Photograph by George E. Beam 



THE ROYAL GORGE, GRAND CANYON OF THE ARKANSAS: COLORADO 



This gorge is the deepest chasm in the world through which a railroad passes. At one 

 point it is so narrow that the railroad, unable to find a road-bed, passes over an iron bridge 

 200 feet long, suspended from girders mortised into the granite walls of the gorge, which is 

 here half a mile deep. 



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