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Identifier: reportsofexplora05unit_0 (find matches)
Title: Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: United States. War Dept Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Subjects: Pacific railroads Discoveries in geography Natural history Indians of North America
Publisher: Washington : A.O.P. Nicholson, printer (etc.)
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
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TEJON INDIANS. similar to, but smaller than the one we had left. We at first ascended slightly, till we came toa marshy place, from which flowed two little streams, the one to the north into Tah-ee-chay-pah >
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■-1 TEJON PASS AND CANADA DE LAS TJVAS. 21 creek, the other westwardly towards the Tejon. The western extremity of the last of theseprairies was only 240 feet lower than the water-shed in the Tah-ee-chay-pah prairie, and thedescent to the Tejon was made in less than five miles. The prairie ahounded in springs, andthe water, co.lecting at its western extremity, flowed through a precipitous ravine to the prairie.This ravine I examined with care, and subsequently went through it with the level; for Ithought, if the calculations of the observations taken on Tah-ee-chay-pah creek should provethe grade down that creek to be too steep for a railroad, and it hecame necessary to resort toinclined planes with stationary engines, that this would he an excellent location for suchconstructions. I found the descent very steep, in some places over a thousand feet to the mile,and the average for a mile and a quarter was over 900 feet. The Tejon is really a beautiful place. It receives several small

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