CHAPTER 29 IN WHICH CERTAIN INCIDENTS ARE NARRATED WHICH ARE ONLY TO BE MET WITH ON AMERICAN RAILROADS T he train pursued its course, that evening, without inter-ruption, passing Fort Saunders, crossing Cheyne Pass, and reaching Evans Pass. The road here attained the highest elevation of the journey, eight thousand and ninety-two feet above the level of the sea. The travellers had now only to de-scend to the Atlantic by limitless plains, levelled by nature. A branch of the ‘grand trunk’ led of southward to Denver, the capital of Colorado. The country round about is rich in gold and silver,