AND PACIFIC COAST GUIDE.

which supply large quantities to the rail-
road company. ‘The mines are said to be
very extensive, easily worked, yielding coal
of good quality, and employ about 800 men,
most of whom are Chinese. From 150 to
200 car loads are shipped from Alma per
day to towns on the line of the Central Pa-
cific railroad, to Virginia City, Gold Hill,
and Carson in Nevada and to San Fran-
cisco. A branch railroad has been con-
structed to the mines, leading off about
half a mile north of Evanston.

Soon after leaving Evanston we ieave
Bear River to the right, ard follow up a
beautiful little valley eleven miles to

Wasatch—This station was once 4
regular eating station, with round-house
and machine shops of the company located
here, but a change has been made to
Evanston, and the place is now deserted.

Four miles west we cross the dividing
line between Wyoming and Utah Territo-
ries. It is marked by a sign-board beside
the road, on which is painted on one side,
“WYOMING,” the other “* Uran.”

Game is found inthe hills—deer, elk,
and antelope—and in the Uintah and Wa-
satch ranges, brown, black and cinnamon
bear are common, and in all the little
streams, fish of different kinds are abun-
dant—trout particularly.

On leaving Wasatch, we arrive at the
divide and head of Echo Canon, one-half
mile distant. Here we find the longest
tunnel on the road, 770 feet in length, cut

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through hard red clay and _ sandstone.
When the tunnel was completed, it was ap-
proached from the east by two long pieces
of trestle-work, one of which was 2380 feet
long and 30 feet high; the other 450 feet
long and %5 feet high, which have since
been filled in with earth. The tunnel
opens to the westward, into a beautiful
little canyon, with a narrow strip of grassy
bottom land on either side of a miniature
stream, known as the North Fork of Echo.
The hills are abrupt, and near the road,
leaving scarcely more than room for a
roadway, including the grassy land re- |
ferred to. Along these bluffs, on the left-
hand side of the stream, the road-bed has |
been made by cutting down the sides of

the hills and filling hollows, in some pla-
ces from 50 to 75 feet deep.

Before the tunnel was completed, the

road was laid temporarily from the divide
into Echo Canyon by a Z or zigzag track.
which let the cars down to the head of the
canyon—under the trestles above named.
The great difficulty to overcome by the
railroad company in locating the road
from this point into Salt Lake Valley was
the absence of spurs or sloping hills to
carry the grade. Every thing seems to
give way at once, and pitch headlong away
to the level of the lake. The rim, or
outer edge, of the table-lands, breaks ab-
ruptly over, and the streams which make
out from this table-land, instead of keep-
ing their usual grade, seem to cut through

 

“ pPRICKEY,” THE PET HORNED TOAD OF THE PACIFIC COAST. z
See ANNEX No. 92.