"As soon as I took charge of the Union Pacific, I immediately wired to Mr. James A. Evans, who had charge of that division, and who had been working on this mountain range for nearly a year, describing this ridge to him, as I had thoroughly marked it by a lone tree on Lone Tree Creek, and by a very steep cut Butte on Crow Creek, and a deep depression in the ridge where the granite and sedimentary formations joined. He immediately made an examination and discovered a remarkably direct line of only a ninety-foot grade reaching from the summit to the valley of Crow Creek, near where Cheyenne now stands, and this summit I immediately named for my old commander, General Sherman. The Union Pacific is constructed over this line and it is one of the two eightyfoot grades now left on the Union Pacific that they were unable to reduce during the reconstruction of the road. (Dodge)
County:
Albany
Feature Category:
Land Features
More Reading:
Union Pacific across Sherman Hill : Big Boys, Challengers and Streamliners. Drury,; George H. Waukesha, Wi : Kalmbach Pub. Co., c2000.; Sherman Hill, Union Pacific. Ehernberger, James L. [Callaway, Neb., E & G Publications, 1973]
