Time Table Your Guide Book to the Pacific Railroad, 1879 Stations in Wyoming ROCK SPRINGS TO
BRIDGER ROCK
SPRINGS (831 miles from Omaha, elevation 6,280 feet)
This is the great coal station of the Union Pacific Road.
The company not only furnishes the finest lignite coal to be found, for its own
use, but supplies the market at every point along its entire line. Rock Springs
coal for domestic purposes is only surpassed by anthracite.
In 1875 the company mined 104,427 tons, or 10,442 cars
allowing the usual ten tons per car. They did not ship this number of cars as
considerable coal is furnished to all the engines that pass, and consumed by the
people living in the town. They are now working two veins, one six and the other
about nine feet in thickness.
The Artesian well here is 1,145 feet deep. GREEN
RIVER (846 miles from Omaha, elevation 6,140 feet)
Green River is the end of the
Laramie division of the Union Pacific. This is a regular eating station,
breakfast and supper, and is now one of the best kept hostelries on the road.
This place will eventually be a popular resort for those who are seeking
fossiliferous remains, and those who delight in fishing.
Being the end of a division, Green River has a large
roundhouse with fifteen stalls, and the usual machine shop and repair shops. The
railroad bursts into the valley through a narrow gorge between two hills, then
turns to the right and enters the town, crossing the river beyond on a wooden
truss bridge. The old adobe town, remains of which are still visible, was on the
bottom-land directly in front of the gorge.
Green River is now the county-seat of Sweetwater County,
Wyoming, and has a population of nearly 1000 persons.
Stages leave here for the Big Horn Waters and other towns
tri-weekly. GRANGER
(877 miles from Omaha, elevation 6,270 feet)
A telegraph station it is named in honor of an old
settler here, and is the principal shipping point on the line of the Union
Pacific, for Montana and Idaho cattle. BRIDGER
(914 miles from Omaha, elevation 6,780 feet)
It is a telegraph station named in honor of Jim Bridger,
who was a noted hunter and guide, for government and other expeditions. Near
here is a cliff five hundred feet high, called Pluto's Outlook. Can be
seen on left of track three miles west. Aspen
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