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Photo by: Adams Brothers Ogden, Utah. One Thousand Mile Tree from Crofutt's New Overland Tourist. One Thousand Mile Tree is passed--a thrifty, branching pine--bearing on its trunk a sign-board that tells the western-bound traveler that he has passed over 1,000 miles of railway from Omaha. This living milestone of nature's planting has long marked this place; long before the hardy Mormon passed down this wild gorge; long before the great trans-continental railroad was even thought of. It stood a lonely sentinel, when all around was desolation; when the lurking savage and wild beast claimed supremacy, and each in turn reposed in the shade of its waving arms. How changed the scene; The ceaseless bustle of an active, progressive age, the hum of labor, the roar and rush of the passing locomotive, has usurped the old quiet, and henceforward the Lone Tree will be, not a guide to the gloomy past, but an index of the coming greatness of a regenerated country. Just below this tree, the cars cross a trestle bridge to the left bank of the Weber, thence down but a short distance, before they cross over another trestle to the right-hand side, and then, almost opposite the bridge, on the side of the mountain to the left, can be seen the Devil's slide, or serrated rocks. |
