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Which I did, leaving Cheyenne at 12.30 on No. 5, a very fine train of 11 coaches pulled by two mammoth engines. 40 minutes hard pulling took us up from an elevation of 6050 ft to nearly 8000 ft and also brought us to the mountains. The road leaves the old track for 10 or 12 miles around Sherman and is some 300 ft lower than it formerly was at that point which was the highest point in the Union Pacific and has the colossal monument to Ames the sight of which is

missed by old tourists. This cut off is of great advantage-and is much safer, for instance there is an enormous fill of several hundred feet over Dale Creek where formerly there was an enormously high swinging trestle, which when built was second highest in the world.
The only other point of interest was the turn of "Hanna" where big U.P. Coal mines are employing about 1000 men, many of whom are negros[sic.]

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They live in several hundred very small houses arranged in rows both ways like hills of corn. They are all exactly alike and painted red the same as the section of houses. They purchase goods at an enormous "Company" store.
Arriving at Walcott at 6 p.m. found that No 3 with my London friend had laid there 5 hours amidst much swearing on his part. A burned culvert this side of Fort Steele accounted for it. Our train having mail

pulled in ahead of his and will beat his into Ogden. Walcott is composed of a Grocery & Post office, a saloon, hotel, section house, several houses and a large derrick & pump where they think they have struck oil.
Met an eccentric old fellow with 20 dogs and wagon who lost his all in '93 panic in Omaha and who stays in the wilderness all the time except when he has to get something to eat. He stays up in the mountains.

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August 19-1901-
Proprietor of the hotel in Walcott woke me up at 6 a.m. on the dot. Had a fine breakfast and at 7.45 got into the stage for Saratoga. This stage is the same style as the old fashioned Buffalo Bill stage on big leather straps. It is exactly the same as was used from Sidney to Black Hills 20 years ago. 3 teams-6 horses were hitched to it. I rode about 10 miles up on top with the driver. It rides much easier up there as you can see when the stones and lurches in the gullies are coming. The other passengers were Mr. Godshall and his two small boys. Mr. Godshall is the General Manager of the smelter which they have just completed at Encampment which can handle 100 tons of ore per day. The only other passenger was an old maid from

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Louisiana going to her 3 brothers who live in Encampment. The remarkable thing about her was an enormous Thomas cat which she had brought with her in the basket all the way. When it made plaintiff[sic] yells she wanted to soothe the poor thing. But once while giving her undivided attention to the cat, she was placed over in Mr. Godshall's lap cat and all by a sudden lurch.
Our driver had been driving stages for years. He used to drive on the old Arizona trail and can handle 6 horses easier than I do one. He would hold all six lines in one hand and yet be able to jerk any particular horse or could cut any one

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with his long whip. He had on a dozen mail sacks, lots of iron for wagon tires and express packages etc., yet he never let them walk a step. They wanted to trot up hills and 'lope down. We arrived at Saratoga at 11 o'clock having come 24 miles. This town is well described by a company circular. This Wolf house buys all its butter and eggs of R.R. Watson of Grand Island and has for four years.