Show WIPED o n MAr MAP 8 Sherman Station HI Feet Fed in the theA g A 0 f 1 Air r Now Deserted 0 6 g gO j O X Cheyenne Wyo Cor St at Louis Post Dispatch Since the great railroad tunnel through Mt Sherman Wyoming has hu been completed and trains now run un on der instead of over the giant steep there heft has g passed P forever what has been bt en for lor or years ne of the most moat peculiar railroad stations in the world Mt t Sherman station tation stood on th Uw the very top of a mountain oooo feet high In m possibly as desolate i e spot as aa human h man eye baa ever eV r rued r No i where here is there ever eer visible any allY beyond a few scraggy tufts of alkali wire grass Even this can hard c ly I exist in that region where one ODe may encounter almost any day in the sum mer rain sleet leet ShoW siow and hail hall with a I temperature e that often varies from 75 1 I degrees to 40 and enI tn back again within thin a few moments ml where the wind Ind never I ceases tu tt t blow from to sev soy enty etty railee an hour and where the j nerves Jerve of many a tenderfoot have re iv I terrible shocks hocka daring during the Ute ps pass ing of storms with the clouds touching the ground and here and there hurling Angry lightning bolts into the mineral minerai rocks Now the map no longer It I iger r has baa a Mt Jolt Sherman station staton Nothing in the way I of habitation remains re j to denote the past existence of ot ma man on that tha di y height and it is la v very ry probable that the weird spot will never rover again apin be visited I it d dIf It If I in some seine future age act ence too or OJ qu quest t of adventure shall lea lead some e carious person over the summit sum lt he will find lind standing against t tie te ie sky a massive ma lve pile of chiseled granite feet teet high u 1 and ud sixty feet at the base e erected there t re years ago in honor of the Ames Ama bro bee there who made it possible poe to complete the Union Pacific railroad A feeling tHUD of wIn doubtless Mow and ana then t h creep Into minds of those who have ha e often otten passee this monument at the thought that it now stands so 80 far out of the path of commerce so 80 far tar from the haunts of man nan deserted to remain there almost as long as u Time shall endure S s Several years eera ago I two tramp tele telegraph telegraph telegraph graph operators devised a scheme for making a few dollar without much ef effort effort fort tort They erected a small 8 shanty at Sherman n gathered pieces pl of rock of different formations colored some of them with dyes and over others poured melted lead in spots or pounded small hits of copper into the cracks These The e ewhen when finished were were specimens s of told gold c and silver siler ota ores and found a ready I market All AU trains stopped just in front of the shanty where the two gen g luses held forth to have the air brakes tested and the wheels examined prior r i to the descent of the mountain During these stops passengers were wont to torun torun torun run over to the shanty to make pur per purchases chases of curios If there re was eer e er a time when the th wind did not blow a gale at it was a period previous to the advent adVeRt of man up there and it was this ever everlasting everlasting everlasting lasting wind that oddly odd blew good to the tramp storekeepers One morning when the Overland flyer drew up at the theold theold old red depot an man stood at the door of t the shanty on the opposite site lifite side aide of If the track frac beating a gong ong with a vigor that soon attracted the attention of the Ute passengers Heads L popped out of f the windows w and Ad in a moment people came Caine camer out of t the cars and made a grand J tush for the supposed lunch counter The wind was wu whistling a merry tune over the sum aum summit summit mit and in a very few seconds several Ff hats were rolling roiling among the rocks rock slid and r hak hiti the gloom of the canyon cunyon Of Bourse ourse the th recovery overy of the headgear bead ear was 18 Impossible When a lot of passengers had been unroofed It was the signal toy tor the theman theman theman man with the gong to disappear ud in lit hs h stead ad came ca another with a string IJ f t hats bats and caps cape which were wee easily disposed dl po ed of to the unfortunate at fabulous prices |