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goons. It is situated
five miles south of
Kearny station, and
‘nine miles via Bur-
lington & Missouri
railroad from Kearny
junction, on the south
bank of the Platte,
which is at this point
three miles wide, and
filled with small isl-
ands. The fort is in
latitude 40 deg. 33
min., longitude 99 deg.
6 min.
In the fall of 1872,
all the Government .
buildings, worth mov-
ing, were removed to
North Platte and Sid-
ney, on the Union Pa-
cific railroad, 291 and
412 miles, respective-
ly, west from Omaha,
and the post abandon-
ed. The remains of the
dead. bodies of soldiers,
buried at Kearny, were
taken up and re-inter-
ed in the National
Cemetery, at Fort Mc-
Pherson.
Two miles above the
fort, on the south bank,
is Kearny City, in the
early days more com-
' monly called “ Dobey
Town.” This was once -
a great point with the
old Overland Stage
Company, and at that
time contained about
500 inhabitants, the
greater portion of |
| which left upon the =
abandonment of the CROSSING THE SANGRE DE-CHRISTO MOUNTAINS

line and the south-side : nase
Altitude, 9, bet. i : ; <i
| route of travel. But itude, 9,339 feet. Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.

we are told settlers are coming in, and it | advent of the railroad, the timber consist-
| will soon regain its “old time” figures. |ing almost entirely of red elm, rarely
| Returning to Kearny Junction, 5 9-10|found elsewhere in this part of the

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| miles brings us to country.
Stevensom—a side-track—unimpor-| From Elm Creek station it is 9 miles to
tant. Again, 10 3-10 miles west is Overton—This is another small sta-
Elm Creek—a small place of several | tion of a few buildings. Itis situated on a
stores and a few dwellings. branch of Elm Creek.

Soon after leaving the station, we cross| The Platte Valley along here, and forthe |.
Elm Creek, asmall, deep, and quite lengthy | last fifty miles, is very broad; nearly all
| stream, It was well wooded before the |the best land has been taken up, or pur- |