18 9 SERIES. 



(8x10.) 



The Union Pacific Railroad, Salt Lake City and Valley, and the 

 Black Hills of Wyoming; embracing the more prominent pictorial 

 features of the route of the great national highway. Photographed 

 immediately upon the completion of the road in the summer of 1869. 



Xo. 1. NoitTn Blatte Biyeij. looking north from bridge. 



No. 2. Bridge on the NOBTH Platte, near its intersection with the 

 South Platte. 



Ho. & Wind-Mills at Noetii Platte Station. At this point the 

 Platte runs through an almost entirely treeless plain, with 

 but very few objects in nature to relieve the dead monotony, 

 so the wind-mills that occur at nearly all the stations, 

 for the purpose of raising water to the tanks, form a very 

 prominent feature in the landscape. The river is very wide, 

 shallow, and swift, running over bars and quicksands, with 

 many little willow-covered islands. 



The north and south forks rise respectively in the north 

 and south Parks of Colorado, and flow some' 1,200 miles to 

 their junction with the Missouri. 



The bridge and station are about 290 miles west of Omaha, 

 and have an altitude of 2,780 feet above the sea. 



No. 1. Sherman Station, upon the broad, plateau-like summit of the 

 Black Hills. 8,242 feet above the sea, and 2,170 above Chey- 

 enne, only 33 miles to the eastward. Sherman, so named from 

 the commander of the United States Armies, enjoys the dis- 

 tinction of being the most elevated railway station in the 

 world. 



No. 5. Reed's Bock, near Sherman, forms an excellent illustration of 

 the Style of weathering of the granites characteristic of this 

 region. These massive piles, like the ruins of old castles, 

 are scattered all over the summits of the Black Hills, and 

 the difference in the texture of the rock is such as to give a 

 most pleasing variety. They were once angular, cube-like 

 masses, and have been worn to their present form by the 

 process of disintegration by exfoliation. 



No. G. Granite OUT, near Dale Creek Bridge, about three miles west 

 of Sherman. The road has been drilled and blasted through 

 a close, compact, and massive granite that is susceptible of 

 a high polish, much like the Scottish syenite. 



No. 7. Dale Obeek Bridge, over Dale Creek,asmall tributary of the 

 Cache La Pondre flowing into the South Platte. The bridge 

 is a wooden frame-work structure 050 feet long and 127 high, 

 the largesi of its kind on the road. 



No. 8. DALE OBEEK OaUon, a view looking south from near the bridge. 

 A characteristic view of the summit of the Black Hills, show- 

 ing the rounded granite forms and scattered pines, the deep 

 canon with its pleasant vale and sparkling trout-streams 

 glittering in the sunlight. 



