Identifier: reportsofexplora02unit_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
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

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SNOW IN THE PASS. 39 of the guide, who had represented this route as without a hill, the party ascended a high peakand looked down upon the extensive plains, over which, for a month, we had wound our way.The view was majestically beautiful, with the Huerfano, Cuchara and Apishpa at their feet,and towering mountains to the north and south, with the valley of San Luis to the west. De-scending again to the stream they had left, and finding that about ten miles from its head theywere, by barometer, higher than on the Sangre de Cristo Pass, and that the gorge was very wind-ing and narrow, they turned back from their southern course for two miles, and then rode up hillfor two hours, much of the way steep and stony, and arrived at the summit of the ridge, whereone could look almost vertically down on the heads of creeks of the Cuchara—one of whichwinds under Bald mountain, considerably to the south of the Spanish Peaks, where there is a notinviting depression, entirely impracticable for a

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