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$10,000 was offered for the arrest of the
perpetrators, and three have been caught
and have paid the penalty of the crime with
their lives. About one-half of the money
has been recovered.

After leaving this station, we pass by a
series of cuts and fills, and another range
of bluffs, cut up -by narrow ravines and
gorges. At points, the roads run so near
the river bank, that the water seems to be
right under the cars. But we emerge
again, after 7 8-10 miles, and come to

Barton—a small signal station of very
little importance. Passing on a short dis-
tance we can see the old town of Julesburg,
on the south side of the river.
was named after Jules Burg, who was
brutally assassinated, as will be related in
Annex No. 10.

From Barton, it is 8 7-10 miles to the
station of

Julesburg—Elevation 3,394 feet; dis-
tance from Omaha, 877 miles. Until 1868,
this was an important military, freight
and passenger station, since when it de-
clined to a simple way station.

In 1873-4, a railroad bed was graded up
the north side of the Platte, in the interest
of the Union Pacific Co., but for some
reason the ties and iron have never been
laid, and now that the Union is enabled to
reach the Colorado business by the new
Colorado Central, via Hazard, it is hard]
likely that this line will ever be completed.
The Union Pacific was completed to this
place the last of June, 1867; and all Govern-
ment freight for the season was shipped to
this point, to be re-shipped on wagons for
its destination to the north and west.

At that time Julesburg had a population
of 4,000; now the town is almost deserted.
During the “lively times,” Julesburg was
the roughest of all towns along the Union
Pacific line. The roughs congregated
there, and a day seldom passed but what
they “had a man for breakfast.” Gam-
bling and dance houses constituted a good
portion of the town; and itis said that
morality and honesty clasped hands and
departed from the place. We have not
learned whether they have returned; and
really we have our doubts about their ever
having been there.

Before the railroad, the last of Utah
and California emigration that came

up the Platte crossed opposite the station,
and followed up this Valley to the Chey-
enne Pass.

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