intensity of frontier life. After the removal of the terminus to Truckee, the deserted
buildings were either taken down and removed
or went fa st to decay, until the ir d estructio n was
hastened by a fire that left nothing for the
morning sunmto rise upon, but the freight house
with a platform 1,000 feet long, standing alone
amid the ashes and surrounding forests.
From Cisco there is a beautiful view on the
north, with Red Mountain in the distance.
Just back of Red Mountain is the Old Man
Mountain, but hid from view until the train descends a few miles farther.
To detect in this any sharp or remote outline
of the human profile, wrought in colossal proportion by the hand that moulded and chiseled the
infinite shapes of nature, is probably beyond
the keenness of any Yankee.
Leaving Cisco, the railroad continues on the
There is a great spur, called " Crockers"
thrown out in this ridge, through which the
road passes in tunnel No. 5, and thence along
Stanford Bluffs to
Tanmarack,- 235 miles from San Francisco,
another signal station. A stop will not be
likely, unless to meet or pass a freight train. A
small saw-mill is in operation during part of the
year. Just below Tamarack, the Yuba has worn
a large gorge, and the bold bluffs, which unfortunately are below the road-bed, have been called
"New Hampshire Rocks," and the name may
well suggest that the Granite State will soon
cease to be regarded as the "Switzerland of
America."
The road continues on the north or Yuba side
of the divide, between the waters of the Yuba
and American Rivers; and between Tamarack
and Cisco, Red Spur and Trap Spur are passed
by tunnels No. 4 and No. 3. Three and a half
miles from Tamarack is o t
Cisco, 231 miles from San Francisco, a day
and night telegraph station, with an elevation
of 5,939 feet. It was named after John J. Cisco,
the sterling, assistant treasurer of the United
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