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CROSSING TRUCKEE RIVER, C. P. R.

white sand. Passing up, clay and lime
predominate, then come layers of bould-
ers, pebbles, and small nodules.
There are also seams of very fine black
limestone, saturated with petroleum. Near
the summit, under the shallow, calcareous
sandstone, there are over fifty feet of shales
that contain more or less it oily material.
The hills all around are capped with a
deep, rusty yellow sandstone, which pre-
sents the peculiar castellated forms which,
| With the banded appearance, have given
so much celebrity to the scenery about
this station. :

The point where our photographer
stood to take the picture, was about one-
half mile below the bridge and immedi-
ately opposite the mouth of the noted
Bitter Creek, down which, in years past,
rolled the wagons of the pioneer-emigrants
of the far West, on their weary way
seeking new El] Dorasoes towards the set-
ting sun.

   
   
  
  
  
   
   
 

 

 

Otp Town—A short distance from the
station to the southward is the site of the
old deserted city of Green River, near the
old emigrant crossing, and thereby hangs
atale. This city was laid out in July,
1868, and the September following con-
tained 2,000 inhabitants, and many sub-
stantial wood and adobe buildings, and
presented a permanent appearance. At
that time it was thought by the citizens
that the Railroad Company would certainly
erect their division buildings near the town,
and it would become an important station
in consequence. But the Railroad Com-
pany opposed the Town Company, bridged
the river, and as the road stretched away
to the westward, the town declined as rap-
idly as it arose, the people moving on to
Bryan, at which place the Railroad Com-
pany located thecr city—and sold lots.

Geographical indications from the first
pointed to the fact that the Railroad Com-
pany must eventually select this place in