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INTERIOR VIEW OF SNOW SHEDS ON THE SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS.

crossed, also a broad prairie on which
graze thousands of cattle and sheep.

The timbered country of the Greenhorn
River is on the right, and soon our train

Since the discovery of the San Juan
country the city has taken a step ahead,
and is now provided with banks, many
large stores, churches, schools hotels, and
sundry other accomplishments, including
the State Penitentiary, and two weekly
newspapers—the Times and the Avalanche.

Stages leave Canyon City daily for Fair-
play, distant 75 miles; Saguache, 100 miles;
Del Norte, 125 miles; Lake City, 200
miles.

Returning to Pueblo, we are again off
for the south.

Gradually we rise up out of the river
bottom, and shape our course for the Span-
ish Peaks, which we can see while 70
miles away.

San Cartos—is the first station on the
es but they all “pass it” and make for

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GREENHORN—The first named is nine
miles from Pueblo, and the second is 4 5-10
further. St. Charles Creek has been

 

crosses the river and stops at

Saur CrEEK—a_side-track. :
right are some bold, high buttes; the high-
est is called “Chinese Butte.’ Six miles
further is the small side-track called

GRANEROS—but we do not stop.

Between our train and the mountains
can be seen the great valley of the Green-
horn, with the mountains of the same
name rising from its western border. The
next station is ten.miles distant, and is
called

Hurrrano — (pronounced Warf—a—no)
This station is in the midst of the best
erazing lands of Southern Colorado
Leaving the station, we cross the river, and
cross a high, undulating prairie—bluffy in
places—for 13 miles to

CucHara— (pronounced Q-charr-us)

‘To the