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BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



[Vol. Y. 



Pueblo and ArJcansas Valley Railroad (Colorado and New Mexico J, from 

 Mr. George T. Wealley, C. E. ' 



Stations. 



La Junta 



Timpas 



Iron Springs 



Thatcher 



Earle 



Hoene 



Crossing Denver and Rio Grande Railroad 



Commercial street, Trinidad 



Coal tracks 



Morley 



Summit of Raton Pass 



Grade at south end of tunnel, Raton Pass. 



Willow Springs 



Eagle Tail Dike 



Opposite Twin Buttes 



Eagle TaU 



Cimarron 



Ocat6 . 



Big Windy Divide 



Santa Clara 



Cherry Valley 



La Junta 



Sapello 



Divide Arkansas and Rio Grande 



Las Vegas 



Priest's Gap 



Eleva'^ 

 tion. 



Foet. 



4,137 



4,479 



4,748 



5,471 



5,759 



5,783 



5,929 



6,044 



6, 395 



6,823 



7,863 



7,G80 



7,691 



6, 124 



6,013 



5,959 



5,841 



5,996 



6,378 



6,250 



6,326 



6,471 



6,563 



6,811 



6,460 



6,400 



La Junta, as given by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa F6 Railroad, is the base. 

 (See Lists of Elevations, 4th ed., p. 20.) There is no check upon this road, and it re- 

 quires no correction. 



Preliminary surveys for a railroad from Cheyenne to the Blaclc Sills (from 

 George T. Nealley, assistant engineer J. 



Stations, etc. 



Eleva- 

 tion. 



Cheyenne, track of Union Pacific Railrog.d, .,,, ,,,^,..*,. 



Fort Russell 



Summit between Crow and Lodge Pole Creeks ,.,».. 



Lodge Pole Creek . ..,,,,,,.,, 



Summit , »,,,», 



Horse Creek ,.^^,^^ 



Summit .,-. 



First Point on Chugwater Creek ......,.,,.. ,,,. . . ,^ . 



Phillip's Ranch 



Mouth of Chugwater Creek ................... 



Valley between the Laramie and Platte Rivers, just below Fort Laramie, 



Summit on short cut to Rawhide Creek 



Summit on long line to Rawhide Creek 



Mouth of Rawhide Creek — .......... 



Rawhide Creek at Point of divergence of easterly line . , ., . 



Summit on west line, between Rawhide Creek and Niobrara River.,.. ..- 



Niobrara River, on west line ,. . .... ....,- , ............ ... 



Summit on east line...... '. . ...... .-.'. 



Spoonbill Creek, east line .....'. , ....• . 



Summit, east line ^ 



Niobrara River, east line 



Summit between Niobrara River and Cheyenne River 



Feet. 

 6,080 

 6,180 

 6,820 

 6, 710 

 6,785 

 6,505 

 6,755 

 6,265 

 5,300 

 4,360 

 4,255 

 4,785 

 4,510 

 4,160 

 4,555 

 5,040 

 4,910 

 4, 910 

 4,790 

 4, 905 

 4,740 

 5,045 



