Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean (1855) (14759291342)

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Title: Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: United States. War Dept Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Subjects: Pacific railroads Discoveries in geography Natural history Indians of North America
Publisher: Washington : A.O.P. Nicholson, printer (etc.)
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant



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autiful and pleasing I remember to have seen. As we approached theriver yesterday, the ridges on either of its banks to the west appeared broken into a thousandforms—columns, shafts, temples, buildings, and ruined cities could be seen, or imagined, fromthe high points along our route. Fifty miles apparently below us on the river, the high snow-peaksof the Sierra Abajo are visible. Efforts were made to obtain a guide from among the Indians, but no one could be induced by adisplay of the trinkets, cloths, paints, and blankets they so much covet, to accompany us even tothe Wahsatch Pass. October 2.—Our course this morning, for two hours, was a little south of west, gradually leav-ing the river. It then gently changed to northwest—our march being i6.76 miles, following theSpanish trail, generally over the same friable soil so often noted; but towards the latter part ofthe day, along the borders of a creek, in which we found a little standing water, over sandstone < o oo s od a ro
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