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Show The Colorado Exploration. We were surprised and gratified yesterday yes-terday by a call from Major Powell, whose name has become familiar to every western man, woman and child in connection with his exploration of the Great Colorado canon. He has devoted the past summer and fall to further examination and survey of that interesting and wonderful region, and has elaborate plans for next year's work. He ha6 found a practicable railway route from southern Nevada eastward, crossing the Great Colorado about midway hetween the mouths of the Little Colorado asd the San Juan, thence over a high, level table land to the Rio Grande in New Mexico. 'Jhe crossing of the Colorado will be by a suspension bridge of about twelve hundred hun-dred feet span, three thousand feet above the water. The approaches are easy on both sides and the course very direct. The entire route is straight and keeps very near to the thirty-aixth degree of latitude. The avoidance of dipping down into the deep valley of the Colorado will be duly appreciated by railway engineers. The Major intends next year to ex-phre ex-phre more thoroughly the great canon, and for that purpose is establishing depots of supplies along its course where it can be approached by lateral canons. A party has been left in the field to explore and look out roads the coming winter. The Major is on his way east and will leave Denver this evening via the K. P. road. l)tiv:tr News, A of. 19. |