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Title: Marvels of the new West : a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri River : comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels of mining, marvels of stock-raising, and marvels of agriculture, graphically and truthfully described
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898
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Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : Henry Bill Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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nches fell on Jan. 18 ; one, at Bev-ies, between Exilles and Salbertand, was estimated at about sixtymetres long and six deep, and slid down the slope a distance of abouta kilometre. Its volume is supposed to have been three hundredand sixty thousand cubic metres, and the weight of snow composingit was forty-five thousand tons. It destroyed sixteen houses andkilled forty-three persons. The second avalanche of Jan. 18 fellnear Venaus, was one hundred and fifty metres long, its volume wasabout three million cubic metres, and it bore nearly a quarter of amillion tons of snow. But although the slide extended to nearly fourkilometres, only twenty-four houses were wrecked by it and six per-sons killed. A third avalanche, which fell at Maflotto, and was com-puted to contain little more than one thousand six hundred tonsweight of snow, was much more destructive, killing seventeen personsand destroying eighteen homes. 300 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST. ;K;-:i-i:)!;!ii;;ii!:iiiliP;(!;;l1lllll;ll;IB^^
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OVER VETA PASS, THROUGH TOLTEC GORGE. At eight different points the Denver & Rio Grande Railway hascrossed the Rocky Mountains, instead of piercing them with longand dismal tunnels. The altitude attained in the passage of Veta, MARVELS OF ENTERPRISE. 301 Pass is not so great as that of Alpine or Marshall passes, but thescenery is not less remarkable. The ascent begins along the baseof La Veta Mountain, up a defile, at the head of which sta^nds DumpMountain, defiant and frowning. The railway approaches the moun-tain by Mndirection, and doubles so sharply upon itself that the curve has become as the Shoe famous^MuleCurve. From this pointthe ascent is verydifficult, the gradebeing two hundredand seventeen feetto the mile. Theroad-bed is littlemore than a groovecut in the sides ofthe mountain,winding hither andthither over theSangre de ChristoRange, which itcrosses at VetaPass at an altitudeof nine thousandthree hundred andthirty-nine feet. Abowlder startedfrom this pointgoes thunderi

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