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OVERLA^'D STATION TO CAMP 15, MURKAY CREEK. 



This is sliowu as Profile No. 1 on the second map, and passes via Long Yalley, White Pine, and 

 Kobiuson District. 



The distance is approximately one hundred and twenty-two miles. The divides are four in 

 number, viz, Hastings Pass, leading into Euby Valley, the summit between Euby and Long Val- 

 leys, in and around Hamilton, and at Summit Springs to the west, and among the foot-lillls of the 

 Egan range. 



It will be seen that this profile is along a line partly of a northerly and southerly direction, 

 with the remainder running nearly east and west, and is distinctive in its nature from most of the 

 main side-lines, which generally have east and west directions. 



CAMP RXJBT TO CAMP HALLECK. 



This constitutes Profile No. 2, and proceeds along Euby Valley and through Secret Valley 

 Pass, which is a very difficult one, especially in the winter months; however, the railroad may be 

 reached by passing a gentle summit that brings one into Clover, from Euby Valley, thence to 

 Humboldt Wells. The distance is seventy-five miles. 



CAMP 17, " CAVE VALLEY," TO CAMP 26, " PRETJSS LAKE." 



This is known as Profile No. 3; the line passing through Sacramento District having been 

 taken ; the distance is one hundred and sixty-seven miles, and the divides, some of which are 

 pretty difficult, are at Patterson Pass, near the mines of the Patterson District, from Duck Valley 

 to Spring Valley, a very short divide, but steep on the northern side ; Eed Caiion Pass, through 

 Snake range, in proximity to Sacramento District ; Caiion Pass east of Snake Valley, and Cane 

 Pass, crossing the Hawawah range. 



CAMP 28, OR CROSS-ROADS NEAR PATTERSON DISTRICT. 



Profile No. 4 gives this line, which crosses only the Fortification range of mountains through 

 Palisade Pass, a tortuous and winding divide. The distance is 37.92 miles, showing no marked 

 features of elevation or depression except along the distance mentioned. 



CAVE VALLEY TO "WEST POINT. 



Profile No. 5 gives this route, which extends from Camp 17, "Cave Valley," to Camp 49, 

 " West Point," via Meadow Valley and Mormon settlements. The number of points at which 

 steep divides are noticed are numerous, and the face of the country over quits a large adjacent 

 area is mountainous, with rough and rocky caiions and passes. The steep divides are at Patterson's 

 Pass, also shown on Profile No. 3; Pioneer Pass, between Cedar and Eagle Valleys, Eagle to Eose 

 Valley, Eose to Meadow, and Meadow to Clover Valley, and Clover Valley to Mormon Caiion ; of 

 them the worst are through Pioneer Pass, and from Meadow to Clover Valley. The total distance 

 is 196.69 miles. 



As it is natural to suppose, so is it readily seen, there is the greatest difference between the 

 profiles of north and south and east and west lines. A hasty glance at the maps fixes this point 

 upon the attention, and at once develops the idea that nature has determined the directions to be 

 followed for the lines of communication to be made use of by the skilled industry that can alone 

 enter and make use of the vast mineral wealth that lies concealed in these rugged mountain inte- 

 riors. 



Within twenty years we ought to see three if not four grand transcontinental lines of railway 

 across the United States, joining the three principal po'rts of the Pacific with the eastern coast, 

 cutting the broad valleys of the Mississippi and its tributaries ; which along areas to the west of 

 the Eocky Mountains must be joined and crossed in time by a net-work of roads that grow with the 

 growth of interests, usually mineral, that are springing up in the various sections ; with the agricul- 



