THE O^^ELAND EOUTE^ COUNCIL BLUFFS TO OGDEN. 



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more than 1,250,000 acres in Wvominp^ 



workable 



phosphate deposits, a phosphate area greater than that of any other 



State. 



W 



o 



mount 



Tetons being excelled only by the wonders of Yellowstone Park. 



in its agriculture, stock 



Wyomino: is of interest 



minm 



town of Pine Bluffs takes its name from 



which 



Pine Bluffs, Wyo. pjj^^ ^j.^^^^ ^ ^^^^ j^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^l^^^^ sun-parched 



plains that these pines seem to have been thought 



The 



Elevation 5,043 feet 



Population 246. , ^ 



Omaha 473 miles. worthy of commcmoration in naming the ridge. 



may 



and 



south of the road and mark the western edge of the Ogalalla for- 



mation. 



format 



underlies the 



form 



Pine Bluffs and extends thence westward to Granite Canyon, a dis- 



It consists mainly of sand loosely cemented into 



miles 

 a soft sandstone that contains limestone concretions. These 



are 



nected to form irregular sheets. 



occur m 



Hillsdale are 



and Burns, 



Hillsdale station the traveler crets his fir, 



Rocky Mountains. 



may be seen the dark sunmiits 



Hillsdale. 



Elevation 5,G34 feet. 

 Omaha 4% miles. 



the Laramie Range — formerly call 



miles 



narilj' 



Longs 



and other lush mount 



of the Front Range of the Rockies. 



Durham and Archer are stations between Hillsdale and Cheyenne 



* The Arikaree formation underlies a i every year a plain of some 60,000 square 

 laige part of western Nebraska and eastern milea is converted during the rainy season 



Wyoming and is widely distributed in 

 neighboring regions. These deposits ap- 

 pear to have been spread out by streams 

 over the low-lying phiins. No place in 

 North America now exhibits the physical 

 conditions supposed to have existed in 

 Nebraska and Wyomiiig when these sedi- 

 ments were being deposited, but similar 

 conditions have been reported as prevail- 

 ing now in central South America, where 



into a labyrinth of lakes, ponds, swamps, 

 channels, and islands. On these islands 

 the animals gather and great numbers of 

 them perish. Large quantities of fossil 

 bones are found in small areas in the 

 WTiite Pdver beds. These areas have been 

 called ''fossil graveyards" and are sup- 

 posed to represent concentration camps" 

 of Tertiary time similar to the isles of ref- 

 uge of the present day in South America. 



