[Delphine-dvlpt] there. The freight was brought up the Missouri

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Concerned. On arriving at the crossing, which it proved to be, we

found one of those large white covered
prairie schooners stalled in the middle of the stream, and fifty Greasers, as the
Mexican drivers were called, and as many yoke of oxen trying to haul it out. FAREWELL

TO THE PLAINS We sailed merrily along and at two P. M. reached Julesburg, the then terminus of the Union Pacific railroad and overland shipping point for all territory west, north and south. The Union Pacific railroad, when under construction, made a terminus every two or three hundred miles. The houses were built in sections, so they were easily taken apart, loaded on

flat freight cars, and taken to the next terminus completely deserting the
former town, Julesburg

was rightfully named "The Portable Hell of the Plains." My finer feelings
cannot, if words could, attempt a description. Suffice to say that during the three days we were there four men and women were